Hagigit turns you into art

Hagigit, a group dedicated to creating and encouraging public art in Jerusalem has brought much joy to many Jerusalem residents with their outdoor photo studios on Ben Yehuda Street and Gan Sacher. Last week they once again set up an outdoor photography studio – this time at the end of the summer party at the Jerusalem theater. I really enjoy looking at their public photo studio shots. I feel that they really exude pure unadulterated joy. The subjects get to enjoy it in two stages – once when they are initially shot and secondly when they see themselves in the work online.

Like all good art collectives these days they have a nice presence on flickr, YouTube and the Facebook.

We interviewed Guy Yitzhaki, a member of hagigit a few months ago for Jerusalemite.

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Over at Jerusalemite….

I’ve been spending most of my interweb time blogging over at Jerusalemite these days. What you’ve missed if you haven’t been reading… Jerusalem receives a new fountain from Paris. British artist Stephen Wiltshire visits Jerusalem to draw one of his famous landscape drawings. An investigation into whether Jerusalem’s bagel shops boil their bagels before baking. [...]

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Tanks, Kubeh, Bourekas and Babies: A Personal History of Immigration to Israel

  It turns out that Israel takes on different appearances depending on whose eyes it’s viewed through. An early twenty-something steps off the plane and sees through wide eyes a sun-kissed land filled to brimming with young olive skinned honeys filling out olive-toned uniforms in all the right places, deliciously greasy buckets of shwarma meat [...]

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Unwire Jerusalem has been unplugged

Well, an era in downtown connectivity has ended. Unwire Jerusalem, a non-for-profit organization who brought free wifi to downtown Jerusalem has pulled the plug on the project. Jacob Ner-David, one of the founders, gives the skinny on why they are shutting down. My synopsis: Corporate Israel sucks. The Jerusalem Municipality sucks harder. Nir Barkat rules [...]

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Orphaned Land at the Oud Festival

We caught Israeli metal act Orphaned Land at the Oud Festival last week. One would think that a doom metal band wouldn’t be a good fit at a festival dedicated to the Oud, but Orphaned Land was more perfect than you can possibly imagine. While they are indeed a heavy metal band, they are highly [...]

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Around the Israeli blogosphere…

The Israeli blogosphere is on fire. Ok, bad choice of words I guess. A few random links.Israellycool got fired from his job today. His boss finally figured out that he spends 90 percent of his day blogging about the situation. Joking of course. Dave is a live blogging machine. If the flow of information is [...]

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ROI120 and I

Back from the ROI120 conference. Well rested after a full week of incessant Jewish talking. The sounds of silence was indeed needed and thank goodness, a weekend of solid sleep was accomplished. Yeah, uh, I don’t really know what to say. Although I wasn’t sure what to expect beforehand, it turned out to be completely [...]

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Jerusalem of Filth

Went to Mike’s Place in J-town last night for a little party for two friends who are headed out to a 4 month jaunt to “the east.” Mike’s Place is now in it’s fourth location and is now located where Jerusalem’s worst dive, The Arizona, was once located. It doesn’t really matter where Mike’s Place [...]

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How do you say colonic in Hebrew?

Jewish colonics for everyone!

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The Prophecy Cometh!

Back in 1998 while I was soldiering somewhere on the Golan heights my friends were involved in promoting a huge concert here in Israel. Run DMC, Chemical Brothers and a myriad of DJs and Israeli bands were all scheduled to perform at a national park somewhere in the south. Things got screwy and the concert [...]

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