this is absolutely bizarre. by accident, i found this page because it used the word "upyernoz." it's there in the middle of a bunch of other words and seemed so random. did they mean me? or was it some strange coincidence?
so i watched the video. about a quarter of the way through (when the call goes out for "red rabbi"), i recognized the background image. it looked exactly like a synagogue i visited in bukhara, uzbekistan four years ago. sure enough, the background image is my photo.
when i uploaded it into flickr, i gave the photo a share-remix with attribution license, which means that other people can use the photo for whatever purposes they want, they're even allowed to alter it, provided they give me credit for the image. and the robojew folks did (the closing credits list me under "additional images by"). so i guess have no complaints. i'm just a little surprised, that's all.
