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Our Time Photos

2010-09-10T13:01:00.002-04:00

The Master Cleanse - DAY ONE

2007-05-02T18:13:00.000-04:00

so okay, this is take two of the Master Cleanse.
A couple of years ago, my boyfriend Asher and housemate/BFF Jessye tried this little torturefest, but to no avail. Day One consisted of watching movies on the couch while feeling as if a giant were sitting on top of me. Day Two, I went to work and met up with my two fellow fasters, giant bottles of the Mixture in hand, to watch FAHRENHEIT 9-11. When it was sold out, we sat on the steps vaguel despondent, confused, and in doubt.
The evening ending with Jessye and I enjoying a sushi dinner with a couple glasses of wine.

So, this is take two.
The toxins I've been putting in my body on my film festival circuit have left me worse for the wear, and I'm hoping to expel them before I RETOX at Cannes !

So, DAY ONE:

I awoke early to the sounds of gentrification drilling. They are building condos both in back and in front of my apartment. There was no escape.
I had two pints of water before my first mixture of the day. Unfortunately, when I went to buy syrup yesterday, the store only had Grade A. I bought it anyway.
The first mixture was NOT SO BAD.
My stomach just growled.
The lack of coffee is REALLY getting to me. That's the main thing. I feel completely lethargic.

I basically wrote emails and did computer work all day, and around 3 pm, walked up to the health food store to buy the right maple syrup and some SMOOTH MOVE laxative tea, which I must take tonight.
I don't know if I feel hungry. Just tired. Really tired.

I have had two mixtures today and some water. I have almost ingested a gallon at this point.

Damn.

2006-07-12T16:29:00.000-04:00

Distribution panel at Newport -- third part

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2006-07-12T16:04:00.000-04:00

Distribution Panel at Newport continued

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Danielle DiGiacomo, Indiepix.net's Documentary Coordinator, speaks on a panel about distribution

2006-07-12T14:24:00.000-04:00

Newport Film Festival Distribution Panel

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Danielle DiGiacomo, Indiepix.net's Documentary Coordinator, speaks on a panel about distribution

2006-06-07T02:58:00.000-04:00

Gompers Final Video

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The video that my wonderful students have been slaving away at all year!

2006-02-09T04:43:00.000-05:00

trip to torino, january 2006

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I am no longer a press trip virgin, and this was the best group of fellow traveller-journalists I could've hoped for.
Forgive the LADY IN RED, it's an inside joke. . . .

danielle

girl who stole my hat

2006-01-22T23:31:00.000-05:00

wearing the hat! the nerve. i feel so violated.

2006-01-17T23:14:00.000-05:00

Gompers Rap

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2005-11-17T20:30:00.000-05:00

sample interview

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This is a practice interview done by my students at Brooklyn Academy. We are going to make a documentary about the epidemic of teen pregancy.

2005-11-14T01:10:00.000-05:00

Captain Dennis

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the story of a tango dancer who lives on a self-built houseboat in the bronx

2005-11-14T00:15:00.000-05:00

my grandfather

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a last minute tribute to my amazing grandfather. i made it the night before his funeral.

2005-11-13T18:15:00.001-05:00

ecce femme

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2005-11-13T18:15:00.000-05:00

introduction to video blogging

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2005-11-13T18:05:00.000-05:00

sunday in the slope

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just bored on a sunday.

my video blogging class

2005-11-13T12:50:00.000-05:00

so i'm starting to teach a class in VIDEO BLOGGING in the south bronx. i am really psyched about it; i think it's gonna be an incredible chance for kids to learn and be empowered and all that jazz. here is a link to my introductory video blog.

http://dandig.blip.tv/users/view/dandig

welcome to my video

2005-11-12T20:32:00.000-05:00

watch my video of ECCE FEMME here

http://dandig.blip.tv/file/4374

obituaries

2005-09-08T13:03:00.000-04:00

the new york times take on my grandfather's life. . . . . . a bit dry, not as interesting or three-dimensional as the one in the buffalo news, which paid more attention to personal traits and ethics, which i find more interesting than the intricacies of ion exchange. but so be it. . .

