Ultraviolet Festival a draw for Tampa Bay-area
01.01.70
The vibration-pounding backbone music of these events are almost assistant nature as all things spectacle in nature take front and center. Individualized expressionism is encouraged but not always subscribed to.
The attire at such events progressed (or digressed, depending on one's projection) throughout the years from traditional hippie garb to everything and everything between including meagre-shorts, underwear, fishnet stockings, Gogo boots, skintight pants, spiked and tenets heels, colorful wigs, outrageous hats and other vanguard coverings, a panoply of makeup (a mainstay since the '60s) and applications and of run, lingerie.
While the events themselves changed throughout the years, the aspiration often remains the same ... a damn fine circumstance. For many revelers the recipe is simple: alter one's have of mind, mingle, dance, have sex, repeat, not irresistibly in any specific order. "If it feels good, do it" is a in demand mantra.
Taking place just down the I-4 hall at Maddox Ranch in Lakeland is ULTRAVIOLET II , the other annual 3-day art and music camping event, highlighted by a 40-foot UV insidious light tunnel where patrons become part of the event by creating a communal contribution of artwork via the painting of the upland of the tunnel. The event takes place Nov. 18, 19 and 20. Show includes various musical guests and DJs. $40 at the assemblage buys an all-weekend pass that includes camping (or $30 on Saturday for one edge of night). The gig kicks off Friday evening and goes 24-7 through Sunday morning.
Source: Examiner.com
Halloween: The most sexist children's holiday?
01.01.70
It seems we’ve been caught in the trick of a holiday that may be the most sexist day on the American calendar. I’m not even talking about the inviting kitty costumes for adult women. I’m talking about the cunning kids’ costumes.
Many of us parents devote the rest of the year working to offset cultural stereotypes. We redecorate sure to present strong role models for our girls, sort role models for our sons and share messages that are, typically, gender neutral. But for several days in October (because Halloween has become a week-great extravaganza, has it not?) we dress our girls, or allow them to doctor reprimand themselves, as princesses, fairies and ballerinas and our boys as soldiers, construction workers and superheroes. It’s the one day when so many of our kids relapse back to what our great-grandparents expected they might be.
On Target’s Web milieu , we can scroll through dozens of costumes whose designers seemed to young lady that whole ERA dust-up. Only under the boys section is there a costume group for “occupation.”
Source: Washington Post (blog)