The TickleMe Plant is a REAL plant that MOVES when you TICKLE It! You will watch as the leaves close and branches droop when Tickled. Growing a TickleMe Plant from seeds is an experience no child should miss. Just google TickleMe Plant to find the seeds and greenhouse to grow this interactive plant with your kids or for yourself!
Thomas McNamara, otherwise known as Macky, has been making art for as long as he can remember, winning sculpting contests as early as junior high. At 11, his father got him a lead soldier-making kit. That’s when art was introduced and it quickly became evident that it was to be his purpose in life. At 11 he could melt the lead in a small pot, pour it into molds, and paint the little figurines. These soldiers were often given to his parent’s friends. The response was wild - the adults all loved them!! As a boy this was real validation for a child surrounded by intimidating, book-smart people. The art carried Macky into all the art classes at Cardinal Newman high school. His love for lead figure painting continued to grow during this period. It was the MTV generation, which Macky believes also had a huge impact on him . . . Since then, there have been many great moments, including showcasing Macky's art on two episodes of MTV's “PUNK'd”, which featured Ashlee Simpson and Hugh Jackman.
Mutt™ has been the label for Macky's passion since 1997. Just recently, Mutt donated a customized 3-foot skateboard to the Rush foundation, a charity created to send kids to art school. It was a huge honor for Macky to be able to be a part of such a worthy charity. Courtesy of Thomas McNamara on MOLI.com
After 6 months touring the UK conquering its four corners and everything in between, Liverpudian indie kids, The Steeples will release their second single Loosy Lucy on 23rd June. A combination of crafted songwriting, passionate performance and shear ‘blood, sweat and beers’ have seen them already convert unsuspecting gig goers to bona fide ‘Steeple People,’ throughout the land.
With a bouncy boyish playfulness, and heartfelt yearning, the Steeples ‘Loosy Lucy’ takes us to a familiar heartache of a past relationship when the grass seems greener. Their sincerity is balanced with a jovialness that results in an upbeat pop song, saving us from an unwanted adolescent angst or depressing dirge. There is a certain romantic charm to these boys as they sing of their despair that will leave Lucy’s everywhere flocking to their next gig.
With ‘Album of the Month’ in Maxim and ‘Single of the week at Xfm’ they have already created quite a buzz with their pretty boy looks, cheeky northern accents and great indie pop riffs. The Steeples offer us a fresh ‘Doherty-esque’ sound that remains tight and together, and possess a certain quirkiness that few bands can convincingly convey.
Earlier this year the band were invited to play Liverpool and Blackburn’s Oxjam events alongside The Bluetones, The Wedding Present, The Thrills and Rumblestrips. With the single out this June, closely followed by the much anticipated debut album, ‘Tea For Two’ in July The Steeples are sure to be a towering success. 2008 will see the band storm through the Indie scene as they embark on their first nationwide tour.
Video by the german dialect(saarl?ndisch) musicduo dhemm(two members of the rock band green wave) with kids of the therapeutical pupils help of the family & neighbourhood centre Neunkirchen (fnz), produced by the video company conceptv, this video is part of the benefit-multimedia.cd Neijnkerrje, do simma? with 5 audiotitles & 4 videos by different artists of this region, LEICO-records 8630, available by
www.myspace.com/dhemm48
www.green-wave.de oder fnz-nk@t-online.de
www.myspace.com/greenwavesaar
www.conceptv.eu
www.leico.de LEICO-records 8630
modern Chinese dance
Melanie Zhang (8YR)
Choreography by: Teacher King
King's Art & Dance Studio
Bartle School Talent Show
To Benefit Kier's Kids
NJ
New Star
This modern Chinese dance is based on the original song named "New Star" in a
very popular Chinese TV series. In this dance, the dancer acts as a rising
new star in the sky right after a thunderstorm. Using complex Chinese dancing skills and elegant movements, the performer expresses how beautiful
and shining the new star is.
