December 2010
1 post
the writing process
language is bananas. nuts. crazy in the coconut. i write and read constantly to juggernaut verbs into being and to pound nouns into nothing. my urge to deconstruct and reconstruct is constant and like a sand castle building obsession. it makes me strong and happy. i write too much in too many places and then sometimes sort the quarters out from pennies.
experiments with blogs and websites...
April 2010
2 posts
feminism and hula hooping
“i am a feminist. this is an evolving transformational process. i have been reading bell hooks for a dozen years now and i agree with most of what she says. these are post-difficult times in the feminist movement and all of us who call ourselves feminists or even those who are but can’t call themselves that because of the vicious backlash on the word, should read bell hooks.” i...
early morning writings of a hula night flame dream...
yesterday’s rhyme:
atop our stop the hip hop hoop scoop is bangin, we slangin, flow freely like speed psychology, love spin kynestography, buy hoops or stop by and crop sandwiches of metaphors, slip record and tell em more, speak, spin, be free, bmore.\
and then early this morning:
the english language has done damage to the pantomime family-time, simple grind like shakespeare, grind like...
March 2010
1 post
a daily rhyme, posted in a different place!
tumble block transgression, microsecond inflections, bite size rhymes and circular themes make trick bike metaphors time and vanacular light beams, break beats and telephones, stretch armstrong memories and tackle football that weather brings, spring jumps rivers of melt, givers of gelt fade steadily, what weighs heavily is the gift you give, sprig of lamb, jam on like a flock of two-toned love...
January 2010
3 posts
The Focus and the Fulcrum
The hula hoop was just a toy in my mind, even as i have been obsessive in my artistic mind’s eye with circles (all of my life), the hula hoop never impressed me and i never could do it.
The transition of hula hoop to a concept that has taken a driver seat in my life has been documented in other blogs. The thing that fascinates me most these dayz is the effect of hula hoops on individuals...
Ice Hoop
I have my spot on 33rd. the big median strip where i hoop every saturday morning has three brick pillars about 5 feet high at the intersection where Barclay and University and that other tiny street where the 7 - 11 is all meet. i have been going there weekly, except for weeks when i have a debate tournament, since i coach debate at connexions high school in west baltimore.
yesterday the wind...
my personal hula story: hooping as a means of...
this past year saw many new things in my life, i got unmarried, began new careers, turned 42, went on a long losing streak, etc.
i also became someone known as the hula hoop man. it started at wyman park at the charles village festival, where over the course of two days, on some maniacal whim stemming from divorce-energy and general CRAZINESS, i hula hooped for something like 12 hours...
December 2009
1 post
A Theory of Narrative and its Connection to Hula...
The almighty story,
runs beneath everything
yet men of power have conceived of a world of knowledge which
disenfranchises the worthiness of little people stories. The hula hoop
gives this back
holds small personal spaces intact.
Tells a story to the the observer, the spectacle of rotation.
it can be put on parade or done alone, the former
a barrage of small stories intertwined in human...
November 2009
3 posts
My Body Is Sore Again
Extreme hula hooping is something I am working on bringing to the Baltimore area. Over the past 6 months the first phase of this effort has begun and is progressing steadily. The process is a long one, since it involves a change in the culture of our city, though I believe that some of the most unbelievable extreme hooping has lain dormant in our city for years, and so it is not so much a...
On the Confusion About Whether I Have Recently...
On Friday I got scant playing time in the student teacher basketball game. I can hustle and I am an athlete, don’t get me wrong, and I able to compete in many sports, but hoops have never been my strength. I did not mind sittin on tha bench, though, since a lot was at stake. The game was a sight to see, since our team had some poetic players, whose movement together and individually was a...
Hula Hoop Club, Mondays, After School
330 to 430 on mondays
we hoop in front of ConneXions middle and high school
and slowly more kids are trying tricks, mostly the boys
and the thing i realize while hooping is the importance of self-esteem vis-a-vis the smile on one’s face and though one shot solutions like hooping for an hour and getting a smile or two is a minor thing
in the grand scheme of things it is the little things...
Let's Define Panopticon and Explain What It Has To...
