Today is a big day!
For one, I’m about to get on a plane (not very unusual, as you’ll learn). This upcoming trip, however, is going to be a little longer and somehow different from the usual. Sorry to be cryptic, but there'll be time to entertain you with those stories in the coming months. What I can talk about, and which I do want to focus on, is the project that is giving me the chance to share these stories. It’s the place you’re visting right now!
Today is the beginning of a new adventure, which I hope is going to move you, and inspire you to move, just like it did for me!
I'm thrilled to present to you MOTIONATED.COM.
It all started with a very talented friend of mine, Bobby Rivera, who introduced himself and this site yesterday. He pointed out that no matter how artistic or creative I was, it didn't show on my website at all.
Well that's if we even considered I had a website.
My original site was something I put together quickly right after certifying as a Yamuna body rolling practitioner, in order for people to find me, and it met just the basics for a website. It was a site on the web. No frills, it pretty much consisted of one page explaining the basics of the Yamuna technique, and my contact info.
But I was finally convinced by Bobby, that a real website ("with you know stuff like pictures and actual things") was really necessary. Somehow, it even began to sound like something fun and enjoyable. And I decided to trust him and take the "grand jeté" of faith.
Needless to say Bobby's help was not only precious, but indispensable at every single step of this project. But it’s no wonder I had never really followed up with the idea before. This is a lot of work! It takes time and knowledge that has nothing to do with what I know or studied for. There's no way this would have ever happened without him. So if you want to congratulate him on his great work, you can reach him and follow him at @justb_tweeting on Twitter, justb_creative on Instagram, and www.facebook.com/It.Is.Just.B on Facebook. Or just email him at itisjustb@gmail.com.
So Motionated is an open window on what moves me, on those people in my life that molded who I am today, and what I will become tomorrow based on the first encounter that motivated this motion. It's been of the most exciting things I have endeavored to do in a while. And, wow, it feels good to be motivated again!
I've included sneak peeks at some of the things I have been working on and that I am excited to share with you in the coming months. I have some amazing photo shoots to share thanks to some very talented friends of mine. I also had the chance at some incredible interviews with some equally talented friends, who just happen to be major dance figures. It starts later this month with the one and only Desmond Richardson!
Preview of the Motionated Interviews with Desmond Richardson, Teddy Forance and Jared Grimes