Aramram: Digitizing Ammanite Popculture

June 16, 2009 at 11:00 am · Filed under Arab Culture, Art, Music

With Aramram,damn, it works well. Their website is like a little briefcase of people, sounds, and sights of Saturdays gone by. Of products, of places, of characters, of walls. I don’t know how the hell it’s possible, but browsing through this website actually makes me feel nostaligic. And I was in Amman a second ago. Oh, another second ago. More seconds as I type. Still in Amman. Freaky.

It’s actually the first time I check it out since its launch (though they’re relaunching the design today).

A few videos that caught my eye:

Aro, a graffiti artist:

Sklakhi:

Check out their cool videos here.

They have a launch party today at Darat Al-Funun at 8:00. Check it out as well. Here’s the Facebook events page.






  • Huda

    Finally someone is here to kick the shit out of the amman film cooperative. i am sick and tired of how they ruin jordan’s image with their retarded films. We should all support them with money. I am not sure the USAID grant is big enough to sustain them. Aramaram films is how I would like the world to see Jordan.

  • http://ithreedots.wordpress.com I Three Dots

    Aramram… well this website is one of the “most wanted” things Jordan needs! … besides a “stable economy”
    Hope that their umbrella goes wider and wider so that every Jordanian can get his “own” dose of “Alternative Media”!

  • http://www.myspace.com/mcmicromusic Mike “MC Micro”

    Nice Choices…
    Just saw this as i have been busy to blog lately :(

    That Graffiti artist “Aro” is actually a very cool guy i know him in person, and he’s actually one hell of a beatboxer as well!