Support Japan – The way we can

We definitely can’t do much if we’re not there, we can’t do much if we can’t donate, and even if we donate, we can’t do much about those people’s suffering. It’s heartbreaking if we realize indeed what happened there, and it’s overwhelming how they keep standing and how they face it.

Even so, I saw youtubers support those people in the way they can. They sing, they post different videos, I even saw channels who asked for subscribers, saying that “all revenue from the channel is going to charities helping the survivors of the tsunami”. Honestly, I had no idea what “revenue” meant. Sue me. Anyway, here:

The one that posted, ffstip -> http://www.youtube.com/user/ffstip

The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auiN04lWnbk&feature=feedu

And, obviously, the channel ffstip was talking about http://www.youtube.com/partners4japan

I’ll say what ffstip said as well: I have nothing to do with this. I just thought this might help them.

I remember the news a few hours ago. It was, definitely, good news, they said something about how things are getting better at Fukushima. The news guy also said: “There’s a good news coming from the rescue teams as well: they found two more survivors under the ruins” or something like that. And then it hit me: what difference do two people make to the world? none. They technically mean nothing for the world compared to the thousands of victims that died there. But still, there is for sure someone out there, for whom those two people mean everything.

We are humans, so we should help humans the way we can. We might be kilometers away, it doesn’t matter. The truth is, we’re only one heartbeat away from them. Even if this is internet, those people are real just like we are, though some don’t realize it. We all live on the same earth; we’re all under the same sky.

Another nice thing I found, a song wrote, apparently, by a girl, for the victims in Japan. That girl’s friend sang it and posted it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_1gg99bUxU&feature=feedf

Everyone supports Japan the way they can, and every little effort, even a song, even a dance, even a good word, I think it counts. Even if the disaster passed, there are still open wounds there that take time to heal. We should really do our best, we should learn from them, we should try being as strong as they are, we can change something through our everyday life, we can make things better. I myself pray for this, I pray for them, and I’m sure many people do it, no matter who says it’s useless.

YouTube Dancers/Dances

It is not a secret that YouTube has quite a few great dancers, and even more users that do their best to learn the dances.

All the dances usually are taken from J’pop/K’pop bands’ PVs or choreography that is made by different people for different songs. Like Vocaloid songs. Which, ask me, is pretty awesome.

What is even better is the fact that this activity cannot be labeled as ‘useless’, as some of the other internet related activities of the teenagers are. Dancing is a great thing, and is even a form of sport, since grown ups complain so much that we don’t practice. Even internet idols came out of this. But anyway, telling this might seem pointless since everyone that had contact with this ‘fandom’ knows it.

There are two types of dancers on youtube. Or at least I split them in two in my head. There are the dancers who have a channel on youtube, and the nico nico douga dancers whose videos are brought on youtube by different users, which I will mention sometimes. Also, I noticed that the first category is split in two as well: the dancers that are on their own, and the ones that joined a so called ‘project’. Anyway, I admire all of them, no matter how they do it, for their efforts and their enthusiasm.

I myself tried to learn a few dances. And that was the point where this idea came to me: since not everyone finds it  easy, but they still want to try dancing, what if there would be tutorials? There are none, or few, as far as I saw.

It’s simple for me to organize the dances in parts that make it easier to understand and practice, and since I’m doing that for myself, I thought of doing it for the others too. It's mainly about the math of it, and some dances can turn pretty easy. I don't promise to make easier the most complicated things - I don't aim for the impossible. What I'm trying is to give a possibility to learn the dances to the ones who find it hard - like me ^^ Also, another purpose of this is to bring together those great dancers from youtube, and to show them to the others. They are artists, they are awesome, and they deserve it.

This place might deal with singing too, the covers/fandubs or coverers/fandubbers, but that if the dance tutorials go well.

For now, I’ll try finish the first tutorial.