Celebrating Ireland on St Patrick's Day
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The Gardiner Brothers are professional Irish dancers, social media personalities and influencers. Michael (born 1995) and Matthew (born 1999) are Irish-American dancers and choreographers who are currently living in Galway Ireland. The brothers have been dancing for almost their entire life and started competing at the age of 5. They competed at local competitions in Denver and between them, they have won over 40 major Irish Dancing championship titles which include world championship titles as well as international solo titles. In their professional careers, the Gardiner Brothers have appeared numerous times on television. Their first major appearance was on The Late Late Toy Show in 2011. They also performed on The Late Late Show with Riverdance, Fusion Fighters and The Kilfenora Ceili Band. Recently in 2020, they appeared on Home and Family, RTE Today Show and RTE Nationwide. On social media, the brothers are well known for their incredible videos where they dance in public around Ireland which reach over 15,000 views each time! At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Michael and Matthew spent their time choreographing and creating videos to enlighten their followers and inspire people to do what makes them happy. They started actively uploading on TikTok and Instagram and their success led to being approached my media outlets for intervews and features! Gardiner Brothers - https://www.instagram.com/gardinerbro...Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gardinerbroth...
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Excerpts from "The Spectrum of Adventure" (Part 5) by Thomas A. Christie
In this section: "The Very Big Cave Adventure" by St Bride's School for CRL Group (1986)Excerpts from "The Spectrum of Adventure" by Thomas A. ChristieThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the most popular home computers in British history, selling over five million units in its 1980s heyday.Amongst the thousands of titles released for the Spectrum during its lifetime, the text adventure game was to emerge as one of the most significant genres on the system.Covering 100 games in all, this book celebrates the Spectrum’s thriving interactive fiction scene of the eighties, chronicling the achievements of major publishers as well as independent developers from the machine’s launch in 1982 until the end of the decade in 1989."The Spectrum of Adventure" is Copyright ©2016 Thomas A. Christie, all rights reserved, and is published by Extremis Publishing Ltd.This title is available as a physical book from www.extremispublishing.com and all good online retailers and independent booksellers worldwide.
Templar - Choreo and Freestyle - Salsa and Break Dance to Afrobeats!
Templar Animated is a hip-hop dancer and break dancer as well as a freestyle teacher. He is based in Portsmouth, Southsea where he holds beginner freestyle sessions for adults over 18 years. He says that his freestyle classes help people to find the rhythm in the music as well as learn moves to create their own unique style. He also taught some online classes over the lockdown period at the start of 2021 which included styles such as popping, breaking, afro and even salsa! Templar has many friends who also dance and they create videos together to showcase their talent. The group locate around Southsea to film their content which can sometimes be choreography, freestyle or just grooving for fun. Before lockdown, he would often compete at battles or spectate and has said he learnt a lot from that experience. Templar took part in the recent Global Bandstand event in Portsmouth and took part in multiple classes where he found other dancers to hopefully collaborate with in the future.
Excerpts from "The Spectrum of Adventure" (Part 5) by Thomas A. Christie
In this section: "The Very Big Cave Adventure" by St Bride's School for CRL Group (1986)Excerpts from "The Spectrum of Adventure" by Thomas A. ChristieThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the most popular home computers in British history, selling over five million units in its 1980s heyday.Amongst the thousands of titles released for the Spectrum during its lifetime, the text adventure game was to emerge as one of the most significant genres on the system.Covering 100 games in all, this book celebrates the Spectrum’s thriving interactive fiction scene of the eighties, chronicling the achievements of major publishers as well as independent developers from the machine’s launch in 1982 until the end of the decade in 1989."The Spectrum of Adventure" is Copyright ©2016 Thomas A. Christie, all rights reserved, and is published by Extremis Publishing Ltd.This title is available as a physical book from www.extremispublishing.com and all good online retailers and independent booksellers worldwide.
Templar - Choreo and Freestyle - Salsa and Break Dance to Afrobeats!
Templar Animated is a hip-hop dancer and break dancer as well as a freestyle teacher. He is based in Portsmouth, Southsea where he holds beginner freestyle sessions for adults over 18 years. He says that his freestyle classes help people to find the rhythm in the music as well as learn moves to create their own unique style. He also taught some online classes over the lockdown period at the start of 2021 which included styles such as popping, breaking, afro and even salsa! Templar has many friends who also dance and they create videos together to showcase their talent. The group locate around Southsea to film their content which can sometimes be choreography, freestyle or just grooving for fun. Before lockdown, he would often compete at battles or spectate and has said he learnt a lot from that experience. Templar took part in the recent Global Bandstand event in Portsmouth and took part in multiple classes where he found other dancers to hopefully collaborate with in the future.