The Indian rural Olympics first took place back in 1933 at at Kila Raipur in India’s state of Punjab, since then, thousands of sportsman, stuntmen gather for the Rural Olympics each year for the 4-day event generally held in February each year. Ludhiana becomes the destination for hundreds of sports enthusiasts, including foreigners those visit every year to watch the most popular homegrown village festivals in India.
The traditional competition also includes kite-flying competition, stomach stomping, rope bending, bicycle-lifting, weight-lifting and other traditional Indian games. There are bullock cart, elephant, dog and tractor races as well.
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Posted by admin on February 16th, 2009
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Amanda Besl’s paintings are challenging portrait of teasing sexual and romantic young girls which explore the female adolescent world as portrayed in teen magazines.
Her paintings are alluring and expositive which capture the private moment of sexual awareness. She uses imagery drawn from magazines such as CosmoGIRL, the content explores the convolution of a cultural aesthetic sense that engrosses the youth.
Way to her art gallery SuperPaintGirl Art Gallery
Posted by angela on February 5th, 2009
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The growing presentation of the sport to a global audience has given birth of cheerleading oriented social networking site, the new website called “Squads” which aim to give cheerleaders and dancers a place where they could socialize with other teammates, coaches, dancers, cheerleaders and squads across the world, and view the live webcasts of cheerleading events, Squads will be also good place to reconnect with old acquaintances. Cheerleading generally involves cheering, supporting, and “boosting up” the participants and crowd at football games, basketball games, wrestling, acrobatics, training sessions, camps and tournaments.
Over the last decade, cheerleading has become more popular which has made it a prominent feature in high-school themed movies, the television shows also started featuring cheer classes and sponsoring squads.. I think there must be some reason like the participants need motivation and inspiration on sports teams at games and matches for physical fitness, flexibility, coordination and teamwork. Movies like “Bring It On” and “Chak de” ( Hindi Movie ) became surprise hit because it was cheerleaders inspired movie. Okay, Squads has recently done a webcast of the Spirit Celebration Fall Festival held in Denton, TX on November 16th. Over 25,000 people watched online as cheerleaders tumbled, stunted and cheered their way to first place.
Justin Carrier, co-author of “Complete Cheerleading” and NCA/NDA-Executive director ( strategic development) announced the creation of the International All-Levels Championship, where the winner will be chosen from competitors in a web broadcast of the event. Cheercasting through such goal-oriented social website will greatly help millions of teammates, coaches and cheerleading Squad worldwide.
Posted by admin on December 20th, 2008
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The Art Newspaper is a traditional business models, an online hub for art lovers. In joint collaboration of Spike Productions and The Art Newspaper, the web TV channel has been launched which purpose to have invaluable source of information on artists, galleries, curators, key collectors, dealers and art enthusiasts worldwide. The site will deliver stories, interview from the art world, giving viewers an all-around insight to what is steering up in visual arts and culture in International Art Market.
Spike Production’s Managing Director Warren Mauger says “Our partnership with The Art Newspaper is the perfect set up as you have an international publication with a great reputation focusing on a niche market. We provide the Web TV platform and production skill and they provide the expert knowledge and access to the art market’s key players”. he added “In time the site will be built to the point where full-length program are commissioned in the same way traditional television channels source content”.
Posted by admin on December 9th, 2008
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When intimacy is the desired effect of a letter the result should be sufficiently momentous and personal, it is going to be proved by Asia Wong with her “300 Letters project” which is interesting. Wong actually wrote 400 separate notes to family members, friends, people she met and came across, now these letters would be sent to the strangers, she believe such effort would create intimacy in modern society.
The 300 Letters project website gives fascinating reading though it’s time consuming, Wong classifies each scanned letter with a color that indicates the type of letter associated with it. In some of Wong’s more personal letters you will notice her strong feelings and nonverbal expression!
The colour of the square in her site indicate the subject they’re associated with:
* Blue ones are for friends
* Indigo ones are for family
* Brown ones are for people she doesn’t really like
* Red and pink ones are addressed to lovers
* Orange ones are fan letters
* Yellow ones are for strangers
* Green ones are for acquaintances
* Purple ones are for crushes
* Gray ones are for anyone
* Black ones are for everyone
* White ones are for her
* flesh ones are for her dream lover
She wrote:
“I’m writing three hundred love letters and
sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the
outside of the envelopes, so that the mailman, and presumably whoever
the recipient lives with, will be able to see and read them. The
letters aren’t to the strangers, they’re to people I know.” The
boy looks at me. We’re walking around, after work, deserted streets. He
says, “I don’t understand. Why are you doing this?”, and I
answer vaguely, talking about crossing space and the kind of intimacy
that I believe is lacking from our society. And I’m left thinking: Is
this project complicated or simple, idiotic or interesting?”
Posted by carmela on December 3rd, 2008
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