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 [...]
Posts under ‘Process’
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 [...]
Eyewriter – Graffiti Research Lab
The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
“Art is a tool of empowerment and social change, and I consider myself blessed to be able to create and use my work to promote health reform, bring awareness about ALS and help others.”
– Tony Quan, aka Tempt One
I’m always deeply interested in methods of graphically representing information. [...]
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 [...]
Commitment
HOOP PAINTING! from katherine blackburne on Vimeo.
Combining two passions, completing the circle.
Hooping/ Painting/ Film : Katherine Blackburne
Concept : Stefan Pildes
Music : “Gimme Something True” Basement Jaxx
Commitment is a beautiful thing. It’s so much easier to half ass just about anything. It takes a leap of faith and even more importantly, an exposing of [...]
How to be a creative intelligent hooper…
This was a series of thoughts I tweeted inspired by Brian Andreas’s posts on “how to live or manage a creative person.”
I haven’t really figured out what makes a smart creative hooper, but here it goes anyway:
4:26 AM Jan 9th from web
Tip #1: Avoid what’s expected… leg warmers… skimpy outfits… tada moves… do these things [...]
Hoop Technique – Burn – video
Late one night at the Flow Toys space, Spiral and I decided to take a break from shooting the Hoop Technique DVD and jam out. The dance floor has amazing lighting that transforms the space in an instant and was even more dramatic on the enormous backdrop we had setup. We kept the cameras [...]
Scarlet Harlot, Fire Shoot
Scarlet Harlot, Fire Shoot from Robb Pope on Vimeo.
This is some footage shot and edited by our friend Robb Pope, of Dijjital Productions. Robb will be editing the Hoop Technique DVD for Spiral and I. I’m actually upstairs in Spiral’s room right now while she’s downstairs in the Flow Toys dance studio rehearsing [...]
Street tumbling?!
This guy is breaking down tumbling like Brecken breaks down hooping for me. No rules… no plane… and no limitations. It’s straight up street tumbling.
