Friday, April 30, 2010

Old BHB videos :)

A couple of videos posted to YouTube today. Thanks to Taylor9888 for uploading them! They are old BHB videos.

Mark playing electric guitar :D


BHB at the Grove (back in early 2009) - La Bamba. Lots of people show up in this one. enjoy!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Mark's tattoos

Mark has 3 tattoos - one his back, side, and wrist. :

Side tattoo:
photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2009

A couple shots of the side tattoo from the tattoo shop...not sure who to credit here. If you know, let me know! :D Thanks!
previous 2 photos copyright unknown

Back tattoo:
photo copyright Mister Cartoon, 2008

Update: Thanks to Karina, we have a new pic of the back tattoo. She says that the angel is generic, it is not of Joanna.
photo copyright Karina Smirnoff, 2010

Wrist tattoo:
photo copyright Carlos Lopez, 2009

photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

(updated: changed the text in the post. More simplified.)

Old interview with Mark and Melissa

Mark and Melissa (Team Melarky!) on Ellen :) (season 9)

Old interview with Mark and Kristi

Mark and Kristi on Ellen. :D

Ok, another attempt to get the feed to Facebook working! LOL (I'm trying to get the blog updates to show up as Facebook status updates on the Fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bewitching-Ballas-Blog/109562049062633)

Old interview of Mark and Shawn

An older video of Mark and Shawn doing an interview with myFOXla.com toward the end of season 8. :) (Mostly I just need to test to see if this post will show up on the Facebook fanpage)

Photos & Video from Wish Day

Here are a few things I've found so far from Mark's appearance at The Grove yesterday to support World Wish Day for the Make a Wish Foundation:

A bunch of pics from Just Jared - here are  few. Be sure to visit Just Jared Jr to see the rest of the gallery!
photos copyright Michael Buckner, Getty, 2010

Also, a pic was posted by twitter user @TiffCo, which was also posted by Mark:
photo copyright Tiffany C (@TiffCo), 2010

Here is a video of Mark singing a few tunes...including his version of Rihanna's "Rude Boy".
(Songs: Hotwire My Heart (original), Sexual Healing (cover), Waiting on the World to Change (cover), Rude Boy (cover).)

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Mark at OK! Magazine's Sexy Singles Event

On April 14, 2010, Mark attended OK! Magazine's Sexy Singles Event at Plush in Beverly Hills. Pic from Picapp:


BEVERLY HILLS, CA - APRIL 14: Dancer Mark Ballas arrives at OK! Magazine's 'Sexy Singles' party at Plush on April 14, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

Be sure to check the gallery link to see the other two pics from the red carpet. :)

Mark at US Weekly party

April 22, 2010, Mark attended the US Weekly Hot Hollywood Style Issue party at Drai's.  Here is a pic from Picapp:


HOLLYWOOD - APRIL 22: TV Personality Mark Ballas arrives at the Us Weekly Hot Hollywood Style Issue celebration held at Drai's Hollywood at the W Hollywood Hotel on April 22, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Click on the 'gallery' button for more pics from the event. :)

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Photos from The Mint, April 26, 2010

Got some great photos here from the Mint show last night. The first photo is from Brooke Bickford. Thanks Brooke!  Good to see Mark standing! It means we should see him dancing again soon! :)
photo copyright Brooke Bickford, 2010

The next three photos are from Scott Dudelson. Click his name to check out his other photography too. He's great! :) Thanks for the pics, Scott! Also check out this post from him at the Examiner. He talks about the photography side of things. Pretty interesting post! :)
Three photos above copyright Scott Dudelson, 2010

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mark talking about lingerie ad

Mark and some of the other dancers talk about a lingerie ad that was banned by ABC:

I haven't seen the ad either, so I don't know if it's too 'racy' - but honestly, it can't be any worse than some of the rumba's I've seen on DWTS (Julianne, I'm looking at you and your black lace). ;)  I actually think DWTS needs to tone down the costumes a little.  Shawn had to wear very conservative outfits, yet she looked gorgeous and sexy. You don't have to be in minimal fabric to be sexy. The mystery is sexy. But whatever, who am I, right? I think I'm becoming a minority in a world full of people who only think about sex. *sigh*

UPDATE: here is the ad. I suppose the end is why it got banned? Since she's basically going out in public in her underwear. The rest of the ad is fine though. What do you think?

