Gordon has a home thanks to Facebook!

Earlier this week, a family friend contacted me and my mom saying that she had found a stray dog outside her apartment and needed help finding him a home.  After hearing the sad news my mom and I quickly posted a little note on our Facebook walls along with a picture...


My Wallpost:
"I have a friend that found a stray lab mix eating garbage that is looking for a home. Here's a little note from her: I took it home to give to a shelter & turns out the only DC shelters are kill shelters. He is very sweet, plays well w/other dogs, is +/- 9 mos old, still has most of his puppy teeth, probably 30 lbs & will only fill out after he's cared for. He's black & looks just like a lab only skinnier. He responds well to correction and she is calling him Gordon. This puppy needs a home, please let me know if you are interested!"


Within an hour we had found 2 great options for Gordon, either a foster home or a permanent family.   Someone had commented that she has "a friend through a friend from work" who was looking for a dog.  After being connected through a quick Facebook message, we were able to get a name and number to set up a meeting. Two days later, Gordon is now home. 


It was so amazing to see how many people responded so quickly to our posts.  This wonderful puppy now has a safe home and a loving family that will take care of him...all thanks to Facebook and our friends for caring!

The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers

I recently came across a web series, on Hulu while searching around the site; the web series is called The LXD,  also known as The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers.  These dancers are specially chosen to become a part of The LXD, because their specific style of dance has a power that protects them.  The LXD is what brings all of these special dancers together at a special school, where they learn new tricks and the importance of being apart of this group.  While you wouldn't of been able to figure this all out by the first 14 minute episode, you will continue to learn this throughout seasons one and two.  In episode one, as you will see below, is about one of the first dancers chosen for The LXD.

I personally was quite intrigued by the first episode, mostly because I am a dancer but also because it just left me guessing and wanting more.  As a dancer I've always been a huge fan of So You Think You Can Dance and well in some of these episodes if you also are too you may recognize some familiar faces. But primarily Twitch from Season 4 and Season 7 as an "All-Star Dancer," he was also in last week's episode of Bones.  In The LXD, he is an instructor's assistant, students teacher, and lastly a performer.


I think that this web series has good potential, and considering they already have a Season 2 it must be doing good.  What I think makes this series special, is the simple yet unique story line and how every single dancer's artistic talent is portrayed.  Although their acting might not be as good as their dancing skills, I still think they play it off well. 

As we discussed in class, one of the problems we found with the youtube videos was that you couldn't just play one after another, continuously and without any advertisements.  But on Hulu, you are capable of doing so; by turning on the "autoplay button," in the bottom left corner of the video, it will play all of the videos, in order, and with limited commercials.

If you have some free time and enjoy watching very talented dancers, I would highly recommend this web series!

The Shaytards

So after reading Bill's blog, it shed a new perspective of vlogging for me. While I also am not a vlogger or a vlog follower, primarily because I don't get the purpose of it. I don't have as strong of an opinion towards vlogging like Bill, largely because I don't watch them or have any desire to watch them, or in the end I just don't care.  But after watching the video of "The Shaytards" on Bill's blog, for some reason I found humor in watching the video of this man. So I decided to check out more of his vlogs; below is one of their most recent posts that I found interesting.

As you'll see, from watching the above video, for the Shaytards, making vlogs has become more then just entertainment, it made them famous...well sort of.  Here is why, after taking a photo with their iPhone and posting it on their site, Custard Records contacted the family asking for the rights to one of their photos. All because James Blunt was searching around the internet, came across them, saw the picture and decided to use it as his album cover.

Like I said earlier, I'm not a follower of vlogs but after watching the Shaytards, I might become a daily follwer...keyword might. Which most likely is not going to happen.