Event: Voce

I'm excited to be attending the Voce program of chakra toning tonight with Frankie Lee Slater, author of Art of Living and Circles Uniting. Not clear whether Mark Pesce of Future Street Consulting is going to be there too. I'd like to meet him if he is.

-------Addendum, Post-Event

Well, Mark Pesce wasn't there, but Steven Coates and Phil Harrington of YOUBLOOM.com were.

The event was pretty good. My favorite part was the chakra toning. Picture fifteen people seated in a circle in a darkened living room high atop a hill in Hermon. We begin with the root chakra, and sing "Ah" for seven breaths while visualizing the color red and bringing our awareness to that area of our bodies. On up through the colors of the rainbow:



And it's pronounced "vo-chay." Italian for "voice."

Playing for Change

Mark Johnson's beautiful international versions of Stand By Me and One Love. Go Mark go!

(He went all around the world recording street musicians performing these songs, then mixed them together so they're all playing in harmony. I cry every time I watch these things.)

Stand By Me:



One Love (song starts in the last two minutes):

One for the Hire List: Imagistic

The best business advice Michael Weiss ever received: Get More Business Than You Can Handle. Based only on brief phone contact with Michael, I would definitely hire him (a.k.a. do business with his company) given the opportunity.

Henry Jenkins Is Moving to USC

Here's his goodbye letter to the MIT community.

http://henryjenkins.org/2008/11/professor_jenkins_goes_to_holl.html