My Global Kids colleague Joliz posts on the Huffington Post about how Global Kids changed her life ten years ago in high school. It's a really neat story about how Global Kids works with inner city youth to expose them to new opportunities, cultures and ways of seeing the world and themselves. Check it out…
Funkalicious tee: Funking it up in space!
I just bought this fun tee shirt on Threadless, which always has the coolest shirts.
Semi-homemade Banana Walnut Pancakes
I made some tasty banana walnut pancakes for breakfast this morning. Several Facebook friends recommended that I make them from scratch. Haha, oh that's a good one! Jill Murray even shared her recipe for these awesome sounding vegan peanut butter banana pancakes. Maybe for another day. I took the lazy route and use the Fiber…
B-boys in Times Square today (video)
My friend Doris made this dope video of some b-boys throwing down in Times Square on this rainy afternoon. Really bummed that I missed this, but so happy to to see this recap! Thanks, Doris!
Fall cleanup at the Brooklyn Quaker Cemetery
I spent a couple of hours today in the lovely Quaker Cemetery in the middle of Prospect Park, helping rake leaves and fix the gravestones. Lots of kids from the Brooklyn Friends School were there, which was really sweet. What kid doesn't like jumping onto a pile of fall leaves? It was a drizzly, chilly…
One Minute for Peace: A Bigger Piece for Peace (video)
Here’s a one minute video entitled “A Bigger Piece for Peace” conceived, written and filmed by young people at the Brooklyn Quaker Meeting. I did the editing / post-production of this little video, which will be submitted to the “Bridge Film Festival,” sponsored by the Brooklyn Friends School. The short video has got a great…
“ManuandRik.com”? Why not “RikandManu.com”?
Someone thinks they are very, very funny. That's what we get for mentioning a fake URL on the Yehoodi Talk Show. Well played, sir. Well played.
The tenuous link between breaking / b-boying and conflict resolution
For an upcoming workshop at Global Kids, I've been doing some investigation into the links between conflict resolution and breaking / b-boying. The evidence that I've seen is very thin and unsubstantiated at this point, largely based on a few period dancer's recollections and assertions. Here's some theories: B-boy Trac-2 in an NPR interview maintained…
Salim Cash doing killer Michael Jackson impersonation / homage (video)
Here's some footage of dancer Salim Cash doing a kickass Michael Jackson impersonation / homage at the Monster Mash dance on Halloween in New York City. You can't see in this video, but Salim really owns and inhabits every single micro-movement of the dance, investing it with passion and emotion. I had forgotten how much…
Yehoodi Video Talk Show #516: Where Spuds & Rik Crash at StackedBlog’s Apartment
Episode 516 of the Yehoodi Talk Show is now online and available for download to the portable device of your choice. A brief clip from the show is above. In this Episode, Spuds and Rikomatic talk about Yehoodi3.0, the recent 11th anniversary of Yehoodi, a new website devoted to collegiate shag, and show off a…