Formerly made fashionable by French philosopher Foulcault, the term panopticon literally refers to the structure of a jail wherein the jailer can see from the guardtower (the panopticon of the panopticon) ALL OF THE PRISONERS but none of the prisoners can see each other. The literal understanding of the term is important because if we look at the history of the institutions of punishment, and how...
a thousand faces
my professorial post in the minute academic department of hoop pedagogy, college of my own making, is perched atop a brick post on the median strip of 33rd, where students and bypassers pay my scant teachers pay.
they teach me as much as i teach them, my professorial post being merely a representation of the facts that:
1. i made the hoops myself
2. i stand up on the post for hours hooping...
October 2009
6 posts
No Hooping in the FREEZING RAIN hard times and...
What we learn from experience is that, as Bob Dylan put it, “a hard rain’s gonna fall.” Today when i have an overflow of new and beautiful hula hoops, ready after weeks of work for a weekend of big events, sure to bring in enough income to reinvest in double the amount of hoops and take this project onto the next plateau, the icy rain of october feeling like december has us with...
The Pedagogy of Two Kinds of Fun
Living in Baltimore with an acute sense of her pain and suffering I know all too well the two types of urban coping that we might call fun.
We have fun when we engage in activities where we are the spectator or where we are active only insofar as we are engaging a machine or “relieving” our body. These activities provide relief from the caving in pressure of post apocalyptic city...
Working Class Hoop Wrap
I know the man who smokes cigars everyday all day in front of the 7-11
He knows me as the hula hoop man
He watches my car for me when i sling hoops on the median of 33rd
He always pulls for me, if i make a lot at the market he is always happy for me
He is a nice guy
Life throws me a curve ball and lately i respond by working harder to get my hula hoop business capitalized through the endless...
September 2009
9 posts
What is Revolution
We must be very careful in making statements in the google age. Before our time knowledge had to be handwritten or somehow handled by humans. Books could be burned, canons could be controlled, voices and actual facts could be sealed into truth or completely blocked from view.
In the early days the idea of revolution was no doubt literal. People started making wheels and noticing cycles and...
Pedagogy of Hooping Part 3: Math
intuitive math is often a joy to the eye, and thus one of the most lovely pedagogical functions of hula hooping is its teaching of many intuitive matters pertaining to math and its real world applications.
eliptical rotations
harmonics between varying sized bodies and hoops of different circumferences, tubular widths, and weight.
gravity, inertia, and bodies in motion
centrifical force
etc
...
The Pedagogy of Hooping: Part 2, school is...
Here is a list of six chapter titles for part two of the book: The Pedagogy of Hula Hoops
one
As a longtime teacher in Baltimore, USA, it has become OBVIOUS as the sun that school is not only obSolete but also dangerous. Of course I still teach so you may question my sanity if you look at it on the surface.
two
The very blog where I charge this statement above, for example, is blocked in...
i am a hula hoop maker
rejected from many lanes of society
the hula hoop maker is distinguished by
his or her tendency to repeat not in the linear pattern fashion but
like unto planets,
like unto orbit.
this shoes them away from some lines of thinking/
the fellowship letter, rejection, the commitment to orbit
whips into necessity’s spin
the market dance gets fiercer and revolution seems skewed/
look...
WatchA New Day-
Music By Love Peace Project
Hoops By Spilly
New Days by Hoop Revolution
For Immediate Release: Bmore Man Set To Break...
Baltimore City resident and native G. Andreas “Spilly” Spiliadis is a hula hoop maker and teacher. On Sunday, September 13th he hopes to also be a World Record Holder. At noon, in the Wyman Park Dell (across from the Baltimore Museum of Art), he will attempt to break the World Record for the largest hoop ever to be hooped with at least three rotations.
The attempt will be made in...
One more thing from the hoop carnie
Tell your friends to join!
A note from the hoop carnie
There is a lot of new hoop revolution media on it’s way.
We are building a Facebook fan page and all ready have some cool features ready.
Pictures, Video, and Graphics- We have had some fun with media this summer and have some cool stuff to share. But we need more, we need pictures and video from your experiences with the Hoop Revolution.
