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How to start a dance party

I’ve been to many dance parties, clubs, shows and festivals so far and how people react in mass tends to very by location, genre of music and level of intoxication. There’s no doubt everyone reacts differently to music but I’ll say no matter who you are, there’s gonna be some tune out there that gets your foot tapin, head nodding or body rocking. Not everyone though has rhythm but that should never stop you from feeling the beat and moving to it.

I’ve danced by myself many times, typically when I go to hear good djs/bands, playing at douche bag venues where the look, style or vip of the scene is more important than the company you keep and the music that’s bumpin through the speakers. I’ve never let a bad scene deter me from getting down and I’ve certainly been the first on a dance floor early on in the night when the music encourages me.

Here’s a great vid of one guy, feelin it at the Sasquatch festival in OR and with a tipping point of 3 dancers, this becomes a field dance party:

Just Dance!

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Russian partiers blinded by rave lasers

photo by loupiote (Old Skool) on Flikr I’ve seen many a laser show in my day and have even booked the guys at UV99 for one of our last blow outs but this news is crazy and unique to the idiots running the lasers at this out door festival in Russia – revelers were subjected to intense laser burns when they were refracted down to eye level.

MOSCOW (Reuters story here) – Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday.

Moscow city health department officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness at the Central Ophthalmological Clinic, and daily newspaper Kommersant said another 17 were registered at City Hospital 32 in the centre of the capital.

Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters.

“They all have retinal burns, scarring is visible on them. Loss of vision in individual cases is as high as 80 percent, and regaining it is already impossible,” Kommersant quoted a treating ophthalmologist as saying.

Attendees said heavy rains forced organisers to erect massive tents for the all-night dance party, and lasers that normally illuminate upwards into the sky were instead partially refracted into the ravers’ eyes.

“I immediately had a spot like when you stare into the sun,” rave-attendee Dmitry told Kommersant.

“After three days I decided to go to the hospital. They examined me, asked if I had been at Open Air, and then put me straight in the hospital. I didn’t even get to go home and get my stuff,” he said

More at Reuters

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Celebrating Azerbaijan!

The week one of our friends had a birthday at the multiplied in NYC restaurant Serafina. I just recently learned she was from Azerbaijan which I wasn’t familiar with. I’ve since learn the country claimed independence 90 years ago and is surrounded by Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Iran and the Caspian Sea. She’s apparently in the minority being Russian Orthodox.

We’ll we enjoyed a standard Italian meal with plenty of wine and family and then headed up to the Dream roof top to pop the bubbly. Unfortunately I’ve been sick and pulled out early but here’s a few pictures.