Hooping Category
Hooping. Yes. As in HULA HOOPING, but with bigger, custom-made hoops. I wrote so much on Electrolicious about hooping that it got ridiculous, and so some friends and I got together and started up hooping.org. That’s where you can find most of my hoop talk, now.
… or do they? (Posting here instead of hooping.org for a change!)
A piece about hula hooping that includes an interview with me aired on NPR’s Marketplace. Listen to the segment!
Last night I did all the NPR nerds in my family proud and was interviewed for an upcoming Marketplace story about the business of hula hooping. It was pretty exciting to get to sit in the little studio at KUOW wearing big headphones and talking into an enormous fuzzy orange microphone as I was interviewed, via ISDN, by the journalist in Los Angeles. Supposedly the piece will run next Wednesday. I’ll keep you posted. After the interview, my friend Phyllis gave me a tour of the studio, and I got to talk hoops with Amanda Wilde, who used to be my favorite DJ on KEXP. All in all, it was an exciting afternoon, especially when you factor in my humor/nostalgia trip through an old U-district head shop before the interview. Nothing there has changed (nsfw)!
My hoop video made the news in Vancouver, BC. (watch the vid)
Still in the circle
7
Jun
2005
In: Hooping
Hooping does not always lend itself gracefully to photographs. All too often, hooping that feels good looks, well, gimpy. Lots of torqued arms and contorted faces. Well, NO LONGER! Magical Dawn managed to take what might be my favorite photo of me hooping. Hurrah!
… or do they? (Posting here instead of hooping.org for a change!)
A piece about hula hooping that includes an interview with me aired on NPR’s Marketplace. Listen to the segment!
Last night I did all the NPR nerds in my family proud and was interviewed for an upcoming Marketplace story about the business of hula hooping. It was pretty exciting to get to sit in the little studio at KUOW wearing big headphones and talking into an enormous fuzzy orange microphone as I was interviewed, via ISDN, by the journalist in Los Angeles. Supposedly the piece will run next Wednesday. I’ll keep you posted. After the interview, my friend Phyllis gave me a tour of the studio, and I got to talk hoops with Amanda Wilde, who used to be my favorite DJ on KEXP. All in all, it was an exciting afternoon, especially when you factor in my humor/nostalgia trip through an old U-district head shop before the interview. Nothing there has changed (nsfw)!
My hoop video made the news in Vancouver, BC. (watch the vid)
Still in the circle
7 Jun 2005 In: HoopingHooping does not always lend itself gracefully to photographs. All too often, hooping that feels good looks, well, gimpy. Lots of torqued arms and contorted faces. Well, NO LONGER! Magical Dawn managed to take what might be my favorite photo of me hooping. Hurrah!
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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