30-year-old musician, comic book author, and painter Mazen Kerbaj in Beirut has been blogging throughout the recent violence. You can view some of his recent drawings here on his blog.
Listen to a six-minute ambient, improvisational music piece he performed — accompanied by the sound of falling bombs. "Starry Night" — Audio link, alternate MP3 link, more links.
Cropped above: "Family Tree," here's the full-size: Link. "This is not a political blog," writes Mazen, and he continues:
for the israeli musicians, painters, writers, thinkers, intellectuals and for all the israeli in israel and around the world who sent us supportive emails and comments,
we know you are here.
we know you are hearing us.
we know you are hearing the bombs getting down on civilians and kids.
kids from lebanon.
kids from israel.
kids from al over the world.we know that like us, you feel ashamed.
we know you are not a lot.
but we shall meet one day.
when our people will wake up.
in 10.000 years.
