Today we look back at a very special “behind the scenes” show where we talked this past December to the glitter goddess, Leslie Hall. Enjoy! The keeper of “thy gems” Leslie Hall is without a doubt a HUGE internet phenomenon. Just about a year ago Leslie was one of our first interviews on our podcast, where she had started getting the attention she deserved for her iconic photographs of herself with her hundreds of gem sweaters. You may have seen a gem sweater on the lady at the checkout counter, on your high school home ec. teacher or on that lady that keeps on raving about the bible. But you’ve never seen anybody own it and reinvent it like Leslie Hall. This past December Marc and Fausto hanged out with the Gem Sweater Diva herself as she got ready for her fabous live performance at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago, Illinois. Did you know that Leslie’s mom REALLY does make her gold pants, and pretty much anything she wears onstage. This frees up Leslie to concentrate on her music, her graphic design, the development of her website and shaking her body onstage to a seismatic intensity. To this date Leslie is one of the most popular musicians on myspace and holds an internet following that rivals our own! (We brag, we boast.) Follow us as we talk to Leslie while she transforms from the cute college co-ed to the lighting hot rock and gem diva she was meant to be. Heads up! If you ever go see Leslie in person, make sure you go to your local thrift store and get yourself a fab gem sweater. Remember how much you paid, because the tacky girl will ASK! Then look out, because you’ll be showered with praise and perhaps even more. You’ll just have to take our word for it. It’s a religious experience. Check out these HOT photos of us with Leslie Hall in Chicago. VOTE | RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE VIA iTUNES SUBSCRIBE VIA ODEO | SUBSCRIBE VIA YAHOO feastoffools [at] gmail [dot] com
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Creativity Podcast Series- #2 Amber Nussbaum
This podcast is the second in a series of podcasts with highly creative people. I am interested to see if there is anything to learn from creative people in terms of reforming education, especially as it relates to digital and media literacy. Amber Nussbaum is a  24 year old graphic designer for a Fortune 500 transportation company and my oldest daughter. She is without a doubt one of the most creative people I know. In this podcast she shares her own thoughts on creativity, her growth as a blogger (she has been at it for 8 years), and her memories about receiving her education as an unschooler. Here are Amber’s Show Notes:1. Amber introduces herself. 2. Examples of the creative projects and venues with which she finds herself involved. 3. Amber describes some of her home improvement projects and the magazines that have featured her work.4.She defines creativity: "Looking at what you enjoy most in life and putting that as an outward manifestation of yourself."5. Amber started blogging at 16. She didn’t know that was what it was called at the time. It started as a Web site where she would post her poetry and her ideas trying to find her voice. She had something to say and wanted a place to gather her thoughts. She wasn’t as concerned about audience when she got started as she was about documenting her thoughts.6. Next, she moved to Moveable Type, she has been using it since the first version became available. She began promoting local band’s shows and would post news, pics and blog about upcoming shows and after show performance reviews.That was when Amber’s site really started getting some real traffic. She wrote for BlogCritics.org for awhile, writing record reviews.But then when she switched Web hosts she lost a lot of her files and took her site down from frustration.7. Aug. 2004 she put her domain back up. She describes her blog as a mishmash of her life and creations. But rather than just blogging as a journal or diary, she uses her blog to document her life in photography and as a way to help others learn how to do the projects she has recently mastered herself.8. Amber averages about 1500 unique hits per day. (After this podcast recording Life Hacker featured an artsy home improvement project she did and she got 6000 hits in one day.)9.  Amber helps out artists who display their wares on Etsy.com, a site with all original pieces by independent artists. Typically, she will feature one item and it will sell in a few hours due the numbers of readers looking at what she posts. Amber says it is satisfying to feel she is helping the artist while giving the person who buys the object a beautiful piece of art and giving her readers something lovely to look at on her blog.10. Amber describes how her unconventional schooling experience helped her to become the self-directed, creative thinker she is today. She credits he way she was taught for her ability to think critically. People will say to her, "Oh you are a knitter… Where can I take a knitting class?" Amber  didn’t know how to respond as she never took a knitting class. She believes in using books, the Web, and folks in her network online to learn new things. Just like she use to do in her homeschool.11. Amber encourages us all to go after things yourself rather than