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The Autocomplete That Didn’t: Three More Reads on Dampuni
I recently wrote a post about my son Soham, aged two, replacing words in the Humpty Dumpty poem with a…
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Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Dampuni: Play, Evolution, and Futures Thinking
This is the first of two posts. You can find the second post here. When my son was about two,…
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Blaming the Parents, Not the Platforms: How a World Bank Screen-Time Report Lets the Attention Economy Off the Hook
Note: This is a cross post with the Civics of Technology blog. The World Bank recently released a report titled…
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Flawed Jade
I had three conversations this week. One with a colleague, one with a furniture repairer, and one with a physicist…
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Welcoming 2025: A Final Reflection (& Calling an End to a 16-year Tradition)
Since 2008, our family has been creating short videos to celebrate the start of a new year. Each video is…
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Reflection: Welcome 2024
Since December 2008 we have been creating a video to welcome the new year. When we made our first video…
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Flip/Flop: Goodbye 2022 – Welcome 2023
Since 2008 our family has been creating short videos to celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of…
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Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022
One afternoon, back in December 2008, we made a couple of new year’s videos to welcome the new year. It…
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Goodbye 2020 (whew), welcome 2021
2020 has been a heck of a year… and maybe in hindsight (hindsight, of course, being 2020) it will all…
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Happy 2020 (& and new video)
We have been creating short videos to welcome the new year since 2008. This year was no exception. These videos,…
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Happy New Year (and a new illusory video)
Since 2008 we have been creating short videos to welcome in the New Year. These videos, created on a shoe-string…
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Sliding into 2018
Over the years our family has developed a mini-tradition of creating short videos to celebrate the new year. These videos…
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Goodbye 2016, Welcome 2017
Since 2009, our family has made short videos to welcome the new year. These videos are great fun to create,…
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Happy 2016, New Video Happy 2016, New Video
Since 2009, our family has been creating videos to welcome the new year. The videos are typically typographical in nature,…
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Inside-Out: Happy 2015 Inside-Out: Happy 2015
Every winter break (for the past six years) our family creates a video to welcome the new year. This is no…
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Soham starts college, new ambigram, Soham starts college, new ambigram,
We dropped off my eldest at the University of Michigan today. He begins the next stage of his life. We couldn’t…
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Have a great 2014! Have a great 2014!
It is that time of the year… the time for the Mishra/Sawai family new year’s video. As tradition has it…
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My Illusions on the web My Illusions on the web
There are a couple of websites that feature work done by me. I had written earlier about Brad Honeycutt’s website…
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Happy 2013! Happy 2013!
Our family has a Christmas-break tradition. Over the past 5 years or so, every winter-break, we work together a create…
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Bollywood meets Guitar Hero Bollywood meets Guitar Hero
Over the Christmas break my daughter and three of her friends got together to make a music video. The idea…
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Happy 2012 Happy 2012
Every Christmas-break our family creates a stop-motion video new year’s greeting card. We have been doing this for 4 years…
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Happy New Year Happy New Year
For the past couple of years now, our family has been creating new year’s greetings using stop-motion video. This year…
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véjà du, all over again véjà du, all over again
A véjà du experience is about looking at a familiar situation but with fresh eyes, as if you’ve never seen…
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On breaking the rules (and words) On breaking the rules (and words)
My daughter on her blog has a new poem / haiku called Sweat, a haiku with one glich. She is…
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Poetry, Science & Math, OR why I love the web Poetry, Science & Math, OR why I love the web
A 5th grade science assignment, transformed. A rant about Mother Goose. A math poetry challenge! How did that come to…
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Happy 2010! Stop motion movie Happy 2010! Stop motion movie
I have had a lot of fun this year playing with video. Most of these experiments were done with my…
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Finding Nemo, the sea-quel Finding Nemo, the sea-quel
Our family’s stop-motion animation festival continues with our latest offering: Finding Nemo, the sea-quel!! This movie was conceptualized by Shreya…
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Stop motion fun Stop motion fun
My daughter, Shreya, had some friends over yesterday and they created a short stop-motion animation film with the new setup…
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Shreya makes the newspaper! Shreya makes the newspaper!
For Halloween, my daughter, Shreya’s fifth grade class entertained a bunch of first-graders with a spooky music and dance show.…
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Diwali 09 Photos Diwali 09 Photos
The Lansing temple recently organized a special Diwali program. My daughter Shreya participated in a dance and I, as always,…