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May 24, 2011
In a tree in the Green-Wood Cemetery across from my balcony is a Robin's nest I have been binocularing in on and today I saw three little beaks open above the lip of the nest to be fed from mom. It was beautiful. It is hard to believe its been a month since I last wrote here, but it has been a month full of good entertainment. We saw some great Theatre (Blackwatch, Under Construction, Warhorse, Sister Act and seeing Sleep No More tonight), have experienced some great outdoor Brooklyn events (Fifth Ave Street Fair and Food Truck Rally), started…

Vimeo App

April 19, 2011
I am extremely excited to be a part of the Vimeo app for iPhone! It is an editing and posting station ON YOUR PHONE! It has many features that integrate it into the already great Vimeo community for more possibilities and uses. In addition to video-editing capabilities, it features a small library of music to enhance your creations and includes a Supergood track. I am honored to be involved with this wonderful technological evolution and hope to push it forward in the future. The most important aspect of the personal computer revolution is that better and more efficient tools for…

When Outside Becomes Lovely

April 19, 2011
Shelter in Winter is essential, but around this time I yearn to shed it! Windows and doors fly open and I soak in the natural warmth. Preparing to spend time outdoors in the cold is taxing, requiring layers of mental and physical reinforcements, but as the temperature rises our need to be bundled falls and our focus shifts from maintaining maximum core heat with efficient insulation to bathing in solar omnipotence. I have made recent excursions to The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and The Green-Wood Cemetery to enjoy the beautiful displays of plant regeneration that occurs after their own period of…

SoCal

March 31, 2011
When the schedule opens up, I feel compelled to take advantage and did so with five days in Southern California. I chose that area for friends and saw many amazing people with whom I have long-distance relationships. Some friends I see weekly, others monthly and ones with large swaths of land between us tend to be multi-yearly. Even with email and telephones, a good face-to-face needs to happen occasionally. And it did last week; thank you to everyone there who took care of me! I originally planned this trip and thought about the beach, but when a monster storm dumped…

Peter and The Starcatcher

March 23, 2011
This is amazingly fun theater. It is creative and celebrates imagination in so many ways, appealing to all ages and is a play in the best, most playful, sense of the word. The story is a prequel to Peter Pan with an absurdly hilarious cast of misfits sailing the high seas using spartan props to create elaborate scenes with Gondry-style guerrilla effects. The wordplay is fast and clever, slipping in something for everyone, young or old or high or low. Nobody is excluded in this world. I love working with kids because they are so creative and always flowing with…

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

March 18, 2011
Their music sounds like nothing else; eminating soundwaves create an aural sea of vibrations for mental flotation... It is grand and glacial, creeping along while building and releasing intensity in epic breaths that last night's venue could not have suited any better. St. John's Church on 60th and Columbus is one of those truly impressive spectacles you would go visit on a trip to Europe, but seeing as I never go to church in my own country except for the occasional wedding, I would not typically find myself in such a space; quite a shame for its extraordinary beauty. Luckily,…

The Prospect Park West Bike Lane

March 12, 2011
When NYC DOT installed this bike lane in June 2010 I was overjoyed. It made my daily commute much safer, more enjoyable and it sent a message that biking was encouraged in this city where it is so necessary to reduce traffic and pollution. To make this lane, the high-speed, three-lane (plus two parking lane) superhighway known as Prospect Park West was reduced to two driving lanes with a row of parked cars acting as a barrier between bikes and cars. Sure, it was brilliant and improved safety while encouraging healthier lifestyles but this is Park Slope, Brooklyn, one of…

SoundCloud

March 10, 2011
Last week I made some music. I was going to upload it here, but then I realized that SoundCloud is a much better host than whatever random Wordpress widget I have installed. Check it out and Follow me! Supergood on SoundCloud I am liking SoundCloud quite a bit. It seems like a community of musicians interested in creating and sharing music with instant and free worldwide distribution. It is the future of music. While I heralded Napster as the best thing to happen to music and support free music, it has become obvious that many artists disagree with me. They…

The Last Lions

March 8, 2011
Real drama is always more interesting to me than scripted drama, and documentaries are the most likely to blow my mind in a movie theater.  When I stepped into The Anjelika to see National Geographic's The Last Lions, I experienced some of the most intense fear, relief, heartache and joy I have ever felt in a dark box with flashing lights. This drama unfolds in Botswana and follows a tiger family going through a period of extreme trauma and the stark choices they must make for survival. There is a script to this movie as well, narrated by Jeremy Irons,…

Magic Mountain

March 2, 2011
I did a lot of skiing over the past week, in Maine and Vermont, and while the conditions varied considerably from the first day (icy and wind holds on most lifts) to the last day (almost two feet of powder), I always have fun playing on a mountain. That last day, however, also involved one of my best discoveries of all time: Magic Mountain. This place was around back when I first started learning the sport, though I never went, then closed in 1991.  I never heard another word about it until last weekend, when I was informed that it…