depending on someone to teach you. She describes how the web provides community and how by reading "do it yourself" information found on other like-minded blogs, she has made real life friends. Some folks say that socializing on computers distances you from true human touch. But Amber argues that it is not so today with blogs and other social networking sites. She connects with others all the time who like the same things she does. No matter how obscure what you are into is– the web will help you find others who love it too.12. Amber shares how her early experiences online shaped her Internet use today. Only old people used Telenet and talked about it, no one her age. But she knew about it and connecting with others online in 1993 in our homeschool got her attention. She felt invested in the Internet as a communication medium.13. The creative process for Amber begins with being somewhere and seeing something wonderful and taking out her camera and capturing the moment and then coming back and blogging about it. Often her real life experiences will inspire her creations. In terms of her Web site, Amber fears that some might think it is "nerdy" but pretty much all the time she lives her life thinking this moment would be cool to post about. She likes sharing her experiences online.14. How can creativity improve education overall? Amber shares creative lessons she remembers from her middle school experience. "Giving a kid a camera is giving them power. The power to create." She recalls having to be "in character" all day as part of a book report project.15.Teachers might be intimidated by giving their students the amount of control over their learning she had in her educational experience.But Amber feels that being in charge of her learning helped her graduate in the top spot of her college class. Her education taught her to make decisions.16.Amber compares college "read a book and take a test" to the more organic way she learned in our home. She said when you are vested in the learning process, you want to learn.17. Amber describes the learning experience of going different places… being there and doing it.  "Retention is amazing when you are taught like that."18. She feels college should be more project-based. She describes an engaged, creative lesson done in one of her art history classes.19. The most incredible moment of the interview was when Amber called me a dynamic instructor who is passionate about what she is teaching. It was a defining moment for me, both as her teacher and her mother.20. A passionate teacher is "that teacher"- passion makes the difference!21. Forced learning doesn’t appeal to Amber at all, even in the world of work. If you feel vested then you are going to be 100% there in the process making it happen.22. Her theme is "If you feel you have a stake in what you are doing you are going to give it your all."23. Since she has an authentic audience via her blog she puts more into refining her writing. She feels this would work for students as well.  24. Problem/project- based learning requires more work from the teacher– but cool things will come out of it. Teachers will have to give more of themselves, but it will make the product more valuable. Being creative means taking risks.26. "How many of you remember stuff you did in the 6th grade? Well I do. Because I was a part of the learning. I was in charge."27.Give a kid responsibility and they will act responsible. Give them the opportunity to create. Listen to the interview in MP3 format
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RiotACT business profile # 2 - Bottles of Australia
[Tony Pemmer with bottle printer] Jazz and I ventured out to the wilds of Hume to talk to Tony Pemmer, the owner of Bottles of Australia about his operation out there. For those who want the word whole (rather than my own inadequate translation), the recording of the complete interview (with intriguing ambient sounds from the busy factory) is available (there’s lots of good stuff in there). Tony described his product as a mobile billboard delivered via plastic drink bottles. BoA employs 28 people designing the graphics to go on plastic drink bottles, the bottles themselves, and printing graphics onto bottles right here in Canberra. This is no small operation, they do runs of over 100,000 bottles for the likes of Puma, Asics, and Warner Brothers’ Movie World as well as batches as small as 50. If you’ve got a branded plastic drink bottle have a look on the bottom and chances are it bears the BoA mark. The business began with a $5,000 overdraft in 1989 out of a bicycle retail outlet, importing stickers from Hawaii. Eventually the drink bottles took over the business. Previously all plastic drink bottles were imported from abroad. The production line starts with impressive stacks of boxes containing blank bottles awaiting an order [Boxes of bottles] The bottles have to pass through gauntlets of flamethrowers which change the surface tension to be amenable to holding ink. They stay this way for a few days before returning to their natural state. [Flaming bottles] Organising the positioning of bottles is a key to keeping things efficient. [Bundles of bottles] The big machines automatically flame the bottles before aligning them and coating them with ultra-violet sensitive ink, a