Movement Play has been one of my favorite events for the last two years. We’ll be coming out again. This festival is a labor of love for all those invovled and some the artwork created for it is amazing. Miss Rosie is trying to step it up, creating a foundation to fund [...]
Posts under ‘Hooping’
How to make high-performance white plastic hoops.
I’ve been hooping with white plastics since I first began experimenting with them a year and a half ago. When I started my extensive research trying to find a lighter, more rigid plastic for my regular hoop, Patrick of psihoops was one of the first people I contacted. He’s been using alternative plastics for [...]
step right up – Nicolas Longuechaud
A new post from Nicholas Lounguechard, one of the most brilliant prop manipulators I’ve ever seen. I have yet to meet the man but I’ve been inspired by him for years. Crossing my fingers that he’ll make it to Hoop Con this year.
Plans Drawn In Pencil – The Prop Box
A few of us Bay Area folks were able to catch this show with Beth a few weeks back when she was in town. The show was so perfectly done that Lauren and I went back to see it again the next weekend.
They incorporated dance, prop manipulation, aerial silk, aerial ropes of [...]
Burning Man Panoramic Images
Dozens of 360º panoramic images of Burning Man 2009 have been posted here. Check them out. I haven’t located any clearly defined hoops but I bet they are there somewhere. I promise that within the fiery blur of the conclave there are many firehoops but I was hoping to see at [...]
The Rumpus Monthly
Last night I performed at The Monthly Rumpus. The event was magical. So many friendly enthusiastic individuals and a diverse crowd set in the surreal scene of the Make Out Room in the Mission. The Rumpus Monthly is a poetry/book reading/party/musical acts etc… sort of a high brow variety act of friendly [...]
It happens…
I had one of those unfortunate moments this morning at Ecstatic Dance east bay. Bomb Goddess was closing up an amazing set. I was going off as deep in flow as I’ve been in months. It was one of those transcendent moments where the music was perfect and my energy [...]
The Rumpus
Julie Grecious just posted this litle bio and intro about me on TheRumpus.net. I’ll be performing at the monthly Rumpus at the Make-Out Room on February 8th. Thank you Julie for the kind words :)
Most people would be content to watch Richard Porter watching paint dry. But at the next Monthly Rumpus on [...]
The Hoop of the Future?
In talking to an engineer friend recently, we started discussing potential hoop design improvements. I think this could be a revolutionary design, though who knows if the tooling costs could ever be recouped.
Plastic:
According to my engineer friend, polypropylene is sort of a junk plastic and polyethylene is essentially wax. He mentioned that Polypropylene [...]
Animated Diagrams for Hoop Technique
I’m all excited. I just learned a new skill. I can now draw animated diagrams for future Isopop posts and primarily for the DVD. You can learn more about creating animations in Photoshop: here. We had wanted to incorporate moving diagrams since the inception of the project. I had been imagining [...]
