Hey, I know it's been a while, but I'm back. I am going to try to start writing K Anything posts once a month again. It seems like every year we are able to make one thing, and usually that thing isn't done until December. In 2010, we made business cards. In 2011, we made the website. In 2012, we made the brochures. In 2013, we made the promo video. One thing a year might not sound like much, but I am happy with what we've done. I don't know if we will make anything new this year besides juggling routines. However, the idea of a DKers' t-shirt has been thrown out there. I came up with this design based on our Themes Show. Let me know what you think of the design. And even more importantly, would anyone out there actually be interested in a DKers t-shirt?. I have bigger versions of the designs after the read more link.
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Here it is, the Vetoed Christmas Show. Before you read this and think I am completely insane, you should know what the goals for this show were. Darren told me that he wanted some audience participation. I assumed this would be little kid stuff, but Darren told me this would be for banquets, so audiences would be mostly adults. I told him I didn’t have an idea for a participation bit for adults, and his suggestion was, “maybe do something with a girl.” Without further ado,
The DKers’ Christmas Special When people find out I juggle, they always have the same two questions. "Do you do fire?" and "How many things can you juggle?" I don't like my responses to these questions, because those are two aspects of juggling that I don't really like or care about very much. I usually end up sounding kind of lame because I don't do those things or like kind of a snob because I hate all the things you like. Anyway I was planing on trying to write out a good response for these questions, but I don't really feel like it. Instead of talking about things I don't like, I would rather share some things I do like.
You may be wondering how we plan shows. We have never come up with a formal process, but basically both Darren and I have total veto power. Historically, it works as such. In a typical month, I come up with 20 ideas and Darren vetoes 18 of them. Darren comes up with 5 ideas and I veto 3 of them. We both end up contributing 2 ideas. (NOTE: I have done no research on these figures and they are completely made up. I will send this to Darren before posting this, so he can provide alternate figures if he wishes)
Now, part of me thinks this is a bad process that could lead to complete paralysis and nothing happening, but in actuality it has worked out pretty great. If we tried to use every idea, the show would be constantly changing and never become something solid like our Themes Show. There is definitely a part of me that likes the idea of having a constantly changing show, but I can see how what we have now is better. Now to be clear, I am not complaining about Darren vetoing 90% of my ideas. If anything, I think we need more vetoing. I legitimately think it is a cool process and decided to write about it this month since I had the word veto scribbled down in my list of possible blog ideas. Recently however I have noticed two possible flaws in this process. We are working on a new structure for the show. We are going to need a lot of new songs to go with different parts of the show/story. I have some titles jotted down in the outline, but there are a lot of holes and things that can be improved. Below I have listings of what we need for songs as well as our best idea so far (Some of these really won't work, but I tried to put something in each spot). Please e-mail me or leave comments with your song suggestions. I will add your suggestions to the listings. Thanks.
I posted these on Facebook, but I forgot to post these here. If you missed them the first time here they are again.
This summer has been our busiest by far, and as we see our name in print more and more, I can't help but notice all the different spellings
The DK'ers, The DKer's, The DKers, The Dkers, The Deekairs (Okay, I admit it I made this last one up) You may wonder which spelling is correct. I would say right off the bat that the ones with apostrophes are the worst. It is not suppose to be some kind of contraction, and the s is to make it plural not to show possession. Let's get rid of the unnecessary apostrophes. That leaves us with two options, the DKers and the Dkers. Here are the videos from June. Darren finished his on time. Even though he was much more successful at bouncing five than he was at his balancing trick, I still think I enjoyed last month's video more. July has been super busy with shows and things, so I didn't get around to editing my video till now. My act didn't turn out as cool as I was imagining when I thought it up, but here it is. Maybe this concept could be improved in the future.
Well, here they are, the Tricks of the month for ... May. Both videos took a long time to shoot, and a long time to edit, but I do like the way they turned out. My Harder Better thing will need a lot of tweeking, but I am glad that it is at least more than an idea now. I think Darren's video might be my favorite one so far. Make sure you guess how many tries it will take him before you watch it.
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