Monthly Archive: January 2011

Jan
27
2011

Dynamite

Dancing at the Hudson Terrace after The Ice Ball

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Jan
22
2011

Quadrille Ball 2011

The 51st Annual Quadrille Ball took place at The Plaza Grand Ballroom to raise money for scholarships awarded to German and American graduate students to study abroad in the two countries.

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Jan
19
2011

Your Brain On Ping Pong

As part of its Brain exhibit, The American Museum of Natural History had an event called “This Is Your Brain On Ping Pong” which they co-organized with Club SPiN. They had a bunch of Pint Pong tables for people to play. The professional ping pong players from the club exhibited their skills as the panel of lecturers were talking about how human brain works while a person is playing Ping Pong.

I actually got to hold a real human brain in my hands!

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Jan
18
2011

The 4th Annual Quadrioke

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Jan
14
2011

Friday Skiing

We went skiing at Hunter Mountain again. This time on Friday!

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Jan
08
2011

Professional Bull Riders

This was my first (and most likely last) attendance of the bull riding competition. It was fun to watch for the first half hour, but the rest of the event is basically the same thing. People getting on the bull and getting bumped off. But I did have fun with the video editing:

The event was organized by Professional Bull Riders and took place at the Madison Square Garden.

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Jan
07
2011

Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve

Traditional Russians celebrate Christmas according to Julian Calendar in which Christmas falls on January 7 of the Gregorian Calendar. Here is the video I took at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church:

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Jan
02
2011

Alasia

Today I went to Julia Kulakova’s Gypsy Dance Workshop at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. Every new year they host an open house where people can try various things that they offer for free. This is a comic video that I came up with which features Julia’s class:

I think “Alasia” is what they say in that song, but I could be wrong…

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