Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
Thanks to the Iris and Kirk at the 9:20 Special for inviting us back to perform the “B-boy Shim Sham” at the 9:20 Special swing dance last Thursday. A fantastic crowd in the best place to swing dance in SF. The “Jazzawockeez” are B-boy J-Blaze, b-boy Chiao, b-boy Rikomatic, and featuring b-girl Chachi! Enjoy.
Mole the Cat is nonplussed by my new Adidas shell-toes. But I think they are pretty fresh! The all-white ones I got a couple of months ago were just too… white.
Tomorrow night, May 30, at the 9:20 Special Open House in San Francisco, myself, b-boys J-blaze, Chow and b-girl Chachi will be performing again the "B-boy Shim Sham". Debuted last year at the 9:20, we've freshened up the choreo and added a new dancer to the mix. We think you are going to like…
After years and years of hearing people gush about this event, I finally got to experience Camp Jitterbug and the Jump Session Show in Seattle, Washington this weekend. It's four days full of incredible swing music, dancing, and fun in the heart of a wonderful city. Having experienced it, I can say that Camp Jitterbug…
As a swing dancer and a hip-hop dancer I'm ambivalent about how hip-hop music is used in West Coast Swing. On the one hand, I'm impressed with the difficulty in the choreography and cleverness of the moves. But on the other hand, I find the "up"-ness of WCS and the smoothness of the movement…
I finished uploading most of my pictures from my short trip to Kiev and Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Kiev and Ivano-Frankivsk are lovely Eastern European cities with beautiful architecture, full of cafes and parks and city life. Really grateful I got the opportunity to visit both places! Check out the full set of pics here.
Today was so strange I don’t even know where to start. I’m in Ivano-Frankivsk, a small city in Western Ukraine, where I was brought by the US Embassy to lead some trainings in digital media for local NGOs. I’ve done a few of these technology trainings for civil society organizations around the world, and had…
What marine animals swim the fastest? How many bones does an orca have? What does a squid and an F-16 plane have in common? Find out at the new "Built for Speed" exhibit at the Cal Academy! Today is the member's preview of the new "Built for Speed" exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. I…
I'm participating in a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) put on by Mozilla called "Teach the Web" for the next couple of months. It seems like a good way to get exposed to new tools and new approaches to teaching digital literacies to our youth at the Academy and beyond. This week's assignment is to…
Yesterday I sampled one of Ruby Jewel's ice cream sandwiches, which my local Andronico's happens to carry: organic mint ice cream and two dark chocolate cookies. In the notes on the packaging, I learned that Portland, Oregon based Ruby Jewel tries to be a responsible small business: We source our ingredients from as many local,…