District – Bab Shareif by Derek Morales
Remember the old Jeddah pictures? There is a picture of bab shareif. Now the old historic sites are crumbling, they will be demolished no doubt, to make way for modern buildings, malls, and parking lots… the story of modernisation.
I went with two of my friends, @HameedAnbar and @thamerhsn, to the Edge of Arabia art exhibition which is being held at the park Hayat in Jeddah, the experience was nice, and a first for me to attend such an event.
Going in was a bit of a setback, since the security guys who think they are 50cent and fat Eminem acted like we wanted to enter a club and not an art exhibition, looking at us like we owed them money. It is always funny to me when these guys go on little power trips.
Anyhow, it turned out that we needed an invitation, or should’ve arrived with our families (i.e. have a woman with us).
Lucky for us, Thamer saw one of his filmmaker friends Awadh Alhamzani, who was a presenter, who talked to Steve the Director who let us in with no problems, after that it was just cool.
Now, some of the artwork inside blew me away, other works made me think “whaaaa?” really? You must be kidding me.
It is interesting, to see, and I plan on going again with my wife next time.
It will be on until the 18th of February, so if you are in Jeddah or planning to visit, I recommend you go and see it.
Thanks to @Adnan_Z_Manjal for letting me know about it.
I liked this video, a woman keeps painting this broken car, it resembled to me the status of the never ending debate about women driving in Saudi, they keep getting their hopes high, preparing for it, but the car is broken down and does not seem to go anywhere… but as they say, art is always open to interpretation. (Women Driving in Saudi)
The last traditional ship maker in Saudi Arabia, a beautiful documentary about the last of the traditional wooden ship builders.
I loved it when he says
“My son asks me to stop this work and I tell him No, I can’t stop, If I don’t work, I fall sick”
Reminded me of my late grandfather who, worked well into his mid eighties and died while at work, and people younger than I am thinking about early retirement… the last of a dying breed I guess.
Thanks to @Walrex for letting me know about this video.
Mazen AlRammal @maxen_ always amazes me with how he can express in a drawing what I find difficult to express in words.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mazen more than once, and he is a down to earth guy who works as an art teacher.
More of his amazing work can be found on his blog rammal.wordpress.com
Waleed Marhoom does it again, and he is getting better, the Jazan timelapse was good, but from a photography, timelapse video, color, and editing perspective, this is much much better, can’t wait for the next one 
The images were captured around the Tuwaig mountains near Riyadh, more info on the video can be found (here).
I shot and edited some videos to submit to the one day on earth project, this is what I ended up with.
Since 11-11-11 was a friday, which means it is usually a travel day for me, the only time I had before travelling was right after the Friday prayer, which is mostly family time for most people, so the streets were empty except for a few people fishing.
Most of it was in Jeddah except for the desert scenes which were on the road between Jeddah and Yanbu.
I hope you enjoy, and if I am lucky, some shots will be included in the final One Day on Earth for this year.
It has been a long time since I went diving. I found this video, this guy feeding a shark at Jeddah’s silky point (wherever that is).
Wonderful video all around.