The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #471: Updates on Logan’s Exercise Cards and Ideas for “Unset” Breaking Cards

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #471: Updates on Logan’s Exercise Cards and Ideas for “Unset” Breaking Cards

https://archive.org/download/podcast-471/Podcast%20471.mp3

This week, I’m giving an update on project I’ve been working on for much of this summer – a set of cards featuring illustrations of Logan from The Thirteenth Hour doing various exercises. The cards are almost done; I’m wrapping up the design aspects now. They have four subdivisions, color coded according to the main colors of Logan’s uniform: white (warmups), yellow (resistance), grey (martial), and blue (cool down). Here are what some of them look like so far:

I’m also discussing some ideas on a similar set of cards for breaking to help dancers work on their transitions from one move to another. Though this wasn’t a term used when I was first introduced to bboying, these days many folks use the term “set” to refer to the collection of moves they do when they are dancing. Though it can be helpful to drill a certain series of moves in succession, I’ve always associated “sets” with prearranged sequences that you try to recreate again and again (probably from my martial arts training, though even there, the original point of practicing a prearranged sequence is that it’s just shorthand, so to speak, for practicing a core idea).

In something improvisational like breaking, where the movements vary depending on the music or what other people are doing (think: call and response), sets sometimes fit … but the ability to string together movements in an infinite number of ways is probably more applicable. Hence, these randomly drawn cards, each of which will have a different category of breaking technique on it, focuses on what happens in between techniques, especially in unconventional ways only possible when left to chance. That’s why I’ve been called them “unset” cards I will be using animation stills I originally made for a breakdancing game I tried to make in college, e.g.:

Stay tuned. Thanks for listening!

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Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs.

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As always, thanks for listening!

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