Savion Glover: The Art Form of Tap and Jazz | iRock Jazz

 
Savion Glover honors the art form of tap. This dancer, choreographer, and teacher has had the highest regard for the dancers that have paved the way for him and many other tap dancers. In addition, Glover has had the privilege to work with many great Jazz musicians. Glover’s Broadway debut was Tap Dance Kid in 1984. Glover, who is a native of New Jersey, has a remarkable career, which also includes the Broadway production Jelly’s Last Jam, where he worked with Gregory Hines. He won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk. Glover has numerous film, television, and stage appearances. He is currently on tour with Savion Glover’s STePZ. Savion Glover gave iRock Jazz an exclusive interview outlining his career and school.

Savion Glover: The Art Form of Tap and Jazz | iRock Jazz

mama i'm cooooooold!!! -- AGAIN!!

mama i'm cooooooold!!!

Once again our beautiful boy was selected to be in Parents.com Weekly Winners photo competition!! We were OVERWHELMED by your voting response last week which placed him at #31 out of more than 4,100 photos in the competion! This week we were even more astounded to see your votes bump him from #1396 to #96 OVERNIGHT!!! WHEW!

Today he's at #59 with four days left to vote, so please take a second (it only takes a second) to click on the photo and give him a vote (or four!) everyday and in every way. Vote from you laptop, your desktop, your phone and do it all over again from a friend's devices LOL!! Let's see if we can get our boy to NUMBER ONE and in the running for the $25,000 grand prize.

Thanks you profoundly for all your loving support, and babyluv thanks you too! :D

ORNG Ink presents Inkalicious

being new to the Orange NJ area we haven't had a chance to check out the local arts & festival scene, but today babyluv and I had the chance to swing pass ORNG Ink, a studio for emerging young artists presenting Inkalicious in the IronWorks in the Orange Valley Arts District.

they're having a small but pretty awesome festival with graphic artists, skateboard competitions, free tshirt silk screening workshops, musical performances and more! it's geared towards teens but there were folks of all ages enjoying good music, good art, good (free) food and a very good time!





there's art and clothes for sale too at great prices. for our first arts festival outing in Orange we picked a fabulous one!

excerpt from local rap artist Dizz's performance!

check out the rad things ORNG Ink is doing!!

as he sees himself

babyluv has taken a liking to cameras! not just having his photo taken (a lot) but he loves taking pictures! he has as awesome v-tech camera and a camera on his hand-me-down iPhone, plus guarded access to our iPhones and nicer cameras. initially he just liked to see the flash but now he's begun pointing at specific objects or people and taking real photos!

most fun, to me at least, is his growing collection of self portraits. he especially loves taking his own photos on my iPhone 4 using any of the photo apps. his favorites are IncrediBooth which has 4 different lens effects and takes a strip of photos like in a photobooth, and Instagram which let's you take photos and easily apply effects like aging or black & white.

so I'm encouraging his newfound hobby and putting together
a collection that he can admire. since the only thing he likes more than taking photos of himself is looking at photos of himself!

'as he sees himself' photoset

Jill Scott Spends a Fabuous Hour with Mo'Nique

jill scott always brings me joy to the tippy top of my soul!! i would love to just give her a splendid hug one day and tell her THANK YOU for being 'the magnificent'!

jill visited 'the Mo'Nique Show' and for the full hour they had a wonderful time and BET gets major credit for posting the whole episode!! sit back, get ready for lovely words and sound and enjoy!

story of the world

i take no credit for this totally awesome GIF, but enjoy!

(see original image HERE! )

Timothy Bloom - 'Til The End Of Time ft. V. Bozeman

this is beautiful in every possible way a music video and piece of art can be beautiful.

there is some artistic nudity so it's NSFW, but i'm completely in love with this video.

Dr. Charles W. Simmons is creating Black History today

Dr. Charles W. Simmons is President and founder of Sojourner-Douglass College, the only private, predominantly African American, degree granting college in the State of Maryland with six Maryland campuses and one in Nassau, Bahamas. Dr. Simmons is Black History in the making and he happens to be my dad.

Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

The future of green is local -- and entrepreneurial. At TEDxMidwest, Majora Carter brings us the stories of three people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet. Call it "hometown security."