For many years we participated in the party season that spanned the end of May through mid September in San Francisco. There's something going on there every weekend during the summer from street fairs to leather bears! So far the party has been a bit far inbetween, here on the island. A lot of what fun is is made ourselves, and I am pretty good at having a good time on my own; I would like to find more here at which to apply myself.

We got to participate in a public party thrown by a fire dance troupe trying to make enough money to go to Burning Man this year. I actually invited myself, on the advice that they would appreciate my projector, and got a very enthusiastic response to the idea of my showing up and being the VJ. So I showed up with my gear and while warming up the video, I turned on some music to help with sound check, but then the sound guy took off and I ended up being the DJ for 2 hours because nobody else knew how to hook into the guy's amp. Now I love getting to be DJ, when I've had a chance to prepare a playlist, at least! Two hours of off the cuff music was harried but rewarding.

I continued to do visualization once the other DJs took over, and towards the end of the fire dancer's performance some of them wanted to do shadow dancing between my projected visualization and the screen. The effect was really cool, as I was able to see the fire dancers through the screen with the viz and the shadow dancers on top.

That was Friday night, and afterwards we went down to the cliffs at the ocean and watched the ocean at night; even more cool.

Today was July the 4th, and we went to Kalani for the party. It was great to finally get to see the place. It is quite beautiful, and literally right across the red road from the ocean. We didn't stay long though, my travelling companions were in fuddy-duddy mode.

My favorite blogger had some harsh words for the holiday
Proceed at your own risk
maybe that has something to do with the general mood today... sigh.

hugs

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