Twisting my ankle on Monday has forced me to take it a little easy, so I’ve gone into mass-production of Fröbel stars.
Here’s the second batch in blues and greens:
I think the colors look great together:
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Shadow on the Wall
Boston Globe: The Big Picture: Shadows and silhouettes.
“When light strips away the details, highlighting the environment and creating intriguing shapes and patterns, photographers create striking images of our world.”
Amazing photos!
Fly me to the moon
Apollo 17 – The Last Mission to the Moon
“A real-time journey through the Apollo 17 mission” – over 300 hours of audio, 22 hours of video, and 4,200 photos. You can start at one minute to launch or follow in real-time 43 years later to the second.
Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program, launching on December 7th, 1972 and landing on Earth on December 19, 1972.
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Weihnachtsbastelei – Crafts for Christmas
How to make a Fröbel star – Wie man einen Fröbelstern faltet (YouTube, no sound, so works no matter what languages you speak :-) )
I tried this for the first time yesterday and was instantly hooked. I cut the strips (size about 1.2cm x 30cm) myself from construction paper in four different colors, but apparently you can buy the strips in many different colors and designs, at least here in Germany.
Here are the ones I made yesterday and today:
Now I think I also need some in a blue-green-purple colorway.
Flüchtlinge in Deutschland
Die Zeit (03.12.2015)
Violence against refugees: Germany in flames.
“Over 200 dangerous attacks and almost no convictions: Our research reveals just how impotent the state has been in the face of anti-refugee violence.”
Gewalt gegen Flüchtlinge: Es brennt in Deutschland.
“Mehr als 200 Mal haben Täter in diesem Jahr Flüchtlingsheime angegriffen. Gefasst wurde kaum jemand. Wie kann das sein?” Eine Recherche von Zeit Online und Die Zeit.
Über die Recherche berichtet auch Spiegel online: Medien-Analyse: Angriffe auf Flüchtlingsunterkünfte werden fast nie aufgeklärt.
“Die Zahl der Anschläge auf Flüchtlingsunterkünfte steigt, doch die Täter werden selten gefasst. Laut einem Bericht der “Zeit” gibt es nach insgesamt 222 fremdenfeindlichen Angriffen nur zwölf Anklagen.”