I enjoyed this machinima piece created by Rich Kuras about how different World of Warcraft players are voting on November 4th. The bits about which class of player Obama and McCain would be are priceless. Reminiscent of the Wired blog challenge asking which D&D monster McCain would be. Obama is for various reasons the clear…
Draxtor on Public Good in Second Life Part III (video)
Here’s the final installment in Draxtor Dupres’s 3 part machinima series on public good in Second Life, focusing on the Public Good Challenge sponsored by the USC Network Culture Project. Great work, as always, Drax!
Learning the Thriller dance for the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
Ok, I’m officially excited about performing as a zombie doing the classic "Thriller" dance routine. I will be joining a hundred or so other zombie-fied revelers in the Halloween Parade this Friday in Greenwich Village, courtesy of the nice folks at ThrillerNYC.com. My friends tell me it’s an amazing experience dancing Thriller in the parade,…
Live electoral map on Second Life Capitol Hill
In the final dash towards election day on November 4th, those nice folks at Capitol Hill in Second Life have created yet another cool US Presidential race tool — a live projected electoral vote map. From Kei Moana: We’ve installed an electoral map on the lower patios at SL Capitol Hill that gives the most…
Team PMT breaking again November 21 & 23!
The PMT breakers will be performing again for the PMT Fall Dance Showcase on November 21 and November 23 in New York City. The crew this time around will be Will "The Thrill", Marie, Boris, Monica, Ian, and myself. That’s right, we got TWO b-girls this time around, which is super exciting. The PMT Showcases…
Using Virtual Art for Political Change: report on talk and tour with digital artists Peggy Weil and Nonny de la Peña
On Friday, October 24, we had a really neat event at the Global Kids’ International Justice Center in Second Life, featuring digital artists / activists Peggy Weil (Ping Rau in SL) and Nonny de la Peña (Nonny Writer). Thirty-some avatars logged in to listen to Nonny and Peggy talk about their innovative art installations in…
Listen, Pray, Dance, Love
Today’s Meeting for Worship at Brooklyn Quaker Meeting felt so electric and powerful to me. There was a palpable energy in the room that had a dozen people leaping up and sharing vocal ministry that moved me greatly. I’m generally not one who likes a whole lot of vocal ministry, preferring a mostly silent Meeting…
Jitterbuggers dancing in Jitterbug senior cellphone ad (video)
Check out this cute commercial for the "Jitterbug" cell phone featuring lindy hoppers Carla Heiney, Nick Williams, Jeremy Otth, Laura Keat, Chris and Beth Grover. Nice to see real solid lindy hop in commercial using swing music! Head to Lindybloggers.com for the complete scoop on the filming of this commercial from Nick Williams himself.
Adriana peeps out the G1 Google Android Phone
I just got a link to my friend Adriana’s first post as Gadget Editor on the cell phone blog PhoneDog.com. She covers the recent launch party for the T-mobile G1 Google Android phone, giving some nice flavor of what the geekarati event what like as well as fondling the phone herself. Adriana also posted recently…
My swell new pimp suit
My friends have started posting their hundreds and hundreds of pictures from Yehoodi’s 10th anniversary weekend to our Flickr group, which pleases me to no end. So many talented photographers in our scene, and so many memories captured. Here’s a sweet picture of me in my new creme-colored pimp suit — with my friend Jen…