TIGblogs - Ali Siragedien's TIGBlog http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/ What's on the minds of young leaders from around the globe? en-us 22 September, Happy One Web Day ! http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/44143 OneWebDay

Celebrate The Internet


OneWebDay is a day for the glob to celebrae the Web and its importance to our lives. The first one is being held today in many places around the world. People are expected to celebrate by orgnizing events, bloging etc.

I take this to highlight how the web affected my life. Since my friend Adam taught me the basics of internet my life has changed dramatically. Every thing has improved to better, from special and personal life, to education to work. I participated in prestigious conferences, I posted some of my research work, and if not the Web I would not be able even to know about the opportunities of participating. I got valuable feed back from colleague scholars on other parts of the globe.


Last year I got married to my lovely wife who first I met through this international online organization of youth TIG. Family and friends got the happy news online. Of course, today she cooked a delicious dinner as a celebration of OneWebDay :).


Recently I started my online art project – The Colorful Days - in which I paint dates. Web was behind the inspiration I got for the art. I was reading blogs about current art projects and I found a successful and amazingnline art project. The power of web is the back bone of my project, for instance, I use free wikipedia information for my site.


Thank you very much Susan Crawford for starting OneWebDay.

From my side I want to participate in celebrating and supporting the first OneWebDay. I added 22 September to the special dates I will sell the 22 September painting on online auction. If I sell it, I will denoate 60% of the money to OneWebDay.


]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:50:00 EDT http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/44143 colorful days update - free 11 September http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/42236
These are the 7 days being sold:
28 September, 1 January, 8 July , 5 February, 10 August and 30 August. We gave our first customer across the Atlantic, a free day, he choose 11 September.

Every one has his day, but there are only 366 colorful days in the world, so have one of The Colorful Days of the world.

Please help me reach the guys who may be interested in the colorful days; please spread the word, may be one of your friends will be happy to know about this project. Please let me hear from you through TIG messenger or to the project email " ali@thecolorfuldays.com ".

Have a nice day ...]]> Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:38:00 EDT http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/42236 Days are for sale ! http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/41458 selling days. Every day in the Gregorian calendarwill be sold and painted. There are only 366 days, every day will be painted only once.

Feel free to check the site and don't hesitate to order one of the colorful days of the world. Please do not forget to tell your friends about this project, especially those who may like the idea.]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:48:00 EDT http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/41458 Mathematical experiments on art http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/41263 One of the interesting blogs that I cannot stop reading is Sala's blog because I am learning a lot from there. He is the artist behind two art achievements, first the onethousandpaintings and the other is the web based art "web site as graphs". His first work is about painting the numbers from 1 to 1000. What is interesting in it is that the price of the painting is determined by the number reduced from 1000. He is bringing success to his experiment of art and mathematics. He sold around 572 in 5 months.

The second work is HTML based; Sala created an applet that is able to reflect websites’ structures into beautiful shapes. While the first work is a highly pure conceptual art, the second crystallizes that area of art when technology is successfully used in bringing to existence the beauty and aesthetics around us which we cannot feel with our limited senses.

Moreover, booth of the works shares the core point, the essence and simplicity of mathematics. The applet Sala produced brings the abstraction, idealism, purity and completeness of mathematics behind HTML technologies, from editors to browsers, and that adds to the value of the graphs produced - from an art point of view.

For every one who is interested in today's art such work is of high importance, it is living creation of art history.

It is the inspirational power of Sala's work that led me to lunch the colorful days project.
]]> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:09:00 EDT http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/41263 the colorful days of the world; update http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/40934 an example of how a colorful day may look like. I have also added some FAQ, and today I lunched the pricing system of the project, its based on 8 July the starting day of the project.

The colorful days project is an art project, the goal is to sell painitngs with days of year, every day will be painted once. For more details check the project web site www.thecolorfuldays.com.]]> Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:03:00 EDT http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/40934 the colorful days of the world http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/40505 The project is about creating 366 paintings each painting represents one day of the days from
1st January to 31st December in a leap year.

The buyer decides the color of the day, the color can be any one of the colors of the visible light spectrum ( red; orange; yellow; green; cyan; blue; violet). Paintings are designed to
use colors and lines to tell about their creation history and relations between them.

In such way every pianting will be unique and at the same time linked to the other paintings.

Now I am going to the birth day praty. My wife, me and some friends will celebrate booth my date birth and the birth of this project.
Best wishes for all those who are celebrating their births today, namly TIG members. BTW, here is the cool card that I have got from TIG, thanks :).


Note: the project web site is located at www.thecolorfuldays.com, enjoy.

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]]> Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:55:00 EDT http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/40505 Hi every body ! http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/36665 So you are curious about my blog! thanks for that ... Maybe you have been browsing the web till you reached here. or even you are one of the friends around the TIG globe, exactly a "TIGer" as some times I like to call TIG members. Any way, you are welcome!

I don't think you may want to know more about me, isn't? or even you are not interested about this name 'Zantoosh'.

Zantoosh is my nick name. Some of my friends call me like that. They derived it from one of my poetry - ya I right poetry - in one of my writings I mentioned this friend 'Zantoosh'.

Zantoosh; alien from a distant galaxy ..
Zantoosh; believes in goddess, crazy about technology and his sexuality ..
Zantoosh is a close friend, he has come tomorrow and will have to return yesterday ...

ya exactly he came tomorrow !! and will have to return yesterday ... for him it is possible ... ;)

that is zantoosh ..

thank you again for stopping over here, and hope you will come back soon ..

In the coming posts I will talk about my future plans ... especially my coming online project ..

!Zantoosh]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:19:00 EST http://Zantoosh.tigblog.org/post/36665