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Red Carpet video from April 12th

Found another Red Carpet video from Mark's Mint show on April 12th

Screencaps from Week 5 of DWTS

Just a couple of screencaps of Mark and Shawn in the audience on performance night, week 5 (Monday, April 19, 2010). :) Look closely. ;)

all photos copyright ABC. Screencapped by Bewitching Ballas Blog

More pictures from April 12th

Chelsie Hightower posed a few pictures from the red carpet of Mark's big show on April 12th. I'm not sure of who to credit, so if you know, or if they are your pictures, please let me know! :)

copyright unknown

Calling all Markettes! Birthday Project!!!

And male Mark fans too...what do we call the male Mark fans? ;) Everyone is welcome! :D

Here it is! The birthday project for Mark Ballas' birthday!

(DON'T TELL MARK! lol Let's try to make this a surprise for him!)

Mark turns 24 on May 24th, and I wanted to find a way to give Mark a great birthday present.

Mark lost his uncle Dave to suicide six years ago, as he explains in his blog. Mark's song, "All For Nothing" is what Mark would have liked to have said to his uncle, if he had had the chance.

So, this birthday project is in memory of Uncle Dave and in honor of Mark's 24th birthday.

I've spoken with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a charity that Mark supports, and they have helped to direct me to Firstgiving.com, where I have set up a fundraiser page.

http://www.firstgiving.com/ballasbirthdaygift

Please, visit and give what you can to this great cause, in honor of Mark and his family.  And tell your friends!  Let's get the word around to all Mark Ballas fans, so everyone can participate if they so choose! :)

In addition, if you would like to also contribute some fanart, letters, or poems, just send them to our email address and I'll get them sent off to Mark as well. bewitchingballas@gmail.com

THANK YOU!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Red Carpet video from The Mint, April 12

From the big show on April 12, 2010:

Video of Mark at the Mint

ooo, a short video of Mark singing "Get Out Alive" at The Mint on April 19, 2010. Thanks bonbon922!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Photos from The Mint, April 19, 2010

Great photo from Mark's gig last night (April 19th) from Christopher Hall of E! Entertainment (@challywood). Mark is playing his Ukulele. :D
photo copyright Christopher Hall, E! Entertainment, 2010

Another photo from Chris of Mark and Chelsie:
photo copyright Christopher Hall, E! Entertainment, 2010

Check out more twitpics from fans & media:

@katyisblonde @OfficialMBallas you did such a great job last night! I loved your new song! amazing! http://twitpic.com/1h2i5t

kelsiyeakel From @OfficialMBallas show tonight at the mint http://twitpic.com/1h0092

BuzzFoto Mark Dances the Night Away: Mark Ballas doesn’t stop dancing no matter the place! Mark performed for our camera as... http://bit.ly/bxM0Sf

Brendatothemax Me and @OfficialMBallas (: (: taken of course by @kelsiyeakel http://twitpic.com/1gzs2j



_Brenduhhh_ @OfficialMBallas the Rihanna "Rude Boy" Mark Ballas remix was amazing. Seriously! I was feeling that song!

@eileenaiyan Mark personally handed out fliers for his show (you get a discount with the flyer). So be on the lookout for Mark handing out fliers at The Mint on Mondays. :)

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Week(s) in Review - April 5 - April 18

Well, I didn't get a Sunday review done last week, so this one will be for the last two weeks. :)


April 5th was an acoustic show at The Mint and was a good one, from what I heard.  Christopher Hall of E! Entertainment posted a picture of Mark and Chelsie at the show, which I posted here

Also on that page is a picture Mark posted of him and the other musicians from the April 6th DWTS result show. Mark played Flamingo guitar with two other musicians while Derek and Chelsie danced a Paso Doble.  It was a wonderful performance.  I posted a video and screencaps.

