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Fatma

Meeting Mohammad Harib

It’s always good to see a local talent shining and soaring in the sky of success. Hearing about his life and story success wasn’t new to me. He’s already almost a celebrity in the UAE and almost everyone knows his story. It was still inspiring to hear it all again and to see his work again. It reinforces the fact that he’s good and he’s making it in the professional life successfully.


Freej's official website:
http://www.freej.ae/
Lammtara "Mohammad's Identity brand ":
http://www.lammtarapictures.com/index.html


In terms of the project, we finalized the idea and worked on mock up pieces to demonstrate how the actual pieces would look like and function. The project will still take an interactive approach. It will have two pieces, one with the flip-able tiles with figures from different culture represented by the figures of the group’s own members. The media we though we should use is Transfers and have the background done with screen-printing and hand drawing and painting. The piece second will be the puzzle on the cubes, which will have 6 different sides. 3 sides representing one culture of our three different cultures on each sides. The Emirate, The American and the Korean. The other 3 sides would have a fusion of illustrations and images of our 3 different cultures creating some sort of surreally interesting images. After presenting out finalized idea. We started to take pictures for the flip rotating piece and some girls started doing transfers. So far I think we are going in a good direction. Hopefully we’ll stay on the right track !

Ilene

"We finalised and shared our project concepts today. I am very pleased with how well our group works together and how agreeable everything is, especially after seeing the other groups. I suppose it might just be luck but we all seem to have similar visions, as well as similar work ethics(even though we are from different backgrounds..woo mission statement). Today we took pictures of each other in clothes that represent us and our culture. I was very excited to see Alia's outfit since I only see her in her abiya. It was very pretty, and so much more colorful than anything I had."

"Also today the creator of Freej came to talk to us. It was very inspirational. I also found it interesting that him, like the people from dxb left their homes to go to college in the states. I think the ability to take time to study with another culture is a good way to help yourself grow. I wanted to come to Dubai to help both myself and my art improve because in the states I grow used to certain things, but coming here has really opened my mind to new cultures, new techniques, and a new way of doing things. I feel like studying in another country gives you opportunities to learn more than if you just stay in the same place."

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/405590/freej_cartoon_trailer/

Bora

"Since our group proposed the idea for the project, we stepped further to create the work in the process. Throughout the presentation, we showed how we are going to create images on the block by making quick models of blocks and drawing images on the blocks. Also, we showed how the blocks are putting together in order to interact our images. We are going to making two different pieces, but they are related to each other. A life size scale blocks, we are going to have four parts and four sides of images of ourselves, representing different people from different cultures, Emirate, Korea, US. On the background, images of each culture will be a screen printing, image transferring, drawing, or painting. On a cube, created by 81 blocks, 6 images will be printed, and each side will be different images. Three of each culture and three of cultures merging together will be created. I found images of Korea for the background of myself. I will be screen printing the image. Also, I will use several images to transfer images on the blocks.

Mohammad Harib
His presentation was really inspiring. Hearing about his background, life and experience from the work he’s creating helped me understand the culture and art of UAE. Before I saw him, I saw his animation characters in several places like Dubai mall and thought that they were very interested to see because his animation is about Emirate’s culture, and it seemed so popular in UAE. Then I found out that is the first animation film in the Middle East throughout his presentation. I could hear his passion and dedication about his works and I really appreciated the fact that he came to the university to give us presentation."