Hi there folks, I m in a process of rebranding myself (and obviously my work identity Conceptual Konfusion Creative Park). These changes will obviously start to show slowly since I m also occupied with lots of office work, plus I have more activity going on in my life since I moved back to Karachi, PK.

With this change I m trying to convey more openness and boldness in my approach, and the new things I’ve learned over the years. I m certainly more capable now than I was before and I would love to show that with what I do. I m not perfect and no one can be 100% but I sure can try.

You can download my new CV here, or if you’re looking for a printer friendly version, download from here.

Cheers.

Tags: approach, bold, ckcp, cv, new, update, website, work, yellow

I’ve probably have had quite a weekend after quite some time, it just keeps getting better, no kidding and I m loving it.

First I get to meet my friends (Anum, Imran & Haris) over for lunch at Nando’s, where by the way I scored a free meal, ooh that’s an interesting Espetata story, and I realized the kind of an A**hole I am.. So we’re there, and our order’s served, since I got an an Espetata, it came with the huge frame it has, and just as it was served I noticed a little hair on the frame, mind you on the frame not on the plate, now this is completely negligible, but nooo Shahzad Khan had to be a b***h, so I don’t care if a hair’s hangin on the frame, it far from touching my food, and I m completely aware of that, but halfway through the meal, wait not half way through, I guess it was aound the last bits of the food, when our server comes to ask us if we need anything else, it just comes out that oh lookii there’s hair on my food and it’s not ours.. She’s like ‘Oh Sir it’s on the frame, I’ll just remove the frame for you..’, I m like ‘Alright sure…’ just then the hair falls on my plate, now this is what I wanted but not planned, so the hair falls on my plate, and I m like ‘Oh my god! I can’t eat this, I mean seriously you expect me to eat this now’ and this was not a screaming tone, I was pretty calm, but she’s freaked out (1st Accomplishment! Wohoo), so she’s like I’ll just get it replaced for you.. I m like ‘Yeah sure, I mean thats about right, get it replaced’ so about 10 minutes later, I have a new Espetata on the table… Since I had eaten most of the last one, I wasn’t really hungry, so I ate half, got the rest packaged along with some other food that my friends had left, and we gave it to a poor kid outside.

Oh wait I forgot to mention these people haven’t seen the 2 girls 1 cup video yet.. I mean come on, who hasn’t..just get done with it.. See See now.. I m willing to give out the direct link on request on my IM or facebook.

Then on Sunday I get to meet Uzey, Abdullah & Asim after quite some time.. and man that was fun, no that was Awesome. We ate at Copper Kettle and man those people who named those items on the menu were seriously perverted.. no shit man. They have items like ‘Kiss my buns’, ‘Belly Dancer’ and some other shitily awesome names

Anyways, I think I’ve completed some other stuff too, and I m pretty happy about it.. Did I tell you that Death note is pure awesome, I mean it’s F**kin Amazing…. and Ryuk is the DUDE!

For a long time till I blog.. Cheers.

Tags: 2 girls 1 cup, abdullah, anum, asim, awesome, copper kettle, death note, haris, Imran, nandos, office, uzey, uzma, wajahat, work

It’s been a really long while since I wrote on my blog I think, was time I should update this baby of mine.

I’ve been in Karachi for about more than 2 months, and to tell you the truth I love it here more than I liked it there, sure I had drums and all, but this place is a blessing I tell you, for one I can enjoy Bar B Q’s till the morning instead of having to wrap it up by 11pm, that seriously sucked.

Anyways, I got my new Macbook sometime back and boy it’s awesome, it’s like super awesome, plus it looks even better with my magic mouse. My old Mac I handed to dad since he had fallen in love with this machine. So he’s finally getting on the internet you ask ? Internet.. he’s on Facebook, imagine that.. within a week… He was on PC for more than a year and hated it.. now he loves it and he’s metting up new people, it’s awesome.

I have also managed to escape a close iPhone snatching.. I swore at the guy.. how cool is that

Also I’ve been made a Founder at a deviantart group ‘dA-Pakistan‘ , if you’re an artist and are on Deviantart, you should definetely join us.. the crew involves Umar and Anam.. awesome people I tell you.

Coming back to the present times, I attended the blog awards yesterday, man it was awesome, even though I wasn’t feeling well, I decided I would go.. I had some suggestions on some of the topics being discussed, but I decided not to speak, again I wasn’t feeling well.. But I should’ve screamed about them. Pictures here.

Thats all for now.

Tags: awards, blog, fun, incident, iPhone, karachi, mac, snatching

I’ve been planning on writing this post for ages, but the XuQa redesign just didn’t let me spare a few minutes, but now that I have some, I shall speak.

The redesign had taken over us for quite some time, this whole redesign process started some 3 months back, and honestly redesigns are more effort and pain than first hand design, sure you already have basic elements in place, and most of the functional part + users are used to that UI. Now it’s quite an amount of brainstorming sessions that makes sure that all aspects of the present UI are covered in the new UI, unless of course something has to be cut down.

When we started the redesign of XuQa, we mostly planned on adding some features and fixing some issues which had been left incomplete or faulty by the last developers. Our goal was to fix most of the problems our users faced and make their life on XuQa simpler. I would like to give Onur and Umut a round of applause for their input and understanding of the Turkish XuQa community, Our CEO who knew exactly what we had to make right and of course our developers on the project Rahil (CTO), Ahmer (Senior Developer) & Rashid (Flash developer), our Quality Assurance Engineer Faraz. People from the management Fraz and Ahmed who made it possible that we could be as big of morons as we can be provided we pumped out our energy on this big baby whom we call XuQa.

