S.J. Velasquez

cead-mile-failte: coffeefoodandirishdance: kattiieexx: onehund...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:42:36 -0400

coffeefoodandirishdance:

kattiieexx:

onehundredpercentdance:

Melanie Valdes

Credit to Shamrock Photo

So amazinggg

She is phenomenal.

oh. my. god.

nparts: Tim Hortons made Ryan Gosling his very own mug We...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:38:34 -0500

nparts:

Tim Hortons made Ryan Gosling his very own mug

We talked to the woman who inspired the whole project — and who got a Gosler Goblet of her own. Read the interview here: natpo.st/1458ibR

This is about me! FAMOUS. I FEEL FAMOUS.

I convinced Tim Hortons to put Ryan Gosling’s face on a...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:05:10 -0500

I convinced Tim Hortons to put Ryan Gosling’s face on a coffee cup. You’re welcome, Ryan.

celticnerd: wow old Irish Dance competitions

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:12:54 -0500

celticnerd:

wow

old Irish Dance competitions

chrisnaish1: Stephen Carolan’s #Meme of the day @Musicdanceman...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:10:48 -0500

chrisnaish1:

Stephen Carolan’s #Meme of the day @Musicdanceman #VoyForum

The top 12 Irish dance videos of 2012 - VIDEOS

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:01:31 -0500

The top 12 Irish dance videos of 2012 - VIDEOS:

mrgulogulo: Photographs of dancers taken with long exposure

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:00:22 -0500

mrgulogulo:

Photographs of dancers taken with long exposure

theatlantic: The Lost Apple ‘MacPhone’ This thing is basically...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:56:05 -0500

theatlantic:

The Lost Apple ‘MacPhone’

This thing is basically the centaur of gadgets.

Read more. [Images: Helmut Esslinger via Design Boom]

usatoday: What a year. More of this year’s best news...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:42:16 -0500

Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images

Michael Nagle, Getty Images

Tullio M. Puglia, Getty Images

Frank Gunn, The Canadian Press, via AP

Carolyn Kaster, AP

usatoday:

What a year.

More of this year’s best news photos: http://usat.ly/XbDIXX

nbcnews: #26Acts of kindness movement grows as feel-good trend...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:38:19 -0500

nbcnews:

#26Acts of kindness movement grows as feel-good trend goes viral after Newtown

(Photo: Rock Center)

At the Newtown General Store in Connecticut, Pete Leone has been inundated with calls from around the country, including one from Elizabeth Glass of Annapolis, Maryland.

The mother of a student in first grade, Glass called to offer a gift of coffee to Newtown residents. Her call is part of a massive, unexpected wave of goodwill that began online last weekend with a simple idea: “Imagine if we all committed 20 acts of kindness to honor the lost children of Newtown.”

Read the complete story.

shortformblog: Above: The stupid move Instagram made over the...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:48:38 -0500

shortformblog:

Above: The stupid move Instagram made over the weekend.

Below: The reason why the move was so stupid.

expose-the-light: Remarkable Macro Photographs of Ice...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:46:02 -0500

expose-the-light:

Remarkable Macro Photographs of Ice Structures and Snowflakes

irishdance: I drew this for one of my friends. Thought you...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:01:55 -0500

irishdance:

I drew this for one of my friends. Thought you might like it :)

nbcnews: Rockefeller Center Christmas tree survived...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:00:45 -0500

nbcnews:

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree survived Sandy

(Photo: Anthony Quintano / NBC News)

The Christmas tree that will dominate New York’s Rockefeller Center survived the winds of Superstorm Sandy that left a path of destruction in a New Jersey town and even its donor without electricity for weeks.

Joe Balku, 76, learned that the 80-foot Norway spruce had been chosen for the honor four weeks ago. Sandy hit two weeks later.

Read the complete story.

NPR News App Team released best practices as GitHub repo

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:54:04 -0500

futurejournalismproject:

NPR Apps best practices for READMEs, HTML & CSS, Javascript, GIT, and more.

Not only useful for wannabe journo-coders, but also helps you get a sense of NPR tackling traditional journalism issues like style consistency beyond the written copy in the modern technology. And props to them for making it available on GitHub.

chrisnaish1: Tap on the Left, Irish on the Right & in the...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:51:15 -0500

chrisnaish1:

Tap on the Left, Irish on the Right & in the middle a mix of both inspired by Michael Flatley now worn by most Professional Dancers in ID shows

"Like any editor in the United States, I tweaked articles, butted heads with the sales department,..."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:00:31 -0400

“Like any editor in the United States, I tweaked articles, butted heads with the sales department, and tried to extract interesting quotes out of boring people. Unlike my American counterparts, however, I was offered red envelopes stuffed with cash at press junkets, sometimes discovered footprints on the toilet seats at work, and had to explain to the Chinese assistants more than once that they could not turn in articles copied word for word from existing pieces they found online. I also liaised with our government censor…

…I was told that we could not title a coal piece “Power Failure” because the word “failure” in bold print so close to the Olympics would make people think of the Olympics being a failure. The title “The Agony and the Ecstasy” for a soccer piece was axed because agony was a negative word and we couldn’t have negative words be associated with sports. We couldn’t use the cover image I had picked out for a feature on the rise of chain restaurants, because it was of an empty bowl, and, [our censor] told me, it would make people think of being hungry and remind them of the Great Famine (a period from 1958 to 1961 when tens of millions of Chinese starved to death, discussion of which is still suppressed). Even our Chinese designers began to roll their eyes when I related this change to them, and set them to work looking for images of bowls overflowing with meat.”

- Eveline Chao, Foreign Policy. Me and My Censor: A reporter’s memoir of what it’s like to tell the truth about today’s China.

Chao was Managing Editor for an English-language magazine called China International Business and writes about the ins and outs of censorship in the newsroom despite, as she writes, “Business content is not censored as strictly as other areas in China, since it seems to be understood that greater openness is needed to push the economy forward and it doesn’t necessarily deal with the political issues Chinese rulers seem to find the most sensitive.”

In 2003-2004 I worked for an English-language paper in Saudi Arabia and while the censorship mechanics there are different from what Chao illustrates, her anecdotes had me nodding at their familiarity. — Michael

(via futurejournalismproject)

shortformblog: Fair and Balanced: Here’s a handwritten note,...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:57:43 -0400

shortformblog:

Fair and Balanced: Here’s a handwritten note, circa-2005, wherein the president of Fox News writes to a Bush administration official—on Fox News stationary—and offers to “help off the record” if needed. The administration official in question was Condoleezza Rice, then-Secretary of State; Rice replied with a generic form letter. The note was obtained by Gawker’s John Cook, who wrote: “Please just imagine for a moment how Fox News would cover the publication of a private note from the editor of the New York Times to an Obama Administration official offering ‘help off the record.’” source

theatlantic: Tonight’s debate is getting testy. [Images: Elle...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:42:53 -0400

theatlantic:

Tonight’s debate is getting testy.

[Images: Elle Reeve]

mariedeflor: Happy 61st Anniversary I Love LucyOctober 15, 1951...

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:37:09 -0400

mariedeflor:

Happy 61st Anniversary
I Love Lucy
October 15, 1951 - May 6, 1957