Author Archives → Elaine Adolfo
Hip Hop Dancing in the Bay Area
I recently saw this dance video shared in my FB and thought “hmmm how difficult would it be to make that?” Well if you’re me with tons of video footage of oneself dancing it’s not that hard. You figure we’re dancing on an 8 count. It’s actually really easy to sync things. The song is… Continue reading
What’s it like to dance with B1A4?
It’s as amazing as you think it would be. On Friday October 10, 2014 there were three considerably big things happening in downtown SF. Fleet Week. President Obama was visiting. B1A4 surprise flash mob. First two items most people knew about. But that last item was only known by very few people. Mnet commissioned SF Flash… Continue reading
Books that Stayed with Me for Days, Months, Years
My junior high English teacher Edward Winchester posted a question to me asking what are the top ten books that had an impact on me. (Why yes I’m FB friends with my junior high teacher, aren’t you?) These were the ten that came to mind immediately. I do realize they’re a bit all over the… Continue reading
Hey LA
So for the past 8 months I’ve been ramping up the amount of dance classes alot. Why am I hurting my knees on purpose each time? A few years ago I went to LA and took a class…and failed miserably. I’m back in LA this whole week to correct that situation. So far I’ve taken two (one in… Continue reading
Start your day with bass bass bass
Remember the movie Groove? It’s basically about one night at an underground SF rave. I loved it. It had dancing, Digweed, and it just seemed to capture alot of the joys and ridiculousness of raves. I didn’t go to raves. Sadly I wasn’t hooked up into that culture. However, I danced in clubs ALOT in… Continue reading
How to Lock Your Macbook Pro to Your Desk
If you’re like most people who work with a large number of people, you work in a cubicle. Or you’re gonna work in a cubicle, you just don’t know it yet. Everyone says that working in an open space is great because you get to work together and the chance for spontaneous business conversations increases 10-fold…. Continue reading
How to shoot videos of you dancing
UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST IS HERE. If you’ve taken class with me you know sometime near the end of class I set up a little tripod and I shoot us dancing. Most teachers are cool with it, but of course always ask before you do it. Your teacher is right to be protective of… Continue reading
Boy Crazy
I was a very boy crazy young girl growing up in Los Angeles. First boy crush was Ricky Schroder from Silver Spoons. Blond and sweet, he stole my heart. But it was Kirk Cameron who really pushed me into puberty. It makes me cringe to think how much I thought about Kirk…and what he’s become… Continue reading
Yes. You should know how to change the toner in your printer and other things I think you should know
A co-worker lamented on his FB feed about an administrative assistant who has been working in the same position for 20 years but still didn’t know how to change printer toner. That made me sad. Then it annoyed me. Because that means this person just saw a situation that they would clearly have to encounter… Continue reading