An article on Bravo’s latest: Step It Up and Dance.
Berkley has a strong background in dance that should help her relate to the contestants. Berkley said that since the age of 4, dancing has been her “heart and soul.” She also has performed with members of the American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet, and starred in the dance classic “Showgirls.”
Umm, okay, Showgirls, dance classic? Camp classic, or famously bad, or any other descriptor, but dance classic? I mean I guess so…
A few of my favorites, in no particular order:
For seconds 20-27 and 33-37 only.
A typical US Apple iPod ad:
iPod ads from South Africa:
And I want it in my house.
That’s a realistic looking moon. Okay, I know what you are thinking, “Eugene’s a geek/dork/nerd.” True enough. I also know you are also thinking, “That’s not so impressive.” Well that m-f-in’ table glows in the dark with a special eco-friendly glow in the dark paint and the piece itself is one of only 24 to be made! Check it out:
Well listening to some muxtapes now. It’s as good a way to find new music as Last.FM or Pandora, though limited to the actual mix and not as wide and webby as those two services.
I’ve never been good at the mixtape, mix cd, etc. I don’t have a flow with that sort of thing. Maybe it’s the paralysis of choice due to my library size, or maybe from not knowing or being fully familiar with all the music in my library (complete albums I’ve not listened to yet, tons of unlistened songs as well). I just usually toss in songs I know/like until I get a CD full. I used to have a friend who would make mix cd stories. Taking into account the lyrics and all. The one I remember most was the story of a relationship, from courtship to breakup. Mostly R&B, but not because that’s most suited to the story, but that was just his style of music more so than other things.
I’d like to have this skill though. Mix of music that flows together. Appropriate for whatever purpose. So rising and falling songs. Or when needed, as Barney of How I Met Your Mother would want it, always rising! Hell even a good workout mix. Which you’d think would be easy given I have Tangerine, but nope, still not that easy.
This has been growing way fast. I forget where I first read about it. Create a “mixtape” (or, err, muxtape) by uploading music to the site. You get a link. You share, “trade”, etc. muxtapes with friends and strangers. It seems in concept like a more user defined Last.FM.
I’ve not made one yet, but a lot of my music is in .mp4, which isn’t supported (yet, but is slated for support). Maybe I’ll check it out and add it to my linkroll. Not that anyone reads this blog to click to listen to my muxtape. But if you are out there mysterious readers (hell, even the 3-4 regular readers I have that are family/friends) create a muxtape and toss me the link. Or you know, get a Last.FM account or something. (Not that I’m active in any of this social networking web2.0 stuff.)
EDIT: wow no joke. I checked muxtape yesterday. Only the creator’s (of the site) muxtape was available. Now there’s a whole slew of them. Not bad for roughly 12 hours of difference since last I went there.
Kottke and Daring Fireball posting stuff for me to blog today. As usual. Yay!
Typewriter typefaces. I have no idea why I have such an interest in typefaces (or design in general). Not like it’s deep enough to do any kind of pseudo-academic research in the subject. I just like them.
Theblog Weemade – art by kids.
Email ettiquette – I’m guilty of whole message replies. My buddy is good about quoting only what’s being replied to and interspersing with his comments. Me, just hit that reply and plow through.
Sort of. Free, online, pared down photoshop. And online not like you can download, but online like do it online.
Photoshop Express – gotta be worth a shot if you don’t have PS or don’t have it with you and you need quick processing.
I’m one of those people who are ambivalent about marathons. It’s something I’d like to do, but it’s not one of those “I have to do once in my lifetime” type things. And honestly, the thought of running for like 4-5 hours straight is troublesome. I’d have to have the perfect mix on my iPod, no skipping required. Of course with a lot of marathons “banning” them, who knows. At any rate, here’s a list of marathons to run in 2008 courtesy of Runner’s World, via AOL Body.
I don’t know if I can mentally reconcile a marathon sponsored by PF Chang’s.
But I’d definitely run in (my namesake) marathon: Eugene Marathon.
I have no idea if this is the first, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it. Pregnant Husband.
Labor of Love – The Advocate.
And an article from the NY Times about transgendered individuals in college.
When Girls Will Be Boys – NYTimes.