Month: October 2015

  • On rocks, Arabs, talking it out, conflict, and more rocks.

    This, an hour after listening to the recent This American Life podcast on the way home from work; the one titled, #570: The Night in Question, the one about the Rabin assassination and associated conspiracy theories. “Listen, I want to talk to you about some stuff. Do your friends talk about Arabs in school?” “[My…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Mash-up

    Week 43: Mash-up “Reading takes you higher” This photo won’t win any awards, but this theme is definitely in my all-time top 3 for learning a core skill in photography and manipulation! I had no idea about layers… and I only work on a smartphone. This is a game changer for creating art! Going to…

  • Nettles update: nineteen months

    A couple months in maon daycare, and you’re becoming a tiny version of a kid. Making ‘friends’ (well, maybe ‘petting’ potential friends/younger babies in your vicinity? Whether they like it or not?). Adding new words to your vocabulary (as well as using a million words for the same thing, like tzetzi and geegee for pacifier?…

  • Who’s on first?!

    “it’s very exciting! it means they won all the games they had to win so they get to the World Series.” “what’s world series?” “when they play the last seven games against the other team and the team that wins the most, which is four, wins the whole thing.” “why seven?” “I dunno. it’s best…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Future

    Week 42: Future Future is now.

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Inspired by a Famous Photographer

    Week 41: Inspired by a Famous Photographer Ducks in a row. 

  • It takes people to conflict.

    In a total understatement, there’s been a lot going on in Israel lately. People say it’s the start of the third intifada (again), while other people call for the third intifada. Stabbings, shootings, stonings, molotov cocktails. Lynch mobs. And the beat plays on: the same media headlines, the same talkbacks, the same Facebook statuses. The…

  • Bebe update: four and a half years

    Six months and you seem way more than four and a half. well, most of the time. On our trip in Australia, you faced some fears head on and opened yourself to learning more. For example, after a few years of being freaked out by the beach, and a summer of going (on two different…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Sound

    Week 40: Sound Nature’s rock concert.