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Showing posts with label Dance. Show all posts

10 January 2013

Hooping at the Giant's Causeway in Ireland

Hooping with Revolva, Valentina, Gail, Tiana and Harlequin






When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road, turn out the lights, get out and look up at the sky
And I do this to remind me that I'm really, really tiny
In the grand scheme of things and sometimes this terrifies me

But it's only really scary cause it makes me feel serene
In a way I never thought I'd be because I've never been
So grounded, and so humbled, and so one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

Rock and roll is fun but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky
Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye

When I saw Geneviève I really liked it when she said
What she said about the giant and the lemmings on the cliff
She said 'I like giants
Especially girl giants
Cause all girls feel too big sometimes
Regardless of their size'

When I go for a drive I like to pull off to the side
Of the road and run and jump into the ocean in my clothes
*I'm smaller than a poppyseed inside a great big bowl
And the ocean is a giant that can swallow me whole

So I swim for all salvation and I swim to save my soul
But my soul is just a whisper trapped inside a tornado
So I flip to my back and I float and I sing
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything
I am grounded, I am humbled, I am one with everything

So I talked to Geneviève and almost cried when she said
That the giant on the cliff wished that she was dead
And the lemmings on the cliff wished that they were dead
So the giant told the lemmings why they ought to live instead

When she thought up all those reasons that they ought to live instead
It made her reconsider all the sad thoughts in her head
So thank you Geneviève, cause you take what is in your head
And you make things that are so beautiful and share them with your friends

We all become important when we realize our goal
Should be to figure out our role within the context of the whole
And yeah, rock and roll is fun, but if you ever hear someone
Say you are huge, look at the moon, look at the stars, look at the sun
Look at the ocean and the desert and the mountains and the sky

Say I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
I am just a speck of dust inside a giant's eye
And I don't wanna make her cry
Cause I like giants

26 June 2012

Fire Family at Rusty's Bar

 Another wonderful evening of friends, family, fire and faeries.






You can click here to be redirected to my other blog to view more photos from the evening.  

22 July 2011

Amazing Photography - Home on the Playa

Check out Eric Schwabel's unique
 photo project at BM2010!  The photos are breath-taking. 



The production funds were raised through a kickstarter.com campaign. Stills were shot on a Mamiya 645 AFD with DM28 digital back. Lights are Profoto Pro-b2 kits with Pro-7 heads.


17 February 2011

On the Instruction of Flames

Flames cleanse and correct
Instructing unforgivingly
On balance and harmony
Creating neurological pathways

This space where time slows
Intuition expands by necessity
Flexibility, flow and subtleties
Appear where they were not


23 January 2011

Austin NYE - Electro Circus Style

Just a few shots from the Electro Circus celebration at Auditorium Shores:

Ciara Blossom 2010

I would like to introduce you to the lovely Ciara Blossom, a wonderful example of Truth & Beauty. She embodies love and community and is integral to the heartbeat of Austin.

Ciara Blossom 2010 from Spunlight Hoops on Vimeo.


If the Vimeo player doesn't work on your puter, you can check out the YouTube version here.

28 December 2010

More Fun at Ruta Maya



I love setting slower shutter speeds to reveal the geometric patterns that appear:

This young lady's bell-flared dress intrigued me as she hooped about.


19 December 2010

The World Spins Madly On

This is a wonderful animation to "The World Spins Madly On" by The Weepies.

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.



To watch the video full screen and in high-def, click here.

05 November 2010

Austin Gypsy Picnic Trailer Food Festival

Join us at the Gypsy Picnic Trailer Food Festival Saturday 11 am to 8pm at Auditorium Shores.

(All photos from the Gypsy Picnic website.)

There will be lots of samples under $3 for purely Austin trailer fare.
30+ eclectic trailers

Sample portions for $3 or less

Live music all day
Trailer's represented:
86 THIS •Bananarchy •Chi'Lantro BBQColibri Cuisine •Conscious Cravings •Coolhaus Cutie Pies •Elixer Coffee Gourdough's - Big Fat Donuts •Hat Creek Burger Co. Holy Cacao •Izzoz Tacos •Juan Pelota Coffee Truck Kate's Southern Comfort •Kronic Krave Arepas Man Bites Dog •mmmpanadas •Patika Coffee Pick Up Stixx •Royito's Hot Sauce Streamer Short Bus Subs •Sugar Shack BBQ •The Best Wurst The Flying Carpet •The Jalopy: Rotisserie and Press the Mighty Cone •the peached tortilla The ZubikHouse •Torchy's Tacos Turf N Surf Po' Boy

Live music on the ZiegenBock Stage:
Junior Brown •J Roddy Walston And The Business Gary Clark Jr. •Ruby Jane •English Teeth •Noise Revival Orchestra

22 October 2010

20 September 2010

Stilt Faeiry


This was an amazing event and I hope to share more photos and maybe some stories from the 2010 Komasket Music Festival soon.
I really enjoyed all of the stilters running around the festival.


08 March 2010

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

I don't necessarily follow well or encourage anyone to follow me. There is beauty in being a lone nut; with or without followers. Here is to the pursuit of truth, love and beauty and the movements that form around those pursuits!



A word of caution: sometimes a lone nut is just a lone nut and not a leader (not that there's anything wrong with that), no matter how many followers there might be.