pass under a UV light then makes them ready for printing with a different colour. [Bottle printing machine] [Bottles being printed] Here’s a short video of the machinery in action: At the end they shoot out lickety split. [Bottles come off the line] For more than two colours they have a different machine which can give it the full monty: [multi colour bottle printing machine] At the far end of the factory a team of piece workers put lids on the bottles while they check for printing errors. BoA operates at a well-better-than-industry-standard defect rate of between 1 and 3 percent. [Putting tops on the bottles] Tony thinks location is not a major limitation in dealing with customers, being closer to Sydney just makes him further away from Melbourne. However a lack of experienced staff with manufacturing skills has stopped them getting more ambitious and building a plastic moulding plant. That work is outsourced to Sydney. It would be cheaper still to import from China (the materials alone cost more in Australia than a finished bottle from China shipped to your door) but the responsiveness of the Australian manufacturer in a rapidly evolving design environment offsets the overall costs. As it is staff for the printing operation have to be trained in house. Customers range from major corporations rounding out a sports fashion line and the likes of BHP down to schools and sports clubs. Drink bottles are commonly used in branding exercises and when people want a branded drink bottle there’s BoA, they also do a big line in exporting. When they started printing bottles in 1991 they took delivery of a printing machine and then started learning how to print. Tony made the point that printing a sports bottle is essentially no different to “container decorating” a shampoo bottle. Tony started in business in Batemans Bay running a sports and bike shop aged 19. Since then he and his wife Mary have built a series of businesses in what he describes as a “tag team” bouncing ideas off each other. He credits being open to new ideas as a key to the success he’s had. Interestingly when dealing with fashion brands they have to lock in the “hot new colours” 18 months before they’re unleashed on the consumer market as something new, fresh and spontaneous. Currently Tony and Mary have the business at a point where they’re toning down their day to day involvement. Tony is an advocate of trusting and empowering staff and is doing his very best to not be indispensable. “Working on the business but not in the business” is a mantra for him. He concedes that part of this is about making the business potentially sale ready. To avoid burnout he advocates all business owners treat their business as an investment rather than a lifestyle (or worse, a money pit or a job). For those looking to start new businesses Tony advocates borrowing more than you think you’ll need. The last thing any business would want is to end up six months down the line needing more money and no longer credit worthy. Staff recruitment mostly comes through referrals, often coming through the piece workers in the lidding area. A sign outside the factory often handles recruiting needs and in the last resort an ad in the Canberra Times gets results. The traits most sought after in staff is flexibility and a willingness to learn. In BoA’s early days marketing was through magazine ads in trade journals and sports mags. These days aggressive branding through packaging and delivery trucks is used as well as catalogue product placement and sponsorship of Tony’s beloved Canberra Capitals (Tully Bevilaqua was answering the phones on reception as we left). When we asked about local Government policy Tony expressed his horror at the demise of Business ACT in the last budget. He had found them to be very effective in supporting projects which had lead to more Canberrans being employed. Additionally they had effectively encouraged network effects between local businesses. The massive slash and burn has seen an end to that which Tony felt was to Canberra’s detriment. On the federal level he was thrilled with the Free Trade Agreements negotiated by the Howard Government which had opened up markets for BoA bottles. He wistfully wondered what life would be like under a flat tax system liberating business from the vagaries of the current tax system. Aside from bottles BoA has worked on developing bottle related accessories. Next time you watch a Brumbies game have a look at what the drink carriers carry the water out in. [Bottle carrier] The V8 bottle carrier was designed with help from the design faculty at the University of Canberra. Interestingly Tony was very keen on handling efficiencies. He makes a compelling argument that a lot of businesses fail to account for the cost of making staff move product around through inefficient storage and handling. We were impressed with the way stock at BoA moves smoothly from one end of the building to the end. Looking ahead he felt the biggest risk facing BoA was staffing. Finding good people and hanging on to them. In the current environment with the public service recruiting heavily for high wages it’s hard to find good people for junior roles. In terms of business philosophy Tony compares business to a trip to the casino. But encourages people to take a risk and not be too downhearted if the risk doesn’t always come off. Here’s Tony and his wife and partner Mary at the doors of the BoA building. [Tony and Mary outside BOA] * RiotACT receives no inducements or considerations to produce business profiles. In this case we approached BoA for the interview. If there’s a local business you’d like to know more about email business@the-riotact.com with their details and why you think they’re interesting. The feed for podcatching the audio of this and future Business Profiles (~30mins) is the-riotact.com/wp-rss2.php?cat=46
