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Watch it all the way through.... or just go to 1:02:41 and watch it from the encore to see how 75-year-old Nik Turner still shows the young kids of Hedersleben (who are awfully good themselves) how it is done!
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
Thanks for the share, great the old dog still got bite!
I'm just finishing up a typographic video for a hiphop artist Neeco Posterboy. He's a uber talented pissed off inner-city 20wenty something. His style is brit grime. In a recent radio interview he took up some of that precious air time talking about my creativity and how digs what I do, including the album cover art for his next release and calls me fam. (as in family) and my boy Neil. I'm humbled and honored. I'm a middle aged white guy who grew up in the country. We have less than zero in common! 'Cept the work. And isn't that what it's all about anyways?
So what's a typographic video? Here's a couple that I think make the cut:
If anyone has any contacts for chess players in the Northwest Territories, could you please email me. I'm running a tournament in March and it might be close enough for them. I'm 420 km south of Hay River. My email address is cwnlca. I use g mail.
Thanks for this info Neil!
Happy New Year to all and let's make 2017 a great year for chess in Canada!
If I interpret these mini data points correcting folks in Northwest Territories are interested in learning chess, playing chess and buying chess equipment.
BTW, in the last 4 hrs Prince Edward Island ranks second!
Driving interest:
chess online
Good luck with your tourney, where will it be located?
The tournament will be in La Crete, a logging / farming community 670km north of Edmonton. I'm a public school teacher there and try to run a couple of CFC rated tournaments a year.
I found a Yellowknife chess club page on facebook. (Yellowknife is 825km north of me!). It seems that they do a few chess tournaments a year (though I couldn't find any evidence that they were CFC rated). I was in touch with the organizer, Lloyd Thiessen. There is nothing happening in Hay River as far as he knows. Hay River is much closer to me at 420km. Maybe someone from the CFC might want to contact Lloyd and try to get them on board?
I like how the creator of quantum chess, Chris Cantwell, handles an online "heckler" who asks him why he would want to fool around with normal chess. Chris replies that he wasn't going for replacing chess (and he later adds he wasn't going for TEACHING quantum mechanics), but he was going for getting people to INTERACT WITH quantum mechanics. Very ingenious!
Chris White: maybe you should get your students playing this! Maybe Alberta could lead the nation in Google search for "entanglement"!
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
Very cool - thanks Paul, I will look into this in the future!
Thanks for the encouragement Neil! - I don't have the tournament scheduled yet as I'm waiting to hear back from parents so I don't clash with a hockey or basketball travel weekend. I will post it once I find out. I'm looking at late March right now.
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