Word to the wise

Word to the wise: Life is never anything to take too seriously, enjoy it. Nothing is ever worth losing your sanity over.

Richie's Demo Reel

Rich's Demo Reel from Diego Garcia on Vimeo.

Richie from Full Force/SuperCr3w, it's a sick demo-reel

Breaks U: The Aftermath

Columbia University... and Breakdancing??? WTF? or FTW? When you think of breaking it's a huge rarity to find good breakdancers at high level institutions not because of intelligence level but mostly because good breakdancers put a lot of time and effort into their craft, where as "smart people" spend more time in the library, which on a side note brings into question just how "smart" they are....

So for the last month, YS, Lil' Eagle, and Myself have been training for this event which essentially puts all the schools against each other. Kid Bowser woulda joined us but he made a promise to do his Philips Exeter thing at the event. But anyways, we paired up w/ two alums, Seoul Sonyk and Bounce, and we went in thinking ok lets just have fun and do whatever, since we thought most schools probably had better teams like NYU, MIT, Cornell, etc cuz they all had reps.

We get there... and I'm not gonna lie... it was kinda sad...

Let me go through my thought process for each school I saw:
Harvard: Mad noobage, aparently just started the club so I can't fault them
MIT: They had two squads, I think squad 2 was better than squad 1 funny enough
NYU: They held it down, thought there woulda been more Florox people since NYU is invaded by Florox but to my surprise, none what so ever...
BMCC: Pretty much the actual Foot Clan Crew mixed w/ Gravity... go figure
LaGuardia: Another way of saying Supreme Beings... sigh I wish I went to a high school like that...
UMass-Amhearst: They came out strong, not too much flava but they were smooth, very surprising
Johns Hopkins: Um... yeah...
Carnegie Mellon: Now here's a school w/ some talent, even had a girl who could smoke any of the guys on her team, like WOW

Anyways, back to us, we get pit against Farmingdale/Brooklyn Law which is pretty much all our friends: Lilfoot, Chem, and Yuki so it was a fun battle, I think one of the best ones of the first round

Breaks U: Exhibition Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ_lKk-UDP0

Now we're sitting tight because they're only going to take the top 8 crews out of 32, so I'm watching these crews thinking we're just on the fringe of not making it... and we're all praying.

And then... WE GOT IN!!! We were HYPE to the point where we said we were just gonna go all out on the next battle, which in retrospect was probably a bad idea, but it was more fun that way.

Breaks U: Quarter-Final Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gyRTWiTng

We mad it through but we did so terribly in the Semi-Finals, I kinda just don't want to post the footage. It's also because we faced Laguardia aka Supreme Beings so... yeah... I mean we held our own but they were just better.

So overall a very good jam, can't believe how far we made it, so now it's back to the lab.

Sorry

Sorry all, haven't had much time to rant or think about things, I've been keeping busy with various activities, I promise when things cool down I'll have a chance to put all my thoughts online, until don't be like me and be patient.

Intellectual Pursuits

I've been a student at one of the most prestigious universities in the world for the last 4 years. Currently, I am writing this blog in one of my classes solely because I'm reminded of something that greatly bothers me about the education system, intellectuals. As we progress from infants to adults, we are educated by a number of different teachers: math, english, social studies, gym, etc. While they all specialize in different subjects, the major difference between them is the declining ability to teach. It's ironic that as we get older we meet individuals who are less and less qualified to teach. It's not because the difficulty of the subject matter but more because people have become more disenchanted with teaching especially at the collegiate level. Typical teachers are intellectuals who wish to pursue research however they are required to teach in order to accomplish said goal. Intelligence and knowledge is a gift that should be distributed to everyone but these upitty intellectuals don't seem to really want to pass on the knowledge. They're too focused on themselves and their pursuits. Where is the joy? Where is the excitement? The best kinds of classes are the ones in which the professor seems genuinely excited about their subject, but most of the time it just feels like they're repeating what we could have read in a textbook or sparknote. I have a terrible sample size of teachers since I am an engineer, but on that note, these snobs are the reason science and math are lacking in most education systems. For god's sake, I learned more from Bill Nye the Science Guy than these PhD's with multiple published papers. If anyone is actually learning something from these phoneys they need to go out into the world and learn something real and be excited for the real world not the library.

The Bboy Spot

So for those of you not in the Bboy community, there was a bit of drama in one the of major bboy centers and two big purveyors of information in the bboy community split.
For those of you in the Bboy community, Mex and Erwin split and are at semi-war, or at least that's what I see

So from this comes a new site, courtesy of Mex One called the Bboy Spot, and I must say, although the forum is a bit lacking, it's acceptable considering it started about 2 months ago. But the web-store is much better than I ever expected. They have some seriously fresh gear for good prices, so support your friendly bboy community.

The Bboy Spot