Archive for 2008

Nimi the Tree Statue

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Nimi can usually be found in Barcelona, busking as his Tree character. Nice presentation, good character, and some awesome skills. check out his one (!!!) finger balance.

Thanks to the Silver Man for the video.

Metra - Free Drive Multiball Contact

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Metra dropped an unbelievable multiball video onto youtube.

2:41 made me go ‘oooooooooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah oooooooooooohhh’
Once again.
omg againPrevious Metra videos: Busker, Techno, Metrart, More popping.

Ryans Glasses
See any similarity?

Ryan

Ministry: Canada - Workshop update + Video!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Ministry Canada

First video in the new series; shot on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan Mellors
and Daydream will be running a series of contact juggling workshops across Canada this summer. The aim of the workshop is to give students a foundation in contact juggling technique as well as introduce them to many of the concepts that form the basis of modern contact & manipulation. The unique workshop is divided into five parts, and will be structured as follows:
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Staff [Manipulation] DVD - Trailer

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Staff [Manipulation] DVD just published by Meghan MCP and Steve “NX” Wilson*.

MoM’s got a review copy, we’ll put together a detailed review soon, in the meantime. They’ve done the decent thing and put 4 clips, and loads of info on their site so you can decide for yourself.

Order it on their site, the tax is £16:99 if you live in UK and £17:99 if you live in International.

More details after the Jump

[Contact] Juggling and a bit of magic

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Short Version above Longer version: Juggling and a bit of magic // Current
Profile of contact juggling street performer - Nimi Ben Shalom
Produced by Elizabeth Wood.
Yea yea. we know - we’ve been pushing the contact juggling videos a lot recently - normal diverse service will return to MoM shortly

Patrick Lemoine - Hat, Balls and Cigar Boxes.

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Ok, so he doesn’t do the robot (nor does he dress the part) but Patrick Lemoine fulfills my requirements for an acceptably awesome popping & funkstyles/juggling performance. His act is composed of hat, 3 ball and cigar box tricks; its a repackaging of a standard vegas-styled act (i.e. the cheezy plastered-on grin and the mindless audience cues) but his dancing is pretty tight and if I try really really hard, I could imagine that Patrick actually has some legit street cred.

Thanks to martyq at rec.juggling for the link

Ministry Sightings: Ed in Spain

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Urban Cultural event in Spain, long video [8 Min] featuring some great dancing and occasional appearances by some weird British kid with a ball. :)

Iron ball falling into sand

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Slow motion.

Mika Quartz - Bulles de Cristal

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Mika Quartz seamlessly blends contact juggling with magic. Can’t find words to describe how good this is, Just watch it, and wish that Youtube was high resolution and 3D like real life!

It’s the dream for contact jugglers, to reach the point where the audience no longer know, if you let go of the ball, will it fall to the ground or float to the sky. And it’s rare joy for this jaded old hand of the Ministry to experience that sensation again.
Thank you Franck, One of the best clips we’ve seen this year.
Drew

Mika/Franck also in Frankfort previously on MoM.

Florent Lestage - Clubs and Cane

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Florent Lestage performs his solo with club and a cane from the year end showcase at the Montreal Circus School.

youtube for the high-quality>

Swarm Orbs

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

SWARM is built to explore the aesthetic possibilities and the emergent behavior of artificial systems. As a first step, Orbs are remote-controlled by human operators, but each Orb’s sounds and color illumination is algorithmically generated in response to location and motion. Each Orb has sophisticated navigational sensors including GPS, accelerometers, and solid-state gyroscopes. We are progressing towards sophisticated navigational algorithms, exactly like those used in spacecraft, that allow each Orb to determine its location and trajectory with high accuracy. From this, we can explore emergent and cooperative behavior like flocking as well as new possibilities in machine choreography. SWARM is not a simulation. SWARM is a platform for the art of the 21st century.

Are you thinking what we’re thinking?
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Thierry Fremaux

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Here’s a video of Thierry’s act from Cirque au Bout du Monde last year.

Video plays in reverse. I love the weird sounds, the starting with five balls, finishing with one, and how for a lot of it, you wouldn’t even realise he’s heading backwards…