My nephew Faizi is always fun to shoot. This time I was just having chit chat with him while I recorded it. Later on, after watching it again, I realized it was so much fun.

A poem for you

Daisies in the spring

young ones are innocent
like daisies in the spring

old ones are tainted
like roadside snow in the winter

why do old ones seek to be young?
do they wish for the vitality
the flexibility they once had?

no

they are searching for something deeper
something much harder to attain
they want the innocence
the innocence of daisies in the spring

Credits:

Video by Fahd Murtaza
Poem courtesy of PoemHunter

The famous youtube video with Views: 43,494,596 so far. Its amazing with no acting of two little children. Its originality makes it great. I am sure you will love it.

Charlie Bit Me Remake by two gals. Seems a good remake.

Here is how these children would look after 15 years

Hello buddies. I have developed a new website in love and appreciation of my Favorite Nasheed Artists like Sami Yusuf,Shaikh Hamza Yusuf, Yusuf Islam (Yousaf Islam) and many others. Just check it for yourself. The best part is you can download the videos too. I will be looking forward to your suggestions to improve it. But it should be positive criticism and for the sake of improvement. I am really looking forward for such a feedback.

I was looking at this adorable little girl presenting star wars in her own words

And here is an interesting response to it

I was just watching a Movie about my CIIT friends here on Youtube. So here it is

yeah it made me so overwhelmed with emtions after watching this. I liked the song though and I see Noorie has great perspective in mind while shooting it.  Watch it yourself.

Yeah here comes another great youtube discovery of mine. There are million ways to be kool/ cool. The song is too damn good and its Title “Oh, Ok Go, You’re a million ways to be cool” says it all. The video is a backyard dance of these 4 guys as I just collected a picture from web of them

Bringing a distant family member to various school functions, and passing them off as your significant other: Not cool. Tights and oversized sweatshirts: Cool for salacious dance teachers, not cool for an awkward high school senior. However, impromptu choreographed dance routines? Always cool.
Unfortunately for most, dance routines are always out of place, and generally result with being banned from various establishments. Ok Go, on the other hand, can perform one in the middle of their set, and look cooler than the Backstreet Boys did when they did that thing with the chairs.
“We never really thought that it would be our video [for "A Million Ways"], we just wanted to come up with a dance so that we could drop our instruments in the middle of our show, and perform a dance routine,” said Damian Kulash, Ok Go’s lead singer and guitarist. “If we could make people feel like they were living in a musical for a second that would be totally awesome.”

Jazz hands and pelvic thrusts aside, Ok Go is currently on tour promoting their second album Oh No, which they worked on with the guidance of Tore Johansson, the man responsible for Franz Ferdinand’s debut album.
Tore, known for his almost authoritarian production methods would not let the boys settle for anything that was less than perfect. Harsh? Perhaps, but it was all in good fun and the end result was an album that could rock your face off.
“We wanted to make something more consistent than our first. Our first record and our demos are really spastic and all over the place – so we tried to indulge that and ended up with this really overproduced collage with a million different ideas … One gigantic production after the next,” Kulash said. “With the new record we wanted something that was simpler, and more consistent. The new record is much more spare, and aggressive, and a lot more human.”
After touring relentlessly for two years straight following the release of their first album, one might assume that the shattered social lives and destroyed relationships would deter a band from embarking on such an adventure again. Not Ok Go.
Once again, these boys are on the road promoting their new album with a ridiculously large and lengthy world tour, but have learned a few things from their previous experiences whilst traveling.
“[The Tour] was an emotion backdrop to songwriting, but I thought that every caffeinated revelation that I had in the back of the van would be another great idea for a song. I thought I had the most monstrous pile of song ideas laid out, and I would open up the creative floodgates, and it would be this geyser of brilliance, but it wasn’t,” he said. “It took about six months after we got back to learn how to write a song that we liked again. Still, there is a reckless sense to the new album’s lyrics that comes from the experiences we had while on tour.”

