Our homepage this month features Stephania Serena's beautiful portrait of Seattle-based independent recording artist Jesse Sykes. Jesse was kind enough to lend HoopThing an ear (or two) and drop by Stephania's backyard mid-tour for a late morning shoot.

If you aren't already in the know you should lend an ear as well - check out Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter's latest album "Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of the Soul". To quote the San Francisco Bay Guardian "Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter manage to build a sepia toned masterpiece from inside the framework of country-noir. That's the sum, but the genius is in the parts." Listen up at www.jessesykes.com 

Jesse is modeling Vicente Agor's "Wave" earrings on the homepage, and his "Hoopskirt" above, see more of Vicente's gorgeous hoops here.