Dance.. Workshop.. Talk Show.. @American

 Off dahook tells ya!, merupakan rangkaian talk show dan workshop bagi kalangan penari ibu kota yang ingin menambahpengetahuan dan pengalaman tentang HipHop Culture. Di adakan pada tanggal 28 Juli 2011 lalu bertempat di@America, Pacific Place, Jakarta, acara ini dihadiri penari professional EddieMorales dan Candace Brown yang dulu pernah menjadi penari Janet Jackson. Vedari Interlude juga menyubangkan pengalamannya dalam talk show ini sedangkan Morales dan Brown ikut menyemarakan acaradengan tampil bersama murid workshopdance-nya. Sunguh inspiratif talkshow dan workshop untuk kalanganpenari di Indonesia.

 Photo by MRR

Woot New additions to dictionary reflect today's culture

(CNN) -- Don't be a denialist. Instead put on your jeggings (breathe in) or mankini (be careful) and retweet this article.
After all, it's hip to be in the know on the 400 new words and phrases in the 12th edition of Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the abridged version of the Oxford English Dictionary. The smaller dictionary is meant to "cover the language of its own time."
Beware: Not all words are built to last, wrote dictionary editor Angus Stevenson in a blog posting last week.
"Sadly, the new edition has no room for tremendous words like brabble 'paltry noisy quarrel' and growlery 'place to growl in, private room, den' -- what we might call a man cave these days," Stevenson wrote on a blog.
Some of the new words:
-- cyberbullying: n. the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
-- denialist: n. a person who refuses to admit the truth of a concept or proposition that is supported by the majority of scientific or historical evidence.
-- jeggings: pl. n. tight-fitting stretch trousers for women, styled to resemble a pair of denim jeans.
-- mankini: n. (pl. mankinis) a brief one-piece bathing garment for men, with a T-back.
-- retweet: v. (on the social networking service Twitter) repost or forward (a message posted by another user). n. a reposted or forwarded message on Twitter.
-- sexting: n. informal the sending of sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone.
-- woot: exclam. informal (especially in electronic communication) used to express elation, enthusiasm, or triumph.
The dictionary also adds new definitions of familiar words.

Thought a cougar was just an ornery old cat you might encounter in the American West? By now you know a cougar also is "an older woman seeking a sexual relationship with a younger man."

Woot New additions to dictionary reflect today's culture

(CNN) -- Don't be a denialist. Instead put on your jeggings (breathe in) or mankini (be careful) and retweet this article.
After all, it's hip to be in the know on the 400 new words and phrases in the 12th edition of Concise Oxford English Dictionary, the abridged version of the Oxford English Dictionary. The smaller dictionary is meant to "cover the language of its own time."
Beware: Not all words are built to last, wrote dictionary editor Angus Stevenson in a blog posting last week.
"Sadly, the new edition has no room for tremendous words like brabble 'paltry noisy quarrel' and growlery 'place to growl in, private room, den' -- what we might call a man cave these days," Stevenson wrote on a blog.
Some of the new words:
-- cyberbullying: n. the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
-- denialist: n. a person who refuses to admit the truth of a concept or proposition that is supported by the majority of scientific or historical evidence.
-- jeggings: pl. n. tight-fitting stretch trousers for women, styled to resemble a pair of denim jeans.
-- mankini: n. (pl. mankinis) a brief one-piece bathing garment for men, with a T-back.
-- retweet: v. (on the social networking service Twitter) repost or forward (a message posted by another user). n. a reposted or forwarded message on Twitter.
-- sexting: n. informal the sending of sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone.
-- woot: exclam. informal (especially in electronic communication) used to express elation, enthusiasm, or triumph.
The dictionary also adds new definitions of familiar words.

Thought a cougar was just an ornery old cat you might encounter in the American West? By now you know a cougar also is "an older woman seeking a sexual relationship with a younger man."

CULTURE: Italy - Calcio Storico

a mix between football and rugby - with a good dose of bare-knuckle boxing added to the mix -

Calcio Storico is not a game for those who flinch at the site of blood.

Photos by Alessandro Chiarini and provided courtesy of Tuscany Wonderland.

Players still dress in authentic period costume and parade to the Piazza through the historic centre of Florence where they are introduced to the spectators and the Seigniory -

usually an important guest of the city. It's really CUTE.. and so Haute Couture.. haha..

Then the game begins... (Pritt.. Prit...)

There are two teams each made up of 27 combatants. The playing field is a giant sand pit with a goal running the width of each end. There is a main referee, six linesmen and a field master who intervenes in the very likely event of fisticuffs. Each game is played out for 50 hard fought minutes with the winner being the team that has amassed the most points or 'cacce'.

Oh dear ... Seems to me if asked to join this game I would not have come... Really scary.

But, you can see that our culture and Italy it's very a different. :)

and this is the video: