Day 1: This year, the event was held at Cyclorama in downtown Boston. The first thing people notice was that the venue = small. For a jam that was supposed to give out $50,000 to the winner, it could probably only fit 500-600 people before the fire marshal kicked everyone out (and I am being very [...]
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HOUSE DANCE In addition to b-boying, I’ve been learning house dance, too; taking lessons from Chelsea, a dancer from the choreo group KickRocks. Learning another style of dance, different than b-boying, has been a wonderful experience because I learned moves I never would have else thought of. House steps, such as the jack, skate, and [...]
Seminal Hip Hop Literature. What is it and why should you care? First off, what the heck is seminal anyway? Seminal roughly means something that is highly original and could influence the development of future events. So seminal Hip Hop literature would mean books, articles, anything written that stirs the mind and gets you thinking [...]
There have been a flurry of video features being put online by us recently. Some informational, some entertaining, and some quite silly. I personally blame myself for the silliness of some of the videos. My mind wanders at times. Someone told me that Fridays are the days where websites & blogs get the least amount [...]
Following up on Dan’s formspring post, I thought I’d start compiling a list of some of the personal (active) blogs of well-known bboys and bgirls out there. I’m sure there’s plenty more that I missed, feel free to comment and leave any suggestions for others to check out! Justroc http://www.justroc.com/ Justroc is an event organizer, [...]
FORMSPRING – http://www.formspring.me/ I’ve been noticing a lot of dancers using Formspring these days. I personally do not use it, or does anyone on Strife.tv, but a lot of dancers in my area love to mention their Formspring accounts to their friends, especially when they are bored and have nothing to do but answer the [...]
Dancers Who Looked Scary Intimidating in the Circle, but Turned Out to be Cool
Posted: 15th July 2010 by Dan in Daily Thoughts, EventsA well known excuse for not writing in a blog is that one has been busy. Then when one gets busy, they start posting random battle videos to their blog to buy some time for the next “serious” post. Well…I refuse to fall into that trap! I have to admit, it did take a little [...]
Episode three of the LXD is now viewable on Hulu, prominently featuring popper Madd Chadd. Thoughts: Definitely a step in the right direction: much less dialogue in this one, which allowed the dancers to tell the story through their movement even more so than the first two episodes. The comic book ‘speech’ was an alright [...]
The first two episodes are now viewable on Hulu, what does everyone think? Episode one includes Luigi, Venum, Milky, and Cloud: Episode two focuses on tricking: My brief thoughts: The writing is cheesy and the tone is awkwardly serious. I wish either the writing had more ‘weight’ or the direction had been more tongue-in-cheek. Basically, [...]
Tribal Gear Armory Biggest & Baddest …and now Street Scientists I’m sure many b-boys and b-girls have a shirt by one of the companies listed above. Take away the popular mainstream shoe brands and these are your options for popular “for b-boys, by b-boys” designs these days. While the majority of b-boy clothing consists of [...]