Nicholas DiBiase and I perform an acoustic cover of REM’s “Fall on Me”. Also check out Scott Korb’s NY Times article “The Right Moves,” about Michael Stipe’s signature moves.

Video of me giving a Pecha Kucha-style talk at a Purpose.com event in March 2011. I weave together a story that combines design philosophy and movement building with anecdotes and metaphors from capoeira, pop culture, and literary history. There was a camera glitch halfway through the talk, so please pardon the jump cut. Music by [...]

Getting all folky on the Fourth of July. Here is my acoustic cover of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.” The banjo-like instrument is a Taiwanese instrument called a “yueqin” in Mandarin or “gueh-khim” in Taiwanese. It’s sometimes called a “moon guitar” in English.

New cord, new nickname, new moves, and new tunes. All in all an awesome Capoeira Angola Quintal festival week. The video above is of me playing for my dark green cord. Thanks to Mei Yen for the video!