The Ministry of Manipulation

LCD – contact juggling & liquid robot dancing

March 16th, 2010

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After the silly robot intro, LCD launches into a wicked display of contact juggling isolations. To quote Su-nami from www.contactjuggling.org

How is it when you Isolate an acrylic it looks like an incredibly intricate dance form and when i isolate an acrylic it looks like, well, someone isolating an acrylic?

LCD (aka Liquid Crystal Display aka ‘elsie-dee’ aka Nika aka Nick) and Matt Hennem have been obsessing for a decade now about the fine details of moving a ball from point ‘A’ to point ‘B.’
For more, check his youtube profile

Nimi & Dimitar Crystal Balls

March 16th, 2010

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Nimi and Dimitar crystal balls session in Barcelona, February 2010. This video is receiving high praise over on .org

Dimitar just popped in to post it on Suggest a link.

Hola, chicos! Saludos de Barcelona.
This is a short video we filmed with Nimi here last month with 2 crystal balls:
Thank you for your page!
Hugs till we see each other around,
D

This is one of the most inspirational things I’ve seen in a long time, and one of the most beautiful contact juggling videos ever. I look forward to seeing it live. Wow, Thank you so much for sharing it Dimitar and Nimi. Smiles Drew

Moon – Ekidna 2010

March 15th, 2010
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Hi everybody,
here it is a small video made quickly during the first Italian contact juggling convention. Nothing special technically, but very nice images and a very peaceful place to play in.
balls are 90mm.

thanks for watching

Moon

Stefan Sing – “pigeon, why do you scare me?”

March 9th, 2010

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Masterful juggling from one of the best. I held my breath through most of this, and am without words to describe how deeply this inspires. It is a masterpiece of expressive juggling, with a constant play between the various emotional states and a huge depth and range of techniques. I’m feeling it; Stefan is awesome.

Bravo!!!! and a standing ovation for bringing this to youtube in 1080p.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From Youtube:

extracts from my performance at the festival “feux d’hiver” in calais (31.12.09)…. music from the album “rossz csillag allat született” by venetian snares … www.stefansing.com

Moon – Moogeng training

March 2nd, 2010
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Hi everybody :)
after acrylic party in bruxelles, I’ve studied a little these “Moogeng”. They are acrylic made S sticks, quite similar to Buugeng.
this is a little vid of me training with them. Sorry if I’m not so clean, but they very hard to use in my opinion and I haven’t studied them so much.
hope you like it :)

hugs from italy

New Dance and Acrobatics Videos

March 2nd, 2010

Seems like nowadays all my inspiration comes from dance and acrobatic videos… and whatever Wes Peden posts…

Lewie West made a new video:
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Seems like everytime he posts a new video, I’ll have to blog it. Sweet.

Ronan showed me a very old video of an amazing dancer and he just popped back onto the internet with a new collaboration video:

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And the video that Ronan showed me which is still amazing: YouTube Link And thou the above video may contain some weirdness, this one contains pretty much just awesomeness and a lot of titles.

Finally, a man blogged on this blog before, Olivier Mathieu and his friend:Thierno Thioune. Doing some dance that even Ryan will think is amazing:
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Going off to dance now… :D

Were is Kliff (!!!!!!!!!!)

February 28th, 2010

Two friends of mine went to Kiev to train juggling with the crazy kids there. I talked to one of them (Petter) the other day and he said that they would be posting a video of some stuff they had been doing there along with some of what the ukranian guys are working on.

HOLY SHIT! I got so excited watching this! I’m not going to spoil the surprises for you but it’s an amazing video with incredible  technique and super new one ball and three ring work by the swedish representatives.

Make sure you check out Petters other video and subscribe to his account. He’s one of the coolest smartest jugglers I know and for sure someone to keep an eye on if you like awesome things.

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Teku Contact – Ball on Ring / Club / Body

February 24th, 2010
Juggling video hosted @ Juggling.tv

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Some pretty sweet new shenanigans with ball contact on other props. I like it.

(cheesy) Ice Dance – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir

February 22nd, 2010
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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are awesome ice dancers from Canada. They are competing tonight here in Vancouver as top contenders for Olympic gold, and I’m all caught up in the excitement in my hometown.
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Vertical Palm Spinning

February 20th, 2010

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The title is descriptive enough. Ball size: 2.25″

Friday fun: Ball Contact, Ouch!!

February 19th, 2010

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Sports Science: “World Record Kick to the Groin”
“How much punishment can the human body withstand? Sports Science explores Combat Ki with the help of Rod Sacharnoski and American Gladiator Justice.”
Brings a whole *new* meaning to Ball Contact.
Warning to our gentlemen readers: Cannot be unseen.

Furet – Step right up

February 18th, 2010
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last (inspiring) research with hoop and stick isolations by Nicolas Longuechaud.
Very nice work! :)

thanks to Sa for the link ;)