#flow arts

Last nights burn to “something cool” by Saorise Dream!!

START THE ADVENTURE -MapleStory🍁

A Faerie Daddy & Xavier Caylor collaboration

Fertile inspiration grows an abundant harvest of creativity under the Flower Moon. You reap what you flow. -Faerie

These fans will be available to bid on in the silent auction at the July Flagging in the park Saturday July 25 at the National AIDS Memorial Grove, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

31”x45” 8m silk veil fans on 12-in handcrafted reinforced birchwood fan ribs. Decorated with fluorescent yellow and holographic orange vinyl. Silk tie-dye design by Xavier Caylor.

Starting bid $200

"You are ice and fire. The touch of you burns my hands like snow. " -Amy Lowell

I started doing flow.

I'd been watching flow vids for a while and thinking "dang, that looks cool" but it was one of Cupcake Alchemist's dragon staff videos that finally pushed me over the edge from "dang that looks cool" to "fuck it, I'ma try it."

Right now I'm still kind of in the "throw props at the wall and see what sticks" stage but so far I'm really digging leviwand and staff (mostly spin, just starting to dip my toes into contact, more on that in a minute), with rope dart kind of third wheeling them. I tried poi, wanted to like them, couldn't really get into them. Everything I wanted to like about poi, I ended up getting from rope dart.

A couple of weeks ago, I decided I liked staff enough (and was interested enough in trying contact) to upgrade from the length of PVC I'd been spinning to a Flowtoys LED contact staff (and with two incomes, well, I could definitely afford one of their relatively inexpensive options) and it finally came in today after spending like a week chilling at some post office in Oakland and ohhh my god. It's amazing. It's not much heavier than my shitty DIY PVC staff but it handles SO much better. I can already do neck wraps with it! I might add some flowers to it. I will definitely someday take advantage of the fact that it can be upgraded with a second pair of Capsule 2.0 lights. But holy shit, the Capsule 2.0 lights are so fucking cool. They react to motion! They have about a bajillion colors and modes built in! They can be linked together so they both do the same color/mode without you having to manually set it on both of them! The interface, having only a single button to push, is a little uhhhhh... clunky to navigate, and figuring out how to detach them from the staff so I could charge them took some trial and error and a youtube video tutorial. But still, holy shit. I cannot wait to take this thing out to a park after dark and sling it around.

Props I have not yet tried but really want to: dragon staff, saber, maybe flow stars? also on the one hand I'm kinda meh about hoop but also interested enough that I'll probably snag a cheap hula hoop next time I see one at Five Below or whatever just to give it a whirl?