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→ 23 May 13 at 11 am
→ 23 May 13 at 11 am
The Great Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton - 1917 - 2006
HELL THE FUCK YES
Perfection.
(via nipstheclown)
circus, love, and other indoor sports
Artist, anarchist, aerialist, activist, acrobat. Geeky, curvy, kinky, queer. Sex-work/er positive, body-postive. Traveler. Cynic.
(Very, very, very, very secret romantic.)
Currently Portland-based, with my heart scattered in all kinds of directions, my head in books and my body in the air as often as possible.
This tumblr contains: fishes, circus, naked people, politics, kink, sex.
I also run http://fuckyeahmaleaerialists.tumblr.com/
I skipped my usual noon Crossfit class to catch the 7PM one because my day was a chaos of errands, only to be the only person in the 7PM class! Unintentional private training with the coaches :) I learned how to do a barbell row (which is far less enjoyable than kettlebell rows, on account of using both hands) and revisited glute bridges with a barbell.
The death workout was a new thing to me- ball-slams. Finally, a paltry revenge on the medicine balls! It involved standing with the ball over head, then slamming it into the floor and catching it in a squat. The second part was star jumps, which meant touching the medicine ball on the floor and jumping into the eponymous star shape.
We did it “on the minute” for ten minutes, and I got 84 ball-slams in and 52 star jumps. My best time for 8 ball-slams and 5 star jumps was 21 seconds, on my very last set :)
So I cut my thumb.
On the trapeze.
With my toenail.
(And then went on with my splits in the ropes on the high bar while being very careful not to bleed on the equipment because that’s the highest I’ve ever been in the ropes and I wasn’t going to stop because of a little blood.)
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→ 22 May 13 at 2 pm
→ 22 May 13 at 2 pm
Quick ‘n dirty guide to making an inclined sign for busking/vending/performing/all your sign needing needs!
I’m heading up to Folklife to busk this weekend, and as part of my “shout less perform more” scheme for busking, I decided I needed a sign to set up in front of our busking area. I wanted something light and easy to build, so I made it with PVC pipes to make it simple and collapsible.
Wanna make one? You’re gonna need:
- PVC pipe in the dimensions you want your sign to be. I used two lengths of 1/2” 5’ pipe, 2 lengths of 1/2” 2’ pipe, and 2 lengths of 1/2” 1.5’ pipe.
- 4 3-way PVC pipe connectors
- Bedsheet. I dumpstered one from Reed College this weekend and used that.
- Paint. I bought two of the smallest cans of paint I could find at the hardware store.
- Paintbrushes
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Total material cost: roughly $20
- Build the sign frame. Check out the above picture- PVC pipes are basically tinker-toys for adults, it’s pretty obvious what goes where.
- Remove the two incline supports and lay the frame on top of your bedsheet. Fold the edges of the bedsheet over the pipe and glue it into place, creating a seam. You could sew this if you were far less lazy than me. Keep the sheet taut as you go, you’re essentially making a large canvas to paint on.
- Re-attached the incline supports and stencil your design on in pencil.
- Paint that shit. Accept the inevitability of drips. Lay down a cloth before you begin, for the love of God.
- Make whatever tweaks to the design you need (I’m going to adjust the weight of the letters and clean up my pencil marks once it dries).
- Be pleased with yourself for designing something that required virtually no in-project fixes as you made it! Have a cookie.
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→ 22 May 13 at 1 pm
→ 22 May 13 at 1 pm
Another one for fuckyeahfemalebases!
The collection grows!
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♥ 371
→ 20 May 13 at 3 pm
→ 20 May 13 at 3 pm
Chemistry Dubstep, Music Video Created Using Scientific Experiments
…someone has to have made a “drop the base” joke already. This is too perfect.
