yes, that's me racking up the view count.
yes, that's me racking up the view count.
University of Minnesota Dance Team - Amazing Precision.
The precision of this dance gives me chills...
America's Got Talent, That's For Sure...
I watch America's Got Talent every week. There are lots of really talented people and performers on the show, but the ones I find most entertaining are the ones who use their imagination.These two videos show the group Silhouettes performing two different routines. The first one is their audition in Minneapolis and the second is last week's performance.
I love these routines because of their innovation. The dancing is flawless, the concept is ingenious. In the second video, they actually form the silhouettes of American monuments and buildings, which are then superimposed over the kids' shadows, which (if you watch) shows how spot-on they are/have to be with their positions.
All in all I just think they're a really great act and they deserve to go far in the competition.
Yet Another Etsy Purchase
When I started looking at a case to carry it in, I realized that every case I found was either leather, boring, or both.
So I decided to take a look on Etsy and see if they had anything a little more exciting.
They did!
1 Sweet Pea Boutique makes adorable, stylish, cases for all sorts of electronic devices.
The one I got has owls, one of my favorite things :)
It's perfect, it keeps my Nook cozy when I'm not using it and keeps it safe if I put it in a bag or need to travel with it.
Moral of the Story: Etsy Rocks.
Mac OS X Lion - There's Some Awesome New Features Coming...
Instant messaging availability
See your buddy’s availability while in Address Book.
Social network profiles
Address Book lets you quickly access the social network profiles for your contacts, including Facebook. Press and hold an email address to select the appropriate profile.
Send files wirelessly
AirDrop is the simplest way to send files wirelessly to anyone around you.
Drag-and-drop file sharing
To share a file, simply drag it onto a person’s contact photo. Your Mac verifies that you want to send the file, then sends a request to the recipient. When the request is accepted, the file transfers to the person’s Downloads folder.
Saves as you go
Apps developed with Auto Save can automatically save changes to your document as you work, freeing you from manual saving and from the worry that you’ll lose your valuable work if the app quits. And because Auto Save saves all changes in the background, you can work without the distraction of pauses or progress bars.
Saves in place
Auto Save in Lion adds the changes directly into the file so there’s only one copy of the document on your Mac.
All My Files
Instantly view all the files on your Mac in a single window in the Finder. All My Files gathers all your files — no matter where they’re located — and displays them in an organized view. It’s smart about what it collects, showing only files you commonly open, such as documents, images, and videos, while leaving out system files.
Gesture navigation
In icon view, files in each group are displayed in rows of icons, so you can swipe through them quickly using your Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse.
Go full screen
Apps built to take advantage of the entire screen have a new full-screen button in the window title bar. Click it to expand the app window to fill the screen.
Multiple full-screen apps
You can have multiple full-screen apps running at the same time. Each app stays full screen even when you switch to another app or to the desktop.
New look
iCal features a streamlined new look that gives you more room to browse and edit your events. The calendars list reveals itself only when you click Calendars. So now almost the entire window is dedicated to your calendar, giving you a beautiful view of your events by day, week, month, or year.
Full-screen iCal
Take iCal full screen so you can see even more events and the details associated with them.
Day view
The new day view makes it easy to stay on top of a busy day. You’ll find a running list of your events on one side and a detailed schedule on the other, so it takes just a glance to get the information you need. The new mini month is always visible, making it easy to switch between days and quickly navigate your calendar.Adding an event to iCal has never been easier. Simply enter a regular-language phrase like “Mary’s Birthday at 8 p.m.” or “Lunch with John” and let iCal add the event for you. Quick Add can turn your phrases into iCal events with the right name, time, and location. Just click the Add button (+) in the toolbar and enter your phrase.
Year view
Year view lets you see 12 months at a time, making it easy to jump between months.
Heat map
In year view, iCal displays a map using colors to represent availability for each day, so you can see which days have more activities.
Unified buddy list
iChat brings your buddies together in one buddy list no matter what service they use, so you can find them without hunting through multiple windows. And if someone has accounts on multiple chat services, iChat displays just one entry for the person in the buddy list. When you click your buddy’s name to send a message, simply choose the service you want to use.
Unified status
Share a single availability and status message with all your buddies no matter what service you use. Just select “Use the same status for all accounts” in iChat preferences. Deselect the preference if you’d like to maintain a separate status and availability for each service you use.
A home for your apps
Launchpad is a full-screen home for all the apps on your Mac. It creates full-screen pages to accommodate your apps and adds new pages as you add more apps. Find the app you want and open it with a single click.
Organize with folders
Group applications in folders. Simply drag one app icon on top of another and Launchpad creates a folder. Launchpad uses the application’s category (Productivity, Finance, Games) to suggest a folder name, or you can create your own. Each folder can hold as many as 32 apps.
Arrange apps any way you like
You can rearrange apps by dragging their icons to a new location or even to another page.
Widescreen layout
A new layout for Mail takes advantage of the widescreen display on your Mac. It neatly arranges your message list and open email side by side in full-height columns, so you see more of your messages.
Full-screen experience
Mail delivers a full-screen experience, so you can read and send email without distractions. With more room for your conversations and messages, you can browse your email more efficiently. Compose a new message, and Mail dims your inbox and slides in a full-height canvas so you can focus on your message and capture your thoughts.
Favorites bar
The favorites bar gives you one-click access to your mail folders. Its horizontal layout displays your favorite folders and their unread counts without cluttering up your window. Drag folders to the favorites bar to add them.
Redesigned message header
The message header displays only the information you need, so you can focus on the message. Click the details to see everything else, including recipients.
Conversations
Conversations in Mail gives you a new and natural way to read and manage your email. As email arrives in your inbox, Mail automatically groups related messages in conversations. And Mail numbers each message in a conversation so you always know where you are as you read.
Custom labels
Organize your mail with color-coded labels. Labeling a message takes just a click, and a colored flag is added to the message for easy identification. Mail creates folders for your labeled messages so you can get to them quickly. You can personalize labels with names like “Family” and “Work.” And you can use labels when you search to help narrow the results.
One-click archive
Quickly move messages from your inbox and save them for later with a single click.
See everything on your Mac
Mission Control brings together everything running on your Mac — open windows, full-screen apps, spaces, and Dashboard — in one bird’s-eye view. A row of thumbnails across the top of the screen represents Dashboard, desktop spaces, and your full-screen apps. The lower part of the screen shows an Exposé view of the open windows on your desktop. Click anything to instantly navigate to it.
Mission Control brings together everything running on your Mac — open windows, full-screen apps, spaces, and Dashboard — in one bird’s-eye view. A row of thumbnails across the top of the screen represents Dashboard, desktop spaces, and your full-screen apps. The lower part of the screen shows an Exposé view of the open windows on your desktop. Click anything to instantly navigate to it.
Add and remove spaces
You can add and remove desktop spaces right from Mission Control. To add a space, click the new Spaces control (+) in the upper-right corner of Mission Control. Or drag an app or window to the Spaces control. To remove a space, click the Delete button (x) on the space’s thumbnail.Bind application to a space
You can now bind an application to a particular space or make it available in all spaces right from the Dock. Press and hold the icon in the Dock and make a selection from the contextual menu.
Custom desktop pictures
Each desktop space can have its own desktop picture.
Full-screen Photo Booth
Photo Booth in OS X Lion delivers a full-screen view that takes advantage of the entire screen on your Mac. And it features a new look that makes you feel as if you’re in an actual photo booth.
New effects
Have even more fun with the built-in camera on your Mac. Choose from nine new effects that use facial tracking technology, so effects look great whether you’re front and center or left of center. Effects include Lovestruck, Dizzy, Frog, Nose Twirl, and Blockhead.
High-resolution photos
Photo Booth takes advantage of the high-resolution FaceTime camera in some Mac computers, so you can show off your smile in richer detail than ever before.
Full-screen Safari
Take Safari full screen and experience your favorite websites on a grander scale. It’s perfect for viewing more of your Gmail inbox, Facebook newsfeed, or Twitter trends.
Downloads list
When you download files in Safari, an arrow appears to the right of the Smart Search Field to show you the progress of your download. Click the arrow to see downloads. You can also clear downloads from the list or view them in the Finder.
Drag-and-drop downloads
You can drag downloaded files from the Downloads list to your desktop for easy organization.
Reading List
Reading List lets you save web pages to read when you have time.
Per-user screen sharing
You can remotely log in to a Mac with any user account on that computer and control it, without interrupting someone else who might be using the computer under a different login.
Go full screen
Take the screen-sharing application full screen in Lion so you can observe and control a remote Mac using the entire screen. It feels as if you are sitting right in front of the other Mac.
Records the history of a document
OS X Lion can keep an ongoing record of your document as it evolves. Lion records snapshots of your document as you make changes or reach important milestones.
Automatic versions
Each time you open a document, Lion automatically saves the current version. It also saves a new version every hour while you work, building a history of the document as you go.
Browse versions
Lion makes it easy to browse previous versions. Using an interface similar to that of Time Machine, you can browse the version history of a document to see how it looked at any time. A timeline shows all the versions that exist for the document. To view a previous version, simply click a specific date.
Side-by-side comparison
When you’re browsing versions, a side-by-side comparison feature allows you to see the current state of a document next to the previous one, so you can easily note the differences.
Other Features
Resize from any edge
You can now resize a window from any side or corner.Overlay scroll bars
The new overlay scroll bars appear when you need them and fade away when you don’t, resulting in a more streamlined experience.Interact with iTunes artwork in screen saver
Turn your screen saver into a jukebox. Just click an album to play the songs.
And the best part? It's only $29.99 and available from the Mac App Store sometime in July! Can't wait!
Quote/Mural in My Room:
I painted this quote on my wall above my closet. It's from Jason Mraz's "That'll Do" (Also know by several other names…) The font is FG Petra, used on some of Jason Mraz's cds and whatnot.
My bed faces it, so I wake up every morning to this amazing piece of advice, one that I plan to live by.
Yes, as a Matter of Fact I do Crochet. No, I'm not Eighty...
I started this crocheted blanket as a "summer project" probably about two or three years ago.
Obviously I didn't finish it in one summer and I haven't really touched it for a while but I had some free time today so I thought, why not?
My Grandma actually taught me how to crochet and I started this project after seeing it in one of her books.
I'm looking forward to it looking more like a blanket and less like a weird table runner.
p.s.- I also cross stitch...
Peace Iced Tea: Tea with a Mission
So I originally picked this tea up because it had an awesome bottle. I don't often drink iced tea, and I actually just bought it to put on my shelf as art. Then I became curious and I picked up two of their razzleberry flavor (one to drink and one to look at).
I went online to look them up and see if they had any other flavors. They actually have seven different flavors, of which, my local Rite Aid only carries two :'(
On their about us page they have this blurb:
“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” -Marvin Gaye
On February 21, 1958, a designer and artist named Gerald Holtom rendered the Peace Symbol to support the 4 April march organized in London by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The Peace Symbol has, universally, come to symbolize peace. The Peace Symbol is not something to be messed with, to be exploited or to be trivialized. The Peace Symbol is the very inspiration behind the creation of Peace Tea. Yes, Peace Tea is a product meant to be bought and enjoyed. However, that is not the point. Peace Tea was not brought to life to commercialize or rip off or capitalize on the Peace Symbol. There are fashion brands, bands, record labels and countless other examples of products which utilize the Peace Symbol.
Peace Tea was born out a yearning for a higher calling. It is all about one single and perfect and fundamental truth: To evoke an emotion, or perhaps even more importantly, an action.
Peace Tea is whatever you want it to be.
Peace Tea is based in the true meaning of Peace. Peace is a balance of a deep understanding in yourself and between others where a mutual respect results by accepting differences, displaying tolerance, erasing tensions and allowing each and every person to have a voice, an opinion, a right to be who and what they want to.
While Peace Tea is a product, it is a product that stands for social obligation, social awareness, benevolence, compassion and soul. It can, in the form of a mere liquid, be your own form of poetry, art, music, philosophy, belief system. But more than anything, Peace Tea strives to be a product that makes a difference. Even the most minimal difference.
If even one person reaches for a can of Peace Tea and thinks into what Peace is all about and is motivated to act, then Peace Tea has fulfilled its reason for being. Perhaps that very person sees their reflection and is moved enough to do something in their day that benefits someone or something. Peace, compassion and generosity can come in the smallest acts. It can be buying a meal for a person living on the streets; helping a blind person get across a busy boulevard; helping an elderly person off an airplane; taking the time to lift the spirits of a friend who is down and struggling; helping a lost dog find its owner. It can be anything. Like the bumper sticker says, it can be about “practicing random and senseless acts of generosity and kindness.”
Peace Tea is a product with a purpose. A product to believe in. Peace Tea is Peace, Love and Understanding.
Peace Tea is love over gold.
Peace Tea Beverage Company"
On February 21, 1958, a designer and artist named Gerald Holtom rendered the Peace Symbol to support the 4 April march organized in London by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The Peace Symbol has, universally, come to symbolize peace. The Peace Symbol is not something to be messed with, to be exploited or to be trivialized. The Peace Symbol is the very inspiration behind the creation of Peace Tea. Yes, Peace Tea is a product meant to be bought and enjoyed. However, that is not the point. Peace Tea was not brought to life to commercialize or rip off or capitalize on the Peace Symbol. There are fashion brands, bands, record labels and countless other examples of products which utilize the Peace Symbol.
Peace Tea was born out a yearning for a higher calling. It is all about one single and perfect and fundamental truth: To evoke an emotion, or perhaps even more importantly, an action.
Peace Tea is whatever you want it to be.
Peace Tea is based in the true meaning of Peace. Peace is a balance of a deep understanding in yourself and between others where a mutual respect results by accepting differences, displaying tolerance, erasing tensions and allowing each and every person to have a voice, an opinion, a right to be who and what they want to.
While Peace Tea is a product, it is a product that stands for social obligation, social awareness, benevolence, compassion and soul. It can, in the form of a mere liquid, be your own form of poetry, art, music, philosophy, belief system. But more than anything, Peace Tea strives to be a product that makes a difference. Even the most minimal difference.
If even one person reaches for a can of Peace Tea and thinks into what Peace is all about and is motivated to act, then Peace Tea has fulfilled its reason for being. Perhaps that very person sees their reflection and is moved enough to do something in their day that benefits someone or something. Peace, compassion and generosity can come in the smallest acts. It can be buying a meal for a person living on the streets; helping a blind person get across a busy boulevard; helping an elderly person off an airplane; taking the time to lift the spirits of a friend who is down and struggling; helping a lost dog find its owner. It can be anything. Like the bumper sticker says, it can be about “practicing random and senseless acts of generosity and kindness.”
Peace Tea is a product with a purpose. A product to believe in. Peace Tea is Peace, Love and Understanding.
Peace Tea is love over gold.
Peace Tea Beverage Company"
Peace Tea is iced tea with a mission. And I like that.
being a dancer myself, I love to watch dance finally get it's own TV show, where amazing choreographers, dancers, and other people in the business can be seen and recognized as the amazing artists they are.
There are two videos I'd like to share with you, but embedding for these videos was disabled, so you have to travel to YouTube to view them.
The first is a hip-hop routine by Tabitha and Napoleon danced by Alex Wong (who, shortly after this routine pulled his achilles and was unable to dance the rest of the season) and Twitch, who I've also posted about, here.
But before you watch it, you need a little background on Alex Wong….he's a ballet dancer. He's amazing. And he successfully (well actually more than successfully) does what every ballet dancer fears most…he's makes hip-hop look like his first style.
Check it out.
The second video is Ellen Degeneres doing Alex's part in the hip-hop dance as a tribute to Alex in the finale, after he got injured and couldn't dance.
I don't know whether I should say that it's good or funny. It's kind of both. Ellen does an awesome job considering she's not a dancer. (Although she does do a lot of dancing on her show…)
Check it out here.
Let me know what you think!
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