Read David Gessner’s toon and then turn off your computer and go outside: Slaves to the Screen: A Cartoon Caution
Here’s an interview I did with Thrash Lab a couple weeks ago! Thank you, Karen Hart!! :-)
(and for real… if you haven’t already…check out the video link in this one…:-) )
That is me on the left. I honestly can’t quiet my mind, ever.
Hope you’re feeling a biit more like the guy on the right over there in DR (NOT Duane Reade :-p) Sauce~kia<3!!
The team at More & Co. keeps whipping up poster MAGIC.
See your dancing feet at our Maine Premiere THIS Saturday at SPACE Gallery in Portland, ME. More & Co.’s got some super special dancing feet that are tapping up a storm in preparation.
Get your tix + see you on the dance floor!
OMG!! Hahaha!! The beard + the hair!! And I love how he’s in the middle of doing The-Creep-Charleston!!
Huge kudos to the team behind these!! SO COOL!!! :-D
… I hope they make one for Dai/The Gentleman!! :-)
I made my first Los Angeles dance video to Ellen two nights ago on the Hollywood Blvd. Walk of Fame to Lily Allen’s “The Fear”… just finished editing it at 5am this morning!
http://vimeo.com/37252499
Again, trying to do what I can while recovering from my knee injury… VERY SPECIAL thanks to Ray Chao & Stephanie Slocum for helping me shoot :-D!! If you like this video, please tweet Ellen @TheEllenShow (be sure to use the hashtag #ellensdancedare) again today with a link to it and help me ask her to dance with me (@AnneMarsen)! Or please write to her here:http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=10! :-)
Update: I just got a call from one of The Ellen Show’s Web Developers and she asked me a bunch of questions! Thank you so much everyone!!- They’re hearing us! It looks promising- But let’s keep shouting! :-D I hope we can get them to come to the Girl Walk screening this Saturday and help spread DANCING WHEREVER THE HELL YOU FEEL LIKE IT!!
Mission: GET ELLEN DEGENERES TO DANCE WITH ME!
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Hey everyone! I’m in Hollywood and have 5 days until the Los Angeles Premiere of “Girl Walk // All Day”! … While I was on the 35-hour train ride from Seattle, I decided to turn this week into a fun mission (see headline).
Around hour-29-or-so of the trip, and after 6+ months of editors-block, I got a sudden burst of inspiration to make a video dedicated to Ellen with some friends I made while stretching in the game room (…who knew trains had game rooms?? None of the games worked though! :-p).
This is what came out! -> http://youtu.be/OgIlNv6ElyI
If you agree that this is something that would be awesome to happen, please help me by tweeting her here -> https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow with a link to the video I made (yes, I even made a twitter for this quest -> “@AnneMarsen”)!
The way that would help my chances the most is if you write to her here! -> http://ellen.warnerbros.com/show/respond/?PlugID=10!
And now I prepare for phase two… Starting today, I’m going to make a different dance video for each day of this week, each in a different spot of Los Angeles, all leading up to the Hollywood screening on February 25th! Hopefully (with your help!) they will catch Ellen’s attention and I will get to dance with her! :-D
Whether or not this works, this is going to be an awesome week. I’m tired of being scared of trying things like this. This past year, I have been gravitating more towards not worrying so much and letting things go/flow naturally… but at the same time (and even though there is so much beauty in this world) it feels like there’s a lot of scary stuff going on with the um… human race. While I don’t think I have it in me to be a doctor, politician or global warming scientist… I want to help in my own way. I want to make work that inspires people to follow their passions and to take better care of themselves, each other and our home… That’s the real mission. While it would be awesome to share a little of that with Ellen this week, I sure as hell ain’t quittin’ no matter what happens!
Hoping you are all well. :-)
TEDxCambridge - Jeff Lieberman on science and spirituality
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“If you mistreat an animal, it becomes afraid. This is what has happened to your psyche. You have mistreated it by giving it a responsibility that is incomprehensible. Just stop for a moment and see what you have given your mind to do. You said to your mind, ‘I want everyone to like me. I don’t want anyone to speak badly of me. I want everything I say and do to be acceptable and pleasing to everyone. I don’t want anyone to hurt me. I don’t want anything to happen that I don’t like. And I want everything to happen that I do like.’ Then you said, ‘Now, mind, figure out how to make every one of these things a reality, even if you have to think about it day and night.’ And of course your mind said, ‘I’m on the job. I will work on it constantly.’ “
~ Michael A. Singer, “The Untethered Soul”
^ (My friend Jeff gave me a copy of this book & at first it was feelin’ a little too hippie-ty dippity for me… but overtime… some of this ish is really hitting home… Life is too short to spend so much of it worrying!! Especially when most of that worrying is about stupid shit things you can easily do without thinking! And also especially when the worrying obstructs you from enjoying life… Even when I’m spending time doing the things I love… dancing, editing, spending time with loved ones, adventures… I very often get this annoying voice in my head that is judging almost everything I do! And I know I’m not the only one! I really want to work on this…
Jeff recently did a really amazing TEDx talk concerning perception, consciousness, science, spirituality, and technology… Check it out if you’re interested! :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0—_R6xThs)
Just got to Seattle for the week! Seeing my boo Juliaa<3 & kickin’ off the Girl Walk West Coast tour!