This blog in an easy to use format right on the...
zero tumblarity, sky robot effigy, poetry for hula
This here poem was writ in concerns with zero tumblarity
which old man knows not what means except to imagine that
with no one watching i can write what i want
which i do anyway
the sky robot effigy swung cloudward
attached at the ground
gravity shifted completely
the metal scraps from a mile away
scraped along the ground at increasing speed until the slapped
and clung to the local...
August 2009
7 posts
Hooping with Gucchi
In the far reaches of the “county”
which is how bmorians refer to the white infused stolen land that outlays the harsher, more crowded, urban ghetto we dwell in (doesn’t matter which direction you drive, you get to “county”)
i visited the RAW SPIRIT FESTIVAL to do a hoop performance with the Baltimore band LOVE PEACE PROJECT
high powered hooping, especially...
The Problem of Capital
This summer I conceived a loose plan to experiment with the building of capital on a small underground level in the tradition of bootlegging pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps America. The thing I manufactured was Hula Hoops. I slowly invested capital in the increasing of my hula hoop stock. I worked hard making and selling hundreds of hoops to the citizens of Baltimore, mostly at festivals,...
World Record 4 Largest Hoop
On sept 13th
at Wyman Park Dell
across from the Baltimore Museum of Art
I will be ATTEMPTING
to break the world record for the world’s largest hula hoop spun around at least three times.
All summer long i have been inviting people while i sling my hoops,
you should come too
11-1pm and the attempt will be at 12
peace
spilly
on becoming "the hula hoop man"
dear friends,
yesterday, woman says to daughter, i think that’s him
says to me, are you the hula hoop man?
why yes i am
and within minutes i have sold 3 heavy hoops and 1 medium gage rainbow hoop
and bmore is further along in this revolution
the concept of revolution requires much metaphorical configuration but
is aided by all of our literal understandings
bmore needs revolution
...
back on line, following the blog shld b more...
sorry to all two of you who were following the blog, it will be more active now. i was stealing internet from a neighbor and they went out of town and shut off their connection. now they are back and so am i. stay tuned.
July 2009
11 posts
Hula Hoops and Bmore Debate Love Poem
One of my favorite activities is finding the similarities between people and things
two things i love are debate in bmore and hoops in bmore
revolution is one thing that both hoops and bmore debate have in common
in the city of bmore shit be fucked up
my people hurt bad, suffering galore
keep your head up
and thats what we do which is one thing that is SPECIAL about us
we debate because we...
Gunpowder State Park
Latino families line the beach with bar-b-que
i arrive with my hoops
put down a dozen and two boys and ten girls step up
dark and beautiful hair, spindly kid bodies
and eleven hula hoops go up immediately, effortlessly, even before conversation
but one girl says i cant do this and another says yes you can its like that dance
the washing machine
and then all twelve are up
(that good old...
Revolutionary Hula Hoop Poem # 1
the rain falls like black eyed peas
which fill my Silverline Sil-o-flex 160 psi
irrigation tubing
hula hoops
they have started to come by to visit the hula workshop, yesterday young matthew with his dad mike got to see the process, I snipped off a tiny piece of tubing for him to take home
yesterday neil conan who i think is an idiot got some guy on the radio to say that 18% of americans...
the family that hoops together
midnight hoop blog
can’t sleep
wrapped too many hoops today
fingers got numb twice
my knees are sore and i am 42 and worried about them
but check out the abs in that picture baby…
the revolutionary aspects of hooping in bmore are unfolding slowly now
but there are plans for druid hill
pennsylvania ave
north broadway
lake montello and patterson park and places
in the cut
...
Hoop blog 2: the post-modern hula hoop theater
it is wednesday and summer and my hands are numb from putting colorful electrical tape around the hula hoops i made from irrigation tubing and plumbing connector.
i am a toy maker, a summertime elf.
at artscape i just showed up with my hoops (about 40) and put them down on a grassy median strip in front of MICA main building, and the people hooped like the strip was a human magnet for three...
The Pedagogy of Hooping
Some thoughts on the pedagogy of hooping…
Pedagogy, or the study of teaching, is a look into the way we learn, and in academic circles is often confused with the parameters of classrooms and books. It is sad really that ivory tower inhabitants and followers alike think of school as a place where we learn, distinct from, say, hula hooping at a park or cooking dinner. There is pedagogy in...