Art
The History Of How Football Became America’s Favorite Game
The birth of American football, like many great stories, involves a blend of borrowed elements, chance encounters, and a dash of stubborn creativity. Here’s a journey through its fascinating origins: Roots in Two Continents: Soccer (Association Football): The earliest influences came from English soccer, with its focus on kicking a round ball into a goal. […]
Extending a Helping Hand: Volunteers of America’s Mission to Help Homeless Find Housing
Despite efforts to address it, homelessness remains a serious issue. Those without a permanent residence are more likely to experience dangerously low temperatures, food insecurity, and sleeplessness. If you’re looking for a group that genuinely cares about ending homelessness and giving people a shot at a better life, go no further than Volunteers of America […]
Extending a Helping Hand: Volunteers of America’s Mission to Help Homeless Find Housing
Extending a Helping Hand: Volunteers of America’s Mission to Help Homeless Find Housing Despite efforts to address it, homelessness remains a serious issue. Those without a permanent residence are more likely to experience dangerously low temperatures, food insecurity, and sleeplessness. If you’re looking for a group that genuinely cares about ending homelessness and giving people…
Pros and Cons When Purchasing A Mattress Online
Buying mattresses online has several advantages over traditional shopping. You won’t have to deal with pushy salespeople, haggle over prices or schlep home a bulky mattress in the back of your car. In addition, many online mattress companies offer a free trial period and no restocking fees or return charges. It makes them a competitive […]
Performing Arts Professional – How to Find the Best Education
Performing arts activities like ballet and other forms of dance can be a very rewarding hobby. For many, dance classes are a way to keep in shape while doing something they truly love. Fortunately, there are some who are so artistically inclined that they are lucky enough to be able to make a career out […]
7 Top Reasons Why Music is So Important
Everyone loves music. Music is everywhere, it pervades our world. Everyone knows music has power and importance. But have you ever stopped to consider why? What it is about music that gives it so much power and importance? Here are seven top reasons: Music is a universal language. It inspires common human feelings and bridges […]
Public Speaking – Roast Humor and Insults
Being roasted is an honor, but you must be careful to honor people while you are roasting them during a public speaking engagement. Joke about things that are obviously untrue, then exaggerate them to make them more obvious. Or, you can outrageously exaggerate things that are true. When choosing the butt of a roast joke […]
How Do You Do Animation? Understand the Animation Program
To do animation you will have to have some area of interest as animation is such a broad specialized subject. The basis of animation is to simply create the illusion of moment from still images or objects referred to as modeling or meshing. Today with video real time on-line and manual training more and more […]
Animation Background Layout
A background artist is involved in the process of animation. He is the one who establishes the style, colour and mood of scene, as characterised by the writer, artistic director, or client in the story. The work of artists is very creative and this creativity can be seen in motion pictures, television, video games and […]
Multiple Uses of A Music Stand
The usual music stand is a flat piece of metal on a metal pole. This piece of equipment may sound intrinsic boring, but it has a number of rather nice applications to arts other than music; it is also seen in business use as well. Obviously the business use is pretty basic; if it can […]
Contemporary Ghanaian Performing Arts
Contemporary Ghanaian performing arts have been influenced by foreign culture, technology, and education. It is a synergy of the indigenous performing arts with the Western cultural forms of performing arts. There are three main forms of performing arts practiced by the Ghanaians today. These are music, dance, and drama. Music Ghanaian contemporary music has been […]
Could Humor Be the 6th Love Language?
