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Amanda & Evan
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A Night of Modern Dance: LEVYdance
Tonight I saw LEVYdance perform at Dance Place and it was a great experience. The above photo is from “if this small space” where Scott Marlowe danced inside of a ~8 foot rectangle of light (there are more excerpts of it on the front page of the LEVYdance web site). The most impressive performance of the evening was the DC premier of “Bone lines” which is apparently about choreographer Benjamin Levy family life. The Washington Post says:
“Bone lines,” a 24-minute work for his youthful troupe, LEVYdance, doesn’t delve deeply into the drama of his family’s flight, but it does investigate cultural transmission: what gets passed on and what gets lost amid everyday life. There’s something about the work’s tender and knotty partnering, the spare walking, the shadowy relationships that suggests a shared sense of loss.
I went with the fellow dance-challenged Colin along with dancers Amanda and Kim. Thanks to the newlywed couple for their delicious dinner and night on the town!
If you missed the performance, read the preview at the Washington Post called A Dance of Culture and Compromise.
How to: Add a Event to your Calendar with just a Phone Call to Jott
How often do you find out about an event that needs to be on the calendar but you are far from your organizer? Since you know I love tools that keep me productive I want to show you this new way to get things on your calendar by talking it into your phone. It works with a free service called Jott and the free Google Calendar. Here’s what Jott has to say about it:
Why is this cool? Because you can now create a Google Calendar event in a single step, from anywhere, simply using your voice. Just call Jott, say “Google Calendar”, and then the time of the event and what it’s about….and you’re done. We’ll take your voice, convert it to text, and insert it into your calendar for you.
I tested this myself and this video shows how it went:
[Jott and Google Calendar]
I Wrote a Blog Post with My Voice on the Phone
A Personal Snow Day
I have extra vacation days so I took the day off from work on Wednesday. Here are the highlights.
- I slept until 10 am and didn’t really start doing anything until 11. The day just zips by when i don’t go to work. Wait, it zips by when I do go to work.
- Alyssa was my second Skype video call and she gave me a tour of her apartment. She walked me room by room through her home with the laptop in front of her. I never knew she was such an interesting and entertaining tour guide. Call her up and I’m sure she’ll give you a similar tour of her Houston, Texas apartment.
- Sean, Kat and I had a conference call late on Wednesday and we talked about our web site project. Working on a web site is a lot of work but it is fun. My focus is on the calendar for now and I keep hoping that the software improves.
- It snowed all day and on Thursday morning the temperature is 23 Fahrenheit. Therefore the sidewalks and roads are icy. I did not fall on my walk to work.
Thanks to Alyssa for the bulleted blog idea.
Art Inspired by Spam Email
I was checking out the latest bargain art at 20×200 and found this awesome geeky art by Linzie Hunter. The typography is so creative and fun to look at. The geek part is that this series is based on subject lines of spam email she receives. How cool would it be to visit the IS/IT department at work and see some art based on spam?! Here’s how she puts it:
Don’t Put Off Your Happy Life is part of an ongoing series of typographic works based on and inspired by the subject lines of spam emails arriving to my computer. Removed from their original context these nonsense and nuisance messages are recycled into amusing, entertaining and sometimes inspirational meditations for modern life.
Check out more of her work at the Thumbtack Press web site.
What is your inspiration to create? The next inspiration may be from that place you never look.
[Linzie Hunter on Thumbtack Press via "Boundless" on 20x200]
Create a Facebook Friend Collage
Check out this fun Facebook hack that will let you see your friends in a grid of smiling faces like you see above. Continue reading