12 Square Feet
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Roxy Paine, (thermoset polymer, vinyl, lacquer, epoxy, oil paint, earth and plexiglass).
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Fancyglasses asked about beginner friendly, motivated yoga videos. These three offer different styles and commentary, but most importantly they offer inclusive levels. You don’t have to try everything, but give them a preview and see what style speaks to you.
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Wang Yue, a senior at Dalian Industry University, uses her paintbrush to turn ugly tree holes into lovely views in Shijiazhuang, capital city of Hebei Province.
Wang Yue calls the tree-hole paintings “meitu” which means “beautiful journey.” The paintings on the trees have brightened the city during the dull, grey winter.
That’s a noble project in 12sq. ft.
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There’s a class of yoga poses that elude me. They’re popular in advertising. You’ll see postings here on yoga forums. Arm balances are almost acrobatic. Much to my chagrin many aren’t going to happen for me. Not for will power or strength or lack of subtle understanding. It’s anatomy. My arms, specifically my upper arms, are too short.
The trick, if you will, with many arm balances is just that, a balance. Though the model may appear to be floating in mid air, and strong ab work is engaged, there is a bit of leverage provided by the upper arm in poses such as peacock and side crow. If you haven’t got the length to fit you won’t get up now matter how you cajole your proportions.
How do I know it’s my arms? It’s the method I use to determine the safety of a headstand with forearm support. While standing in front of a mirror, make “L’s” with your arms then rotate them back so that the elbows are along each side of the head. With forearms parallel to the crown of the head, shoulders relaxed with blades retracted down the spine, see if the crown of the head surpasses the forearms. If it does, you will have too much force from the weight of your body distributed into the head, compromising the cervical spine. You could lift with the shoulders, but this takes them out of alignment, risking shoulder injury, but I digress.
Even though I understand that the physics of these poses just isn’t accessible to me, I still want what I can’t have. I see poses my friend and student posts. I try. I hurt. I pout. Then I remember that’s my ego. Instead, I should be content that I led her in a class to find those poses again. Or better yet, marvel at the beauty she possesses with such grace to let me guide her.
This is the part of my job that I dislike. I can’t make a playlist if I can’t find my music. I’ve got 25+ years of files to unscramble. Where is Sly and The Family Stone? Is this the clean version of Jiraffa? Fuck it! Let’s go to Bed, Bath and Beyond and buy instrumentals of Streisands’ hits. (Slap me if I ever do that).
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Bolivian Ingrid Vaca Diez is on a mission to improve the housing situation for the poor in her country by using plastic bottles—the only material she can find in abundance—to build surprisingly sturdy houses.
The self-taught designer of these “garbage homes” fills recycled plastic bottles with dirt and uses them as bricks to construct her innovative houses.
To date, she has built ten such homes for poverty-stricken families.More (including video segment): Innovative ‘Garbage’ Houses Made Of Recycled Plastic Bottles - DesignTAXI.com
This is badassery at it’s finest.
