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Uncle!
Perfect...
Kiddo:
Flawless:
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Enter Siena Cooper!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Perfectly Complicated
I need to write more. I've lost sight of what this space represents: an avenue to assemble broken thoughts; a space dedicated to everything and nothing; a place to bleed.
Birth is knocking on the doors of our routine; life is about to get perfectly complicated. I can't stop thinking about whether she'll get my blue eyes, or my pointy nose, or my almost-normal left ear. Or will she get Emilia's Spanish eyes or her perfect brown hair? I can't wait to meet her. She's part of our nights already--kicking her way into our evening chats--determined to be involved: I'm proud of her already.
Recap of my day's commute through the interwebs...
Article: "YouTube Launched Education Portal"
Video: GOOD- Drinking Water
Website: Academic Earth- Lectures from the World's Top Scholars
Video: I Love You Man (P.Rudd Outtakes)
White House Online Town Hall:
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid (Blog; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook)
Birth is knocking on the doors of our routine; life is about to get perfectly complicated. I can't stop thinking about whether she'll get my blue eyes, or my pointy nose, or my almost-normal left ear. Or will she get Emilia's Spanish eyes or her perfect brown hair? I can't wait to meet her. She's part of our nights already--kicking her way into our evening chats--determined to be involved: I'm proud of her already.
Recap of my day's commute through the interwebs...
Article: "YouTube Launched Education Portal"
Video: GOOD- Drinking Water
Website: Academic Earth- Lectures from the World's Top Scholars
Video: I Love You Man (P.Rudd Outtakes)
White House Online Town Hall:
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid (Blog; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook)
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Video Vault: Zipline in Whistler
Insanely exhilarating! Next up: skydiving or bungee jumping:
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid
Friday, August 22, 2008
Water and Green Tea
Goodbye coffee, hello Green Tea ...
"Your body is estimated to be about 60 to 70 percent water. Blood is mostly water, and your muscles, lungs, and brain all contain a lot of water. Your body needs water to regulate body temperature and to provide the means for nutrients to travel to all your organs. Water also transports oxygen to your cells, removes waste, and protects your joints and organs.
A good estimate [for how much to drink] is to take your body weight in pounds and divide that number in half. That gives you the number of ounces of water per day that you need to drink. For example, if you weigh 160 pounds, you should drink at least 80 ounces of water per day. If you exercise you should drink another eight ounce glass of water for every 20 minutes you are active."
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid
"Your body is estimated to be about 60 to 70 percent water. Blood is mostly water, and your muscles, lungs, and brain all contain a lot of water. Your body needs water to regulate body temperature and to provide the means for nutrients to travel to all your organs. Water also transports oxygen to your cells, removes waste, and protects your joints and organs.
A good estimate [for how much to drink] is to take your body weight in pounds and divide that number in half. That gives you the number of ounces of water per day that you need to drink. For example, if you weigh 160 pounds, you should drink at least 80 ounces of water per day. If you exercise you should drink another eight ounce glass of water for every 20 minutes you are active."
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Blogging Evolution
It's time to (at least temporarily) evolve the blog. While I enjoy posting on anything that interests me (technology, politics, social networking, etc.) the noise is beginning to distract:
Politics: It's been exciting for me, this past year, to follow the presidential campaign. I had no idea how hungry I was for politics: it's been life-changing, in a sense, to take a stance on issues that will effect not only my life, but my kids' lives as well. Consider me hooked (especially during the next eight years of the Obama presidency).
Technology: Web 2.0 is the immediate future. There will be no escaping it and for those who think it won't affect their lives, they're wrong. Embrace the potential, people.
Contributing to online political and web 2.0 discussions will continue in a major way (Politico, FriendFeed, Twitter, other blogs, etc.), but for the purpose of this blog, it is time to get back to, and focus on, what I am truly passionate about: film, literature, and theatre.
Film: With the introduction of Apple's iTouch, I am watching more movies and documentaries than I ever could have imagined. I am finally getting to that usually unattainable"Oh, thanks for recommendation: I will add it to my must-see" list. I want a place to track and comment on what I watch. Working at the University of Washington, I have free access to an unlimited amount of movies: I grab the documentary or film I want, take it home, iTouch it...all for free. I am finally able to watch all those PBS documentaries: building the Brooklyn Bridge; biographies of FDR and Eugene O'Neill; the birth of NYC's subway system; the history of Broadway. AFI's top films of all time--bring em on: from Chaplin to Brando; from It Could Happen One Night to Schindler's List. Finally I can watch those films that seemed to sneak in and out of the box office without my even realizing they were there: from A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints to Fast Food Nation.