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FOF #418 - Reality as a Form of Perspective - 10.30.06
How would you deal with the sudden and random death of your lover? In 1995 I had moved to Chicago to go to graduate school and knew almost no-one. One of my close friends at school, William Gaudiani was a beautiful, intelligent, funny, young man with a new future in graphic design. We had always made plans to meet his boyfriend Jeff Stahl but school and work got in the way and decided to have dinner together after the winter break. When I got back from Puerto Rico that January, I called William to see how his holidays were, when his partner Jeff picked up the phone and told me that William had died in a car accident on his way home from Indiana- his car slipped on a patch of ice, tumbled and he died on the spot. At first I thought this was some sort of odd joke William was playing on me, but after an hour on the phone I realized it was no joke. And I was floored. I wasn’t ready for William to be out of my life, and made it a point to get to know his surviving partner Jeff. We became close friends in the memory of my friend and his lover William. Eleven years later, many things have changed. Jeff now works as a therapist helping others deal with all sorts of issues, including sudden loss. Listen to today’s walk through memory lane as we talk with my partner Marc Felion about kissing and passion, growing up poor on Chicago’s South Side, coping with death, caramel apples and reality as a form of perspective. Like a candy apple: delicious, sweet and nutty- its the Feast of Fools. Featured Music: Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby| Site RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE VIA iTUNES SUBSCRIBE VIA: ODEO | YAHOO | PODZINGER | BLUBRRY CONTACT US DIRECTLY
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Audiocast: Digital Storytelling with Joe Lambert
  Like many other folks, I’m fascinated by the prospect of digital storytelling to restore "voice" to classroom activities. So often, schools are caught up in testing, and a focus on activities that do not engage us personally, as human beings. Digital storytelling, like blogs and podcasts, enable children and teachers to develop creativity. That’s important in a world that increasingly requires us to be more creative. Although I have had the opportunity to work on digital storytelling a la oral composition approach, I have to confess that I am a product of traditional schooling. As such, I’m text dominant and oral composition isn’t something I’m entirely comfortable with, although our children certainly benefit from the oral composition approach. In attending Lambert’s workshop, I hoped to explore the world that David Jakes had introduced me to via his web site and blog. On Monday, March 19th, three of my team and I took the short trip from San Antonio to Austin, Tx to attend Joe Lambert’s (pictured above) Digital Storytelling Workshop. The 3-day workshop was facilitated by Joe Lambert and Stefani Sese (profile shot below). I truly enjoyed the first day of the workshop because of its focus on the seven elements of digital storytelling. I’m grateful to Joe for allowing me to share the interview and audiocast of the Digital Storytelling workshop (Day 1 only…Days 2 & 3 were more about short minilessons and working through the creation of your digital story). Day 1 was particularly fun because of the StoryCircle. We pretty much started out the day in StoryCircle, sitting in a circle and going around the room to introduce ourselves, then share what our story was. Over the last few months, I’ve been meditating on how to do a quick homage to my Dad, and Garbed in Silver is an adaptation of a story I wrote 17 years ago. What was shared during the StoryCircle was the best. The rest of the session included short mini-lessons on Adobe Photoshop Elements and Final Cut Pro Express. With my focus on no/low cost software, I had only worked on Adobe Photoshop and Fireworks in the past. Since I’ve never been interested at all by art, graphic design, or anything like that, I prefer to work with single-use image editing tools…and if I have to use something, THE GIMP is what I use (even on my Macbook). Final Cut Pro Express, though, was a joy to work with. I was impressed at how easy it was and how much control it provided. Once you’ve worked with Final Cut Pro Express, it’s hard to imagine using PhotoShop or Moviemaker (that crashes every 10 minutes)…but that’s what our schools have, and not everyone is using Mac OS X. A Conversation with Joe Lambert, Director/Founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling Audio Recording of Day 1 of the Digital Storytelling Workshop - Not yet available AudioCast