I have been playing around with augmented reality apps lately, seeing how they might be used for education and civic engagement. The field is still in its beginning stages, but we are already starting to see some interesting applications of AR. Of course, augmented reality applications have been around since the early 1990s. But it…
Street Dance Meets Classical: Lil Buck Jookin to Yoyo Ma (video)
This unexpected collaboration between cellist Yoyo Ma and hip-hop / jookin dancer Lil Buck has been circulating around the webasphere recently. Definitely intriguing and skillfully performed. I can't fault either Yoyo Ma's playing or Lil Buck's dancing, both of which are world-class. But I have a hard time seeing what the connection is between…
Bay Area National Dance Week starts this Friday: Get your lindy on!
From Friday, April 22 to Sunday, May 1, dancers and lovers of dance in the San Francisco Bay Area will get to enjoy 400+ free dance happenings during the Bay Area National Dance Week. There's a huge range of events, including classes, performances, film showings and demonstrations happening all around the Bay. Whether you are…
A San Francisco Monday: Bayside Jog, Coffee Snobbery, Food Truckin, and Swank Swing
I had a fantastic Monday in San Francisco that reminds me of why I'm so excited about living here. I woke up early, threw on my sneaks and headed out from the pad I'm crashing at in Mission Bay. Then I went for an energizing 2 mile run by the waterside through the Embaracadero and…
Glorious Timelapse of Milky Way from El Teide, Spain (video)
The most amazing time-lapse video ever. Photographer Terje Sorgjerd shot these amazing time-lapse images from El Teide, the highest peak in Spain earlier this month. I wish I had a better word than "awesome," but this simply inspires awe. Watch it in HD, turn up the speakers. Thanks for tweeting this out, Swifty!
Social Media Stats and Ego Stroking
Noise to Signal Cartoon Rob Cottingham hits it on the head for me with this cartoon. I must admit that I'm addicted to my blog, Twitter, and even my Flickr stats. It's like a never ending search for validation that I'm an interesting, cool, insightful person. Somehow this is going to make up for all…
Recap of America’s Best Dance Crew S6 Ep2 “The Ke$ha Challenge” (ugh)
Tags: America's Best Dance Crew (Season 6), MTV Shows This week, America's Best Dance Crew, Season Six, Episode 2 featured five new crews, with a good mix of styles and personalities. This week was the "Ke$ha Challenge." I think the biggest challenge was finding five decent songs by Ke$ha to dance to (oh snap!). Anyway,…
Yehoodi Talk Show #128: Interview with Judy Pritchett about the Frankie Manning Scholarship!
That's right, it's Yehoodi Talk Show time again! This time around, the Yehoodi crew — Spuds, Letta and me — takes a moment to talk to Judy Pritchett , Frankie Manning's longtime companion, about The Frankie Manning Lindy Hop Ambassador Scholarship Program. I can't believe it took us this long to bring Judy on, but…
2011 Midsummer Night Swing Announced: Swing, Electro-swing, Soul, Salsa … and Me!
I'm honored and delighted to see my friend Nina Galicheva and me on the banner of the 2011 Midsummer Night Swing website! That's a great shot of Nina and I competing in last year's MSNS dance contest, which was a lot of fun. I'm also in the promo video right at the end dipping the…
Kurzweil talks about the Singularity, Backing Up Your Brain and Second Life on Colbert
In case you missed it, renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil was recently on the Colbert Report, blowing our collective minds talking about mind-computer integration, virtual worlds that are indistinguishable from the real one, and computers in our bloodstream. All that in five minutes! And it's really funny too. The new documentary about Kurzweil, The Transcendant Man,…