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Chad Gadya embroidermation progress

A wee taste of the progress?Theo and I are?making on our “Chad Gadya” embroidermation project.

Frames of the animation are stitched in groups of 6,?arranged in a circle on matzo covers. We currently have 516 frames on 86 matzo covers, which I painstakingly finished by hand with multiple fabric layers and labels and everything.

We hired Theo’s daughter, Emma, to help. Here she is ironing away while I?adjust a lining.

Here I am topstitching?one of the 86 covers on a treadle sewing machine.

We have a lot of additional photography, stitchcoding and stitching to do, but we are making progress. When the film is done the matzo covers will be for sale.

A wee taste

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This Land Is Mine is yours

Due to horrific recent events, This Land Is Mine has gone viral again.

Here’s a reminder that you don’t need permission to copy, share, broadcast, post, embed, subtitle, etc. Copying is an act of love, please copy and share.?Yes means yes.

As for the music, it is Fair Use.?This Land Is Mine?is a PARODY of “The Exodus Song.”?That music was sort of the soundtrack of American zionism in the 1960′s and 70′s. It was supposed to express Jewish entitlement to Israel. By putting the song in the mouth of every warring party, I’m critiquing the original song.

Due to horrific recent events, This Land Is Mine has gone viral again. Here’s a reminder

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