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June, 2009:

Movement Play Summer Camp Out is Next Week!

Jun 30th, 2009
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The Movement Play “micro-festival”, as Rosie likes to call it, is next week and tickets sales end July 4th! Only 30 tickets remain for this incredible 4 day music and dance event happening July 9th-12th! Ecstatic Dance, all types of movement workshops, organic food, and a stunning setting make this event one of the most nourishing festivals of the summer.

Visit Movement Play Website: Here
Purchase Tickets: Here

Music:
Beats Antique
Tropo
Dragonfly
Neptune
BombGoddess

Performances and classes by:
Jill Parker
Deb Rubin
Anah “Hoopalicious” – Hoop Revolution
Christabel Zamor – HoopGirl
Miss Rosie – Hero Hoops
Rich Porter – Isopop
Isa “GlitterGirl” – Temple Of Poi
Aaron Jessup
Tyler Blank
Donna Carroll
The Shamanic Cheerleaders
Brian O’Connell
Jamie Luv
Diane Waye
Susan Lee
Philippe & Paget
and more!

Vending by Melodia Designs and Miss Rosie’s Hoop Couture… Join Us! Tickets are $299 for 4 days with all food included! No day passes available. 18 and over, no pets allowed. www.MovementPlay.com

Visit Movement Play Website: Here
Purchase Tickets: Here

Hoop Structure – Yes We Can Architects

Jun 30th, 2009
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The installation was in the courtyard of the 18th century Hotel d’Aurès music school as part of the Festival des Architectures Vives :In(Side)Out in Montpellier, France last summer.

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LAZER SWORD – SWEATPANTS MONEY MIXTAPE

Jun 29th, 2009
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Free Download: here

LAZER SWORD is the duo of San Francisco based LOW LIMIT and LANDO KAL. They like to make music that sounds like your favorite top 40 rap shit chopped up into a tornado filled with razor blades and molasses. Or maybe like Frank Zappa rocking the home made Lil John tank-top at the rooftop party.

LAZER SWORD made the SWEATPANTS MONEY MIXTAPE for one of their favorite websites; Nalden.net. A lifestyle blog for people who love to stay ahead of the curve. SWEATPANTS MONEY is featuring 26 tracks blended into a tornado of heavy LAZER SWORD beats with a cappella’s from artists like Ludacris, Jay-Z, M.I.A. & Eazy-E. As a big fan of the duo from SF, Nalden is pleased to host this mix especially made for his blog. Like the blog, the music of LAZER SWORD is to put it bluntly, really next level.

Tracklist
Sweatpants Money Intro
Eprom “Humaoid Dub” w/ Mike Jones “Like What I Got (a cappella)”
Powell “Aleatory”
Low Limit “Trapperkeeper”
Nadsroic “Room Mist”
Lazer Sword “Koopa Boss Mode (Edit)” w/ Jay Z “99 Problems (a cappella)”
Ghosts On Tape “Straight From Cassette”
Lazer Sword “Street Sodas (Edit)” w/ MIA “Bucky Done Gun (a cappella)
Lazer Sword “TroubleVision (Edit)” w/ Tum Tum “Caprice Music (a cappella)”
Rod Lee “Let Me See What U Workin With (Low Limit remix)”
Dema “Chang!!XXXX” w/ Eazy-E “Tha Muthafukkin Real (a cappella)”
Solid Groove & Sinden “Overbooked”
Radioclit “On Everything feat. Twista & David Banner”
Tiago Andrade “Babel Fish” w/ Gucci Mane “Aw Man (a cappella)”
Lando Kal “Fuzzy Ankles w/ T.I. “Swing Your Rag (a cappella)”
Robot Koch ft. Cerebral Vortex “Vortex Cookies (Lazer Sword remix)”
Mr. Oizo “Lars Von Sen (X-mas Version)” w/ Ludacris “Grew Up a Screw Up (a cappella)”
Slugabed “Getobonk”
Keri Hilson “Get Your Money Up”
Lazer Sword “Carpet Ride (Edit)”
Lando Kal “Clobbertime” w/ Pase Rock “Sexy Motherfucker (a cappella)”
Restiform Bodies “Interactive Halloween Bear (Lazer Sword remix)”
Lazer Sword “Lektrik Womp (Edit)”
Dopplereffekt “Scientist” w/ Slim Thug “I Ain’t Heard of That (a cappella)”
Death Of A Party “Sympathy for Miss Veronica (Lazer Sword remix)”
Siriusmo “High Together”

Free Download: here

Hoop Path Retreat 2009, set 2

Jun 26th, 2009
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TheRumpus.net: An Interview with Ariane Conrad

Jun 25th, 2009
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Check out this terrifically entertaining interview of Ariane Conrad, author of The Hooping Book: here

Rumpus: Right! The book. Let’s talk about this book. You and this mortal HoopGirl have written a guidebook to sex.

