My First Daily Deviation! by firestarter1988, journal
My First Daily Deviation!
Short journal entry this time. I just go my first Daily Deviation for my piece The Birth of Color. Also Featured herein the news. All I can say is WAAAAA F@#&ing HOOOOO! I had 835 fav's in the last day and my states have just hit the 1000 mark. I am loving this.
Wimbledon 2010: The Longest Tennis Match Ever by firestarter1988, journal
Wimbledon 2010: The Longest Tennis Match Ever
Mark your calendars. Tennis history has just been made. Earlier this week John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut in the first roiund 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 70-68. For those of you who like numbers, Isner's single game state line reads: 183 games played, 92 games won, 112 Aces, 246 winners, and 11 total hours of playing time all over the course of three days. That's almost a full tournament's worth of tennis in one match-up.
On the one hand, mere participation in such an event is a superhuman physical feat. Moment to moment, tennis is one of the most physically demanding and exhausting sports that can be played. Predictably, the battle
I'm Baaaaack!! Don't all shout for joy at once.
Well LA as always was awesome, but the opera was phenomenal. As I may have said before this was the first opera I have been to so I do not have any personal experience to draw from, but even I could tell that this particular production have turned Wager on its head. This was a completely original production of Wager's Der Ring Des Nibelungen, director by German Artist Achim Freyer and Staring Placido Domingo. For those not familier with Der Ring Des Nibelungen, or The Ring Cycle, think of every cartoon parody of a heavy set viking woman and work your way from there. This show however seemed to