The ridiculous amount of touring, however, stems from the idea that every band has to start somewhere. Starting as a band of four guys back in Chicago, Ok Go spent a lot of time looking for a spot in the industry that, in their opinion, was obsessed with bands making music that was depressing.
Perhaps with some bitterness about their beginnings, Kulash and the rest of Ok Go have some advice for independent bands that are straddling the cusp between the garage and the main stage.
To put it bluntly, regardless of what type of music you play, and regardless of whether or not the music industry is leaning towards your style, wait until you don’t suck.
“Don’t play for people until you don’t suck,” said Kulash. “Don’t play for people until you practice. No one wants to hear a guy on stage that doesn’t really know what he’s doing. People think that when you’re up there on stage with all the lights on you and stuff that you just look cooler. Really, the truth is, you don’t.”
Ok Go play with Controller.Controller at The Casbah in Hamilton on Feb. 7.

This is my first video posted to youtube. I  shot this at G11 Markaz Islamabad on January 11 2008. The previous post in the blog contains the still shot!

Dear readers

I have always been the fan of classic tale Little Red Riding Hood, as my mom usually used to tell me this story when I couldn’t sleep in the  Winter nights during the power outage which is a common thing here in Pakistan. I have always been thinking of its best interpretation. You people may know (my friends/foes) or may not know (Just surfed on in) ,I was always a fan of home made little videos; giving some funny, sarcastic, happy, angry, scary or  inspirational idea. And yeah I usually made a few with my own ideas and  creativity. They were not bad as I believe. So purpose of all this saying is; this video seems to be not a big budget and like a home made video but gives a great message. Its their (Outlandish Band) interpretation of the “Little Red Riding Hood” and I love it. It left tears in my eyes. I still remember my Nursery class in “Fiction and tales” where I watched a video of this tale and this is the second time this story touched my heart in a different way through this video interpretation.  Bravo Outlandish for making such a touching video.

According to Wikipedia

“Little Red Riding Hood is a famous fairytale about a young girl’s encounter with a wolf. The story has changed much in its history, and been subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings.”

Yes the Wolf(s) are Israelis who are killing innocent Palestinians!

Ok Lets proceed to the Lyrics of the song. The lyrics and  video is on the full blog post!

Artist(Band): Outlandish

Look Into My Eyes Lyrics

Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
You don’t see a damn thing
’cause you can’t relate to me
You’re blinded by our differences
My life makes no sense to you
I’m the persecuted one
You’re the red, white and blue

Each day you wake in tranquility
No fears to cross your eyes
Each day I wake in gratitude
Thanking God He let me rise
You worry about your education
And the bills you have to pay
I worry about my vulnerable life
And if I’ll survive another day
Your biggest fear is getting a ticket
As you cruise your Cadillac
My fear is that the tank that has just left
Will turn around and come back

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let the media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Has our world gone all blind?

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let the media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me …

Ooohh, let’s not cry tonight
I promise you one day it’s through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain’t with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters

See I’ve known terror for quite some time
57 years so cruel
Terror breathes the air I breathe
It’s the checkpoint on my way to school
Terror is the robbery of my land
And the torture of my mother
The imprisonment of my innocent father
The bullet in my baby brother
The bulldozers and the tanks
The gases and the guns
The bombs that fall outside my door
All due to your funds
You blame me for defending myself
Against the ways of my enemies
I’m terrorized in my own land (what)
And I’m the terrorist?

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let the media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Has our world gone all blind?

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let the media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me …

Ooohh, let’s not cry tonight, I promise you one day it’s through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain’t with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

American , do you realize that the taxes that you pay
Feed the forces that traumatize my every living day
So if I won’t be here tomorrow
It’s written in my fate
May the future bring a brighter day
The end of our wait

(pause)

Ooohh, let’s not cry tonight, I promise you one day it’s through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain’t with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

[with kids]
Ohh let’s not cry tonight I promise you one day is through
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!
Ooh shine a light for every soul that ain’t with us no more
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!

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I was just searching over the youtube for video and I found this great videos. It really touched my heart. Well my grandmother had the same problem in her last days and I have experienced a person like this so I know it really happens! Alzheim is what this disease is called. But such situation can occur to anyone not Alzheimer’s patients specifically. My gramdma had started forgetting the things. We Muslims pray 5 times a day and she (after she started forgetting the things) kept on praying all the time, started calling me with my uncle’s name (who died young and she loved him the most!) even forgetting what she ate in the lunch just 15 minutes later. My sis usually took care of her and yeah she deserves a great life as she was too much patient with her so-called Alzheimer and then a complete one year of paralyzed life! Bravo Sis!