Ok, so I have to put my gleaming editorial integrity aside for a moment and shamelessly promote this video featuring none other than my hubby, aka Jordan (he’s the one who isn’t in a big raccoon suit – the raccoon would be my friend Josh).
The video was produced for the National Wildlife Federation as part of their Happy Birthday Ranger Rick initiative, and if you sign up for their newsletter, they may commission more of these videos, which means they may hire Jordan again (emphatic cough).
This is actually a very appropriate post for Creative DC in that it provides yet another reminder that we are more than what we do from 9-5. This has come to seem obvious to me, but I still meet so many people struggling to build a life outside of their jobs, as I did for so long. If you met Jordan at a party and asked, as so many of us do in DC, “what do you do?,” you might only learn that he’s a technologist for an interactive agency. What you wouldn’t know is that he’s also a singer and improvisor and that he defines himself as much by these passions as he does by his day job – more so, actually.
So the moral of this story is, let’s find more interesting questions to ask each other at parties.
…and let’s all hire Jordan to sing for us. ;)
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Once a rockstar, always a rockstar!
Rockstar wasn’t the *first* word that came to mind there… ;)
When did Jordan develop a southern drawl? And was he like 17 when he fathered that girl?
I actually see Jordan as fairly one-dimensional, it’s just a really oddly shaped dimension that no one else really comprehends.
What a great clip – it really made me smile. Next time, maybe they can hire you to play the mommy, Amanda!
Point taken.
I just kept waiting for him to break in to Birth Ritual. Maybe it was just me waxing nostalgic.
Love it! My little brothers definitely need to be saved!