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Draxtor Despres to report from Second Life on PBS starting in January

Posted on December 16, 2008 by

I just got the exciting news from my friend, machinima journalist Draxtor Despres, that in the new year he will be filing stories for PBS's Frontline/World television show! Check out this neat interview with Draxtor on KAZU radio in Monterrey, which does a nice profile of this award-winning journalist and broke the news about Drax's…

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Registration for Frankie Manning 95 Festival is OPEN

Posted on December 15, 2008 by

I can hardly believe it, but lindy hop legend Frankie Manning will be turning 95 years old next May! I'm honored to be working with a bunch of cool folks who are organizing the Frankie Manning 95th Birthday Festival. From May 21st -May 25th, 2009 (Memorial Day Weekend) lindy hoppers, jazz musicians, tap dancers, friends…

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Manu, Naomi & Ramona performing Wilson Pickett song at Swing & Soul (video)

Posted on December 15, 2008 by

Here's Manu Smith, Naomi Oyama, and Ramona Staffeld just KILLING a performance to Wilson Pickett's "Land of 1,000 Dances" at Swing and Soul in Atlanta this weekend.  Sorry for my terrible call-and-response singing into the mic.  How do you not sing along to this song?

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Memorial to Slain Filipino Journalists in Second Life

Posted on December 15, 2008 by

Dakila Lacava sent out a notice about a new memorial she created with Gallia Sinatra devote to journalists in the Philippines murdered in the course of doing their duty.  Called "Martyrs of Truth", it's a very simple structure with the names of the 62 Filipino journalists who have been "subjected to the ultimate censorship."  At…

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Rob Bowman on the history of Stax Records

Posted on December 14, 2008 by

On the last day of the Swing and Soul weekend in Atlanta, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by musicologist and historian Rob Bowman talking about the history of the Stax record label. Rob has basically spent a good portion of his life devoted to chronicling the story of Stax, a legendary soul…

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Swing & Soul ’08 Day 2: “Tighten Up” performance (video)

Posted on December 14, 2008 by

Here's another fun video from Swing and Soul this weekend in Atlanta: Steven Mitchell, Peter Strom, Manu Smith and Mikey Pedroza dancing to "Tighten Up." 

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Popin Pete & Mama Yeye at Swing and Soul in Atlanta (video)

Posted on December 13, 2008 by

Here's a sweet performance by legendary popper Popin Pete last night at Swing and Soul that I'm at all weekend in Atlanta.  His level of control and expressiveness is ridiculous and quite beautiful.  And Pete is a living link to the origins of this unique style of dance, as a member of the Electric Boogaloos…

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Swing and Soul Weekend in Atlanta

Posted on December 13, 2008 by

It's 4am and I'm chilling with my friends Beckto and Spuds in our hotel room after the late night dance on the first night of the Swing and Soul weekend, listening to Stevie Wonder and other soul jams.  So nice. Swing and Soul is a weekend long celebration of soul music and "dancing with soul"…

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A tour of the US Holocaust Museum’s Kristalnacht exhibit in Second Life (video)

Posted on December 11, 2008 by

Drew Stein, CEO of Involve Inc, and David Klevan of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gave me a tour of their new collaborative project: "Witnessing History: Kristallnacht, the November 1938 Pogroms" in Second Life.  It's an impressive exhibit that shows the power of virtual worlds to combine various forms of media into a powerful, immersive,…

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OneClimate.net broadcasting live coverage of UN Climate Change Conference into Second Life

Posted on December 10, 2008 by

The environmental group OneClimate.net have been broadcasting in Second Life live coverage from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland.  I dropped in on a videochat with Jamie Henn from the activist group 350.org, Daniel Vokins from the UK Youth delegation in Poznan, and then Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of…

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