| 17 November 2007 |
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Isaac hula-hoops in the school play-yard.
Lila hula-hoops. I can't hula-hoop at all. I've tried, believe me.
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| 14 November 2007 |
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The kids enjoy a burrito at Zona Rosa, in the Haight-Ashbury.
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| 13 November 2007 |
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Lila and friends hula-hoop.
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| 12 November 2007 |
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Hey, we're playing on the structure in the back-yard of the cousins' house in near-by Foster City.
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| 11 November 2007 |
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Lila, up the hill from our house at the Corona Heights playground, with a caterpillar.
Isaac, letting the caterpillar walk on his hand.
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| 10 November 2007 |
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Lila gazing into the main tank of the Academy of Sciences Steinhart aquarium, downtown. The new building, across from the De Young art museum in Golden Gate Park, is set to open next spring or summer. We're eagerly awaiting those festivities!
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| 9 November 2007 |
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For Zadie's birthday we head over to their house. A family portrait is commissioned.
As Isaac explains it, it was shabbos and in lieu of a cake we put candles into a challah.
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| 8 November 2007 |
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Rose's latest purchase was a dozen eggs from Trader Joe's. What's interesting is that most of the eggs have twin yolks, something none of us have ever seen before, much less egg after egg after egg.
Lila hula-hoops.
I have no idea why I have this photo of a school bus in Golden Gate Park. Maybe you'll tell me.
After Hapkido practice Lila waits outside the dojang. She's proudly wearing her red belt.
Dziadziu mugs for the camera, examining the fake bamboo served with sushi.
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| 7 November 2007 |
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Lila at the elementary school's guitar class.
After-school swimming at the Boys & Girls Club.
Boxing practice at the dojang. Master Jino Kang watches his new wife (in black).
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| 6 November 2007 |
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Every Election Day for as long as the kids have been alive we've taken them to our polling place and included them in the goings-on. As they've gotten older they've taken more pride in their participation. Our routine goes something like this: Rose and I show our IDs and are given our ballots. We walk outside, sit down on the sidewalk, and walk through the choices, having the kids do the marking. They love it, even when we don't win.
You can tell from Rose's and Lila's jackets that it's bitterly cold outside today. We're just not used to it.
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| 4 November 2007 |
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Isaac, while waiting for breakfast to arrive (at Orphan Andy's) takes a photo of an F-line trolley car.
In Pinole, Caroline Kang - who makes a mean Korean glass noodle salad - plays catch with one of the crew's kid. This is the location for our third day of filming Hand to Hand: The Art of Combat, well, here and in near-by town of Rodeo.
Serafina & Isaac got to take care of a puppy at a dog-walking park near Fort Funston.
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| 3 November 2007 |
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Day two of shooting Hand to Hand: The Art of Combat is taking place at the Fight and Fitness Club, in San Francisco. After the boxing and jiu jitsu classes clear out we begin preparing to film a fight scene in a boxing ring.
The scene is pretty cool, a mixed martial arts contest between two angry amateurs. One of the combatants, Nick, is a Hapkido brown belt in our dojang. That's him in the black tank top.
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| 2 November 2007 |
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Jino Kang, our Hapkido Master, made a movie entitled "Blade Warrior" in 2002. It was filmed all around the San Francisco Bay Area, in the old dojang, with some folks still training.
That's cool. Even better, he's starting to film Hand to Hand: The Art of Combat and I've been asked to do the "making of" video. I've got the old video camera in hand, and I'm on the set for the first day of filming (here in Pt. Richardson).
I don't know much about film or filmmaking - more than using iMovie - but there I am, taking video of what interests me and trying to help out wherever I can. I'm learning about lights, sound, video angles, etc.
Here's a panorama of the tea-sharing scene, where the old wise mentor counsels the troubled hero. That's Kurt in the middle, framing the shot.
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| 1 November 2007 |
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Signs that an election is coming: Chicken John Rinaldi wants your vote (hand-made sign on the truck with the portable toilet in the bed).
Lila has new slippers. They're pink. They're everywhere; in this case on the writing surface of her desk.
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