December 2011
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Wandering & Pondering's Lindy Blogging Highlights... →
As always, W&P redefines the word “thorough” by compiling a great list of the best of folks that wrote, shot, and posted about Lindy Hop online in the past year.
Thanks for the mention, Jerry! For my money, Wandering & Pondering is the most consistently insightful and thought-provoking Lindy blog around.
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NYT: Gotta Dance? Swing On Over →
Today the NYTimes published a great writeup about swing dancing in NYC, and heavily featured Yehoodi.com’s Frim Fram Jam, which you probably know I help run.
THERE are swinging parties in Manhattan nearly ever night. The trick is in knowing where to find them.
Take a recent Thursday: Sandwiched between a Blarney Stone and a liquor shop on Eighth Avenue just south of Penn Station and up...
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Last minute update: I'm DJing at Fram tonight! →
Fates aligned for a Festivus miracle, and I made it back to NYC a day early! This allows us to return to the originally announced DJ schedule for December, with me DJing tonight at Frim Fram! See you there!
Be sure to “Like” Fram on Facebook and/or follow @FramDJ on Twitter to keep up-to-date on the latest happenings at Fram.
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MIT builds camera that can capture at the speed of... →
Imaging Science. What.
via Engadget:
A team from the MIT media lab has created a camera with a “shutter speed” of one trillion exposures per second — enabling it to record light itself traveling from one point to another. Using a heavily modified Streak Tube (which is normally used to intensify photons into electron streams), the team could snap a single image of a laser as...
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Free Swinging Holiday Music from George Gee! →
If you’re still looking to get into the holiday spirit, band leader extraordinaire George Gee informs us that he’s made 3 holiday songs from The George Gee Swing Orchestra FREE to download via Reverb Nation! Jingle your bells and head on over for the free tunes.
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NYT: An Aging Jazz Pianist Finds A New Audience →
For years, the donated piano sat upright and unused in a corner of the nursing home’s cafeteria. Now and then someone would wheel or wobble over to pound out broken notes on the broken keys, but those out-of-tune interludes were rare. Day after surrendering day, the flawed piano remained mercifully silent.
Then came a new resident, a musician in his 80s with a touch of forgetfulness named...
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