Most people are familiar with Gary D. Chapman’s 5 Love Languages: Words of Affirmation Acts of Service Receiving Gifts Quality Time Physical touch If you are not, I strongly suggest you take the time to learn and understand these as they are a great tool in understanding yourself and your relationships. But what if there […]
How to Use Humor to Improve Your Relationships
Humor has long been considered one of the most effective tools to judge the quality of any relationship. If there is laughter present you can assume that the relationship is a healthy one. When the laughter ceases you can be quite certain that the relationship is on the down slide. This laughter barometer can be […]
Modern American Animation
This article describes the history of animation in the United States of America since the late 80’s until the early twenty-first century. This period is often called the renaissance of American animation, during which many large American entertainment companies reform and reinvigorate its animation department after the decline suffered in the 60, 70 and 80. […]
Chicken Noodle Soup Dance
Ever so often a cultural force grabs America by the neck and does not let go. The chicken noodle soup dance and song could be the next silent assassin in the night, waiting to take the spot. As its popularity grows, chicken noodle soup could become the next big thing on America’s pop culture landscape. […]
The Pros and Cons of Teaching Dancing
Teaching dancing is a rewarding and enjoyable career for those who are passionate about dancing, as well as teaching. To be a good teacher it is also essential that you enjoy passing on your knowledge to others, and get on well with all walks of life from small children to adults. Some dancers are great […]
Business Ethics for the Mindful Dance Professional
Once upon a time, a dance teacher opened her own studio down the road from her former employer’s school, taking advantage of her former teaching position to start her own studio. Sound familiar? This is an all too common story in the dance studio business and unfortunately, this is no fairy-tale. We have all heard […]
Climax in Music
What is a climax in music? A climax is essentially the most intense and emotional part of a phrase. It is not necessarily the highest or the loudest tone, but it is the most emphatic one in the cycle of a performance phrase or a musical section. There is always a beginning, a climax and […]
Top 20 Animation Movies – What Makes Them Tick?
Being in the animation industry, it is in my interest to keep abreast of which animated feature films are taking the most box office profits. Today I run by this list of the top 20 highest grossing animation movies of all time and I would like to share my views on why I think these […]
Humor in Animated Explainer Videos: Purpose and Types
Why Humor is Essential in Animated Explainer Videos Unlike a ‘real’ video format, through which ‘real’ people could portray light as well as intense human emotions with equal magnificence, the animated video format could, at best, be used to imitate real human emotions, essentially in a fun & cheerful way. This is primarily so, because […]
Performing Magic Illusions
Magic illusions can be cool, if done right. If you’re new to magic, you may in fact think that doing an illusion right simply means mastering the sleight of hand (if required) in each trick, you are mistaken. In this article you will learn what it really takes to impress your friends with the art […]
6 Types Of Music You Should Know About
There are thousands of different types of music that have different features. The different types of include: Blues They originated from the African-American work songs. The songs are characterized by simple and plain designs. The first blues song was published in 1912 and was written by Hart Wand. Prior to 1940s, blues music was played […]
Pros and Cons of The 4 Types of 2D Animation
As you might know, there are different types of animation, and today I’m going to focus on the types of animation you can do in 2D. Frame-By-Frame, Rotoscoping, Cut Out Animation, And Rigged Characters with Inverse Kinematics. 1. Frame-by-Frame This is also known as Classical Animation, Traditional Animation or Flip Animation. What you do here […]
The Purpose of Modern Dance
The Problem Modern dance is one of the hardest genres to define by technique. Modern isn’t necessarily fast or slow or done to specific music, or any music. It doesn’t necessarily highlight specific physical skill or tell a story. It isn’t necessarily anything. And it can include everything. This is fine and great from the […]
Kalamandalam Kerala – Center for Performing Arts
Thrissur, the cultural center of Kerala cradles this named center. The center is at the banks of Bharathapuzha (Nila) Cheruthuruthy. This primary center for performing arts in Kerala follows Keralite traditions of classical dance forms, where ancient gurukula system is disciplined. It offers training for Kathakali, Koddiyattom, Mohiniyattom and Thullal. Regular, Long Term, Short Term […]
The Basic Parts of a Sheet Music Stand
Music stands come in several varieties and styles, and can be made from many different materials. But with few exceptions, they all share the same basic parts. From lower to upper these consist of the “base”, the “shaft”, and the “tray”. The Base The base of a sheet music stand will most often have three […]
What To Text A Girl – How To Use Callback Humor To Create Instant Attraction
A lot of guys struggle with not know what to text a girl in order to get her to feel that same excitement and attraction that she felt when she first met you. But what if I told you that there is a technique for texting her that could pull her back into the state […]
The Unique Forms and Functions of Indigenous Ghanaian Performing and Verbal Arts
Performing arts are the arts that are played or performed which exists only in a stream of time. This form of arts is evident in every activity that the indigenous Ghanaian performs, from the washing of the face right from bed, through undertakings of his/her daily activities, to the time he/she retires to bed. Examples […]
The History of St. Louis Imperial Swing Dancing
There are a total of eight swing dance clubs located in and around the St. Louis area (including M.U.S.I.C. in Collinsville, Illinois) that are members of the Midwest Swing Dance Federation, and all of these clubs are descended from the St. Louis Imperial Dance Club that was founded in 1973. The largest of these sister […]