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3 sexy stewardesses and one lucky CEO prepare you for sketch-off with drawing, booze, and mile-high mojo on the roofdeck of the Glenn Hotel. Please join Autonomic Controls and Hotiron Creative in Atlanta on September 26 from 7 to 10pm. This is an uber-swanky Dr. Sketchy’s event, directly following the 2010 CEDIA Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Who’s invited? CEDIA attendees, lounge lizards, art monkeys, and anyone interested in sketching sexy, partially-clothed art models dressed as stewardesses. Come draw, drink, and/or relax after CEDIA, if you’ll be in Atlanta that weekend. Visit the Atlanta chapter web site for more information about Dr. Sketchy’s.

The venue:
The Sky Lounge at the Glenn Hotel
110 Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA
How freaking awesome is this venue?

$15 to pre-register. $25 at the door. Register/learn more at http://hotironcreative.com/jetsetsunday.html

Arbiter of style Jeffrey Kalinsky, creator of two namesake boutiques in Atlanta and Manhattan, joins Event Chairs Lila Hertz, Louise Sams and Jeffrey McQuithy in producing the official kick-off to the fall social season: Fashion Cares 2010. To be held on Monday, August 30th 2010– the event includes a reception followed by a live auction and runway show featuring Kalinsky’s style selections from high-end designers such as Gucci, Prada, Marni, Manolo Blahnik, Balenciaga, Christian Louboutin, Bottega Veneta, and Jason Wu.

Fashion Cares 2010 will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure—Greater Atlanta Affiliate and the Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund (AAPF). Fashion Cares has grown into one of the largest combined AIDS and breast cancer benefits in the country.

Tickets are more information at http://www.jeffreyfashioncares.com/atlanta/

For the past couple months, I’ve been experimenting with an unwrapped versus wrapped bar on the two lyra. Wrapping aids grip and softens the blow from the metal, and it protects the apparatus from wear. It also requires upkeep, can sometimes stick to clothing and makes the bar significantly wider (which affects the grip).

As an aside: also while playing with the wrapped/unwrapped equipment, I’ve been trying to eschew grip aids. The thinking with this being that there won’t always be access to chalk or rosin, so it’s better to generally go without. This has been working out but I have noticed myself shying from some of the more grip-tricky moves/poses in which I may be a little less trustful of my ol’ sweaty hands. So, yeah, I’m making chalk, rosin and silica grip aid available to my students again in all classes, and when performing I’ll use rosin or chalk if I’m feeling a little psyched out by humidity or whatever.

I’ve found the padding/tape combo that works best for me, which is cork or gel bicycle handlebar grip tape underneath cheap cloth gaffer’s tape. Sport tape, which I know many folks use on trapeze, was disastrously over-sticky. I’ve got the technique down… but I’m not convinced if there’s a right or wrong or standard when it comes to wrapping. My students seem to be fairly split in their preference, possibly skewing toward unwrapped. I’m not sure which I actually prefer. It may, actually, depend on how strong/bruised/confident I’m feeling on any given day.

In researching, it does seem that most lyras are indeed wrapped. I’m probably going to continue with one wrapped lyra in the stable, with the others likely remaining unwrapped. From what I can tell in watching videos and searching photos, the aerial frame usually isn’t wrapped. Thus, I’m going to start with it unwrapped. Mine is aluminum, so I’m curious to see how it feels compared to the steel of my lyras.

The point, here, I suppose: I’m eager to learn other aerialists’ preferences and experiences in relation to wrapping (and grip aids).