Monthly Archives: April 2009
Family History
Last week I finally spent close to an hour with my grandmother, talking about her family.
For a while now, I’ve been thinking about interviewing my family members to learn more about their lives, and the lives of their parents and grandparents. And now, finally, I have my first interview completed and it feels amazing.
Jess and [...]
Back to the neighborhood
For the last few months, I’ve been so busy with work that I kind of disengaged with the neighborhood issues, and it felt great to participate in the “officer’s meeting” of my neighborhood association tonight.
I will be working on a project to re-engage with the neighborhood on a grassroots level, by having each block captain go [...]
SID THE SCIENCE KID, “I Love Charts”
PBS Kids does it again:
via Flowing Data
A Documentary on Parkour by Michael Alosi
Last weekend Michael Alosi sent out the announcement that he is officially finished with his documentary on Parkour. To make the movie he got to travel through the U.S., France, England & China to learn about & film traceurs doing their thing.
The movie is called “Point B”, here how Michael describes it in his own words:
Point B [...]
Picture of the Day, 04/29/09