The Daily Musica

Photography.

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:33:00 +0000

I’ve been off to photography in the last few months, I actually have been taking photographs for a few years now, but at this time it’s when I really decided that I was going to improve my style.

I started searching through the internet for simple tips and started shooting a lot of meaningless pictures just to get some directed practice.

I also gained some experience in optimizing pictures making them look more professional and more satisfactory J .

I will share a couple of pictures, one of them I shot before I started knowing some important stuff about photography, but then a great photographer I met on TrekEarth community, made great optimizations to the picture, with my recent simple knowledge I had it further optimized. The second picture, is one I took and done a few simple adjustments on, on my own.

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This photo appears in it's original version if you scroll down to an older post in the blog titled "Rawshé Rock, The Rock of love or .. Death!" It was pramarily optimized by the great photographer Enrique Sallent By applying the following techniques with adobe photoshop.

- Made horizon line parallel to frame.

- LAB mode, to enhance earth tones

- Curves to improve shaded areas textures

- Added gradient filter to enhance reflection on the water

- Levels to improve clarity

I further did a small adjustment with curves to reduce redness in the photo, I think it turned out looking much better after that.

The next picture is one I took about two days ago, I called it "Cloudy night" or "Sleeping in the clouds", where the crescent moon appeared beautifuly with it's light reflected from the near clouds, I did a very slight amount of adjustments, in fact I just edited the levels to gain a little more clarity, and it turned out like this:

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I hope you liked them, I will work on shooting better photographs in the near future and show them to you.

Thanks for passing by,

All the best,

Mohammed Hasan.

The Best Poem You Ever Read

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:41:00 +0000

This is a poem by an Internet poet, I don't have his real name, I let myslef copy this poem directly from the publishing website, Poetry Buffet, It's really good, telling us that the best poem any of us has read shoudn't neccessarily be one of a great poet, It could just be written by our own hands, as no one knows us better than ourselves, The poem's title is "The best poem you ever read"

The best poem you ever read,

Is not necessarily by Thoreau

Or for that matter Keats or Shelley

Or Edgar Allan Poe

It might not be amongst the

Dusty books there on the shelf

The greatest poem you ever read

May just be written by yourself

Did you ever write a poem?

That just made you softly sigh

Or was there one that emotion

Made you bittersweetly cry

Is there one that was born to you?

That made you wholly believe

Words weren't born long time

agoYou yourself can conceive

This poem that I am writing

Is not the best there ever was

But few poems can do for me

What my own poetry does

When you think of Percey Shelly

And when you think of ole John Keats

Remember theirs is their own

Even if

You wish to match their feats

I hope the poetry you respect

From which have made you grown

I hope the greatest poem you ever read

Was one you call your own

The End (sentiment)

Best Regards,

Mohammed H. Zaid Ali

Unknown To No One ...

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:13:00 +0000

Since when did you hear of an Iraqi band that sang a song in English and it was good!!, well, not just good, you can even put it in your playlist between (Incomplete) and (My heart will go on) without feeling any kind of a quality drop!, I think it's time for that to happen , UTN1 have done it!!

That’s the idea I have in my head now, UTN1 is one of the best English speaking bands I’ve ever heard, and could be the best, some will say that this could be unfair to BSB or BoyZone, but these guys if you still don’t know came from and grew in a place where the most brutal offences to humanity occurred during the whole human history, where voice was the single most dangerous banned gift, where life was a dream and still is to be shown the way it really is to rest of the world, and these guys are doing it in an exquisite way, the fantastic voices, the most sense swaying words with the most honest feelings, now I’m not willing to drift you with my words, I will let you decide if this was true or not, I won’t tell you their story too, because it would be a lot more beautiful when you hear the full version of it directly from them when they will be noticed by the whole world and I’m sure that it’s not that far away .. or (read it in their website!!! lol) just watch this video clip first and if you liked them, let’s wish them the best of all, ultimate success.

Note: I'm not used to put videos that play directly on my blogs so click this link and be dazzled by their awesome music video (While We Can)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lOjRIdzk9gE (Totally trusted content)

And to find out more about them or contact them, go to their personal website

http://www.UTN1.com

Best Regards.
Mohammed H. Zaid Ali

Let’s make a sweet drink, from sour lemon!

