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My archive of concert photos from Male' City from 2007 to 2009
Addo from Fasy Live showing us that it was okay to dream of being a rockstar | Rockstorm, Malé City Carnival Stage | Nikon D70s | (2008)
This is my archive of concert photos from Male’ City from 2007 to 2009. They are available under the following creative commons free culture license:
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Ahmed “Fuloo” Nashid from Zero Degree Atoll tuning his guitar before the show begins | Resurrection, Malé City Carnival Stage | Nikon D70s | (2008)
This was a really interesting time for Maldivian music, with a surge in new bands and enthusiasm for live performances within a short period of time. A lot of the shows at carnival stage captured a feeling that most of us had only dreamed of experiencing at that point. Especially for fans of genres that were less popular in the mainstream like heavy metal. To see other Maldivians put on such great shows was a very empowering experience.
The photos are available in their unedited form. Please respect the terms of the license. I hope this is useful for fans of Maldivian music and for artists who will hopefully create remixes of these images.
The Laadheenee Digest #1
The Laadheenee Digest is written by Laadheenee people for Laadheenee people.
Download from the links below
Update: The mobi and epub versions have been removed for now because people reported some rendering issues.
Mausteroids.exe - An asteroids clone featuring Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
This is a game I created using GMS following Sean Spaulding's excellent tutorials. It's expanded quite heavily upon from what you get just following the tutorial, with too many additions to count, but is far from finished. Since I don't plan on working on it anymore I've decided to upload it for novelty's sake. Currently the objective of the game is survive 30 waves - one for each year of Maumoon's dictatorship. The game is boring, repetitive and gruelling. Just like living in a dictatorship, hooray! All of the pixel art was hand drawn using Pixaki. The music is a loop of my songs "Male' City" and "Space Cadet". Most of the sound effects were created using Bfxr.
You can download a windows exe here:
Athireege' Thaana 0.1
It reads "hurihā insānun ves ufanvanī, daraja āi ḥaqqu takugai minivankamāi hamahamakan libigenvā ba-egge gotuga-eve" (All human beings are born free and equal in ranking and rights - Article 1 of the UDHR).
A font I have recently created which is an almost exact replica of "Athireege' Thaana" or "Vadaan Kashi" thaana.
You can download v. 0.1 from here.
At this point it's all manual and I haven't added in any "fili" yet. I am loving the look of this without fili so I might even just leave it like this. It follows the inputs of most standard thaana fonts. You are free to do whatever the hell you want with it.
Operating photographic equipment manually - Part 1 - The Photographic Triangle
The photographic triangle can be used to interpret the light meter reading in order to achieve your desired exposure.
Maldivian Myths by Hasan Ahmed Manik [ Retyped PDF / MOBI / EPUB / DOCX ]
An amazing collection of stories, monsters and details of Maldivian magic presented in alphabetical order by the great Hasan Ahmed Manik.
Baa Atoll Eydhafushi, Maldives, 2013.
This is a retype of the scanned upload at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/199569686/Maldivian-Myths-Hasan-Ahmed-Manik
I initially just wanted to read it on my kindle but straight OCR wouldn’t work, so I just typed the entire thing into a word document. I figured it would be a good way to read it too.
The document is now fully searchable and re-flow compatible. I hope it is useful for both Maldivians and foreigners alike who have a passion for Dhivehi culture. Note that it is still missing the intro chapter.
For full compatibility with mobile devices, I recommend using the MOBI or EPUB instead of PDF. I’ve also included the DOCX file too so that it will be more accessible for future uses.
Download here:
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Note:
The foundation of this book and most of the myths are derived from the ethnographic notes of Xavier Romero-Frias; who was not given credit in the book itself at the time of publication (along with the other sources).
Xavier says that the majority of his notes were in turn collected after long conversations with Magiedhuruge Ibrahim Didi of Fua Mulaku and note that Ibrahim Didi deserves credit as a source for Hasan's book. He also says that he was friends with both of them and that the lack of acknowledgement etc were more or less a result of people at the time having no clear idea on how to handle sources and copyright etc.
![Magiedhuruge Ibrahim Didi of Fua Mulaku [Image via Xavier Romero-Frias] &nbs…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/525ead10e4b03a9509e1cbf7/1402381809015-CGP7MBBCCPAXFF1N7XUX/10390557_4422950827724_796203748401787922_n.jpg)
Magiedhuruge Ibrahim Didi of Fua Mulaku [Image via Xavier Romero-Frias]
View more of Xaviers work at:
http://independent.academia.edu/XavierRomeroFrias