Hula-hooping video has put Helen in a spin
Maxwell Kusi Obodum • Published 18 Feb 2012 18:00
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Spin doctor: YouTube sensation Helen Buckley adjusts her hula camera.
A FORMER Reading photography student's head is spinning after a mesmerising rise to internet stardom.
Helen Buckley has clocked up more than half a million hits on the Youtube video of her hula hoop dancing and the number of viewers is spiralling every day.
Helen, who graduated from Thames Valley University in 2006 with a BA in Professional Photographic Imaging, filmed the three minute clip in her back garden in Hackney, east London, after Christmas, fitting a Go Pro Hero Camera inside her hula hoop so it appears she is spinning around it.
She initially set it up to test the camera, which her parents bought her as a Christmas present, but since then the video has appeared in a national newspaper and on US television show Right This Minute.
On Wednesday it had already reached 501,899 hits and the 27-year-old art gallery co-ordinator said: "It's just numbers to me, I can't quite comprehend it. I wasn't expecting the test to be so popular, if I had known thousands of people would see it I would have done something better!"
She has received more than 800 message posts commenting on her work and is preparing to make new videos in the coming months.
Watch the film at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EumsgPn9xaM&feature=channel_video_title
This article appeared in Reading Chronicle 17 Feb 12
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