Links: Center for Digital Storytelling Miguel’s Digital Storytelling Resources Digital Storytelling Cookbook Contact information for the Center for Digital Storytelling: 1803 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Berkeley, CA 94709 USA www.storycenter.org 510-548-2065 phone 510-548-1345 fax DigiTales.us Helen Barrett on Digital Storytelling as ePortfolios Sound clips in the audiocast come from Free Royalty-Free clips available online at PlayItFree.com Digital Stories (in Quicktime Movie format): Family Time - Christina Morrow (2.2 megs) Garbed in Silver - Miguel Guhlin (21.5 megs) Alaska - Larry Stegall (13.7 megs) My Island - Greg Rodriguez (15.4 megs) Photos:  (Left to Right: Stefanie Sese (Facilitator) and Susanna)  (Left to Right: Christina Morrow and Joe Lambert) Prior to the workshop, an email went out announcing what would be done, goals and objectives. Here’s a copy…I really appreciated this step! In 1993, CDS¹s founders developed a unique workshop environment that assists people in creating video stories from their family photos and home video. It is based on a philosophy of emphasizing fundamental elements of good storymaking combined with a demystification of multimedia technology and tools.We have helped over 10,000 people to mine powerful and effective tales from the pictures of their lives, or the lives of their loved ones. The stories have covered every conceivable topic: tales of survival and achievement; corporate brand stories, travel adventures; love stories, health and healing; oral histories about cultures, historic periods, and work experiences; and memorials to loved ones.The class is a great introduction for the multimedia novice or the professional to working with digital imaging and digital video softwares. The workshops include hands-on instruction to Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Express and script/storyboard development. The CDS teaching staff will give each student specific assistance on their projects, including design, scripting, and other issues regarding the specific use of their digital story.Students will complete a 3 minute piece which will be output to disk and mailed following the workshop. ————— COURSE OBJECTIVES 1. To provide students with an introduction to the tools of desktop video in a production context.2. To introduce storytelling methodology (point of view, emotional content, dramatic action) into a dialogue about new media content.3. Assist students in completing a project. ————— ROUGH TIMETABLE OF WORKSHOP DAY ONE Introduction Presentation of 7 Elements and Digital Stories to introduce digital storytelling and analyze story elements in prior student work. Story Circle to discuss students own project plans in group setting. Lunch Adobe Photoshop Elements Hands-on Tutorial Preparation and Digitization of Individual Materials including scriptwriting and revision, image selection and storyboarding, scanning and image preparation in Photoshop on student workstations. DAY TWO Adobe Premiere Pro Hands-on Tutorial Final Individual Script Review Record Voice-overs Assemble rough edit in Adobe Premiere Pro DAY THREE Complete Rough Edit in Adobe Premiere Pro Select and add Soundtrack audio Select and add special effects in Adobe Premiere Pro including image pan and zoom, motion, superimpositions, transparency and titles. Complete Final Edit Export Draft of final version of digital story for workshop presentation. ————— PRE-WORKSHOP PREPARATION To get the most of out the workshop we recommend preparing the following materials: an idea for a story you want to tell, a script, images, video and music.It is best if you come with a rough draft of a script. Since we are working on pieces that will be 2-3 minutes long, bring a script that is about 1.5 pages, double spaced or 250 words.Also bring photographs, art work, letters and items for your story. Images can be scanned ahead of time or during the workshop. Around 20 images is a good number. If you can scan them ahead of time we recommend scanning at about 300 dpi and bringing them on a CD if possible, or flash card.If you are planning on using video make sure you have previewed your tapes prior to the class and made notes about which 5-15 second clips you will want to capture. Video uses a lot of memory and can be time consuming to work with so we will use video efficiently and in small clips. If you are using a video format other than VHS or Mini-DV please bring along your camera for use in capturing your video clips to the computer.For background music you can bring music on CD. Choose a couple of possibilities and then you can choose the option that works best. We will also have copyright free music and software available at the workshop if you would like to use that, or you may find songs available on-line for purchase.Our web site has a copy of the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, the manual we have created to accompany the class. You will find the first sections helpful to read prior to the class. There is a PDF version of the front sections of the cookbook at www.storycenter.org/cookbook.You can also find helpful resources in the new text: Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community by Joe Lambert which is available for purchase on-line at: www.storycenter.org/book.
