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Forming dance group is a challenge. A concept of one may not be a thought of everyone who succeeds. I liked the concept of this dance group for its innovative flair, flexing the creativity; bending human movements which are tried and tested.
Pilobolus is a phototropic zygomycete—a sun-loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures. It is also a highly unusual dance company, now in its 30th year of evolution. Pilobolus, the arts organism, sprang from a 1971 Dartmouth College dance class with a clear desire to make something new.
Known throughout the world for its startling mix of humor and invention, and unique physical vocabulary, bringing its singular vision to diverse audiences worldwide. It remains a deeply committed collaborative effort with four artistic directors and six dancers contributing to one of the most poplar and varied repertoires in the field.
Tracy of Pilobolus, who choreographed Aquatica, describes the work: "If you ever look under a microscope, there is an amazing array of creatures underwater. So a lot of the images [onstage] hopefully convey that kind of wonder, that kind of discovery. The dancers combine to create all kinds of locomotive structures and communication systems. We see fishes swimming in pods, crabs crawling on the sea floor and unclassified creatures, too."
An interesting interview snippet with founder Jonathan Wolken at freedom-blogging
Symbiosis means, the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other.
The Pilobolus dancers have created an art that tells a story about our relationships with each other and with nature and how we should work together in harmony to achieve a good meaning for a good cause and for the common good. To me, that's the message in their art.
This was the most amazing dance piece I've ever seen. The two dancers moved almost as one creature with two bodies. It was so flowing like some flower unfolding organically, or some alien creature with its own perfect internal chemistry and architecture moving in a completely new way that nothing we know of moves, but entirely right and logical, totally holistically obvious and natural to itself. I'm just mesmerized and completely seduced by the beauty and artistry here. I'm going to watch it again and again. (via Tatiana Boshenka)
I found this "Symbiosis" video in TED. If you've not heard about it, watch it here :symbiosis performance.
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Imagine this: you are filling a very long form in a website; may be shopping cart, search page, or any portal where long entry of fields is needed. When you submit, it yells : session out. please login again ! That's a bland situation when you had to type all over again. Some time it might be short, but you may not remember what you typed also.
This is purely the context-sensitive mistake of page design. Now a days, there are so many ways to retain non-important values using client side scripting. Some sites remembers what you typed and some do not. For ex: Gmail auto-saves what you typed as a draft. That's a neat thing.
What if, you loose lengthy form filling due to computer or connection error ? Here comes the life saver if you're using Firefox. 'Lazarus: Form Recovery extension'.
Never lose anything you type into a web form again! Lazarus securely auto-saves all forms as you type, so after a crash, server timeout, or whatever, you can go back to the form, right click, "recover form", and breathe a sigh of relief. I am very glad that I got to know about this add-on. Many times I lost forms for different reasons (server suddenly disconnected, a key that I accidentally typed and got me out of the page, etc.). Now I feel confident that if this happens again I will be able to recover a whole form or just a field that was not saved, and save time | excerpt
Do give an attention to security related settings after install. After installing it appears in bottom right hand corner of Firefox. You can set password to retried details as well. Very handy feature.
>> Find Lazarus here
ThrottleLauncher was a rather popular custom UI in 2009, especially earlier in the year, but it’s been on hiatus for quite a while. APBilbo, the creator, popped up on XDA-developers today to announce a new, better version and posted a demo of it running on the HTC HD2, Touch2, Diamond and Samsung Omnia. Running on the HD2, it’s convincingly smooth and appears to support animated Sense UI-like (Android) widgets. >>
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