A set of links to some really funny and great videos - including my dance performances, all can be pretty big, so be willing to wait. If you don't have Quicktime (for Macintosh and PC's [ Get Quicktime Now ]. Click image to start video download or streaming.
The actual event - Right by the pool.
Here is the story to go with the video...
We went to Camelback Resort in Scottsdale for the weekend. After her massage and my golf round we were hanging by the pool. I was playing with my cameras like I always do and I started to video Jill, the geek I am. Anyway, I started to take video and then she started to shoot some of me. I said I wanted to swim and she should come sit by the side of the pool and continue to shoot. We started to move to the edge of the pool and one of the guys from the hotel took the camera, on my behest (he was in on it), and started to shoot Jill and me. So me, with my shirt on and shorts (actually swim trunks, but she did not know), jumped into the pool in front of her, sitting on the edge. I yipped, "I have my stuff in the pockets", making her think I pulled a "dorf". As I pull the stuff out of my pockets and she is grabbing for it, I put a box in her hand (with a ziplock around it), She looks at it, looks at me, looks at it and takes that extra - PRICELESS - second to realize what it is. She says "ohhh, myyyy god" and I say some mushy stuff and ask her to open it. She opens it, I ask her (in a high pitched voice) to be my wife - she answers "You BETCHA!" and we hug, with her on the edge and me in the pool (kind of kneeling). We had a wonderful romantic dinner that night and we are on our way!
Needless to say she loves the ring and we have started to plan the wedding.
Download Quicktime version (18 meg - crappy quality, lip sync is off, but this is the best I can do right now, with the equipment I have - so sorry)
A Swing Performance, - Gina and I, with my Dad in attendance and Warren manning the video camera were invited to perform at a charity event to raise money for a school. They were highlighting clothing from various periods of time and we joined the 20's with our Zoot Suit and period dress, while dancing a swing. Ella Fitzgerald provided us the tune - Sing Me a Swing Song (and let me dance).
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A Solo Tango Performance, - Performed at the VFW in Edison in Spring 2000 by our instructors Brandise and George Riba. Our instructors do know some steps. They performed a wonderful Argentine Tango. Wonderful footwork.
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A Salsa Performance, Salsa Casina Ruedia (SCR) (sp?) - Performed at the VFW in Edison in Spring 2000. SCR is a group dance where we share partners based on a "call" by the caller. This happens to be Brandise. She vocally and visual (with a hand sign) tells us what to do next. This was performed in the movie Dance with Me, if you ever get the chance to see it. There are literally hundreds of calls. We knew about 30.
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A Salsa Performance, Quickstep and Swing - Performed at the VFW in Edison in Spring 2000. This is a comination of Quickstep and then Swing. We come out when the tune changes and introduces Mr. Pin Stripe Suit. I was with Sarah Lynn. This was a follow on performance to our first performance of this a few months earlier.
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A Foxtrot and Swing, 7 Minutes of Dance! - Performed at the VFW in Edison in December 1999. First performance is with Suzanne and Me. The whole Bradise gang is in there too. Then we did a Quick-step that we turned into a swing. Sarah Lynn and myself don't come in till 1/2 way through the song (Mr. Pin Stripe Shoes). Fast Forward to 2:30 into the video to get to the swing.
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A Swing Performance, 3 Minutes of Swing, Shag, and Charleston! - Performed at the VFW in Edison in December 1999.
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A Swing Performance, 4 Minutes of Swing! - Performed at the Roseland Ballroom on Feb. 13th as part of the Fred Astaire dance party. They did this in only 6 sessions - amazing. Great choreography too.
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An Bad Day MPEG video, 25 seconds (4.9 MEG) - very very funny. I wonder why we don't all do this?
A Christmas Card QuickTime Movie, 6 minutes (50 MEG!) - Our favorite 4th graders before they were famous.
An old Bellcore Screen Saver QuickTime Movie (1.2 MEG) - I designed this to run on the big screen in the Bellcore booth at the WWW5- Boston conference in Dec, 1995. I still think it is pretty cool, too bad we did not have time to put a soundtrack to the video!
Spoof of Star Wars - Home Page - Go to 'Videos' [ QuickTime Movies] (4 to 20 MEG)
These are SO well done, it is amazing they haven't won America's Funnest Home Videos! They look like Star Wars, but they are done to the 'bad boys' theme of 'Cops' - filmed on location in a Galaxy far far away!
