The Ministry of Manipulation

Koutei Sennin & ‘Time Machine’ on Japan’s Dance Hero

January 27th, 2012
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From our Suggest a link page, Oli writes:

Koutei Sennin of U-min fame, with his new crew ‘Time Machine’ on Japan’s Dance Hero talent show. They’re on episode 3 now, and all three are amazing.

Here are the other two:

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The Seoul Balancing Expert

January 21st, 2012
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Seoul Korea has produced a unique series of web-shorts featuring talented local artists. I really enjoy this balancing video, but the boomerang guy is cool too.

via http://www.youtube.com/user/visitseoul

(Vote For!) The Busking Project – This Happens Every Day

January 18th, 2012
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The (excellent) Busking Project, who have been traveling around the world filming street performers, are now in the production stage of the film and have released an incredible montage of street performers in the short video “This Happens Every Day”

The short film is up for a chance to be shown in TV on Reel13, and they are only 60 votes behind the lead.  It only takes a second to vote, so go DO IT NOW and help their project get more attention.  They need your vote today!

[EDIT: The Busking Project is in the lead with only an Hour and a half left before the voting deadline!]

http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/category/vote/

Sh*t Spinners Say

January 18th, 2012

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Following the “Sh*t X say” meme, this Tongue in cheek video is poking fun at Spinners, from the Vulcan crew of…err spinners.
Brilliant.
“Do it again, only less sh*t.”
We’ll add: “Faster with less control.” “Do you know G?”, “Can you do that Anti-spin?” is the new, “Can you do that isolated?” is the new, “Can you do that BTB?”
So who is going to make “Sh*t contact jugglers say?”

Sphero at CES – Contact Jugglers are obsolete

January 12th, 2012


$129 US, more info at gosphero.com, previously on MoM.

Romeo – How cool I am

January 10th, 2012
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Well done project by Rodenbros. Juggling and visual effects mixed together with a new technique where they have used 4 locations and 13 different clothes. Thanks guys, CRAZY video and editing!

Check the website: www.juggleromeo.com

Trixie Firschke Juggling with Fred Astaire

January 10th, 2012

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Now you do it!
Great plate juggling, ball spinning and mouthstick, from the movie “Broadway Melody of 1940″.
Thanks to Ben for the link.

Bobbo – Does this look infected? (club juggling)

January 9th, 2012
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Bobbos latest video is a mix of slick bounce tricks with clubs. (!!!)

Nicolas Longuechaud (Furet) – Clockwork

January 9th, 2012
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Cute new vid from the french hoop isolationist Furet.  What are we calling these shapes now?

After moving to a new area of Paris I decided to make a video out of it, using some of my stuff and research around my excentric circles.

Après un déménagement dans un nouveau quartier de Paris, j’ai voulu que cela soit un point de départ pour une nouvelle vidéo, prétexte pour partager quelques unes de mes recherches avec mes cercles excentriques.

Ah, ok. They are called excentric circles.

 

Friday Fun : Wonderputt (mini-golf game)

January 6th, 2012

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I ended up with -10 under par, but admittedly I had a few lucky breaks and i never managed to collect all the rainbow pieces. Final score was 68,579 in 7 minutes. Happy Friday :) It’s good to take a break from practicing all the time, right?

play Wonderputt at  dampgnat.com

Robin Jäderfeldt (Bobbo) – MY POV (english subtitle available)

January 3rd, 2012
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Bobbo talks about his early years as a juggler, his experiences within the WJF ‘sport juggling’ culture (nearly losing his motivation to continue training) and how he found new inspiration in creative ideas.

 

Home-made LED ball

January 2nd, 2012
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Happy new year! :)