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The Beauty & Destruction of the Texas Gulf

Life is interesting.

Sometimes it takes you to the Texas Gulf, on a shrimp boat captained by a man named Mauricio. On that boat is a beautiful woman doing aerial silks. While you watch her, your boyfriend is dressed as a sea captain and is aiming a fake firearm at a fictional person. Two friends are simultaneously filming these scenarios. You and Mauricio stand there staring at all of it; you try to speak with him in your newly learnt Spanish, but he laughs and corrects you. You discover through the beautiful girl, who is filming a crowdsourcing video for her festival to heal the bay you are sailing in, that the water around you is polluted by the plastic and aluminum factories she points to in the distance. All the sea life around you is toxic, and the beautiful woman plans on reducing the mercury levels in the bay by planting oyster mushrooms.

Sometimes life is interesting, and you’re in appreciation of it all.

Oyster men. #TexasGulf

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Yesterday I met Amanda, an environmental activist putting together an event to help clean Lavaca Bay in the #TexasGulf (it's polluted from the local factories). Here she is doing aerial silks on a shrimp boat as part of a a video for the event's crowd sourcing campaign. She's a beautiful soul doing beautiful things. http://www.rockethub.com/projects/52068-wiv-luv-water-fest-with-the-texas-oystermen #savethebay #savetheplanet

Yes, that is a beautiful woman doing aerial silks on a moving shrimp boat. #TexasGulf #yoga #lifeisinteresting

Today my boyfriend is pretending to catch shrimp on a shrimp boat. He knows how to keep the magic alive. #indiefilm

Bye bye, #TexasGulf. #sunset

The director through the director's viewfinder. #indiefilm

February 26, 2015 by
Austin

Why You Should Make Aerial Silks a New Year’s Resolution

So, I didn’t win the Snap Kitchen #21DaysforGood Challenge, but I did learn a lot over the past 21 days. Because of this challenge, I completed volunteer opportunities and physical challenges that I had been too lazy/fearful/forgetful to do. I’m becoming a regular volunteer at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless, I’m attempting to walk to work at least one day a week and I’ll being signing up for more aerial silk classes at Vamps Dance in the new year. I also learned that low dairy and low gluten makes my belly less poofy.

In the end, everyone won because Snap Kitchen donated $6,000 to charity!

One of the highlights of the challenge was doing an aerial silks class taught by Tolly (from Austin Eavesdropper). Kelly from SXSW was my partner in crime.

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Not only was this wildly fun, but it was also liberating! First, you use muscles you forgot you even had (my hands are so weak!!!). Second, it feels kind of sexy. (more…)

November 26, 2014 by