Yesterday, 2000 views exactly!

Yesterday, looking to my Flickr statistics, I discovered, suddenly, that the 5th March, exactly 2000 looked at my photos. I can still hardly believe. In a single day!!! Of course, this is with 1389 photos, 382 went to see my photostream, more then one photo probably it means, 239 opened a photoset, 3 a photo collection, that are now more hidden as I show sets on my stream, and 7 even visited my photo galeries, photos I have chosen from others.

That made yesterday a round 2000 views or visits.

I can still understand, 2000, even if it seems so much, but I can not believe almost 4 million in seven years! But that stat, says it. In any way, showing pictures I have taken, the world around me with my eyes and my camera, on Flickr, is a wonderful way to "expose"!

Instead of letting them rest on my hard drive or hid in an album rarely opened. Or show them in a gallery framed - and the frame costs still a lot - where only from time to time, someone wanders in, and even then, it should be put somewhere that it makes it easy to reach and see...

At that moment, I have looked, yesterday noon, "only" around 800 visited my photos! or, perhaps it means looked at 800 of my photos? I imagine a hall with 800 people, looking at what I have done, waw! It feels good, indeed. A great exposure given through the web! Because of the web.

We should unearth all the slides hidden in museums, photos taken by great masters, and show them!

It is great to be with live audience, as I have been yesterday at the storytelling event I opened, with my story, 60 people listening in live! They gave me so much back at the instant, it was really a two way communication. But when I will have, if I will the video, or when I will have the sound track, that is sure at least, I could put it also on the web, in my blog with links and much more can participate to it. I am still amazed of all the new things that can be done more and more, all the people we reach with anything we want to spread.

Storytelling at Spark London

Yesterday, all those and more performed at Canal Café Theatre, at Spark, London personal storytelling events. I also told the tale of my 77th year.

Here, David, Windy, Flavia, Richard, and Joanna the producer who helped us all so much to become better, tell more specifics and more natural.

I also added some details, and also some jokes that all worked!

I was so happy that 5 Toastmasters from Lewisham Speakers club were telling their very different and interesting personal stories of change, at the same time!

Our workshop, begun end October, worked! Other, even better workshops to come, soon.

The T-Bird Comedy Bin

The T-Bird Comedy Bin at T-Bird - Comedy Friday!

That will be my 19th Standup, one more to go next week, and the 20 is behind me.

New places, new faces, new venues for March and April, already 6 more booked.

Each one is a new experience, and joy to meet new audience, too.

But before that, is the Storytelling event, tonight, and, a short workshop on Teamwork, Wednesday, for once it will be every two days, not one after the other!

Why I am so active? I was asked. Well, I have to live fully, as much as possible. There are no more infinit number of years before me. Make the most of what I still have. Besides, more I enjoy it, more I experiment and learn, it seems, after Jane Fonda's book, more I will live.

I stripped

That is "after" I stripped, taken off my tea shirt and of course, under it was this one, another one.

At Canal Cafe Theatre, tomorrow, I will begin speaking of that event.

It was the beginning of laughter and the spark that pushed me towards the Standup Comedy circuit at the end of last year.

I like this!

The Spark that incognited at Spark London!

While writing this note, a new phrase just jumped out for me.

Together again, learning from each other

In September and October, eight nights of learning together Stand-up Comedy, 12 Toastmasters from the class of PhD David Jones.

We meet from time to time.

I was in Canterbury, with Chris, and yesterday Steve was there with him. Thursday, "Pierre la Poule" and Sonia were performing at the Comedy in Tooting.

The mood was gloom, it was the last time. Instead of a pub, soon it will be a supermarket!

Too many of the audience has already been there and heard one another jokes and comedy.

It was still an interesting night. And of all one can learn.

Here are the observations of Sonia answering of my auto critic.

"Anyway my giggin’ friends – yes last night was a tough one – energy levels in general were really low and Ed did his best but he could not really keep them up. Also – there too many comedians and not enough audience members new to the material. I heard two people that played on the night I was on (about 3 weeks ago) and of course did not find funny.

No excuses – continues Sonia - this is the exiting thing about this journey. To be able to play to the best of abilities no matter WHAT the audience is like – as David T Jones (PHD) said: anything can be funny as long as your truly believe in it.

Julie – you were great I think you have tightened up the gig and made in leaner. Good stuff. I did not notice you messed your lines at all. Thanks for your feedback on my holding the mike hiding my face..

Pierre la Poule – good good that you got back into the game (trust me it takes a lot of effort) you had the audience in the palm of your hand (at first) – but it was not a happy crowd."

Reading her lines, I feel better. He is from France, she is from Spain. Me? I play the Hungarian, as it is too complicated to explain having lived in France for 40 years, my accent is still heavy Hungarian!

Yes, we still have a long way to go, and let us take whatever it comes in our way and learn to deal with it!

Ed Compère in Tooting for last time

Comedy in Tooting, gave his last performance, with Ed, compère without compare and Kirk wonderful host.

We will miss them!

We will find them back in new places.

I fumbled yesterday, felt too much, told too little. There is so much more work behind the scenes to make good comedy night happen.

To have a good place, background. Great mic in working order and good music system. To adapt the mic to how each is using it! To make a warm welcoming mood. The host.

To choose who will be on, and it what order each time. To make a great intro so they feel confident and the audience open to laugh and ready to be noisy. The organizer, compère.

I wanted to remind of all that yesterday, but finaly the emotion made the words remain in me. And me, fumble even with my set. Leave my photos behind at the end.

Well, I did arrive home after 1 at night, and I had my keys, and my memories of great place and wonderful organisers. To whom I did not thank as I could have, would have, wanted.

I have other pictures and I hope, other occasions to tell all how wonderful they are.

How much I undersand, that good mic, good mood, good audience and comics, do not appear out of the air, but it is the work of lot of choices, intelligence and soul.

I went there, hoping to have a photo with both of them, together with me, and came home exhausted, even did not stay for a drink that was offered. When I want, I use the excuse "I am already 77", but in fact I am "only 77"

Spring!

Spring arrived to London!

Flowers all around my building, my street, spring is here, they say.

Today, I went out early, and it was already warmer, a lot warmer, too.

Nature reborn again!