Conrad: Actually, it’s a guide to hooping, the modern form of hula hooping.

Rumpus: Oh come now. Let’s take a look… “activate the muscles in your legs to power your pelvic thrusts,” it says here.

Conrad: Right, in order to keep the hoop in orbit around your waist.

Rumpus: I think we both know you’re talking about sex. How about this: “Don’t anticipate; respond to it. Push into it when you feel it touch you.”

Original Article: here

Blue Bottle Coffee: customer takes design into his own hands.

Jun 23rd, 2009
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The Blue Bottle Coffee kiosk beneath my architecture office is constantly busy, sometimes with lines exceeding 30 minutes in our Hayes Valley back alley. This morning as I approached our front door, I notices a new street addition across the street. Desiring more table space to set his drink, one of the regular customers took matters into his own hands. Across the street there have been two metal poles that sand about 40″ tall, the kind normally reserved for protecting building from people backing into them in a car. This clever customer decided that one of the poles would be the base for his new mobile table, seen in the photograph above. His plan is to bring it over to Blue Bottle everyday when he gets his coffee. His table top takes advantage of the sunny side of the street, where customers often just lean against a wall while drinking there morning coffee.

Hoop Path Retreat 2009 Photos – Day One

Jun 22nd, 2009
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I’ll post more photos in the next few days as I find time to edit them. I had such a great time connecting with everyone and Carrboro is beautiful. Wow. More on the experience to come… I gotta get some sleep.

Hoopdance Evolution: Intermediate One Trailer

Jun 17th, 2009
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Here is the new HoopGirl DVD trailer. There is a short snippet of me at :56.

Available now at www.HoopGirl.com! This is the hoopdance instructional DVD you have been waiting for! Begin with a blindfolded warm-up to build kinesthetic intelligence. Next, learn 20 new intermediate level moves with detailed studio instruction, featuring slow motion and close-ups. Includes lush costumed performances around scenic San Francisco on rooftops, in alleys and at historic landmarks. Performance segments feature fantastic costumes and MTV style editing. A mesmerizing soundtrack by Shaman’s Dream and Desert Dwellers. 96 minute playtime

Flow In the Wasteland

Jun 16th, 2009
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Khan, Lauren and I shot this over the weekend. It’s been a while since I’ve made any videos and it felt great to see the stuff I’ve been developing on film. Khan demos his new found passion, club swinging as well as a bunch of his axial isolations that I am so fond of. Lauren shot most of the video of us in these remote warehouses down in the dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. The three of us had a spectacular day and I can’t wait to do it again. Khan cranked out this elegant edit job in no time at all. The man has skillz.

The track is “Reborn” by Janaka Selekta off the Pushing Air album. The full album is available for listening here. Janaka is a close friend and producing some of Lauren and I’s favorite music, most of which is asian influenced dubstep. Thank you Janaka for allowing us to use this track. We listened to it for 6 hours on repeat while shooting : )
Check him out at: www.janakaselekta.net

Cirque Berzerk – Accidents

Jun 12th, 2009
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From the twisted carnival of Cirque Berzerk:

It would be P.T. Barnum’s worst nightmare.
If he weren’t so dead.

It’s been called everything from “a circus on acid” to “French burlesque meets Sweeney Todd.” Cirque Berzerk’s unique flavor of adult psychedelic vaudevillian tomfoolery returns to the Los Angeles State Historic Park. Performances run Thursday, June 18th through Sunday, July 5th, 2009.

Born at Burning Man in 2005 and named one of “L.A.’s 10 Weirdest Events of 2008” by the Los Angeles Times, Cirque Berzerk has tickled the collective innards of L.A. and beyond with a psychotically-tinged sultry show filled with sinewy, breathtaking acrobatics, sensual aerialists, gothic stilt walkers, fetishy burlesque dancers, voluptuous contortionists and a host of punk rock clowns, none of whom know how to make cute balloon animals for the kiddies. “Wholesome family fun” it ain’t.

It seems like they are really stepping it up a notch with the production quality, graphics, website, videography, the whole bit. I wonder if Britney Spears might make a stop from her “Circus” tour to check this out? Hah.

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