Literature: I won't even get into what will happen when I finally get the yet-to-be released, v.2 Amazon Kindle, but books for me have always been my escape. The written word is unrivaled in terms of expression and emotion. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms or The Sun Also Rises, Graham Greene's Heart of the Matter, Ondaatje's The English Patient, Chabon's Kavalier and Clay--these are perfect stories and perfected prose; they, and many others, are beautifully written. This blog will be where I capture the emotion--the confusion--I feel when confronted with the story or character I come across.
Theatre: The stage is where our life--our culture--is at its best. The script, the preparation, the story, the actor, the stage: there is nothing more powerful in terms of emotion and in terms of the human condition. My credits are one (Our Town: George Gibbs)--but those three months of complete transformation changed the way I look at life. The final curtain closed, the production had ended--but a passion for the stage had just begun. I may never get back onto that stage, but I will certainly find my way back to the theatre. This blog will chronicle that journey.
I gave myself 60 seconds to write a personal tagline of what this blog will now represent within the online space:
"Film, literature, and theatre: just another triple-treat connoisseur (and often times fanatic) of skilled acting, depth in prose, and anything theatre."
It might stick.
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid
Politics: It's been exciting for me, this past year, to follow the presidential campaign. I had no idea how hungry I was for politics: it's been life-changing, in a sense, to take a stance on issues that will effect not only my life, but my kids' lives as well. Consider me hooked (especially during the next eight years of the Obama presidency).
Technology: Web 2.0 is the immediate future. There will be no escaping it and for those who think it won't affect their lives, they're wrong. Embrace the potential, people.
Contributing to online political and web 2.0 discussions will continue in a major way (Politico, FriendFeed, Twitter, other blogs, etc.), but for the purpose of this blog, it is time to get back to, and focus on, what I am truly passionate about: film, literature, and theatre.
Film: With the introduction of Apple's iTouch, I am watching more movies and documentaries than I ever could have imagined. I am finally getting to that usually unattainable"Oh, thanks for recommendation: I will add it to my must-see" list. I want a place to track and comment on what I watch. Working at the University of Washington, I have free access to an unlimited amount of movies: I grab the documentary or film I want, take it home, iTouch it...all for free. I am finally able to watch all those PBS documentaries: building the Brooklyn Bridge; biographies of FDR and Eugene O'Neill; the birth of NYC's subway system; the history of Broadway. AFI's top films of all time--bring em on: from Chaplin to Brando; from It Could Happen One Night to Schindler's List. Finally I can watch those films that seemed to sneak in and out of the box office without my even realizing they were there: from A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints to Fast Food Nation.
Literature: I won't even get into what will happen when I finally get the yet-to-be released, v.2 Amazon Kindle, but books for me have always been my escape. The written word is unrivaled in terms of expression and emotion. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms or The Sun Also Rises, Graham Greene's Heart of the Matter, Ondaatje's The English Patient, Chabon's Kavalier and Clay--these are perfect stories and perfected prose; they, and many others, are beautifully written. This blog will be where I capture the emotion--the confusion--I feel when confronted with the story or character I come across.
Theatre: The stage is where our life--our culture--is at its best. The script, the preparation, the story, the actor, the stage: there is nothing more powerful in terms of emotion and in terms of the human condition. My credits are one (Our Town: George Gibbs)--but those three months of complete transformation changed the way I look at life. The final curtain closed, the production had ended--but a passion for the stage had just begun. I may never get back onto that stage, but I will certainly find my way back to the theatre. This blog will chronicle that journey.
I gave myself 60 seconds to write a personal tagline of what this blog will now represent within the online space:
"Film, literature, and theatre: just another triple-treat connoisseur (and often times fanatic) of skilled acting, depth in prose, and anything theatre."
It might stick.
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A frothy Guinness to you for stopping by and another for coming back,
Stagekid
Friday, January 25, 2008
Le Pichet and Olympic Sculpture Park
Emilia and I had a fabulous lunch, this past Sunday, at Le Pichet, followed by a great (and brisk!) walk over and through Olympic Sculpture Park. I'm pretty sure we live in the most fantastic city in the States (if not the world):
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Blake N. Cooper (Blog; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook)
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Blog Vault: Octopus's Garden
Emilia and her friend Caitlin have created a new, daily "fun facts," blog: Octopus's Garden! Love it!!
Monday, January 14, 2008
A Cooper in the News
Congrats to my brother for making the front page of The Seattle Times!! It's only the beginning, Coop.
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Blake N. Cooper (Blog; RSS Feed; Twitter; Facebook)
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