Me hanging out with Hamlet Au of New World Notes, March 2007 For more than a year, I have had the pleasure of working with Hamlet Au of New World Notes to write a weekly "Event Picks" listing for the venerable Second Life news site. As Hamlet just announced today, I will be stepping down…
Demo of “B-Boy” video game for the Playstation2 & PSP at NY Comic Con
At the 2008 New York Comic Con, I got Will Phillips of SouthPeak Games to do a quick demo of the new breakdance video game "B-Boy," coming out this summer for the PSP and Playstation2. Looks pretty sweet, although I’m not really sure how appealing the game is once the thrill of pretend breakdancing fades. …
Straightening the gravestones at the Quaker Cemetery
Just had a wonderful day at the Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park, a lovely acre of largely untouched land that we have possessed for 150 years to house our dead. Quakers traditionally have very simple graveyards, with modest, largely unadorned gravestones indicating where the cremated remains lie, and that’s about it. There are no mausoleums,…
[Scam] The Gunderson Foundation will not fly you + 5 friends to New York
Here’s a long, complicated scam email from someone purporting to represent Steve Gunderson of the "Gunderson Council Development Foundation." Basically the email contains a lot of random NGO-speak to convince you to send personal information to them so they can steal your identity or credit card information. These particular scams piss me off because they…
MIT Wizard Henry Jenkin’s speaks on Teen Grid about Harry Potter and civic engagement
Interesting close of the day at Global Kids. I just finished helping Rafi and Barry with a Teen Grid event featuring MIT’s Henry Jenkins called the "Harry Potter Dance Party of Good and Evil." Henry was speaking about the connections between Harry Potter and civic engagement, which apparently has more links than you might think. …
Global Kids simulcasts into four virtual worlds and the web (video)
Check out this sweet Global Kids video showing how we organized a simulcast of Kofi Annan receiving an award from MacArthur on March 20th. Produced by Kathy Vega and Barry Joseph, it shows how we were able to simulcast the event onto the web, and four virtual worlds — Second Life, Teen Second Life, Whyville…
More pics of PMT Breakers
Matt Lopez posts a bunch of pics to his Facebook from the PMT breakdance group’s performance last night, that I don’t think he’ll mind if I grab to post here. I wanted to mention the diversity of our little group, which I think is remarkable. From left-to-right: Eli (construction worker), Eugene (Wall St trader), Will…
PMT breakers brought it!
I just got home from celebrating with friends after my breakdance performance tonight at PMT Studios. I’m so proud of my team members — Eli, Trevor, Matt, Eugene and Will — who all just killed it tonight. And I’m happy that I performed my parts well, including the Pavan freeze that I blogged about yesterday!…
Crunch time for our breakdance performance tomorrow!
I’m resting up today because tomorrow night my breakdance group performs at the PMT Spring Showcase. I haven’t been blogging (or doing much of anything else) lately because every free moment for the past couple of weeks has been spent on breakdance practice. It’s been a lot of last-second choreographing and adjustments to get to…
Mole yawning
My cat Mole spends a lazy Saturday napping in my bed.