advocacy & dance

Whenever I see something inspiring, I try to share it. (I know - by that statement, you must think I'm not inspired very often because I don't blog very often, but the key word here is 'try'!)

Invisible Children, who I rave about constantly, just 'got it goin' on' in the presentation department. It's pretty neat to see that a good friend of one of their founders has a dance movement that's partnering with IC. Pretty incredible stuff. Here's a promo vid of theirs:


And here's the website for LXD (Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) with crazy dance battles that will blow your mind! thelxd.com

Synchrony

There's a tendency in nature for things to fall into the same rhythm.

Schools of fish and flocks of birds turning on a dime without a leader. Two pendulum clocks set near each other begin falling into identical swings.

This is called synchrony, and perhaps the most fascinating example of it is the newly discovered instances of thousands of fireflies flashing their lights in nearly perfect unison (within a tenth of a second) in the Smoky Mountains in eastern Tennessee. This phenomenon has never before been documented in the Western Hemisphere; it has previously been observed only in Southeast Asia.

Check out an article here. Captivating!

Invisible Children + La Blogotheque

When I see something inspiring, I have to share it. Maybe it's 'cause my heart's already been opened and tender to the struggle in Africa that Invisible Children has brought to light, or maybe it's just that they're THAT good at presenting it, each and every time.