I've been a very good boy this year, earning a couple of work promotions, co-producing a live broadcast from an international dance competition, performing at city hall on Pride Weekend, teaching activists how to use social media in Ukraine, and co-creating a dance show on spirituality, among other things. So guess what… I'm going…
Category: Travel
Top Ten Things I Learned at ASTC 2013
Here's some of the awesome things I learned while I was at ASTC 2013, the annual gathering of the Association for Science and Technology Centers, held this year in lovely Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1. Neil Degrasse Tyson is TALL Apparently this cardboard cutout is life sized.
Talking about Mobile Games, Space Shows and Raising Digital Teens at ASTC This Weekend
For the next four days, I will be in lovely Albuquerque, New Mexico for the annual Association of Science and Technology Centers conference (ASTC), along with 2,000 or so of my colleagues from other science centers, natural history museums, and other science institutions. It’s a really neat event, showcasing some of the best research, most…
Why We Broadcast ILHC in One Picture
Q: What did you do this weekend? A: We produced over three days a 15-hour live broadcast production, bringing an international dance competition to hundreds and hundreds of lindy hoppers around the world, from Tel Aviv to Minsk. More details here. More pictures here.
Watch the live broadcast of a dance competition I’m producing this weekend in DC!
I wanted you alls to know that this weekend I will be producing and co-hosting a live video broadcast of the "International Lindy Hop Championships" in Washington DC. Starting on Friday night and finishing on Sunday night, my broadcast team will be streaming live to the internet this global dance competition for the world to see. I'm…
Retreating with the Cal Academy of Sciences’ Youth Programs Team
Wednesday and Thursday I got to spend much needed retreat time with the youth programs team at the California Academy of Sciences. We met up at the beautiful Pepperwood Preserve up in the Trinity Alps region, just a couple of hours north of San Francisco. The evening was spent recreating and bonding with my…
ILHC HERE WE COME: Fundraising Goal Achieved!
Today, at 7:15pm PT, we received word from Indiegogo that we had received a $75 contribution from our friend Paul Marino. That puts the amount we have raised at $5,804, just over our goal. WE DID IT! We still have four days left in our campaign, and lots of awesome perks in the goodie bag. Plus,…
The Jump Session Show and Camp Jitterbug 2013: The Best of Swing in Seattle
After years and years of hearing people gush about this event, I finally got to experience Camp Jitterbug and the Jump Session Show in Seattle, Washington this weekend. It's four days full of incredible swing music, dancing, and fun in the heart of a wonderful city. Having experienced it, I can say that Camp Jitterbug…
Pics from My Trip to Ukraine
I finished uploading most of my pictures from my short trip to Kiev and Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Kiev and Ivano-Frankivsk are lovely Eastern European cities with beautiful architecture, full of cafes and parks and city life. Really grateful I got the opportunity to visit both places! Check out the full set of pics here.
Watch Nashville’s “I Charleston” Video and Get Happy!
The "I Charleston" phenomenon is one of my favorite swing memes, if I can call it that. Started by some Frenchy lindy hoppers, basically any swing scene in the world can create an "I Charleston" video showing their local dancers charlestoning and doing solo jazz in notables spots in their city and put it online…