David Vendetta, DJ-producer & Remixer is appearing in Paris at first as a resident at “Les Bains”, now he has his own party monthly at “Redlight”.

David is showing regularly in some of the best clubs throughout the world: Ibiza (Pacha, Amnesia) , New-York (Centro Fly) , Moscow (Zona) , St Petersburg (Jet Set, Buddha Bar), Bogota (Tantra), Copenhagen (Vega), Barcelona (Atlantida, Discotheque), Lausanne (Mad), Monaco (Karément), Hammamet (Calypso), Johannesburg (ESP), Dubai (Peppermint).

Nominated DJ of the Year in the NRJ MUSIC AWARDS 2007 with his Top 3 Dance hits for this year

1. Bleeding Heart (feat. Rachael Starr)
2. Unidos Para La Musica
3. Break 4 Love (feat. Keith Thompson)

Featuring Violinist Micah (France) & DJ Flava (St. Petersburg own & Play 99.6 Resident) & 4 Go-Go Dancers from State of Mind INC.

Presented by Lee McGrath from Play 99.6 FM.

After Hours set by DJ Exoda (Jordan’s Brilliant Electro Label Promoter).

Tickets:
50 JD / Regular – Including 2 drinks (walk ins/bar)
80 JD / VIP – Including 4 drinks and be seated in VIP.

What are you waiting for? BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW! (I might travel all the way back to Amman just to attend this… seriously!)

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The book is so adorable, fulfilling, they even have the sizes of the Digipacks, Jewel cases die cuts and more. I never expected it to be that good, also printing/design and paper material is attractive to the eye. What’s so special about this revised version of the 2003 edition is that it has more pages and has more interactive and downloadable work. Each page is rich in color and includes artwork from all over the globe. Has Mika’s Artwork, A brief description of each CD covered accompanies the imagery, with the ideas behind the artwork and packaging.

It’s not only the design of each cover that makes this book fascinating – the design of each CD case is in places just as inspiring. The book looks at many different designs, including the standard plastic case, cardboard casings, cases designed from other packaging and – as the style of purchasing music adapts to a digital society – USB memory sticks.

You’ll find that it’s very easy to source inspiration from CD-Art. Every design is unique and intriguing, but the fact that we can be influenced into buying a CD that we’ll listen to because of what we see on the cover gets us fascinated.

Rates: 5/5 (Yes, full house)

I recommend it and recommend buying it off amazon.co.uk via aphrohead_books.

P.S: I’m selling 2 books of mine, What Is Product Design? by Laura Slack for 30$ and Design Handbook by Charlotte Fiell for 11$ (both new, ordered them for a friend who changed major and doesn’t need them anymore, drop a comment if you want any of them and paid around 12 JD shipping for both).

On the world arena, there was, on the negative side, wars, food poisoning; on the positive side, it was heartwarming to see so the shawerma bans, Lebanese democracy and more.

Turning to my keyboard, here is a look back and ahead.

Ten Things I’d like to see Ending with 2007:

1. Weak and expensive wi-fi spots around the city & limited internet.
2. Advertisements full of misspellings and bad concepts.
3. Beggars everywhere near fast food restaurants in Jordan that’d not let you enjoy your food.
4. The Sarsari accent of many.
5. K.Fucking.C
6. Not smiling in Jordan?
7. Zain’s ugly advertisements?
8. Babies thrown in garbage because they’re not wanted.
9. People running around with Carrefour trolleys in CityMall.
10. TAXES! TAXES! TAXES!

Ten Things I liked in 2007 (and want to see more of in 2008):

1. Great new restaurants/hang outs popping up. (hint: Subway)
   OH, OH & FRED THE CHICKEN.
2. Events such as Distant Head and Tiesto in Petra.
3. New malls, CityMall alike.
4. Brands of young men strutting around the malls with tight, bright clothes and hair styled skywards – I like that, we had enough being regular.
5. Decent people sharing same interests with me (I met many nice people/bloggers this year).
6. Advertising wars in Jordan.
7. Gadgets, like the iPhone, new iPods & Operating Systems.
8. Sites like ikbis & watwet.
9. Megastores… I enjoyed Virgin & Prime this year.
10. Less whore-y looking Hijbabis.

I think 2007 was another successful year, being elected the most annoying blogger in the Jordanian blogosphere according to Ibrahim’s readers, also many people chose me as their favorite blogger on the favorite blogger day competition, thank you for choosing me and I hope you like my new stuff too, I also ranked first between Jordanian most popular bloggers, 9th on Jordanian bloggers worldwide on Alexa stats & 8th on technorati, I was also mentioned on Global Voices Online & many other blogs (thanks for having me on your blogroll list everyone) + Katy Perry’s official MySpace page as a news source.

Many other “bloggers” wrote about me under the most anonymous names of “mab3oos”, “the critic”. I met a lot of nice bloggers in real life, and I hope they liked me because I don’t believe in this “I hope I gave them a good impression” crap, I am whatever I want to be, and I don’t care if no one likes me. (take that for a motto)

I can say 2007 was beyond expectations, I had the chance to intern/work at a high-profile advertising agency in Kuwait, learned a lot, and now working at another high-profile well known advertising agency in Amman while studying. Now talking about 2007 in other fields, like studying for example… Well, last semester was nice, I dropped one class this semester and I think I might need an extra semester to finish the studying plan since some friends ended up taking 18 credits the past summer courses and took more credits than I did the past semesters.

In general, I was soaked into depression during January/February, I shaved my head for the first time in my life, put new piercings & grew a beard, shaved it, opened up, started doing new things again, grew my hair, done a few podcasts, got a new macbook, ipod, iphone and did a lot of shopping, missed many people especially steve, kloude, mohkha & josh, I engraved on linocut & plywood, met international artists, helped tourists not to get raped by the airport taxi prices, fought stores with the worse spelling/english ever, my tartool project, liked a nasheed, talked about my converse obsession, hating people who add ketchup to their pizza, missing mother and more…

Prana Club, Amman’s true spot for real dance music brings you back Nadia Ali from IIO with special live performance also featuring DJ Sultan, Keyboardist Ned Shepard, Percussionist Bill Finizio and resident DJ Yazan on Thursday, September 6, 2007. For more info call Prana on +962-79-9197955 or email [link].

More info:
Nadia Ali (born August 3, 1980 in Libya) is a singer who is best known as a former member of the band iiO. She was born to Pakistani parents and grew up in Queens, New York City, USA. Working with producer Markus Moser she wrote the lyrics and provided the vocals for the songs, most notably the 2001 hit “Rapture” which reached #2 on the UK pop chart and topped dance charts all over the world. This single was remixed many times by the likes of Armin Van Buuren, John Creamer & Stephane K and Deep Dish with bootleg and white label remixes emerging. As well as being the songwriter, she has also been the vocalist on all of the tracks released by the group. The releases culminated with the release of the debut album by the band, Poetica in the summer of 2006. She left iiO after 4 years in 2005 deciding to go solo. She is currently writing and recording her full length debut album with DJ/Producer Lance Jordan, DJ Sultan, and others. In 2006, as a solo artist, she released 2 singles. The first, “Who is Watching,” was a collaboration with DJ/Producer Armin Van Buuren and appeared on his album Shivers. The second, “Something To Lose” which is a duet with singer/songwriter Rosko, was produced by Creamer & K and released by Ultra Records. The duet was championed on the UK’s BBC Radio One by Pete Tong, and remixes have appeared on releases by Sharam Tayebi Deep Dish, as well as Roger Sanchez.

Don’t know her? Want to Know more? Watch this: