Exhausted but proud

As much as I bitch about the process of it, it's nights like last night that remind me why I do in fact love conclave. After a late afternoon runthrough of our full choreo, the PDF conclave buckled down at DC's Artomatic to film our submission for Burning Man this year. Between 9 and about 12:30 last night, we fought back the impending rain storms and everybody's nerves at being recorded to do about three takes of the full choreography with a kick-ass building in the background that had a gigantic neon sign that said "ART" on it--needless to say, I'm a big fan of our setting :)

Big thanks to everybody who threw down last night, from Ludent who drove hours to drum for us to Kip and the camera crew, Mer, Sandy, and all the other photographers who I'm sure will be sending us fabulous photo documentation of the process and performances.

Finally, big thanks to Eileen for running practices and composing most of the choreo--I know her nerves were worn down bare by the end, but I really think you created something that we're all going to watch and adore and god only knows you had more patience for peoples' crap (including my own) than I would have.

I'll post a vid when I have it :)

And so it begins

So it's finally happened...I bit the bullet and started up a new blog. My old one was a relic of post high-school days and I've written from time to time on subjects that interest me from the business plan of the Kindle to my ongoing and deep-seated hatred of the major record label companies (when they finally collapse, big party at my house--serious), but up until now I haven't had anything to write about that I deemed a regular blog to be worthwhile to keep up.

But now I'm finding with poi I'm having a lot of thoughts that take shape in a written form before I'm able to do them. Whether its the need to visualize a move or compile a theory or even just wanting to do a move that is beyond my current technical ability, writing it out is happening more and more often for me and thus it makes sense to post those thoughts somewhere.

In keeping with the spirit of my video blog, this one is guaranteed to include embarrassing mistakes, dead-ends, and silly explorations that I'm sure other poi spinners will delight in jumping on me for. So be it. I'm coming to this in the hopes that I can reach out to the wider community of poi spinners and be able to have the conversations with them I currently only get to every few months when I travel for this spinning event or that spinning event. While many of you have tons of people in your area who are chomping at the bit to discuss theory, I rarely get to have that experience here in DC, so here's hoping you'll help me have a bit of that experience vicariously.

While I had hoped I'd be able to include my tech blog videos in a fashion that would make this work as a video podcast, I'm afraid that will have to wait for further upgrades. In the meantime, expect lots of rambling thoughts, videos, images, and the like as I work my way through the art and science of poi. Hopefully you read something that strikes your fancy and if you don't please ensure the caps-lock key is off when typing your response.

Now sit back and enjoy the show.

Peace,
Drex