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Rain Check
TGIF, y’all. I’m working with some real spotty internet at the moment and am having trouble posting, so I’m calling in a rain check on this rainy day. Back tomorrow.
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Hope your day is everything you need it to be!
Music To Your Ears: Lavender Safari
( Museum of Modern Art – Selina Chau, Dancers Among Us series by Jordan Matter)
Picturesque
To begin each week we put together a round of pictures from you, to check out (and share) what you’ve been up to. Thank you to everyone who sent in photos this week! Enjoy.
Kristin – Washington D.C.
At the Redskins – Bengals game.
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Tricia:
Rocco, day 2 of 2nd grade.
Janice on her new bike in Albany, NY
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Richard – Columbus, Ohio
Obama Rally
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Dave – Boulder, Colorado
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Ddeani – Ohio
Fall light
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We’d love to share a picture from you. Email your photo to Lauren (@) sisterdisco.com
Sundays
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The Feeling in Your Heart
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As I told you a little bit on Saturday, I have been digesting a lot of the thoughts and ideas that were presented at the Hay House event I went to the weekend before last. One of the presentations that keeps playing in my mind was the talk by New York Times best-selling author, Gregg Braden, about his book Deep Truth. He discussed the disproved scientific facts that are still being taught in our public schools, such as humans having been found not to have evolved from Neanderthals, and history of man going back thousands of years before what we learned as children. It’s a lot to think about.
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Homie of the Day: Dr. Loni
I was recently at an event with other Airbnb hosts from the New York City community and had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Loni. In addition to hosting travelers in her home in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Dr. Loni has begun holding a monthly fish fry in her back yard. She came up with the idea after a number of her guests expressed an interest in having more authentic, in-home experiences while visiting New York City. Though the fish fry events are mainly set up for travelers, they are open to anyone looking to make real, community-building connections.
I immediately loved the spirit behind Dr. Loni’s concept and, though I was out of town and unable to attend myself, I asked Dr. Loni if she would give us a recap of the inaugural Fish Fry. It seems that karma had a good amount to do with the success of the evening, which we so enjoyed reading about! Thanks, Dr. Loni, for sharing it with us!
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Adventures of Karma!!!
Well Karma was out and about last weekend and boy did she have a blast at the first FISH FRY FRIDAY at Dr. Loni’s Place. Dr. Loni told folks that the party was actually all because of her and that just tickled her pink!
Although the fish and chips received some really good reviews, demonstrated by empty plates, the best part was the amazing folks that showed up. Karma pulled in childhood friends, family, folks she met on the bus, coders, artists, other Airbnb hosts, inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs – all who were happy to sit in the garden and bounce the positive vibe back and forth.
The next event is Friday, October 5th – rain or shine – and Karma will be there with bells on.
Take Five
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A little run down of five things I’m feeling pretty into at the moment:
1. This necklace. I enjoy looking at it. Maybe at some point I’ll also enjoy wearing it.
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2. This Newspaper Blackout Horoscope. Every month Austin Kleon does these blackout horoscopes. They’re so fun to read. This is mine for September. Read yours here.
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3. This book.
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4. This thank you note. Leah Dieterich writes a thank you letter a day. This one cracks me up because I relate to it so well.
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5. This song. Really loud!
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Homie of the Day: Geoff Feinberg
Late last week Dummy Magazine premiered this fabulous music video by our good friend Geoff Feinberg for Monster Rally’s Forager/Jungle Nights. We are especially excited about this collaboration as it showcases incredibly sharp and intriguing footage that Geoff captured of the New York arm wrestling world (who even knew there was one?!) set to the sounds of two songs off our little brother’s latest LP Beyond the Sea.
Monster Rally – Forager/Jungle Nights from weathered features on Vimeo.
Geoff tells Dummy Mag, “This video came about almost coincidentally – I have been making a documentary (which I’m editing now) on a guy who happens to be a part of the whole arm wrestling scene over here in NYC, which has a small but loyal following. This guy hosts a weekly arm wrestling practice in the basement of his place in Queens, which he has been been doing for the past 15 years, so its a bit of an institution. There’s an open door policy, anybody from old timers to newbies show up and there are a lot of characters that end up coming through – great faces! While the doc I had been making is not really about arm wrestling, it plays a part. So, I had been filming a bunch of these practices and getting a load of footage, way more than I needed, but I couldn’t stop myself. It seemed pretty ripe for a music video (I really like documentary music videos and have had it in the back of my mind to do one for a while now).”
The latter part of the music video features the female champion of the Empire State Golden Arm Tournament, Joyce Boone. Geoff goes on to say he, “liked the idea of doing a slightly more gritty music video, using heavier tracks [off Beyond the Sea]. I thought it would make a nice contrast – luckily Ted [Monster Rally] was totally open to this…I wanted everything to start off being super masculine and then subvert this towards at the end of the video where we see the women step up and have these intense arm wrestle battles.”
We love it! Read the complete interview with Geoff here.
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