I joined Play Balloonacy because I thought it was adorably cute.

What I found intriguing about this site is that I get to visit other blogs and play a bit. It’s way more fun than Entrecard. Entrecard has become so superficial and so many people abused it to the max. I don’t even enjoy dropping cards on other people’s sites. I find it boring and a lot of the blogs that I visited through entrecard are poorly designed, heavy loading, and people don’t understand the concept of simplicity.

Anyways, I picked a Dolphin for my race and named him RebelDolphin. The cool thing about this race that it is not concentrated on blogs only. You can add it to Facebook, MySpace, NetVibes, etc. Also, the winner of the race will win a trip to Ibiza. And we know that Ibiza is not only sinful, but it’s an ISLAND!

4 comments

Blogs are becoming really popular in our day and age, yet blogs would not have a lot of traffic without its loyal readers. Many readers are not bloggers, but just interested people who want to read a real person’s point of view of certain issues in the world and give their two-cents.

I have been browsing a lot of blogs. However, I saw a BIG trend. People don’t know how to make nice looking blogs, and some can’t even write or check spelling or grammar which makes me wonder why they are blogging in the first place. Blogging is the art of writing. Can you write? If you can, then you can easily blog. It’s not hard.

Some bloggers need a few lessons in writing, and some non-bloggers need to learn that they ARE great writers. Are you?

So this is what I am going to do. I am allowing any individual who is interested in writing (you may or may not have a blog) to write a critique or opinion of what it means for you to be rebellious. Pick any subject that you would rebel about and explain why. You should write 300 - 750 words. I am not counting, but that is a good enough mini essay, and I will publish it on my site, and allow other readers to comment and give their opinion to what you have written. This will give you free visitor input and a bit of understanding of how hard it is to be a blog writer. In other words, putting your self in my shoes.

Everyone is welcome to email to:

me (at) rebelliousarabgirl.net

Format of email body:

Name or nickname, blog URL (if any), picture (check out jupiterimages for some ideas or flickr), and your post. That’s it!

I will be accepting submissions till June 8. I will be posting them throughout the next few days. Happy writing!

PS. Make it stand out and no nonsense please!

More idiotic emails. I read this one and I was like huh? Then I read the search term that he used on Google to get to my site, and I was like aaah. Another idiot!

email: asisheerazwaggan at yahoo.com

SHEERAZ (none) wrote:
SALAM,
I am Sheeraz, 25 male from UAE.
I would like to welcome anyone interested to work with me volunteerily for human welfare.

IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Referring page: http://www.rebelliousarabgirl.net/
Keywords used: List of email addresses of Arab girls
Original referer: Google

What made me question his idiotic email is that he started it with Salam which means peace in Arabic.

So all I can say is, “Salam my brother. The only list of email addresses of Arabic Girls I can send your way is the hate mail you will receive when I publish this post!”

PS. I am mean.

I was bored today and I needed to stimulate my brain with some work. I love listening to quiet ambient chill out music sometimes. That’s actually my favorite genre. However, I didn’t want to just put an mp3 and that’s it. I love making simple animated movies. Nothing complex and just music. So I searched around and I joined AnimationFactory.com to get some great background videos. I also used Ulead VideoStudio as my video editor.

I also noticed so many bloggers joining Vimeo.com to upload their video streams and those videos are SO nice! Unlike youtube’s grainy fuzzy videos. So I joined and I will be posting very very simple music videos with random quotes every now and then. I think it is subtle and a way to keep my brain active and get to do some simple graphical work. I just want a way to listen to the song in a video format with no mp3 streaming. I am not going to be spending a lot of time on those videos from now on.

However, I unfortunately have to say this, but I had hard time encoding the videos with certain file types on my STUPID Windows Vista, and I wished I had a Macintosh. BLASPHEMY! I said the M word!

I chose the song: Speed of Light by Alphawezen

If you want to request a song, just leave a comment and I will see what I can come up with next. I need ideas!

7 comments

I had an itch of learning, and I decided to learn to do make my own funky fonts. This is my attempt. It’s not that bad for a first try.

9 comments

I was stumbling and I came across this article about Chinese hot sauce. (Source) Holy F#$@#$ crap! That’s insane. Can you imagine what it would do to your stomach?

The power of Chinese hot sauce

Lucky for me, I’m not very big on Chinese food, or any other spicy cuisine for that matter, I don’t know how my throat could withstand the power of that acid-like sauce. Frankly I can’t even conceive anybody would use that on their food, that stuff makes Mexican chilly look like baby food.

if you’ve ever tried anything like this please leave your thoughts, I’m really curious if Chinese hot sauce is as hot as it looks.

UPDATE: According to one of our readers the red substance is actually some kind of oil and it is not eatable. Sorry for the mix-up, my Chinese is not very good.

9 comments

I am selling various “I Am Rebellious” products. There are t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, etc. The shop is located < HERE >.

This slide show shows samples of the products that are on sale.

1 comment

I am getting a bit better now with Photoshop and I tried to do some 3D lettering. So I did my name as a test. I think it looks ok. I need to make it a bit more flashy. I am thinking of making it neon or glittery colors in my next attempt.

Click on image above to enlarge.

10 comments

I spent the past week in aww and a bit of jealousy. I kept saying to my self, “how can people make amazing digital art? It looks so complicated and I am just lazy.” I learned to be lazy from being a programmer. So I told my self that I will do it too. I will become a great digital artist too! I don’t care how long it will take me, but I will learn it. I hate Photoshop and all its amazing power, but I will make proper digital art.

I hated photoshop from the beginning. I hated its complicated layering systems, its window within window just so you can do one alteration. I just hated it, and I seldom ever used it. I kept thinking, why would anyone use this crap? It’s not graphical user friendly. I am used to fast paced software that will help me do what I need to design quickly. To me time is luxury, and I don’t want to spend time doing one little thing which I can do with one click on another program.

Then I decided to go into a more complicated life and become a programmer. That requires a lot of patience! But I like it only because I am an analytical thinker and I like to design and code. Coding is fun, it is like solving a jigsaw puzzle. Once it is complete and all together, the result is magnificent!

Then I remembered back in the good old days where I was labeled as a young artist. I used to paint, draw, and make sculptures easily. I had a very artistic creative approach to things, but I was good at math and science, so it made no sense. So I was stuck in the middle and I felt like I can be good at anything if I set my mind to it. Also, I still adore all the art prizes I won over the years growing up. I mean, winning a Polaroid camera when you are 8 years old is amazing! It was a talent that I was happy to have.

So now I want to master being a digital artist. I want to change my direction in life, and learn to use Photoshop. Oh wait, I already did! Took me a day but dammit it, I can use everything in it now! I was like, screw all the beginner tutorials and what each window means and all the options; I am going straight to advanced tutorials.

I just skipped maybe 1st, 2nd, 3rd and almost done 4th year graphics art degree.

Time to make great art using crappy Adobe Photoshop. Oh I hate you, but your power is unruly!

8 comments

I found my weekend therapy that brings me back to sanity and reminds me constantly what my job is in life. I am meant to be a digital graphics artist drawing fun characters and cartoons. It is what I do best and enjoy doing with all my heart. So I decided to make a bunch of iRebel Robots. I make them very simple and barely any movements. However, the movements are enough for each song!

Introducing iRebel robot Stumper.

Here is the wallpaper.

Stumper is dancing to the song “Shut up and Drive” by Rihanna. The background object is actually a robot type vehicle! :P

If you have any suggestions or any songs you want an iRebel to dance to, then please leave a comment. The song has to be high beat dance song.

11 comments