By Jason Hughes, Client Services Representative at Ticket Alternative Ticket Printing
We like to have fun at work. One of the ways we do this is to throw darts whenever possible. We have a sweet dartboard mounted at regulation height (bull’s eye at 5 feet 8 inches) in the break room. And our throwing line is 7 feet 9 ¼ inches from the board. So, we’re legit.
Noel, Royal T, and I always have games going. Although we are all incredibly inconsistent we are no chuckers.
Check this out – the point of the second dart is stuck into the flight of the first thrown dart! It’s called a “Robin Hood” (see the image left).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_darts_terms
One of my favorite darts terms describes when each player throws a single dart in order to determine who will start the game. This is called “Diddle for the Middle.”
By Chris Blais, Print Specialist at Ticket Alternative Ticket Printing.
Fungus has been discovered in South America that can digest and live solely on plastic which could mean a tremendous breakthrough for recycling the billions of tons of landfill material around the world. If an enzyme can be isolated from the fungus we could use it to slow the buildup of plastic that is clogging our landfills. Read the full story here:
Our very own boss Iain Bluett will be taking part in a panel discussion about Georgia’s music identity. And who better to take part in that discussion than a man who has been in an Atlanta band, has managed Atlanta bands, started a blog highlighting Atlanta bands, and started a company whose first clients were core in getting gigs for Atlanta bands? Iain will be joining Third Day’s Mac Powell, entertainment attorney Omara S. Harris, Esq. and Sugarland’s Kristian Bush. From Atlanta Magazine:
Taking place Wednesday, February 29, at 7 p.m. at the Atlanta History Center, the event is part of our “Conversations with Atlanta Magazine” series, in which we talk to luminaries in various fields on issues central to Atlanta’s identity.
Sugarland. Third Day. Lady Antebellum. The Zac Brown Band. Cee Lo Green. Sugarland. Ludacris. Outkast. Amid the seismic shifts roiling the recording industry, Georgia musicians are leaving an indelible impact on American pop culture. Where once rock and country and hip-hop artists each kept to their own genre, a new generation of hometown performers are blending styles (Ludacris and Jason Aldean) and pioneering some of today’s most innovative sounds (Janelle Monae). Local entrepreneurs are changing the way consumers buy tickets and enjoy live performances. Where is all this heading, and what does it mean for Georgia’s music future? We host a lively discussion with some of the industry’s most influential players: Mac Powell of Third Day, Iain Bluett of Ticket Alternative, entertainment Omara S. Harris, and Kristian Bush of Sugarland.
Thanks so much to Access Atlanta for their kind words on the Winter Beer Carnival, coming up this Saturday at Atlanta’s Atlantic Station:
When the mother of all beer festivals, Denver’s Great American Beer Festival, got its start in 1982, it was an unprecedented event. Thirty years later, the words “beer” and “festival” are everywhere it seems, defined as everything from sophisticated multi-day tastings to casual afternoon block parties.
But in its third year, Saturday’s Winter Beer Carnival claims to be a unique event where you can sample more than a hundred different beers while enjoying all sorts of fun and games, including knocking the block off Rock’em Sock’em Robots, swinging a mallet to “Ring the Bell” and running wild in a fun house.
Read the rest of the article HERE and buy the tickets via the button below.
Today we were in an extra-specially good Friday mood. There’s a certain big game on this weekend, and to celebrate, we built our first ever Snack Stadium – and it was epic! We present a short video documenting this momentous task, with a excellent soundtrack to boot, courtesy of Journey. Enjoy!
Our graphic designer Angela Scarola takes you on a tour around our office and Ticket Alternative goodies. Here’s your VIP ticket inside our brand and headquarters!
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In my junior year of college, I took the most difficult course I’d ever taken in my life up to that point. It was plainly called “British Poetry” and it was taught by Bishop Hunt, a legendary “breaker of children,” someone to be truly feared. It was in his class that I was first required to practice “explications” – where we were required to convince Professor Hunt that we understood each and every line of an absurdly long and stuffy “classic” British poem by providing in great detail to him, the importance of each one of those lines to the poem as a whole. Not one line could be left out of your explication, no matter how short it was, or unimportant that it seemed.
I hated poetry explications, not because of the work required, but because of the poems on which they had to be performed. These were painfully dull (especially to a 20-year-old) poems by Keats, and Yeats, and Shelley, and Eliot, and so on – though the work itself was challenging, and in a grammar nerd sort of way – kinda fun.
Since I’ll probably never read another poem by any of those guys ever again in my lifetime, but I want to keep my brain nimble, I’ve completed my first poetry explication in 12 years…on the song “Hairdresser” by Lucille Cataldo and made famous on the New York City cable access show Stairway to Stardom…oh, and on Youtube.
Before reading my interpretation (aka SPOT ON nailing of the message in this now classic song) please view Cataldo’s performance, even if you’ve already seen it a thousand times before.
Enjoy!
-Noel
(P.S. – While this was fun, I’ll probably never do it again.)
“Stairway to Stardom” – by Lucille Cataldo
Hairdresser, hairdresser, whoh-oh
Hairdresser, hairdresser, Ohhhh ohh
Hairdresser, hairdresser
Hairdresser, hairdresser
Cataldo sings adoringly of her hairdresser, the tone in her voice is light and gives the impression that she could be singing this as she walks into her regular hairdresser’s business. She smiles and dances from side to side, playfully.
Midem just ended in Cannes, but that doesn’t mean that over here in the states we aren’t just as savvy! Today, Ticket Alternative released our 4th iPhone app, for the most awesome Center Stage Complex in our hometown of Atlanta! Download the app for FREE to browse upcoming shows, buy tickets from your phone and find out about artists & bands playing Center Stage, The Loft and Vinyl. You can even share gigs you’re attending via Facebook and Twitter or just email them to a friend.
Make sure to check out our apps for The Earl in Atlanta as well!
Not in Atlanta? We have apps for our Washington D.C. clubs, Rock and Roll Hotel & Black Cat as well!
It’s no secret that we are big fans of Whirlyball. It has been our holiday party destination for three years running and we were just there a month ago. Turns out our holiday games were just practice for an even bigger contest – a night of competitive Whirlyball matches with our good friends from The EARL in East Atlanta. It seems that somebody over at The EARL caught wind of our Whirlyball antics and decided (foolishly) to issue a challenge to Ticket Alternative.
Pleasantries were exchanged before we got started and were quickly forgotten as we took the court. The first match set the stage for the rest of the night. TA and The EARL were locked in an endurance test as the match went into triple overtime only to end in a tie game. Bragging rights were on the line and competition was fierce for the rest of the night, but Ticket Alternative won out in the end! Not only did we take more matches overall that night, but we also took down The EARL in the official and decisive match!
Any future challengers should take heed… better make sure you’ve had plenty of practice before you take the Whirlyball court against TA!
We’d like to give a hearty congratulations to Michael Kloss, Emory University’s Chief of Protocol and Executive Director, Office of University Events. Michael has been selected as one of five national finalists for the Organizational Event Planner of the Year in the Spotlight Awards, representing Atlanta’s famous Emory University.
Having worked closely with Michael during the Dalai Lama Visit in 2010, which we sold tickets for, we here at Ticket Alternative would like to heartily recommend that everyone votes to get him the recognition he so rightly deserves.
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