Month: January 2013

Capping one of the shortest 30-day winter vacations in memory, we arise before sunrise for breakfast, then pack the Pathfinder, and Kim and Ivi are off by 8am to return Ivi to L&C.

Today, on Ivi’s birthday, we discover that exactly 75 years ago to the day, Benny Goodman made history by performing the first ever jazz concert in Carnegie Hall — January 16, 1938.  So what else to do but pull up the music and play it throughout the day.   (Couldn’t entice Ivi to get her own clarinet into the mix, though.)

Once again, Ivi successfully ducks the camera as she makes her way to Grandma Janet’s door, sporting the newly-knitted hat/head covering/whatever it is.  We still have hopes of documenting this and several other knitting projects completed over the winter school vacation.

Landfill Harmonic film teaser from Landfill Harmonic on Vimeo.

For $5 per lamp, two British inventors have come up with a gravity-powered lamp for use in third world situations that require no batteries, no generators, no electrical grid. Just a few pounds of weight. Read more here and here.  And watch the vid below.