bamboo thoughts: 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010

Video Taiji Twenty-two - Weight Distribution

Video Taiji Twenty-two - Weight Distribution -

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Thirty-three Before Thirty-two

Well, looks like a YouTube upload error this morning on episode 32 is causing me to upload episode 33 first. Ep 32 is some 600+ MB and roughly 8 min long, longer than I like to film, but there you go - it's about breathing, and you can't, or shouldn't, rush breathing. :-)

Thirty-two filename: VideoTaiji32-BreathinginTaiji.MP4 ... then changed to VideoTaiji32.MP4

Upload error: The upload failed due to an unknown error. (helpful, eh?)

Thirty-three filename: VideoTaijiThirty-three-GoalsinTaiji.MP4

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Video Taiji Twenty-nine - WuChi

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Monday, April 12, 2010

Podcamp Cleveland 2010 - Video Taiji

Podcamp Cleveland, taking place at the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center in Brecksville, Ohio, is almost upon us. Saturday May 1st, May Day, will be the day.

I will be present a discussion of shooting and uploading to YouTube with no post-production. Why would you do that? How can you do that? Who's crazy enough to contemplate such a thing?Well, Video Taiji creator, Alex Landefeld, of coure. Learn to roll with the punches in quickie, impromptu videos.

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Video Taiji Twenty-one - Push Hands

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Video Taiji Twenty - Sitting Commencement

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Thursday, April 08, 2010

Video Taiji Nineteen - Part Wild Horses Mane

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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Video Taiji Eighteen - iPad

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Monday, April 05, 2010

Video Taiji Sixteen - Our Form

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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Video Taiji Fifteen - Back to Commencement

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Saturday, April 03, 2010

Video Taiji Fourteen - Class

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Friday, April 02, 2010

Video Taiji Thirteen - PullBack

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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Video Taiji Twelve - WardOff

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Video Taiji on iPad?

Are you, as is the creator of the new YouTube series "Video Taiji", also wondering how to address the intersection of YouTube and the exponential growth of Apple's mobile Universe?

What is the right way to address this opportunity? Clearly the first thing to do is to start creating a presence, start putting your idea into motion. Twitter doesn't seem to have had a clue about monetization before they started, and YouTube itself has only recently begun to add fee-based services, so get going. What've you got to lose?

Video Taiji Eleven - Thirteen

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Video Taiji Ten - Grasp Sparrows Tail

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Video Taiji Nine - Knees

Video Taiji Nine - Knees
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Video Taiji Form 1

In developing a new Taiji form one faces many directional stresses: Why, Where, What, and How.

Why do you need to diverge from what history has given us? Where can you teach a new form and find a new audience for this form? What does this new form give us that we don't already have? And, fourth, how do you construct a new form?

I don't need to address these questions, but allow them to percolate through your mind as we're reviewing the new form I've constructed for the Video Taiji series. This form is plainly labeled "Video Taiji Form 1" so as to allow it to relate to many historical precendents and allow it to be applied in many directions.

The named postures in the form (remember, the named Tao is not the eternal Tao...) are but the tip of the iceberg, as is standard in Taiji forms:

1. Commencement

2. Part the Wild Horse's Mane

3. White Crane Spreads its Wings

4. Fair Maiden Works Her Shuttles

5. Snake Creeps Down

6. Apparent Closure

Okay, so we have six named postures. These can certainly be pieced together in a number of ways - we'll describe how in future posts and in the Video Taiji YouTube series.