Get your Monday morning started right with "Black Coffee," a swingin music video by the Careless Lovers band, featuring lots of great dancing and fine musicianship. This video took First Place in in the Seattle Vintage Jazz Dance Swing/Jazz Dance Music Video Contest! Directed by Angela Muir and Joon Chang. Congrats to everyone involved!…
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The Disconnected Life Sucks
I currently have no phone and no car in California. It's like I don't exist as a person. Okay, it isn't quite that bad, but sometimes it feels that way. Through a series of accidents, I find myself both without personal transportation and more importantly without a smart phone. Learning how to navigate myself in…
iMapMyRun iPhone app makes exercise less sucky, but doesn’t actually run for you
<a href="http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/32438444" _mce_href="http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/32438444">iMapMyRun: Apr 23, 2011 9:34 AM</a> and more runs in San Francisco, CA on MapMyRUN. <a href="http://www.mapmyrun.com" _mce_href="http://www.mapmyrun.com">Find run</a> I hate running. I have asthma, flat feet and short legs. I find running to be easily the most boring form of exercise I have ever done, next to weight lifting. But I recognize…
Watch my little cousin Jazzy destroy this karate kata! (UPDATED)
Check out this awesome video of my cousin Jazzy competing in the SharkCity martial arts tournament in San Jose last week. This really took me back to my martial arts days as an adolescent and in college. I don't think I was this good though. She got Grand Champion in her division! Here's…
First Time Visitors: Welcome to Rikomatic.com
Welcome to Rikomatic.com, the personal website of Rik Panganiban, digital learning and informal science education specialist, lindy hop and street dancer, foodie and coffee snob. For more about me, check out my professional blog RangerRik.com, About.me page, LinkedIn Profile , Twitter Stream, work bio or professional portfolio. Thanks for visiting!
America’s Best Dance Crew Season 6 Finale: Congrats IaMmE!
Tags: America's Best Dance Crew (Season 6), MTV Shows Last night was the season finale of season six of America's Best Dance Crew, with only two crews left after nine weeks of competitions, pitting some of the best dancers in the US (and the world) against each other. As I expected, the ratio of hype…
Yehoodi Talk Show #131: Camp Jitterbug, Swingapore, Swing Comp Talk
The gang is back for another episode of the Yehoodi Talk Show, your bimonthly gab-fest on all the issues and topics relevant to the lindy hop scene, or at least the three hosts of the show. Join Spuds, Letta Mercurial and Rikomatic as we wax poetic about: Camp Jitterbug The Singapore swing scene Frankie Manning's…
Still Missing Bettina
In a few days it will be the birthday of Bettina Pruckmayr, an old girlfriend of mine who died a long time ago. I can hardly believe that it was 16 years ago that she was taken from us by an act of evil on December 16, 1995. Bettina was a young human rights lawyer…
Last Days in Singapore: Yummy Intestines, Surreal Cityscapes, Bargain Sailor Duds
I’m on a plane now, headed back to the States, surprisingly sad to be leaving the small city-state of Singapore. My last couple of days in Singapore were some of the most fun and interesting. Some of the highlights: Pig’s Intestine Soup: My local food expert and guide Janice was insistent that I try one…
Singapore Day Six: Chili Crab, Nocturnal Animals, and Consumerism
I’m winding down my Singapore adventures today and tomorrow, and, man, it’s been an incredible trip. Summarizing just the highlights is kind of tough, but here we go: The Night Safari. O.M.G. So amazingly awesome. Getting to walk through a tropical forest in the dark and encountering all sorts of animals is so much better…