Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
THE ARENA: EP 1 - MORRIS vs KID DAVID [DS2DIO]
Crazy Legs from the world famous, Rock Steady Crew, just posted this up on Facebook. I heard about a little competition like this, but didn't know it was going to be a little YouTube mini series. Pretty interesting. I'm not really big on mainstream competitions i.e. So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) or America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC), so I'm a little bit hesitant. I think the purpose of this show is really to provide the mainstream audience of what the dance is about. I mean, there were B-Boys on both SYTYCD and ABDC, but I think the fact all three of the judges are b-boys and b-girls that gives it a lot more credibility. SYTYCD is a PRIME example...none of the judges have danced in a cypher. Probably never seen a real b-boy battle in their life, so how can they even have an inkling of judging a cat when they don't even meet the criteria themselves?
I honestly don't think this will hurt the dance. In fact, it will show a different side. There are different competitions out there that I truly like such as the Octagon which forces you to be really sharp inside of a 5 foot octagon. You have to not repeat...you have to work your way in and out of the octagon. You have to make sure that you don't step on the boundaries or else you are disqualified. This is a bit more on the time and skill difference. Whatever you are lacking, it will clearly show. You have to keep your moves concise and really show how sharp you are in the amount of time. I kind of dig that. Anyway, enough of my rambling. The judges are Crazy Legs, Asia One, and Abstrak. The contestants are Kid David, Morris, Kid Glyde, El Nino, Gravity, Floor Phantom, Spee-D, and Keebz. If you are a b-boy, you can tell this is a well rounded competition. Enjoy the footage. More to come in the future!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Google comes out with iPad killer?
While the iPad
may be sweeping the news, it isn't the only hot topic in the techie universe, as Google
may now be developing a tablet solution of their own. Google tablet chatter started this week when the company's development staff posted concept hardware and user interface renders of a tablet device running their Chrome operating system. The images were posted to Chromium.org, Google's official development page for the Chrome platform, and quickly caught the eye of tablet-hungry technophiles.
The post is riddled with choice words and phrases lik "concept UI," "subject to change," and how the device "might look," which also came paired with the rumor igniting phrase "under development." Those two magical words have our brains pondering the possibilities, but beyond our flights of fantasy, here is what Google's official tablet experiments have entailed.
According to the post, the Chromium team is testing a touchscreen user interface that includes these key points:
Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
Zooming UI for multiple tabs
Tabs presented along the side of the screen
Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher
Check out Google's tablet concept video.
For those unfamiliar with Chrome OS, it is Google's new web-centric mobile platform for laptops and netbooks. Chrome OS is unique in that unlike Windows or Mac operating systems, it is designed specifically for web applications, reducing the emphasis on localized software and replacing it with cloud-based programs. In other words, Chrome accesses programs and user data that reside on a web server, alleviating strains on internal processors and making accessing said information on a wider breadth of devices.
may be sweeping the news, it isn't the only hot topic in the techie universe, as Google may now be developing a tablet solution of their own. Google tablet chatter started this week when the company's development staff posted concept hardware and user interface renders of a tablet device running their Chrome operating system. The images were posted to Chromium.org, Google's official development page for the Chrome platform, and quickly caught the eye of tablet-hungry technophiles. The post is riddled with choice words and phrases lik "concept UI," "subject to change," and how the device "might look," which also came paired with the rumor igniting phrase "under development." Those two magical words have our brains pondering the possibilities, but beyond our flights of fantasy, here is what Google's official tablet experiments have entailed.
According to the post, the Chromium team is testing a touchscreen user interface that includes these key points:
Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus.
Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites.
Contextual actions triggered via dwell.
Zooming UI for multiple tabs
Tabs presented along the side of the screen
Creating multiple browsers on screen using a launcher
Check out Google's tablet concept video.
For those unfamiliar with Chrome OS, it is Google's new web-centric mobile platform for laptops and netbooks. Chrome OS is unique in that unlike Windows or Mac operating systems, it is designed specifically for web applications, reducing the emphasis on localized software and replacing it with cloud-based programs. In other words, Chrome accesses programs and user data that reside on a web server, alleviating strains on internal processors and making accessing said information on a wider breadth of devices.
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