Youth brands are more than background noise at SXSW (sponsors for the indie music festival clamor to get noticed by 12,000 wallet wielding attendees with music showcases and free parties. Also, AdRants picks up a discussion on marketers misusing... Read the rest of this post
new posts in all blogs
By: Anastasia Goodstein,
on 3/23/2009
Blog: Ypulse (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: where the wild things are, Spring break, mobile youth, Ypulse Essentials, kids choice awards, college students, sxsw 09, gayle forman, Double Dutch jump rope, college drinking, catherine hardwicke, chinese millennials, managing millennials, Net Nanny, teen jobs, Add a tag
By: Paula Pertile,
on 2/26/2009
Blog: Drawing a Fine Line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: double dutch jump rope, art muscles, new art, Wendell, Add a tag
Viewing: Blog Posts Tagged with: Double Dutch jump rope, Most Recent at Top [Help]
Results 1 - 2 of 2
By: Anastasia Goodstein,
on 3/23/2009
Blog: Ypulse (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: where the wild things are, Spring break, mobile youth, Ypulse Essentials, kids choice awards, college students, sxsw 09, gayle forman, Double Dutch jump rope, college drinking, catherine hardwicke, chinese millennials, managing millennials, Net Nanny, teen jobs, Add a tag
By: Paula Pertile,
on 2/26/2009
Blog: Drawing a Fine Line (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: double dutch jump rope, art muscles, new art, Wendell, Add a tag
Wow, the difference a day makes!
Wendell, who I was so worried about in the last post, is on meds for an infection, and is not leaving us like I thought he might be. He just teeters precariously sometimes, and I get gloom and doomy. Today the sun is shining and the birdies are singing and there is hope, so YAY. Sorry I hit the panic button ~ and thanks for all the well wishes.
Other stuff~
I'm working on some new art that is REALLY different than my usual style. Can't say much about what its for, but I'm kind of excited about it. These are super duper fast "first thought" rough sketches of a couple of ideas.
I've been doing really tight, and/or realistically rendered or laborious time consuming art for so long, I've almost forgotten how to do "simple"! Its like those muscles have atrophied or something. Trying to get back in shape!
And here's something that has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but it was a funny thought: Today I was pulling the car into traffic; busy traffic, coming and going, and I was looking both ways, waiting, waiting, until just the right moment to pull into the flow ~ and it hit me that it was exactly the same as trying to time the right moment to jump in when you're doing Double Dutch jumprope! Remember that? Those two ropes would be going around and around, and you'd be standing there, kind of swaying in rhythmn to them, trying to gauge the exact right moment to JUMP IN. If you did it wrong you got tangled and the ropes stopped and it had to be started up all over again. But if you hit it just right, it was so cool.
watch this "Double Dutch Divas" video
You guys were all off playing dodge ball or tether ball or rocket ship or something, while we girls were having fun doing this, and building skills like learning how to merge into traffic.
Funny, I don't remember any boys, ever, playing jump rope. Guys? Did you jump rope too, in secret? Speak up, tell us your stories...
Funny, I don't remember any boys, ever, playing jump rope. Guys? Did you jump rope too, in secret? Speak up, tell us your stories...
4 Comments on Better day, last added: 3/3/2009
Display Comments
Add a Comment
Oh and Glad your cats doing better!
I loved double dutch. took awhile for me to figure out the rhythm to not get caught in the ropes but after that we had so much fun :D I really want to jump now. hmm I need to find more friends around here that would want to jump. Get fit and have fun at the same time. :)
those ladies are great!
glad your cat is doing better :)
I am so delighted Wendell is on the mend! Yippee!!! The new art looks like a lot of fun and I think I am going to have to buy a skipping rope this spring...just a single one though. :-) Your post brought back fond memories...
Love Double Dutch. Could turn the ropes like a champ, couldn't jump in worth a darn.
Envious of the girls that could jump in.
Thanks for the vid.
Kiss Wendel.