I got this appeal from the nice folks at LindyGroove, one of the largest lindy hop weekly dance in the country. Apparently a bunch of LindyGroove dancers have put their noggins together to create an iPhone app called "EverSmart", built on top of the popular "Evernote" note-taking tool. I use Evernote literally every day, for…
Step Up Revolution = Breaking II Electric Boogaloo
This — seriously — is the plot of "Step Up 4" aka "Step Up Revolution": greedy developer wants to tear down local neighborhood in Miami to make way for a fancy hotel. Dancers organize to stop him… using the ultimate weapon : their sick dance skills. Oh, and the female lead dancer is the…
Concession Stand with a Pig Cooking a Corndog
Yesterday I went to the reliably hokey Alameda County Fair in my hometown of Pleasanton, California. There is always a lot of fun and odd signage there. My favorite this year was a concession stand that featured a picture of a pig cooking a corn dog. As a friend pointed out, the pig could…
Me Judging a Pig Racing Competition at the Alameda County Fair
It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. "And it's Strawberry for the win!"
High School Geometry Class Singing Me “Happy Birthday”
Here's a recording of a group of nearly 40 high school students singing "Happy Birthday" to me. They were put up to it by my lovely friend David in LA, who is teaching their summer school geometry class. This makes me so so happy. Happy Birthday to Ricky
The Jean-Paul Gaultier Exhibit is ABSOLUMENT INCROYABLE
Run, don't catwalk, to the Jean-Paul Gaultier exhibit at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. If you have any kind of interest in fashion, you will be blown away by the breadth and incomparable vision of this iconic designer. I just saw it, and I can't wait to go back. Slideshow , after the jump…
All-Styles Hip-hop Dance Battle at City Dance: So Sick! (video)
On Friday, some members of my crew and I went to the City Dance Hip-hop Dance Battle / Showcase / Fundraiser at the City Dance studio in downtown San Francisco. It was a solid four hours of non-stop dancing, showcasing the full-spectrum of hip-hop dance. The event demonstrated for me how interconnected and community-oriented…
Rafi Santo on the Purpose of Education
Take a few minutes to listen to my buddy and former colleague Rafi Santo in an interview for Purpos/ed talking about the "purpose of education." Rafi is described as a "new media & learning theorist, educator, technologist, activist, researcher, photographer, meditator, cook, [and] learner." Love it! Rafi states much more clearly than I ever could…
Teaching Teens about Citizen Science, Mobile Game Making, and California Ecology
You may have noticed that the volume of my posting here and elsewhere has been way down for the past couple of weeks. That's because I've been head-down, 100% focused on facilitating a teen summer intensive for the California Academy of Sciences. The summer intensive involved giving a group of 13 middle-school youth a…
Letting My Inner Queer Shine with the Freeplay Crew at the SF Pride Festival
Here's the Freeplay Hip-hop Dance Crew doing the latest incarnation of our piece "Turn Turn" at the 2012 San Francisco Pride Festival. We were proud to share the stage at the Asian & Pacific Islander Pavillion with many other awesome acts that day. This was my first SF Pride and I was totally blown…