By Rhiannon Vivian Earlier this week I learned four verses of a song I’d never attempted to get to grips with before. I got it around 60% right on the night. And the rest was improvised. Ask me what the lay out of my family home between the ages of 0-4 years old and I...
I recently read a news story about a young man called Vladimir Umanets who is currently under investigation from Scotland Yard for defacing a mark Rothko painting in the Tate Modern (Rothko’s last piece at auction went for a cool £53.8million – ouch). Umanets, who compares himself to other conceptual artists like Marcel Duchamp, had...
This is my first appearance on the Maydays blog roll. I arrive as a man who was once known as the Hip-hop Encyclopedia. My occasionally impressive trivia knowledge, sat at the back of my brain, sometimes bursts forth to take the form of externalised rap verbiage, straight outta my face. I think the Maydays accepted...
by Jason Blackwater 10/7/2012 Teatro Lunar Another brilliant day (I would probab ly just assume that I’m having a brilliant time unless otherwise stated from here on out). Marla is a great teacher and I’m learning a lot already. Tag-outs, for example, which were something that I was pretty comfortable with have taken on a lot more...
by Jason Blackwater 9/7/2012 iO Chicago Wherein Jason gets home and writes his blog about being away. Before I start, I would like to reiterate my clarification that there is no substitute for direct learning. Learning from a teacher, in a room, with other students is the ultimate in learning anything. Be it improv, music,...
by Jason BlackwaterN.B – Wifi and computer time are hard to come by in Chicago so I’m going to attempt to catch you up on as much of the last 2 and a half weeks as I can. starting with… 7/7/12 Tasty’s, Astoria, New York It wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t return to Tasty’s to...
5/7/12 Astoria, New York”Where’s good for pancakes? I feel like I should have pancakes” In an effort to catch up and not consistently be a day behind I’m doing another blog. Yes, they’re coming pretty fast at the moment but I spent 6 hours on the most whistlestop of whistlestop tours of manhattan yesterday and...
by Jason Blackwater4/7/12 New York CityOK. I’ve not spoken about Chicago much and that’s mainly because I’m not there yet. I will be there. But I’m not yet. I’m going to be there on Sunday. So now we’ve got that cleared up. I know a guy who lives in New York. A Greek/Brit who I went...
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