Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to take a group of ten teenagers on an incredible educational sailing trip in the San Francisco Bay courtesy of the "Call of the Sea" educational nonprofit. For three glorious hours, our teens and chaperones got to voyage out into the beautiful Bay on an 82' schooner called the "Seaward."
We arrived at a dock in Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate Bridge, at about 9am. Katie, the chief educator on the "Seaward" met us on the dock and briefed us on what the morning was going to be like. She introduced us to the ship captain Ryan, and three other deckhand/educators.
This wasn't a pleasure cruise, for sure. From the start, every teen was given a task to accomplish to get our sailing vessel out of dock and cruising on the water. They learned the kind of tasks sailors need to attend to keeping this ship afloat and moving, from raising the sail, steering the boat, adjusting the rigging, and dozens of other small but important jobs. Several of our kids stated later that the highlight of the trip for them was getting to steer this massive, 65 ton boat.
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I'm extremely excited to announce this fundraiser to support a live video broadcast from the International Lindy Hop Championships in DC this August. Yehoodi.com had the honor of being at ILHC last year, where we did a darn good job broadcasting that year's dance contests.
This year we want to take it to the next level with much higher production standards, high definition video, and our full video crew.
Please take a look at our Indiegogo fundraiser page if you believe that lindy hop deserves a worldwide audience. We have a solid plan, a reasonable budget and a great team to make this happen. So I believe we deserve your support.
Plus we have some awesome perks that we are offering to our contributors at every level, from $10 and up! "SwingNation" branded shoe-bags, pins, live "shout-outs" on the air, and more.
Fundraiser page link: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/livestreaming-lindy-hop-from-ilhc-to-the-world.
Come "hangout" with three scientists from the California Academy of Sciences tomorrow, Thursday June 6 from 4-5pm. This is the Cal Academy's first Google+ Hangout, held in conjunction with the Google Science Fair 2013. You will get to see a live video stream of three of our researchers talking about their work and discoveries. And you can pose questions to them on the Google event page.
Join me at this event "Hands-On Science: Behind the Scenes at the California Academy of Sciences". See details below...
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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 it even more!
Even if we weren't performing, I would encourage everyone to attend the 9:20 Special Open House. They will have a free dance lesson, awesome social dancing to great DJs, performances, give-aways and more! We will also have discount passes to "The Ella Effect", the jazz-hip-hop fusion show we are performing in on Friday and Saturday.
BTW here's last year's version of the "B-boy Shim Sham" if you forgot. See you all on the dance floor!
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