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News and updates from the family of J, A, I, and A. A place to share stuff grandpeople will like.

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Slice of Chinese jokeiness from our breakfast table

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IU's 8th birthday song.  Oh, the sound pressure level!

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IU and AD drum machine powered dance jam

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Isaiah sings a civil rights march song in Mandarin, then his English translation.  MLK, Rosa Parks, and (actually) Obama.

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Avi sings the ABC song at breakfast...

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black and white 35mm selects, 2003-2008

I love my digital camera. But these...  Make me pine for film.

And for the directness of the Pentax K1000.  And for that f1.4 lens.  Eye, Glass, Shutter, Film.

You can go there in digital, if you're willing to spend five grand and carry a heavy full-frame DSLR.  But these were taken on a $100 used camera, with a $150 used lens on it.

These images are several years old by now.

-jeremiah

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Slideshow from Flickr

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Sort of a chinese version  of duck duck goose.

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This is a recording of Isaiah's first grade class performing a song they worked out in music class.  It was part of the Starr King fall holidays performance program.

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Isaiah's Dec. 2009 hip-hop Dance Performance at Brava Theater. Choreographer: Fredrika Keefer

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Avi's Dance Performance, Blue Whales, December 2009 at Dance Mission SF.

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Welcome and Height

A million years ago (OK about five) I started a blog on blogger.com for our family, kid updates etc.  I did about three posts.  Maybe two.

This is another try.  It might stick.  It's simpler now, easier to access, and more media-aware.  Simpler to post video and sound, that kind of thing.

Height:

For years, every now and then I think I need to get a piece of wood we can mark their heights on as they grow.  And everytime I do it's with a twinge of regret we haven't already done it.  At least here are some numbers, these can go on that piece of wood when I get it...

today Isaiah is roughly 47 1.2" tall.  I think that makes him half an inch short of riding some roller coasters.  Which is truly amazing.

And mister Avi is 43" tall.  Which is quite tall.

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Isaiah's Tape, recorded on fisher price cassette machine:

from July 2008

Side B - Songs in which he records himself singing

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Isaiah's Tape, recorded on fisher price cassette machine:

from July 2008

Side A - Stories in which he records himself talking