Friday, March 13, 2009

Rwanda Baby

been eons since the last update. rwanda trip was pretty much like other africa trips in the past from the kids making us sing and dance with them to the rations of rice and beans and intermittent running water... what was atypical and totally unexpected was my insatiable hunger for anything remotely edible. It's not the kind that visits you at 7pm after having skipped both breakfast and lunch, no... it's the kind that makes the comic relief portion of the evening news. you know, the one where the unassuming soccer mom holds up a truck full of ho-hos. the kind that separates the malnourished from the criminally insane. it got so desperate that i actually woke up with my arm around a tupperware of challah on purim (should have been hammentaschen but let's not get picky).

the source of this newfound rapaciousness (yes that's the appropriate word since i was daydreaming of running away with the goat tethered outside the fence) is... a little seed growing inside me. that's right, the little bugger's first trip inside mommy's womb was to rwanda. we're adding a human (not dog) to our itinerant family and hoping that he/she (and by that, i mean he or she and not a he-she) inherits mom and dad's peripatetic itch. ok well not to the point where he/she decides to go backpacking on her own at 12 but you know... i was at least in my late teens when i did that.

the one thing that struck me as odd was discovering that only when you're knocked up do you get congratulated for hurling your lunch. otherwise its just plain gross.

the liquidnet team i traveled with: Brian, Angela, Jessie, Matt, Gary & Good-ole-Al:






a couple of iphone photos:



Monday, January 26, 2009

Ben's media whoring days

Ben has been a media whore as of late, and by that I mean, he's on the web, tv, magazines. As much as I give him a hard time about it, I am proud... I still have more hair than him.

An interview about his stint for New York magazine during fashion month in NY, Paris and Milan: http://www.vimeo.com/2495740

IFC clip of Ben in Iraq: http://www.ifc.com/on-ifc/mediaproject/video?bctid=1875337398

Ben at a mini concert in the Philippines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcqCeFLt5og&feature=channel_page

Friday, November 16, 2007

Work + Marriage = Honey, I $%@$%^ You!!!!

After an intense trip to the Mara working on our documentary, we took a well deserved R&R with mudslinging orphaned elephants and drank vintage 7UP in glass bottles covered in the dust of ancient times.






A few days of relaxing quickly amassed a few hotel bills we could not charge to a client. But the phone rang and we were off to India for a month of rain, smog, and our hands at each other's throat. Jeebak, our fixer and good friend had to deal with Ben's relentless "there's no time off till we're done" attitude.



We worked 16-hour days and saw most of India from the tea gardens to the coal mines (1000ft underground!), diamond polishing to car manufacturing... it was all worth the sleepless nights and bottles and bottles of Dramamine.




Tea Gardens, © Marvi Lacar



Marvi on video, 1000ft underground


Coal Miner, © Benjamin Lowy

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