Archive for April, 2007

Juggling.TV & Liquid Crystal

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Matt Hennem’s Liquid Crystal finally online in a streaming format. Filmed and edited by Howie.
Howie and Jen’s New Juggling.TV is where you’re going to spend your next couple of hours. The video archive there is phenomenal, it’s got a lot of videos never before released online, old and new.
I could totally Blog 10 videos from the site today and its only 9am.
OMG Drew

Vancouver Circus School - Kay Meeks

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

I did some editing work this winter for the Vancouver Circus School, and wanted to share one of my videos here on the Blog. This Kay Meeks video was taken from a corporate show that the performance group did, and it showcases a lot of their talent, notably:
Chris Murdoch - Contact Juggling and Fire Staff
Jake West - Diablo and Drumming
Nigel Wakita - Yo-yo

Multiball Contact - Our First Review!

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

SuicasSuicas from www.contactjuggling.org writes:

Well.. my copy of Multiball Contact arrived today!

And…wow! I was really looking forward to this, and it’s every bit as good as I’d hoped, and a lot more.

The book is beautifully laid out, full of clear text, explanations and tips for a really wide range of multiball goodness. It’s a great visual guide to learning, there are tons of photos and diagrams to go with each lesson to get the point across. The visual presentation of it makes it something I’d happily leave out on my coffee table for non-CJers to flick through too.

For those of us who don’t any teachers nearby (or many contact practioners for that matter), having a resource like this which breaks things down into small steps, difficulty and practice times will be invaluable.

I’d seriously recommend that anyone who has the slightest interest in multiball goes out and orders a copy of this book now, preferably 2 copies to encourage Drew to write a followup (for 10 years down the line when you’re done with this one of course :) ).

I’ve only had time to go through the first few lessons, but had a good flick and read through later parts of the book. It’s good. Really good. Really really good. Also, it’s extremely good in case I forgot to mention it.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to make this happen Drew :)

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For more info on Multiball Contact, click here

Greg Irwin - Finger Ballet

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

IMP from CJ.org sent us this link of a curious performance by Greg Irwin on the Tonight Show. The Original “digits” :)

For contact juggling buffs, Greg Irwin is the man behind handhealth.com, a site which promotes multiball contact as a type of ‘Finger-Fitness’ discipline.

Wierd stuff. It doesn’t come anywhere near the genious of Rat-Tango, but its still a fun late-night TV appearance.
Speaking of late night TV appearances; I’m gonna find a way to get Remy Holwick’s appearance on The Late-Late show up here.

Mika Quartz - Franckfort

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Mika Quartz (a.k.a. Franck) finally makes a lovely, fun arty juggling video for the youtube world.
He’s really good.
An oldschool legend, in fact.

Donald O’Connor - Make Em Laugh

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Donald O’Connor - Make Em Laugh
Donald O’Connor is solid gold in this musical number “Make Em Laugh” from Singing in the Rain 1951
One of my favorite pieces of clowning ever.
Youtube doesn’t do this justice, losing a lot of the detail - especial on the faces. Go rent the DVD.
Smiles
Drew

Improv at Bremen - 3 ball Juggling

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

YouTube - Juggling
An oldy but a goody. I was soo fortunate to be sitting in the front row.

Jonas, Minh-tam and Stefan
Introduced by Dafne.

West Coast Swing - Kyle Redd & Sarah Vann Drake

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Kyle Redd & Sarah Vann Drake

I’m not a big fan of the West Coast Style, I think its borderline fake tan.
For partner dancing, I prefer the style of Lindy Hop / Charleston.
But I reckon these 2 are as good as it gets. Their connecting is *tight* and the musicality/choreography is supreme.
better post some juggling soon huh!
Drew

Ministry Suggestions

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Chinlone Ball
We are 1. Yes the ministry has been around for just over 1 year. So what should we do with this website next ?

  • Move the Blog to the front page?
  • Finish the links page?
  • Code: Convert it to A full on CMS (probably Joomla) Rather than the current wordpress/css hack?
  • Produce up the beginners guide to Ball Contact?
  • Make another web video like hangar fun2?
  • Make our own Television station?
  • Post a whole week of hula hoop videos?
  • Blog more videos of XXXXX?
  • Insert your suggestion here in the comments?

Baton - Hollie Neilson - 2001

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Hollie Neilson - 2001
OMG she’s super good.