On April 7th, we got a blog from Mark at Hollyscoop.  They claimed that Mark would blog every week, even though he was out of the competition, but we have yet to get a blog for week 4 of DWTS.  The blog posted on April 7th was for week 3 (even though it says week 2 in the blog). I'll be keeping a lookout for an update to Mark's blog; hopefully he updates it this week. :)

On April 8th, Mark tweeted that it was the first day off the crutches. :) Gettin' better! 

On April 11th, Mark was a guest on the Reality Cares radio show.  It is an hour long show.  Mark talked about DWTS, his music, his uncle's suicide, and the AFSP. http://latalkradio.com/images/Reality-041110.mp3

ChicaGirl magazine tweeted that they were going to interview Mark at his big show on April 12th.  According to their website, the interview will be available in Issue 11.  I'll post a link when it is available to read. :)

April 12th, Mark did a Twitterview or Twinterview (call it what you want) with Wonderwall MSN.  I posted the transcript of the interview here.

Also on April 12th, Mark posted a great pic of him and his dad, that I totally forgot to post on the blog:
photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

The Mint show on April 12th was a sold-out, full band show.  It was treated as his album release party, red carpet and all.  The event was called "An Evening with Mark Ballas".  Check out this post for some pictures from the event.  Mark also posted a pic of the stage from one of the rehearsals for the big Mint performance, found in this post - which also contains pics of Mark's Vibe kids.  They performed on DWTS on April 13th.

Check out the Vibe dance team's performance from April 13th here.  There is also some footage of the kids rehearsing with Mark in this video (screencaps here as well).

On Friday, April 9th, E! posted an article with quotes from Mark stating that his knee needed a twitter account and then this weekend (April 16th), his knee began twittering (MBallasKnee). And then the other body parts started showing up to the party.  His shoulder is tweeting (MBLeftShoulder), as well as Cheryl's ring and various body parts belong to Derek Hough (Hair, Abs). Be sure to check them out, it's pretty hilarious. :)  Mark has been chatting with his knee and shoulder this weekend, which has been rather humorous. :)  It all started with Evan's Toe though. ;)

Mark has been posting a few pictures of his knee over the past week. I think he's getting bored not being able to dance. ;)

Mark says "Hot Wire my Heart" is the name of a new song...but right now it seems like it's "hot wire my knee"

Doing exercises to get strong again:

The knee got to wear some new jeans:

Since Derek's hair started tweeting as well, the knee and hair decided to post a picture together:
all photos of the knee copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

I think the pain killers have made Marky a little loopy. =P


Well, I think that about wraps it up for the past two weeks.  Here are some tweets that are notable from the past couple weeks. :)

Twitter notable updates from the weeks of April 5-18:
The Examiner says that @OfficialMBallas is a wanna-be singer http://bit.ly/9NaEE2 RUDE! - Excuse me, but he IS a singer, and dang fine one!

RT @OfficialMBallas @BewitchBallas thank u for ur support and dedication, love ya
 

RT @OfficialMBallas Day 1 off the crutch, don't get cocky now mark ;)

RT @ChicaGirlMagazine @BewitchBallas ChicaGirl Magazine will be interiviewing Mark Ballas Monday 12th at The Mint! See everyone there! 8:30!!

