Getting Solid

It is official now with my stats. This blog requires at least one Guest Author to advance much farther in hits. We have three groups to cover at this moment. Kapolei Chapter HBDA,  Dance Hawaii,  and HBDA Social at Aliamanu. All we have to worry about now is helping each other with a little knowledge and we must fully understand that like noses, everyone has an opinion.

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,

but what they become by it."

Kapolei is limited because they have a Web site. Dance Hawaii has a Web site but Maurice happens to know fully well that we are an "addition to" and not a redundancy. HBDA at Aliamanu just puts up with me because they are nice people, but that is all. Hopefully there will be another dance group in the territory willing to join us. The more the merrier.

This cannot be a one way street where we (the writers) presume to persistently inform and entertain the viewer. We shall do that but with the idea, that it is a two way street and the reader/dancers have their own opinions and they may wish to differ with us on occasion. This is the place, social media. No hu hu.

We must also realize that the majority of us in this long Corridor from Makaha to Mapunapuna are social or cultural dancers. We like to dance and we dance for the fun of it. If we accidentally get into a club formation dance, it will be for fun too. We do not, all of a sudden, become the Stars of the Show. And we try not to get too serious about the entire enchilada.

"Heart Full Of Soul" by the Yardbirds
 

Sharing information and photos with our fellow dancers is an accepted social ritual, whenever they wish. Of course, we must realize that through experience the most valuable photo in our blogs is the six person photo. Five to seven is quite all right too. We get the maximum people to share with our fellow dancers, there is room for the names to identify each and everyone of them. There is also room for the location and the occasion.

The size of the photo helps for clarity of printing. I have received photos in the 2 MB size, much too big. I am currently receiving photos in the under 50 KB size, much too small.  200 MB would be perfect. 150 to  250 would be just fine.

Then there is that special photo of a couple that I am looking for. In a nice dance pose in so I can make "transparent" and use it in my posters. And from experience I know that this is pretty close to impossible. It is not going to happen overnight. But eventually this blog will evolve to the point where it is, "us for all and all for us." We can't lose.

Pub's Side Note: In Hawaii, dance blogs are enabling hundreds of dancers to express their opinions with reduced political risk simply because of the sheer number of like-minded opinions online. Facing these independent voices, the old clique machine starts to crumble.