Art in the Park, sponsored by the Arts Council of Wayne County, moved to Herman Park this year. Last year’s tornado dropped a big tree in the middle of the park we had used in previous years. The Starlight Dance Band played in the bandstand, providing music for the hula hoopers to dance to. I…
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Beautiful Bad News
The hoops and I went to a fund raiser for the Lymphoma Leukemia Society on Saturday in North Raleigh. The forecast called for a chance of thunderstorms. When I first set up, the day was clear and hot, but before long, the sky turned briefly beautiful–towering clouds catching the sunlight–and then dark. It poured. The…
Hooping at Clydefest 2012
Clydefest 2012, Bynum, NC dateline April 14, 2012 A year since the tornado. Great weather this year, great crowd. The daddies who bring their children to Clydefest are more likely to hoop than at any other event I do. Everyone seemed to be having a good time, except for the little girl who was inconsolable…
Art updates
Long time no write. At least, not writing in here. In the process of building the new website–KarenTiede.com, after owning the domain name for two years and paying for hosting for four months. My work has outgrown PittsboroPenguins.com and it’s time to move, which means as much of a reorganization of files and pictures as…
Hooping and Yoga
The August 2011 issue of Yoga Journal has an article titled, “You Spin Me Round“–a hooping revolution churns up ever more Joy and self-awareness in the Yoga community” (p. 72-5, 105-6). If you don’t subscribe or if the video’s gone from the site by the time you see this post, look for the issue in…
Weighted Hulahoop
Several exercise studios have popularized the idea of using a weighted hulahoop as a way to build core strength. Some of the hoops they provide in the gym weigh as much as six pounds. These weighted hulahoops may be filled with water, or sand, or made of very heavy tubing. When I’m take the hoops…
Carrying and Selling Hula Hoops
Finding a way to keep hoops orderly and at the same time accessible during street fairs and other events has been a bit of a challenge. I noticed the hoop rack Julia Hartsell was using at Shakori last year, and when an old bunk bed showed up at the swap shed, I made use of…
In which I do Physics on the fly, without a hoop to help
I would normally tell you that I don’t do physics. I got off the science train at chemistry, and earned a B- in the mandatory second semester of college physics. I am amused to note that hula hooping is all about applied physics, being nothing but angular momentum, but you can hoop without knowing the…
How to correct the shape of a hula hoop
Hula hoops can “go wrong” a couple of ways when you first start out making them. How you correct the shape of a hula hoop depends on what’s wrong with it. Not flat The easiest problem to fix is when the hula hoop is “crooked,” that is, not all in the same plane. This usually…
Duck tape and hula hoops
Duck tape. Duct tape, actually, but spelling is the least of your problems when the terms “duct tape” and “hula hoops” get used in the same sentence. In a word: NO. In three: don’t do it. It’s not that it “comes off easily.” (It does, in a couple of years, or faster if you live…