A brilliant video from Furet.

I remember the whole story. Jago brought a collection of metal hoops to the BCJC a few years ago. Some of us had seen moschens work, and immediately made a connection. That night.. for that group of 12-15 european contact juggler, hoop isolations were born.
Pich was there… as was Ewan, Mr. Om, Drew, Mr. Crystal, myself (Ryan,) Bruno, Anna and a few others. More than a new prop, a new idea was born; that the illusions of contact are not restricted to just a ball. [of course.. moschen knew this already, but it was still damn exciting for us]

Furet is a student of Pich, who both live in Paris. Jago and myself were already performing with aluminuim hoops in Anomalies, and Ryan began teaching isolation workshops which focused on new props like hoops, clubs and blocks. Pich was introduced to hoops through these workshops, and later introduced it to Furet. Furet is currently studying manipulation in University… and we are beginning to see the stunning results of that research.

Some astounding technical skills from Malabrarismo.cl

Thanks to Koke Petit (staff at malabrismo) for writing to us and sending the link. Excellent work!

ok.. this is a bit of an uber-geeky post, but dailymotion.com (another video hosting site in the same vein as google video and youtube) has answered the call of internet video watchers and opened the full-screen code for their content. Adobe Flash 9 (the newest adobe flash player that powers online video) has had an option for ”true” full-screen (no browser window bars, etc) for a while now, but so far providers havent opened up their ALLOWFULLSCREEN=TRUE code… except dailymotion.

bravo Dailymotion.. let’s hope that google video and youtube follow the lead.
[end geekery]
that vid was suprisingly good, eh?

Beautiful new contact juggling video by Moon and Shay from Imperfect Cirquel crew.

EmiSphereS

Beautiful work. thank you once again for such a gift.
This is a ‘must watch’ for all contact jugglers.

Addicted.. one of the first web virals that showed up online featuring the 3 ball work of Morgan (the really dark shots… he is sitting in a chair in this video)
His solo at EJC2006 rocked.
So does all the contact club in the vid.

Megathanks to Arnar for the link.

Watch on YouTube

Awesome contact club from Sander (watch for the rolls, lego sequences and wrist traps)
Loads of other good juggling too.
I love that first track.
Its snowing out.
Need to juggle.

Right up there with Elsewhere… Mori is a japanese popper with an illusional style.

the vid comes to us from www.westcoastpoppin.com. Their video section is worth a look of you want to see more dance vids.

80s ISUZU GEMINI TV advertistment - Watch on Google Video
More wierdness from the world of oldschool commercials. This is a compilation from a series of ad’s that Isuzu did from 85-89 that all featured some very talented stunt drivers. Apparently something good did come out of the 80’s.

Mmm.. symmetry

YouTube - Contact in Paris
Nice illusion/mime styled ball contact in this Paris-based street performer. I would assume (if the youtube poster is the same as the artist) that the juggler is Loubile, a 27 year old french juggler. Lovely work.. hope to see more.

Sorry Guys, While I’m away I’ve had a spot of trouble with the printer, the upshot is that it turns out that despite quoting for it, they can’t actually print it!
Grrrrr.
So now Multiball Contact wont be ready for the middle of January.
There was nothing I could do about it I’ll do my best to get it published by the end of February.
New slogan: Multiball Contact - Later than Windows Vista!
As an apology, I can tell you that the ministry is planning something, and expect a few goodies on the site appearing in the next month, but I’ll make sure that the book is ok first.
Happy new year… Sorry
Drew

Its gone a bit sleepy here at the Ministry blog… Drew is away in Dubai while the book is at the printers, Ed has gone to visit the lovely Jea9 in India, and I’m hard at work here in Canada making videos for the Vancouver Circus School.

Enjoy this contact juggling performance from our favorite new performer, Kamil Dzilinski.