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:38:00 +0000

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Let’s make a sweet drink, from sour lemon!

It’s a small nice saying I got from a Dale Carnegie’s book (Postpone worrying and start living), It’s pretty nice, another one I was talking about with my friend yesterday was (If you don’t like something in life, change the way you think about it), I went :” what if everything was bad?!!” , my friend said “It’s ok we can make it somethings) , I don’t know if we could, lol, but it works for me, to a certain extent, I believe that most of the things in life aren’t of a certain type, good, bad, beautiful, or salty!!, I remember a story I read about a week ago, a small one .. don’t worry!!, There was this rich guy who lived in a huge palace with his wife and little son, he always noticed that his son didn’t appreciate that they were rich and thought that he should sense it and enjoy it, well, the dad took his son on a trip to the country willing to show him how poor people lived, they went into a farmer’s house who offered them a piece of bread and a cup of milk, made a little talk, showed them around his farm and wished them a happy trip wherever they’re going, so on the way back the father asked his son, “so, Son, what did you see at that farm?” his son went :” I saw that these people have fresh milk every morning while we have it out of carton boxes, how their kids have wide playgrounds while I have none, how their house has huge landscapes and our house has a few meters garden, how they have the freshest air that could be and we smell the smoke all the time, thank you dad, for showing me that we are poor …” the dad said nothing.
I don’t know if it makes any sense to you now, but as I see it, the father was convinced that those people were poor, he was rich, it’s just simple math to him, his son saw it from a complete different angle, only if one person could see both those angles about anything he is thinking about, this world would have been so much greater than it is now, or at least, that’s one idea I have!! ;) .

Best regards,

Mohammed H. Zaid Ali.

Weird clock!!

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:40:00 +0000

Umm, I'm out of subjects today, I'm really into writing something but I don't know what, I check the time and!!, not a very interesting subject but I said what the hell!, let's share this with people, lol, I have this weird clock on my desk, I never look at it to check the time, I liked it in the shop and found it so ridiculous at home, and if I lift it over the table it just skips 3 hours, :D, well that's not the thing, I was thinking, what made someone think of making such a clock, I even take the battery out at night coz it has a disturbing click every one hour!!, let me tell you how it works, the tip of every leaf shaped part of the big grey circle has a number which refers to hours, so when the tip of the leaf numbered 2 refers to 2 O'clock, it's pointing a little before 45 so it's something like 42 43, lol , that's it, If anyone wants it I'll be more than happy to ship it to him, lol, ok see you later, hopefully with a more interesting subject!!
Greetings,
Mohammed H. Zaid Ali.

Rawshé Rock, The Rock of love or .. Death!

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:36:00 +0000

Rawshé Rock, The Rock of love or .. Death!

Let’s start with Rawshé, Beirut’s seaside, A place where you find everyone, all the time, 5A.M, people are wearing their sports wear trying to lose a few pounds, their poor dogs might think that it’s the end of time and everyone’s running for their lives!!, 11pm, I jumped here because it’s the earliest time I woke up when I was there!!, some people are still running!, some are waiting for a cab, by the way, cab drivers there are amazing, they could come into the shop, handcuff you, and go : “You need a cab sir?”, I think there’s too many cabs there that they started fighting over passengers who don’t even know what’s goin on! Who knows, at night, you find a lot of people just walking to have some fresh air, although there’s still some late runners who are trying to catch the marathon!!, Lovers also find Rawshé a nice place to walk and have their little sweet talks which could be great if those instant photo guys won’t bother them every two seconds!!, ok enough with the Rawshe, let’s talk about the rock …

I’m not intending to talk about what geologists said on it’s formation and this nonsense, when you stand in front of that rock, you’ll just go: “ where did that come from? Why here? Why shaped like this???” very big by the way, about a 100 meters from the shore 80 meters high, It’s called by two names that make it even more exiting, one is the Rock of love, that I said a part of because of the gathering of lovers in front of it everyday, the second name is scarier, the Rock of Death, see, the seaside (Rawshe) that lies in front of the rock, technically, the rock lies in front of it, is the highest one along the Mediterranean in Beirut, or that’s what I think, it’s also the most accessible by people, this made this place common for people who wanted to suicide … By common I don’t mean that it happens every day, but I guess it has happened more than once over history..

