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In reply to this comment by oohahh:
*promote for some of the best Boogie Woogie I've ever seen.

Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate this type of effort.
Thank You!

In reply to this comment by oohahh:
The Youtube poster wrote back to me. In the end, saner minds prevailed.

On Mar 14, 2009 oohahh wrote to sambo1yrmom:

Did the Milton skatepark recant?

Seems like with the publicity, the video, the lack of set rules, and your non-confrontational manner, they don't have a leg to stand on. What happened?

just wanted you to know: http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-tap-dancing-was-popular-Nicholas-Bros-with-Glenn-Miller#comment-545210 is dead again

http://british.videosift.com/talk/Thylanny-Another-Gold-100-Member

I decided to go about 3 days before the event. I was kinda disappointed by the art installations this year, but was really diggin on the mild temperatures and the dust storms.

In reply to this comment by oohahh:
Sorry I wasn't able to catch you at BRC. Next year, perhaps.

Check this out, it's up your alley I think: http://www.videosift.com/video/Worlds-largest-scrap-metal-sculpture-garden

Great reply. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by oohahh:
Looks like much of this hullaballoo stemmed from semantics, namely, the definition of "porn".

In 1964, US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart tried to explain "hard-core" pornography, or what is obscene, by saying, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "[ JACOBELLIS v. OHIO, 378 U.S. 184 (1964)]

Over fifty years later and we're still using the same broken metric. Our difficulty stems from the very nature of this metric - it's a moving target. It changes as society changes. We're not working with a rigid definition of porn and we're certainly not all on the same page with that definition.

Dag's definition is entirely personal when he asks, "am I aroused?" To add rigor to that definition is difficult: Dag's just never around when I want to talk about pron ;-) so that definition has to be tossed out as a generalized definition on the grounds that it's inconvenient. If we had portable Pikachu-dags, then maybe we're onto something.

Until then, though, perhaps looking at this from a different angle my be illustrative:

What's the border line between where dance becomes porn?

Dance is an appreciation of form at rest, form in motion, and the segueways between the two. In it's purest, we try to see the human body in it's most distilled essence. Typically, dancers wear tight clothing; leotards. It's rarer but not unknown to dance naked. That's the human body in it's purest form.

Let's come back to this video now: do you think the video is pornographic because of the movements she's making or the way she's dressed? Me, I don't see it as both. I think we can be clear and say it's the clothing she's wearing.

So what if Dita was wearing a leotard? Would that make it acceptable?

What if she started completely naked - that is - not wearing the pasties and panties? Would that be acceptable or unacceptable?

Reconsidering this dance from another light: what about bellydancing? They essentially wear sparkly undergarments out in public and dance in them. If we say that's the equivalent of porn, we'll end up with 10,000 angry bellydancers on the doorstep, so we ought to be really careful in answering that question.

Are these even the right questions to be asking? Would it simply be better to say, "whatever that guy did was wrong. I hope you're doing better now."

Wow. That clip seemed so obscure, I didn't even search for it before posting. Nice find.

In reply to this comment by oohahh:
*dupe http://www.videosift.com/video/Hellzapoppin-lindy-hop