The cover of this week's Time Out Tel Aviv.
Page 12 - a world of connections.
See that? The blogging connections continue to blow my mind. The top of page 12 in this week's Time Out Tel Aviv shows the Johnnie Walker billboard in Beirut that I blogged about last week (here, and there's an article about it in the New York Times, here). The text (blue background) to the left of the photo reads as follows:
"Walking in the dark. That's it, the war is over. For those of us who were enthusiastic followers of the Lebanese bloggers - meaning that we sent links to all our friends if they were bored and mined them for ideas for weekend supplement articles if they were journalists - the Israeli online habits have returned to their routine. But still, the post-war blogs are just as interesting as those that described the days of battle. Take for example the photo posted last week by quite a few Lebanese bloggers: a huge sign advertising Johnnie Walker that appeared alongside one of Beirut's major thoroughfares. Sakhten (bravo) for the optimism and a medal of honour to the creative team."
Oooh, and what's that on the same page, just below the item about the Lebanese bloggers? Why, it's a lovely little review of
More connections
A few weeks ago Moko Chen, who edits a Chinese-language magazine called After 17, asked my permission to publish a translation of the post I wrote about the editors of Time Out Beirut and Time Out Tel Aviv (link here), for a special After 17 edition about Israel and Lebanon. Turns out that After 17 is based in Vancouver, the city in which I was born and raised (about 50 percent of Vancouver's population is Chinese).
So Moko sent me the download for the special edition (click here to download your own; the Time Out piece starts on page 75) and I flipped through, admiring the gorgeous graphics and wonderful photos. And then I disovered that Ine, a Belgian blogger and photographer with whom I have exchanged a few emails, works with After 17. Quite a few of her photos of Israel and the Palestinian territories illustrate this edition of the magazine. Some examples appear below - more are on her photoblog.
Kissing
Sunday, bloody Sunday
After a bombing
Girl in Deheishe
