Dubai Works

Applied media aesthetics differs in three major ways: Rather than being concerned primarily about beauty and philosophy of art, applied aesthetics deals with a number of aesthetic phenomena, including light, colour, space, time/motion and sound and our perceptual reactions to them. The media themselves plays an important part in shaping the message. Media aesthetics can be applied both to analysis and synthesis i.e. production. We can stabilize the environment and we practice, selective seeing and perception. We perceive an event relative to the context in which it occurs. Applied media aesthetics places great importance on the influence of the medium on the message. The medium itself acts as an integral structural agent. The five fundamental image elements are: - light and colour - two dimensional space - three dimensional space - time/motion - sound Aesthetics suggest that that we are all bereft of all aesthetics, that our perceptions are dulled or totally shut off...

I absolutely hate physical abuse. I hate physical abuse of any kind. Whether it is the husband who raises his hands on his wife, or where the father hits his children. Whether it is the mother who goes crazy and beats the children, or where even an elder sister hits her younger sister or brother. It is a horrific and gruesome act. Especially when it gets extreme. No one should go through physical abuse. It is wrong and unjust. It is inexcusable and there is no reason on the planet which can justify it. I have written a short story to illustrate my deep attachment to the subject. It is more of an account than a story, of a person who used to hit his daughter, but then regretted it in the end. Like everyone keeps saying, you don’t know what you had, until you lose it. For years I had done it without even a doubt in my mind. I had done it without remorse or stopping to think for even a second about what the consequences will be. I did not think about how much pain I was causing the p...

…Or having a good photo camera for that matter. Many people have over the years approached me and asked me what camera/cameras and equipment I use to take my photographs. I am not one of those people, who keeps this information secretive. I do tell them what camera I used to take the photo and the lens that was used. However, there is a big misconception in the mind of the newbies, of the serious photography world. They think that by just buying an expensive camera, they will start taking good photos. This is slightly true, in the sense that obviously if you have better equipment and more megapixels, your in general photo taking standards will increase, but in essence they won’t be actually ‘producing’ an excellent photograph, but just taking a better photo than they were before. Some think that by just buying a camera and getting some fancy lens, which they don’t even know how to use, they’ll just automatically become professional photographers. Well, that’s where they are wrong....

The concept of Utopia was originally used by Plato in the 4th century B. C. referring to a perfect place and society in his book ‘The Republic’. Over the years, many different scholars and philosophers used the word Utopia. Utopia was picked up by fiction writers to describe a place an author makes the traveller go to, which is perfect and faultless. As many people started writing and thinking about a perfect society, the opposite of such a society also came under consideration and people categorised Utopia in to two; positive and negative Utopia. Negative Utopia is also called Dystopia. The actual word Utopia comes from two Greek words, ‘ou’ and ‘topos’ which mean “no place”.  Perfect Utopia would be a place with a perfect socio-political-legal system. This term is used both in literary fiction, where it refers to a heavenly like place loved to be inhabited by everyone and it also is used to describe people that deliberately come together and try to establish perfect commun...

One of the lies that has become the norm these days is "I am too busy". Everyone uses it. When they don't want to go out and meet someone. When they don't want to talk to someone on the phone. When they just don't feel like talking. This is why, everyone assumes that when someone is saying this, it means they aren't actually. They are only saying this for the sake of it, because they want to avoid people and don't want to talk. This is not always the case. YES PEOPLE OUT THERE!! UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE GENUINELY TOO BUSY!! This is so frustrating and annoying. Everyone these days tries to act like they know you so well and to the core and dish out free advise to try to better our lives, which they have no idea about. Just know this, we only tell you that much that we want to let out. No one and I mean no one, really truly knows you, unless it is a real absolutely close best friend, your life partner or your parents. I have come across man...

Temple Run is a hugely successful and popular game available for iOS devices and soon to be made available for Android devices. It has 40 million downloads and counting at the app store on iTunes and it has a staggering 3 million plays every day. Some say that Temple Run is more famous than Zynga. So, anyway, the game is basically a mild toned down version of Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider. It is maybe even a combination of the both; since the initial character that you play with is a man called Guy Dangerous and the objective is to keep running and escape demon monkeys after stealing a golden statue from a temple, which is very Tomb Raider like. It is a highly addictive game and whoever I have come across that plays the game has vouched for that. When I first started playing Temple Run, I did find it boring and maybe because of my ADD, the lack of concentration meant that I couldn't focus on the game and tune my reflexes accordingly. The game starts off at a slow pace and then slo...

Our world has become a place where you will see people walking and instead of looking ahead or up, people will be looking down. They will be looking down at their screens, glued to them and texting away. Before this kind of scene could only be found in movies, where men in suits looking busy, used to be shown walking with their eyes on their phones all the time or where they were shown talking on the phone all the time. Now this can actually be seen in the real world. We have become so obsessed with technology.  These days’ people are tethered to their phones, laptops and electronic devices. It does not stop at business individuals or men, but this phenomenon has extended to women, to guys, to girls and to even kids. It used to be that we human beings ‘used’ our devices and the technology available to us; now it has changed to it being that the technology and devices, control us.  Our lives have become so busy and we are always on the move. Technology has become the norm now...