RT @TracieMayWagner @OfficialMBallas and my hubby Phillip... http://yfrog.com/0mj6xsj

Finally found it! Mark's interview with John Jay and Rich from March 18, 2010: http://bit.ly/cByENv

New poll on the Facebook page: http://apps.facebook.com/polldaddy-polls/?view=poll&id=3028004 :)

RT OfficialMBallas Just had a rehearsal with my full band, all I can say is They are Awesome, the show @MintLA on the 12th is going to be SICK  

RT @OhMeredith Thanks @LittleMissBizE for sending @OfficialMBallas to get his haircut today @StudioDNA. He was such a doll! And his hair-so supercute :)
 
RT @derekfrankbass @OfficialMBallas you must be at SIR... they've been there for weeks! bummed i'm not rockin' with ya!

New poll: What's your fave song on Waiting for Patience? http://apps.facebook.com/polldaddy-polls/?view=poll&id=3028004

RT @RealityCares Call-in to our Radio Show on LATalkRadio.com today at 2pm Pacific to speak with @OfficialMBallas @jennipulos: 323-203-0815

RT @Tom_Bergeron @BewitchBallas Ah yes, you never know what the camera will catch!

RT @OfficialDHough At Marks gig everyone is here .. Really proud of him this project means alot to him .. He's gonna kill it ..

RT @billinlv Gas LV to LA: $60., Hotel in LA: $160., Seeing @OfficialMBallas show @MINTLA: Priceless!!!!!!!

RT @RealityCares @OfficialMBallas performing live at The Mint Los Angeles!! http://tweetphoto.com/18250813  

RT @ExtraCarlo just covered @OfficialMBallas album party at The Mint. His cd is really good! Thanks so much ;) 


http://bit.ly/a6U6PX Mark says people should give Kate a break. :)

RT @OfficialMBallas My vibe kids in school for the day before dancing on the show, they are so bored lol ha ha ha http://moby.to/vs01z0

I've added 3 new pages to the website: Mark's Music: http://bit.ly/bfjqkE, Links: http://bit.ly/bI0fTA, Event Calendar: http://bit.ly/9lHIEn

http://bit.ly/ddHuPh Hollyscoop's article about Mark's sold out performance at the Mint on April 12th. :)

RT @OfficialMBallas Just finished a new song, called "alot of faith a little will" I really like this one ;)
 
RT @OfficialMBallas RT @EvanLysacek @OfficialMBallas will you play your new song this Monday at MintLA? I sure will buddy, hope ur comin down

Retro videos :)

Here are some more videos from the past.

Mark, Derek & Emily sing Do You Love Me with Emily. Cute exchange at the end where they 'spell' Ballas Hough Band for the radio listeners.


Another radio interview with Mark, Derek and Emily. This time Emily and Mark sing "Longing For":


Mark giving a Salsa demonstration for the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, with Salsa dancer Jo QuiƱones:

Saturday, April 17, 2010

DWTS- Pro's home videos

Home videos from the DWTS younger days (from the April 13, 2010 show)


Screencaps after the cut:

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Paley Center DWTS chat

Another old video. In this one, Derek talks about Mark's shoulder injury from Season 5 at the end of this video...with an appearance by Mark showing he has full rotation in his shoulder.

Retro video

Mark and Derek talking with The Insider before season 8.

via The Insider

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Vibe kids on DWTS

April 13, 2010 - Students from The Vibe center in Utah perform on DWTS. Choreographed by Mark Ballas


Proud teacher:
all photos copyright ABC. Screencapped by Bewitching Ballas Blog

Mark posted this great pic of a few of the Vibe dancers:
 photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

An Evening with Mark Ballas

Here are a few photos that people have put online from Mark's show last night:

Anna Trebunskaya posted this picture:
photo copyright Anna Trebunskaya, 2010

Shannon Elizabeth posted this picture:
photo copyright Shannon Elizabeth, 2010

The Mint posted this picture of the red carpet craziness before the show:
photo copyright @N8theSk8 (Nathan Levinson) & @MintLA (The Mint in Los Angeles), 2010


Darius (@superzeo) posted this photo:
photo copyright Darius (@superzeo), 2010

And another pic was posted, but I haven't received permission to post it here yet (if I do, I'll add it):
http://twitter.com/RealityCares/status/12086631561


There are some paparazzi videos up on YouTube, if you want to watch them. I don't like that paparazzi stuff, so I won't post it here. :)


Picapp.com has a bunch of red carpet pictures up from the event. You can check out the rest of the gallery over at picapp - there are 50 images total.

