The Quotable TRISTAN MACMANUS

There comes a time in every dancer’s life, when the people clamor to see the hokey pokey. When that time comes, do not go gentle into that good night. Summon up the most adorable part of yourself, and, with both palms open, bring the people the gotdamm hokey pokey.

Tristan MacManus makes the sacrifice. Put your right foot in.

Even when he’s a virtual abstraction, Tristan MacManus is adorable!

Stick-figure optical-marker-representation Tristan breaks it down. The charm: it has been captured.

Motion capture. Kym Johnson and Tristan MacManus.

So, there’s an online game Dancing with the Stars Keep Dancing, which employed Kym and Tristan as choreographers and models, and Yahoo has some very cool footage of their work.

Can you pick Tristan in the game? I don’t see him listed as a pro dancer option on the site. They did include the divine Pasha Kovalev though. Nice one, game.

DWTS Season 14. Week 6 Rumba Rehearsals.

Dancing with the Stars declared it “Motown” Week, and Gladys’s older brother Bubba (founding member of Gladys Knight & the Pips) stopped by the studio to drop some Pip-ology on young Tristan MacManus.

Ode to Bubba.

• Merald “Bubba” Knight, Jr.
• Pip l’originale.
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
• Older brother of Gladys “Empress of Soul” Knight.
• Bearer of dimples as deep as destiny.
• Head booster of Team Gladys and beacon of awesomeness in the DWTS ballroom.

Dear Reader,

Season 14 of Dancing with the Stars is done, but I’ll queue up enough posts over the hiatus, so that this tumblr updates at least once a week.

As always, the posts won’t be life-altering or anything you haven’t seen before, but if you’re like me and seeing images of Tristan on an eternally-animating loop has a way of easing those pangs of adoration, then I’m happy you found this spot. 

Thank you for visiting, following, liking, tumbreblogging or spending even a microsecond of your day chillin’ on The Quotable Tristan MacManus. Hope someone like Bubba is reppin’ you just as hard and with as much love on your own personal dance floor ♥

Affectionately,

Your appreciative tumblrer :)

p.s. If you visit the blog by hitting the actual home page http://tristanology.tumblr.com — as opposed to viewing individual posts via tumblr or via links from the automated twitter — how does the page load for you?

Does it take too long to load? Should I reduce the number of posts per page?

Or does the page load quickly and easily? Should I up the number of posts per page so there are fewer blog pages to scroll through?

p.p.s. And, of course, an abundance of thanks to Tristan for being so charming, funny, witty, wise, kind, principled, quotable, humble, and himself on the magic TV screen.