Jacob Marinsky, 87, Dies; Isolated Promethium Ions

By JEREMY PEARCE

Published: September 8, 2005

Jacob A. Marinsky, a chemist who helped discover promethium, No. 61 in the periodic table and one of several elements isolated during work on the Manhattan Project, died Sept. 1 at his home in Buffalo, where he taught at the State University of New York. He was 87. The cause was multiple myeloma, his family said.

An associate chemist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee from 1944 to 1946, Dr. Marinsky and colleagues isolated promethium, a radioactive element, in the form of metal salts, the byproduct of atomic research in uranium fission. Also credited with the discovery were Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell of Oak Ridge.

In a commercial application, promethium was used to produce luminous materials like watch dials, leading the scientists to name the element for Prometheus, the figure in Greek mythology who brought fire to mankind.

Harry F. King, a professor of chemistry at SUNY, said Dr. Marinsky and his colleagues washed a solution of metal salts through a column of resins and succeeded in isolating promethium ions. The process, called ion exchange, remained a primary interest of Dr. Marinsky's throughout his career. The American Chemical Society acknowledged the result in 1949, recognizing the finding for the periodic table.

A synthetic and relatively unstable material, promethium was introduced to the international scientific establishment after World War II, along with plutonium, neptunium, technetium and others. In part because it decays rapidly, promethium "was an astounding thing to discover in the middle of the periodic table, so late in the history of science," Dr. King said.

Jacob Akiba Marinsky was born in Buffalo. He graduated from the University of Buffalo and earned his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. Dr. Marinsky worked in industrial research before returning to Buffalo, where he was appointed as a professor of chemistry in 1957. He became a professor emeritus in 1988.

Dr. Marinsky is survived by his wife of 63 years, the former Ruth Slick; four daughters, Deborah Marinsky of Princeton, N.J.; Elyse Friedman of Newton Center, Mass.; Jane Marinsky of Buffalo, and Susan Cramer of Blacksburg, Va.; 10 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

my grandfather

2005-09-02T16:49:00.000-04:00

as many of you already know, my grandfather passed away yesterday afternoon, september 1, 2005, after battling bone marrow cancer and alztheimer's. he was 86 years old. though i knew it was coming, and it was for the best, i'm incredibly sad, more than i thought i would be even, that he's no longer occupies the same space as i do, and that he's no longer present, palpably and tangibly. and i miss him. i guess that i missed him the last time i saw him, in march, when he had very little grasp of the world around him -- of his senses, his desires, his family. he was a body, and he looked like my grandfather -- in rare moments even acted like him -- but he was for the most part gone already. his death has just forced me to finally confront this -- that people you love, and who have been there your entire life, go somewhere else. or don't. but that they disappear in the form in which you know them.

well, i don't want to make this too long, cheesy, trite, or sentimental. just wanted to pay a little tribute to my grandfather. an amazing, sweet, sensitive, and quiet man.
he was shy and awkward, a nerdy-looking jew with thick, black glasses. when he met my grandmother, i don't think he'd ever had a girlfriend. my grandmother's father was a little bit taken aback at this near-mute geeky guy taking out his beautiful and vivacious daughter. on their first date, he drove her to a restaurant at niagara falls and somehow, by the second date, they were engaged. they had four girls together--elyse, deborah, susan, and jane--and rarely did i see them bicker. my grandfather discovered an element, promethium, when in his late 1920s. he worked on the manhattan project in oak ridge, tennessee, and for a year could not tell my grandmother what he did when he left home everyday. he was a renowned professor at the University of Buffalo. okay, he was a terrible speaker, he mumbled and stuttered, had no charisma, and his students probably found him mind-numbingly dull. but he was brilliant. as a grandfather, i remember him mostly for singing in a n exaggerated frank sinatra voice to make us laugh, of him sitting in his rocking chair consuming trashy mystery and after trashy mystery, and getting wildly impassioned (for him) about the success of the buffalo bills that year. he was pretty devastated after that 4-year super bowl debacle!

anyway, that's it. i won't go on too long. . . .
this is a cute little link to his biography, complete with vintage photo of him completely nerded out. and a recent photo of him last thanksgiving, that's really hilarious
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http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev25-34/chapter2sb6.htm

2005-08-29T14:53:00.000-04:00

not just a living room

2005-08-29T14:49:00.000-04:00

a lifeSTYLE.
the toons.