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A hoop featuring that bald-headed monkey, Karl Pilkington, with him speaking a quote from one of his poems:
"It would be spiteful,
To put jellyfish in a trifle."
Done on a 7 inch embroidery hoop!
This hooper was one of several street performers at this years first 'First Friday Art Walks' in Portland, Maine. I took lots of photos and I hope some good ones. The main event was a parade of music along Congress Street led by violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain best known as DBR. More to come.
At the carnival parade in Mödling near Vienna
I can still vividly remember my young teenage aunts trying out hula hoops in the courtyard of my grandparents' house at the end of the 1950s, when I was still at kindergarten or had just started school. Hula hooping was all the rage at the time and my young aunts were very open to anything that was modern.
A re-post from one year ago. I am in the midst of a much delayed task of setting up backup for my photos. It is amazing how long it takes to backup 4 tb of data--think days.
This is Nikki Hunt of the Nikki Hunt Band doing one of her many 'hooping' routines as part of her band's two hour performance in Winthrop, Maine at Norcross Point Playground. See my short video of part of this performance with four hoops. To clarify, her hooping was only on one song; she is the featured vocalist for her band. Hooping is an added attraction.
Her band does covers and is very good with a tight sound and good audience appeal
Hooping (also called hula hooping or hoop dance) generally refers to manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop (or hoops). Hoops can be made of metal, wood, or plastic. Hooping combines technical moves and tricks with freestyle or technical dancing. Hooping can be practiced to or performed with music. In contrast to the classic toy hula hoop, modern hoopers use heavier and larger diameter hoops, and frequently rotate the hoop around parts of the body other than the waist, including the hips, chest, neck, shoulders, thighs, knees, arms, hands, thumbs, feet, and toes. The hoop can also be manipulated and rotated off the body as well. Modern hooping has been influenced by art forms such as rhythmic gymnastics, hip-hop, freestyle dance, fire performance, twirling, poi, and other dance and movement forms.
Hooping is a physical dexterity activity that has been described as a part of flow arts, and a form of object manipulation. It is sometimes described as a form of juggling. [Wikipedia]
Strobist - Exposure set manually at 1/125 and f18, and one Speedlite EX430 II on full power handheld off the camera and fired using the ST-E2.
Macro set up -extension tubes - aperture stopped down to f18 then pressed down DoF preview button while removing lens to keep the aperture stopped down prior to fitting the extension tubes.
On Explore : Highest position: 250 on Saturday, August 8, 2009
Sculpture in front called "Hoop-la" by Alice Aycock, USA and sculpture in background called "Anna" by Jaume Plensa, Spain.
Contemporary sculptures in a pre-historic landscape. Exhibition in 2016, Pilane, Sweden.
pilane.org (website partly in English)
ODC-Starts With The Letter H
We were out quite early this morning to play with Shizandra. We were trying to beat the heat. It's going to be 91'F here today, whew!
I made this clock using Ali's tutorial: www.asquaredw.com/2011/02/embroidery-hoop-clock-tutorial....
blogged @ www.dreamfctry.blogspot.com
MadPea has shot a real 3 pointer at the Man Cave event with the MadPea Mad Hoops! Fully functional and Fabulously fun, this interactive arcade style basketball game is an exciting addition to any game room, store, club or business!
Ready for that epic shoot off with family and friends? Can you defend your court from the guests and visitors who seek to challenge you?
Find out by visiting the Man Cave event: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Match/196/114/46
Another snippet of'Hoop-La' by Alice Aycock.
'Beyond Limits 2014', Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK.
My Chatsworth album.
ODC-Vivid Colours
The backyard is covered in colourful maple leaves. The sun was shining so I had to get out and take some photos before they all fall off the trees.
This shot was a total fluke.
This is the female, Berlin, and she'll sometimes stand on her hind legs while on the shore. But I've never seen her pick up the ball this way before. The male, Bubba, is usually the one playing with the ball.
She was only up for a couple of seconds and I didn't have time to think or adjust my camera in any way. I just clicked and this is what came out. I'm VERY happy with it.
It's hard for me to top my "you dig?" or "Bustin Loose" photos. I mean, come on... it's just so unusual to see a polar bear holding a shovel. Those are probably still my favorites. But this is easily one of the best pics I've ever taken of these happy bears.
La foto no les hace justicia, pero bueno...
Por una cosa o por otra, aunque me encantaban estos pendientes me daba pereza ponerme con ellos... hasta que ayer, por fin me decidi! Como se que soys unas cuantas por ahi a las que tambien os cuesta poneros con ellos animaros, que se hacen muy rapidito y son muy agradecidos!
El que lleva los tupis Ruby fue el primero, hasta que no llegue el pedido se queda sin pareja...
Samantha framing herself perfectly in this slightly long exposure effort.
Strobe work: Nikon SB-910 camera left from roughly 45 degrees and SB-900 behind Sam at about 45degrees. Both triggered with Phottix Odins and set on rear curtain flash.
for video see www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT6ONfXxGf4
For Sarasota videos see: www.areaguides.com/sarasota-beautiful-people-and-events
For lots of Hoop Dancing videos see: www.areaguides.com/hoop-dancers
Another testing shot with the dx7360, taken a while back but just salvaged off a drive I had since removed.
At the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
The Hooper Strait Lighthouse, now standing on Navy Point, was originally built in 1879 to light the way for boats passing through the shallow, dangerous shoals of Hooper Strait, a thoroughfare for boats bound from the Chesapeake Bay across Tangier Sound to Deals Island or places along the Nanticoke and Wicomico Rivers. As a “screwpile” lighthouse, it is built on special iron pilings which were tipped with a screw that could be turned into the muddy bottom for a depth of 10 feet or more. The Museum’s lighthouse is the second lighthouse constructed at Hooper Strait – the first one was destroyed by ice in 1877.
In the 1960s the Coast Guard had taken to removing the houses from the old screw-pile lights in order to cut maintenance costs and avoid vandalism; a skeleton tower would then be erected on the old foundation. The Hooper Strait Light was slated to be so treated in 1966, but the newly founded Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum arranged with the Historical Society of Talbot County and the federal government to have the light moved to its campus instead. The light was sliced in half at its eaves, and the two pieces of the house were barged to St. Michaels, where they were reassembled on a newly constructed foundation on Navy Point. This was the first successful preservation effort of its kind in the bay, laying a precedent for the removal and preservation of the Drum Point and Seven Foot Knoll lights. The light remains a showpiece of the museum and a landmark on the St. Michaels waterfront.
cbmm.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/hooper-strait-...
The Museum is well worth a visit. Yesterday we met some folks vacationing in the US from the Netherlands- they were fascinated by the lighthouse, if not so much by our heat!
Hutchins Intermediate School - Detroit, Michigan
voiceofdetroit.net/2014/02/26/hutchins-school-before-and-...
The orange color on this eggplant background is a cotton lame, it has iridescent gold threads in the weave lending a beautiful sheen to this quilted fiber art piece framed in a fabric wrapped embroidery hoop.
The technique used to make this is called reverse applique, which means the shapes are cut out of the black fabric and the patterned fabric is placed behind it. A layer of batting is put behind it all and then machine stitched around all the shapes with the beautiful sheen of rayon embroidery thread.