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Earlier this month I had finished making some TV Spots for AlMaghrib to be shown on Islam Channel that would be used as a means of promoting the seminars in the new UK (London) establishment. This is one of the videos:
There are two more. To see them, check out GemReel.com
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I spent the last two weekends in Houston with Eman Rush helping with the Recording of the Heavenly Hues seminar, when Sh Yaser suggested that I should make a GemReel for Qabeelat Hosna. After some internal discussion I decided to do it. and thus below was the result!
I posted the video on the “Oh So Fabulous!” AlMaghrib Student forums when one of the forum members (Taraqa) posted the following:
bismillah. is there a way to force the youtube page for a video to show only certain content?
because when i went to see the Durbah gem reel… which rocked by the way, mashaAllah
…there were some good videos and some obscene ones displayed in that righthand margin. I expanded the video size so that the screen was filled with the gem reel, but my basic rule is I do not visit youtube precisely because of how vulgar so much of the content on the site is.
so i feel bad that i have to answer for what my eyes glimpsed, and i think you should be aware that your links invite the eyes to a place that is good and bad. and the eyes are a gate to the soul.
sure, you may want more hits on that site so that these videos gain prominence. but here’s an alternate strategy to achieve that goal: if embedded videos also gain prominence, so that you could embed all the al Maghrib videos on one site that had no porn/obscenity — like a video blog controlled by you — then people could hit that blog all day long like a boxing bag, and drive up hits for the video without exposing Muslim eyes to what they should be protected from. and perhaps the hits would make the blog noticed by the kuffaar, too. wAllaho ‘Alim.
With that point made, I decided to make a website dedicated to hosting the AlMaghrib trailers and GemReels. I called it GemReel.com
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Everyone has been following Cloverfield lately. How it was made, the reviews, the experience as a whole. I must admit although I haven’t seen the movie yet, I’ve been caught into the whole buzz of it all. Last night I had a whole dream about the setup and scenario of Cloverfield.
JJ Abrams the director of Cloverfield, M.I.3, and Lost recently gave a talk at TED. It really got me thinking and looking at movies a little more deeply. This spotlight goes to JJ Abrams for making me see deeper at certain things.
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So, instead of my last post I deleted.. I decided to talk about something I once discussed with one of my teachers… “To Catch a Predator”… Is it OK/ethical to do or not?
Many of you have seen the Dateline NBC special. It’s one of NBC’s biggest rating shows…
For those of you unfamiliar, I don’t suggest you watch it because of the obscene and rather shocking things these guys say and do, but basically they hire a watch group called “Perverted Justice” to catch Sexual Predators. They set up fake profiles posing often times as 12-year-old boys and girls and wait for one of these guys to IM them. They often talk to them for about a month and then the guy wants to meet the “girl” when she’s home alone… only to find Chris Hansen waiting for them to bust them.. then they end up going to jail.
Entertaining? Perhaps. From an Islamic point of view most of these girls aren’t really children. So they are basically getting caught trying to commit Zina. Which in all honesty they get what they deserve. A lot of the guys caught are married, teachers, bus drivers, a rabbi and convicted sex offenders.
Still want to send your kid to public school?
Perhaps the most disturbing thing is that MANY Muslims were caught on the show. One Muslim guy kept asking, “Is my family going to see this? Because this is going to ruin my life.”
Yeah.. not only your life, but your family’s life too.
I have mixed feelings about this show. On one hand I think these guys get what they deserve. But on the other hand. It is kind of entrapment. And more is being done to increase ratings now- like actually having the girl posed as a 13 year old talk to the guys for a while before Chris Hansen comes out saying.. “Why don’t you have a seat right there.”
One thing that I kind of really like about the concept of the program is that It’s actually making a REAL difference. A lot of the people that get caught have seen the program before.. and who knows how many people got too scared to actually go through with it after watching.
But then I got to thinking.. What if something like this were done in say.. Egypt? The streets of Egypt will finally be clear.. because most of the perverts outside and in internet cafes would be in jail. In any case it wouldn’t be something good to do as a Muslim, but it was a pretty amusing thought.
One thing I think “To Catch a Predator” should do is to do a report on the families of those people who were caught.. how their wives felt, what they will tell their children, etc. (which is actually another reason I have mixed feelings about the show… their families didn’t do anything wrong to be humiliated publicly like that.)
For once I wish a report could make just as much difference, be just as popular and not talk about sex, drugs and violence.
This is for you New Jersey Folk, guy got caught in Ocean County:
Maybe I should start a “To Catch a Hick”…for the Muslim crowd, and from behind the scenes catch ignorant people get caught saying something bigoted at the dawah table. Like this one guy who came up to me after I asked him if he knew anything about Islam and said, “A little. I know you guys chop off heads…. Good luck with that whole Je-Haaad thing” and walked away…
Islamic Journalism at it’s finest….
Wallahu ta’ala alem.
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Life hacker has an excellent post on shooting with a camera. Below is an excerpt from the post:
Nothing brings out the camcorders like the holidays, which is why this is the perfect time to admit an ugly truth: You suck at making home movies.
No, really. I’m sure you’re a nice person and all, but there’s more to videography than just taking the camcorder out of the box and pressing Record.
As with photography, good videography requires a bit of know-how. Luckily, I know how, so here’s my list of ways you can improve your home movies. You won’t come out Soderbergh on the other side, nor even Singer, but your Uncle-Henry-dropped-the-turkey-on-Aunt-Edna’s-head submission to America’s Funniest Home Videos will look a lot better.
Check out the entire post: 8 Ways to Shoot Video Like a Pro
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