Another amazing thing about this rock, is that it appears beautiful in pictures, no matter where you’re standing, or who you were, a 10 years old kid with an old cell phone, or a professional photographer, just point and shoot, and you’ve got one hell of a poster!!

Best Regards,

Mohammed H. Zaid Ali

Life, How about a thought?

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:02:00 +0000

Simple ideas arise before us everyday, the ones that make us smile, the ones that make us sigh, and even the ones that make us freeze like dead trees, these ideas are life as a whole, they represent whatever we believe in, whatever we look forward to, and finally, whatever says that we are alive...

As any teacher begins to teach his students beginning with the youngest students, he starts to inform them with simple ideas, that become more complicated gradually, until they become very complicated to be understood unless they are seeked from the very beginning, this way, we learn throughout life...

Life, starts with the human from the very first moment he’s born, teaching him that the air he breaths is indispensable and this is before he learns to say any letter in any language, this way we know that life is the first teacher we get, moreover, the first who can tell us..

Is there a teacher who can teach everyone on earth at the same time? is there a teacher who knows about everything and everyone on earth?, and finally asking, is there a teacher who can speak each and every language that has been known? How about saying, this is life...

I don’t know if this makes any sense, it’s just an idea I had, I felt like proving it, I don’t even know if I did, let’s just leave it this way, and try to learn a few things from life, honestly, let's do that…

All the best,

Mohammed H. Ali.

Music and our minds, moods, and feelings.

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:29:00 +0000

Since the blog's name is “The Daily Musica”, I decided to start with something about music even though the word musica doesn't refer to music in the blog content. :)

I'll start with a couple of paragraphs in which others spoke about music in life...

Is it true that music makes one smarter?
Music controls some cells of the brain for a particular way of thinking. After listening to classical music, one can quickly perform some spatial tasks such as adults can quickly solve jigsaw puzzle. This is because the classical music pathways are similar to the pathways used in spatial reasoning. Listening to classical music, these pathways are "turned on" and are ready to be used. This is how you can solve puzzle quickly but lasts for a short time after listening to music. Playing an instrument also improves the spatial skills as research has proved that music training creates new pathways in the brain. "Olivia Andrews"

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An International Language.
Music has been called 'The International Language' - a very simple thought with much meaning behind it. Even if you can't speak the language of a country, you can move, sway, dance and most of all enjoy the music of the country. We may not understand the words of a musical selection but we do understand the beauty. ”Essortment.com”

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Music brings up deep feelings.
Now something beautiful about music, which we all go through, has to be said, remember when you heard that old song and you felt your heart ticking and the air fresher?!! , remember when you heard that song which wasn’t so sad when your eye dropped a tear? Now I won’t talk about the physiology of the brain because I frankly am, not familiar with it, but I sure have found out something, It’s that the human brain (I can only talk about what I have :) stores several things in the memory including feelings which aren’t easy to retrieve later, but the good part is that these feelings are like salt or pepper sprayed over the other contents of the pot at a time (the brain!), and songs especially are unique things, they’re certain words going on with a certain melody and a certain voice, so they’re distinct in our memory, whenever we hear that song a long time later, we feel almost the same way we felt, (not when we heard the song at first) but while we heard the song at first!!

Here’s a little experiment, it’s really easy, someday, try to turn on a song and replay it a few times, then do it the next day, and then ignore that song and help out of it for like a week or two, then listen to it and!!!, believe me there will be something, even if you didn’t know what you were feeling at the time you heard it first, now you’ll know coz your brain found out in two weeks :) Please tell me when it works with you! “Mohammed Hasan”

From time to time, we hear a song that we like so much that we keep rewinding until the day is over, it’s more likely these songs that stick with certain feelings that ones that we choose, these songs are out there and sometimes we hear an old songs that we never heard before and be so much attracted to it, how about telling us which song you once stuck to! Just give us the name and download links will be available for them on this blog :).

Best Regards,
Mohammed Hasan.

Introduction

noreply@blogger.com (M.H.Z) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:51:00 +0000

Hey there, this blog is about, umm, I still haven't figured that out, May be it's about giggles, may be about tears, or life!, which involves, giggles, tears, shouts, and others! I just want your marvellous comments, and it'll work out for the best.