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Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond
Introducing Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond, a fascinating non-profit group in the Chicagoland area that we’ve recently come across. The mission of this organization is to… …celebrate and promote 20th century modern architecture and design. Founding members encompass a diverse group of collectors, dealers, architects, designers, curators and enthusiasts. The group formed in response to the need for a forum in which to gather information and communicate about architecture and design from the vastly creative 20th century modernist era, roughly 1930s-1970s. Beginning with the migration of the famed German Bauhaus school to Chicago, first as the New Bauhaus and later as the Institute of Design, and continuing through the evolution of modernism in the prolific post-WWII era and beyond, the group will host social events, educational seminars and tours relating to modern aesthetics and design concepts, product design, graphic design, arts, crafts and architecture. Some exciting things the group offers are tours, seminars, modernism shows and exhibitions. In fact, on September 17th, 2006 there is a splendid looking tour of homes by Edward Humrich in the northern suburb of Riverwoods. Humrich is described as a prairie modernist architect and you know we like the sound of that! Tickets are $35 for CBB members and you can view the details here. If you want to become a member of CBB, please sign up here! Also of note, the founders of Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond were featured on ABC TV news, Channel 7 in Chicago. They discuss preservation of modern masterpieces and the founding of the group. Check it out here. Image and text courtesy of Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond
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HOW to Reminisce
Looking back at the 2007 HOW conference it really was an eye opening event. First and foremost I was in awe with all the talented graphic designers around me. It was nice to become a part of the herd. That being said, I’m using this format to invite Hillman Curtis to participate in a podcast with me about his presentation which was canceled due to weather. That was the main reason why I went to the conference, but I didn’t let that get me down. I loved to listen how these top professionals thought about the design process. I can not pick up a brush and paint well or even draw well but design goes so much deeper than knowing how to draw. It is about shapes and text and space and lines and color and understanding how to use everything to represent a product or a message. HOW provided us with a resource center that allowed us to grab for free samples of different types of paper, stock imagery, software, web applications, design schools, magazines, t-shirts, printing needs and of course free door prizes. It was great. But where was Apple and the software team? I’m sure a good number of people are professional photographers not to mention one filmmaker. You let Adobe display their software and wow the attendees. No worries, I got your back…for now. Another thing I felt that was lacking were representatives from online resources such as: flickr photobucket CafePress lulu youtube facebook linkedin The one thing I love about conferences are meeting like minded people. I believe Bethany and I gained a new respect for each other and a new friendship emerged between co-workers…which helps company morale. My brother gave me a ring and told me that Tina Roth Eisenberg, a friend of his was attending the conference and we should meet up. We met up at the closing reception at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Tina it was a pleasure sitting down with you and talking. He was dead on. Your work is amazing. The Closing Reception: Celebrate your love of type at the 2007 Descenders Ball. This year, the annual end-of-the-Conference bash takes its theme from one of the most important aspects of design: type. But you don’t have to be a typographer to participate find any old t-shirt with writing on it, and you’ve got a costume (but we’re guessing you can do better than that). Then join your fellow type-lovers at the Georgia Aquarium the world’s largest for drinks, dancing and live music. Online Videos by Veoh.com What an amazing closing of the conference. A band in the middle of the biggest aquarium in the US. We had access to all the exhibits all night, well until about 11:15…but fun none-the-less.
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More cha cha changes!
Song Playing: Incubus - Nice To Know You Dallas was a great trip! I got to see some family, have a bunch of laughs and watch some good footie action (futbol). Unfortunately, De Rosario was injured within 30 min of the match and was helped off the pitch! DeRo sprained his ankle, and his status will be evaluated for the next game May 20th against Chicago. That is not good for the Dynamo, especially with new forwards on our line and Brian Ching (leagues leading scorer) playing with our USA National Squad at the FIFA World Cup in Germany. Our forwards really need some time to synchronize or at least get to know each other s movements while Ching is out and De Rosario (our strongest midfielders) is not part of the equation. I don’t think we are going to have a smooth ride these next few weeks. It’s going to take a lot on the part of our players to get things together in such a short period of time. Regardless, the Dynamo can count on my bro and I being there to support our club! So it’s Monday and I have already begun to review some new photoblogs for my needs. I really want to provide a great overall experience on my site that will of course deal with more images and projects. I do have 3 weeks until school begins and during that time I shall unveil a new site that I will build upon. The changes will begin at any given time, so please be patient and forgive the mess.
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