I would also point out that Fraz currently is unstable health wise and would appreciate if you could say a small prayer for his health.

Even though the relaunch went fine, there are still little bugs that need to be squashed. In the next few days we’ll be fixing as much as we can, wish us Good luck.

Our current XuQa team consists of the following people:

• Zaki (Chief Executiove Officer)
• Rahil (Chied Technical Officer)
• Ahmer (Senior Developer)
• Shahzad Khan (Creative Director)
• Rashid (Flash Developer)
• Faraz (Quality assurance Engineer)

Thanks.

Tags: Ahmed, Ahmer, bugs, Faraz, Fraz, Rahil, rashid, redesign, relaunch, shahzad, xuqa, Zaki

A Video I did very recently.

This video has been made entirely from clips recorded during my ride from work to home. It also features clips from my lunch with my awesome friends at Creative Chaos.

Credits:

Music stolen from:
Track: Hurricane 2000
Artist: Scorpions & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Tags: car, fight, fun, lunch, media, radio, ride, roads, travel, trip, video, walk

I m aware of the fact that it’s been ages since I last wrote, and I finally put some words together to post on this little I own called ‘a blog’.

I just recently posted a print online, if you’re FAT like me and don’t care what people say, get this print and put it up.

Also since alot of things have happened my last post, I’ll just put in some headlines.

Howzat was also recently launched on which we worked some odd 6 months or maybe more, and the response has been fabulous. We’re still making some things even better then what they currently are, obviously this is an on-going iterative process. Click here to play the game.

I’ve also received some really cool response from the last video I did titled ‘Hungry at 1am‘.

I m sure there’s alot more that has happened, but I m too sleepy to think right now, maybe in the next post, I’ll write about the gazillions of other things.

Oh and btw, if you have an iPhone or iPod touch, get the app ‘Whats App inc’ and add me via my phone number as your contact which you can get from my facebook page. Lets talk

Tags: fat, fun, howzat, hungry, sleepy

Some stuff I just did last night. Also I do realize the title sucks.

Hungry at 1am from Shahzad Khan on Vimeo.

Check it out on deviantart or flickr.

Tags: 1am, hungry, late night, mcdonalds

Good things and bad things happened just about the same time. boinkers..

The good first.. Paras Amir Ali Allana who I know through flickr and Raheel Lakhani was in town recently with here family.. And since she’s a friend how could I not show her around, even though I haven’t seen this place much.

We went to a couple of places, including The Toy Museum, a full ride of MRT line (though it wasn’t intentional), then it was for a 3d movie experience, I took them to see G Force, and then the bungee which was my favourite, and then to round it all up, we ate at Lao Pa Sat. It’s a matter of one’s taste but Paras’s sister didn’t quite like the food there, which obviously made me think I should’ve taken them to some other food place I guess, but anyhow.. the day was fun.

Some days later I find out, my website and blog is being marked bad by google. some malicious links had been reported.. I was like woahh.. hello… bring that thing down.. I looked up, checked properly, verified and then requested a review… which was pretty quick and my website status on google was restored ( ).

Anyhow, it’s about only 2 days to Eid, and some how it doens’t really feel like Eid, but I did make a Eid card to put online. You can leave a comment about it on this page, it’s facebook page or the deviantart page.

Also now that I have my fish eye lens, telephoto lens, wide angle and macro lens I think it’s alot fun to do photography.. Also I m going to attend the GCT in the morning…

Here are some photos I took recently.

Tags: blog, bungee, camera, crap, down, Eid, fish eye, fun, Google, lens, macro, maza, naureen, paras, tafreeh, telephoto, visit, website, wide angle

I have been really pissed about people ripping off my artworks recently, with the recent patriotism in Pakistan, alot of people had started doing something or the other about our online image.. I m really happy about that, and I wish all these people who start something like that all the best.. where I do draw the line is why the F*** do you have to steal some one else’s artwork to do just that.

I saw a rise in such incidents, where not only mine, but works of other artists were not only ripped off by known websites, but wannabe artists as well.. Whats more at some places it was being used for profit reasons. I count myself as a patriotic person (in a limited way), and I don’t think stealing is one of the things I’d like to do.. and stealing my work is no good thing, infact stealing any one’s stuff is no good.. specially if they make a living out of it.

My artworks have been online for quite some time, and I don’t watermark my images because it takes the beauty away, but if you like one of my works, and want to use it at some place, you know you can just ask for it, I m sure we can come to some terms to work on. But no… some people just take things for granted..

Please people.. respect the effort one puts in their work.. and stop stealing.. and then calling some one else’s work yours… it’s not !

Tags: artowrk, cheating, copying, Pakistan, patriot, plagarism, quaid, shitness, work

I recently bought a Kodak Zx1, and very recently bought 2 lenses online from usb fever, just received them yesterday, and I’ve been playing with them since, these are awesome seriously. Order them at will and your pictures will be much better

Here are some of the pictures I took with the lenses on, actually these are macros I’ll put up some wide angle shots soon, and I think I m going to order some more lenses

Image link on: Flickr – Deviantart – Facebook

Image link on: Flickr – Deviantart – Facebook

Image link on: Flickr – Deviantart – Facebook

I hope you like the pictures, please comment, and help me make my work even better

Tags: awesomeness, drumset, fun, lenses, macro, photography, pictures, spiral, superman