I started a birthday tradition! Every year I plant trees during my birth month. I did it last year and turned it into an event, awesome people joined and we planted 200 trees.
I am not an “environmentalist”. It just makes sense to me that air should be something I think about like food and water, It’s even more important than the other two! So just like buying good food and healthy drinks for my tummy, I should invest in clean air for my lungs!
Read MoreA peek into my stop motion process. Hope you enjoy watching this (:
Read More© Gerhard Kassner / Monotype
I had a great time at TYPO Berlin presenting all my tinkering activities to an incredible audience (an online one too). You can watch my talk here
I gave my first stop motion workshop at wysiwyg* agency in Düsseldorf. I had a great time, explained all about stop motion and animation principles, shared all my stop motion tips and tricks and they made really fun creative stop motion loops by the end of the workshop. I can't wait to see the things they'll create now!
I had a fantastic time at another Beyond Tellerrand conference, this time it was the Düsseldorf edition.
Read MoreI am definitely not a pro, so if you are starting out you might find this helpful. This how I set up the lighting for my doll head stop motion + some mistakes I've made before that you should avoid.
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I made this Desktop factory in collaboration with Doro, we worked on it when I was in Hamburg and released it in bits first on instagram (the foodie parts) to confuse people a bit. Doro also collects things that people throw away (on the street, or washed up by the river) and we started tinkering with these till we came up with an idea.
Earlier this year in Jan I gave a talk about all my tinkering I've been doing the past years and how it all started at Beyond Tellerrand Conference in Germany. Here is a photo of 98% of me behind the podium and a somehow visible 2% of me, these percentages may have varried depending on your angle of vision.
Read MoreI finally learnt welding! Starting off with stick welding which is the most common in Egypt. We learnt all the theory then went on practicing then cutting the metal and welding a stool together!
I finally made one!! I've always wanted to make a mini version of it and now I did, with just things that were thrown away. And I made a youtube tutorial for you to make one too, maybe, and an instructables tutorial as well 👀
Read MoreA tree for every Patron... Check 🌱✔️ So grateful for every single one of them! Thank you for being my very first supporters! And a thank you to everyone who came to the tree planting event!! Not only did we reach our goal, but we even doubled it!! We planted 200 trees in Obour city in Cairo! Together with Shagrha and Hand over we planted olives, lemons, moringa and pomegranate trees.
If you'd like to support my on going projects and become my patron yourself, check the virtual tinkerland ✨👀
So my first "reward" on Patreon for all my beautiful Patrons will be "PLANTING A TREE IN EGYPT"!!!
When I got to know about the 1001 tree project, I started thinking about how the values of things have changed, planting 1001 is cheaper than buying the latest Canon 5D camera in Egypt! So a single camera is worth more than 1001 trees, It's sad, confusing, unbelievable, kind of funny and really sad again!
Read MoreHere are some thoughts that swirl in my brains everyday, they are more of incomplete thoughts, but they are there, swirling…
I spent 2016 disassembling products that were about to be thrown away and making stop motion stories. I didn’t know squat about stop motion, I was only interested in how we consume stuff. And over the past year I couldn’t put it in any other way, I question how we consume things, be it anything!
Read MoreI thought I'd try something new this time, I have lots of plastic and metal bits and pieces, all things that were about to be thrown away that I saved. I love automaton and thought I'd try making one! thought I'd choose something simple... so of course I go and make a creature with articulating wings!
Read MoreMy last Tinker object was a pocket camera Called Palm Clix. My brother bought this years ago, he doesn’t even remember if it worked or not, or if he ever even tried it! I don’t know why anyone would buy this to be honest.
Read MoreLast week I opened the playstation3 controller as per most requests. It’s by far my most viewed and liked video ever on Instagram! Eveer! I can’t believe that more than 60k viewed the video
Read MoreThis was an interesting one! I kept seeing pink slugs on my instagram feed, I asked one of my insta pals and came to know about The pink slug project! And that there are actually PINK slugs in real life!
Read MoreThis week I opened a Date! It’s Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month and there are dates everywhere! I make sure to eat a few every now and then throughout the night. But I always feel so bad when I throw away the pits!
Read MoreI choose a cassette tape last week because I’ve been piling up with side projects that I wanted to do and wanted something simple to animate that week, or so I thought! Knitting on its own is very time-consuming, let alone stop motion-ing it!
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