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These Are Your Citizens - Tell Them Thank You for Coming to My Birthday Party

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free

Barbecuing in a nature reserve is generally considered Israel’s national pastime, and from the look of it, the secret ingredient is placing the grill near thousands of your fellow Israelis. The more crowded the place, the tenderer the meat gets. Sacher Park in Jerusalem is just a big patch of grass within the capital [...]

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Infant Bereavement Photography on NBC’s Today Show

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free

NBC’s Today Show had a segment today on Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, a network of volunteer professional photographers who create portraits of terminally ill newborns at the family’s request and free of charge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlKhrCORF8w

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Library of Progress

February 17th, 2008 · No Comments · 100% vent free

I often criticize the Israeli Internet for being stuck in the 1990’s and not getting the jist of the net’s knowledge sharing nature. So much so, that I started thinking that maybe I come off as a crazed reprover in the gate, drooling and mumbling incoherently something about Web 2.0. Could it be that everyone [...]

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Not Coming to a Theater Near You

December 24th, 2007 · No Comments · 100% vent free

Israeli architect and part-time blogger Sharon Raz meticulously documents decaying buildings all over Israel in his incredible Disappearing Architecture website (which has a less than incredible navigation interface).

Here are four photo essays he posted documenting the decadence in Israeli cinemas (#1, #2, #3, #4). Living in a state that has a short history, with citizens [...]

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