KABA Modern at UC Irvine

Tin, a colleague of mine in my AAS345 Contemporary Issues in Asian American Studies class, asked me and a couple of others if they were interested of going to the KABA Modern break dancing event that was at UC Irvine, and I figured it would be fun to check out, so the both of us went all the way there last night. I thought Tin was crazy because Northridge to Irvine isn’t a near drive. In fact, it’s at least 85 miles one way, so it was very nice of him to drive all the way there and then back. He had to do his project, too, so it was fair game.

Whee, zoom~ I brought my Nikon COOLPIX P80 because it was a lot lighter to carry (compared to Nikon D60), and the optical zoom is a lot farther. The biggest downfall about it is you definitely need steady hands to get a clear photo with the long range zoom.

Here’s Tin break dancing! He was asking me if I saw him do such thing before, and I didn’t. It was pretty cool. He also thought this photo looks pretty nice, so I guess I can print him a copy and give it to him in class someday.

So the event itself is actually pretty cool. There were many break dancing groups, and they were all competing each other, but I don’t know if there is really a prize in the end or what not. I just think it’s so interesting because I did a “coverage” on V.ENT because of Tricia last semester, and I entered another hip hop sort of thing yesterday, so I’ve been sort of in the scene this year. I kind of know what to expect, especially from the music, and it’s very cool and interesting to see what kind of moves do people make up.