Derek and Mark:
An Evening With Mark Ballas

Mark:
An Evening With Mark Ballas

Over at the Naughtia Celebrity News With Reality Twist Blog, there are a few pics...including a nice one of Mark.

There are also 87 pictures over at Wireimage.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Transcript of @officialmballas Wonderwallmsn interview

Here is the transcript of Mark's Twinterview or Twitterview (call it what you will) with WonderwallMSN today (11am PT, April 12, 2010)
The photo Mark posted:
photo copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Screencaps from the Paso

Here are the screencaps from Derek and Chelsie's Paso, for which Mark played Spanish guitar (April 6, 2010).  I only capped the shots where Mark appears, so it's not the whole dance. But there were a few cool shots where Mark is far in the background, but he's between Derek and Chelsie. Wonderful camera angles for this dance. :)

Screencaps are after the cut:

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Blast from the past videos

Let's have a giggle. :)

Chapstick:


They totally fail at the BFF game LOL:


Mark and Shawn chatting before their pedicures:


Mark and Shawn getting their pedicures:


Meeting the You've Got Mail guy:

The Mint & The Vibe

Next week, we will get another double-dose of Marky goodness! :) On Monday night, Mark is again performing at The Mint, but this week's show promises to be an exciting one. He's playing with a full band and many of his DWTS buddies will be in attendance. If you're in the Los Angeles area, be sure to check it out! Get your tickets online here: http://www.themintla.com/show/detail/28086 Mark goes on at 8:30pm.

Mark posted a picture of the stage/instruments at one of the band practices for Monday's performance:


Also, on Tuesday on the DWTS result show, Mark has choreographed a team of young dancers from The Vibe in Utah. I've seen these kids dance before and they are pretty talented! Included in the team is Tanisha Belnap, who also danced in Mark's music video for the song "All For Nothing". :)

Mark posted a picture of him and Tanisha and another picture of the whole dance team:

Mark and Tanisha:

The Vibe dance team:
all photos copyright Mark Ballas, 2010

The Insider backstage - week 3

Mark shows up at the end around 3:53.  Talks about his roots in the Flamenco guitar style.

Mark on Hollywood 411

Mark's interview from April 7, 2010 on Hollywood 411 (TV Guide Network):


copy of video on Hulu:

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Lyrics for "Get Out Alive" by Mark Ballas

"Get Out Alive" by Mark Ballas
from the "Waiting for Patience" EP, 2010

She's sixteen playing playin' with the thought of leavin'
this web that they've been weavin' all her life
it's time to break the ties

so tired of living in a prison
'cause this road that she's been given
is open wide
it's time to take the ride

Move
I said you gotta get out of here alive
tonight
and you don't ever look back baby
Move
I said you gotta get out of here in time
to make it all right
you gotta make that move girl

She's seventeen feeling so lost and lonely
that life is killin' her slowly
so say goodbye to the girl that trapped inside

we can't stop, gettin' older
lift that weight up off your shoulders
baby soon it'll all be over
give it time

Move
I said you gotta get out of here alive
tonight
and you don't ever look back baby
Move
I said you gotta get out of here in time
to make it all right
you gotta make that move girl

I know it's hard when you're feeling
like you're all alone
and I know it hurts when no one understands at all
don't stop or stall, no

you better move
I said you gotta get out of here alive
tonight
and you don't ever look back baby
Move
I said you gotta get out of here in time
to make it all right

you better move
I said you gotta get out of here alive
tonight
and you don't ever look back baby
Move
I said you gotta get out of here in time
to make it all right

make that move