A Welcome Message from the Founder
Posted 02-15-2008 2:42 am by admin admin

In rock climbing they call it a Dyno. It's a move when there is no move. A leap of faith. Imagine it: You have made your way up the side of a huge rockface. Your forearms are starting to give out, you struggle to hold on to every grip. Your knees are scraped and bleeding after repeatedly banging them into stone after dozens of slips of your feet. Maybe you are already 50 or 100 feet up. But suddenly it stops. There are no more holds in reach of your hands, no more tiny outcrops on which to place your feet. You look up, and you see a hold, a jug they call it, a place where you can hold on to the rock like you hold on to the side of a bucket. But you can't make it without a Dyno. You must jump, like a kid jumping up to reach the monkey bars, your body leaving the safety of the rock until your hands can reach the next hold. If you can catch yourself on this hold, this jug, then you get the reward of continuing up the face; if you miss it, you fall 20, maybe 30 feet before the slack in the rope disappears and you slam into the side of the rock and are left dangling there dazed and defeated. You must retrace your steps and try again. That is the nature of a Dyno.

In cooking it's called Love. If you tell a chef that a dish needs more Love he or she will know exactly what you mean. Broccoli is the Love in cream of broccoli soup, fond is the Love in the mushroom sauce you create after you deglaze the pan you just used to prepare a sautéed airline chicken breast. To need more Love is to need more substance, more essence, more life. You may burn it, you may undercook it, you may mix the wrong sauce with the wrong meat, but the only excuse for too little Love is lack of dedication and passion.

Improvisors call it Yes And. Yes And is a building block. It's the idea that any opening is perfect. When two improvisors walk out on stage they are walking out into infinity. They have no obligations, no expectations, the world is their oyster. They could say anything or do anything; but no matter how one person decides to start the scene, the second person can always build on it, they can always Yes And. Improvisors even have a game they play, a drill to practice this idea. It's called "It's Tuesday." It is the simplest line, but demonstrates the idea of the perfect opening. "It's Tuesday." "Yes, and we've got to start packing for tomorrow's camping trip!" There is no wrong way to begin, every opening is perfect. The response is what moves the scene along.

This company is our Dyno, it is our leap of faith.

You the users and your videos are the Love, they are the essence of SmilingMonk.

The future--the technology we develop and the company we create together is our Yes And.

Welcome to SmilingMonk. Are you Monkilicious?

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