Super-intense conceptual staff goodness and excellent artistry from the uber-technical staff masterminds Sebastian Berger and David Nolan of Fenfire (Vienna).

From Youtube:

Exploration of staff manipulation techniques & modes of presentation in a cubist
environment.

2 artists – search – experiment -process – shape – image.

A film by sebastiAn berger & David J Nolan
http://www.staffmanipulation.com
http://www.davidnolan.at

Fenfire on MoM:
Lumotek UV3000 promo
Ryan visits Fenfire
Contact Staff Isolations

Hi everybody!
I’m not sure to have published here these old little clips done in Berlin during MoM ws 09. Waiting for the full vid (no news from Lhupo, by the way..), hope you like them
balls are 90mm in the 3b and 7b clips, 50mm in 10b clip

3 balls

7 balls

10 balls

enjoy!

Moon

You like balls? You have some kind of Manipulation OCD? Then you’ll dig these 216 rare earth magnetic balls ($31). via Makezine. For more, see Neocube.

Michael Moschen performs his ‘light’ act on The Donahue Show, a popular 90′s US daytime television program.

Excellent magical finger wiggling from Daniel Chesterfield.

From the 2008 EJC, Furet (Nicolas Longuechaud) from Paris presents a new piece of isolation performance with rings which makes me smile. I liked it enough that I made a cheesy fan poster to hang on my wall.

Cheers to Furet for the ministry credit in the video. We remember him when he was just a kid on some internet forum Be sure to check out : Other Furet videos you haven’t seen yet!

Interesting debate going on over on rec.juggling; ManiacDrew asks the question: crazy basketball tricks… too crazy?
Decide for yourself:

The 2 ball headroll and 3 ball balance is especially questionable… but I think its all possible.

More fun things you can do (without props).

Hi everybody! I’m writing here to share with you what I’m working on in this hot summer here in Rome (with playing banjo ). I’ve been inspired by Ryan with his cube in an old vid, and also Shay in ALTER EGO has tried to use a cube as a new object to manipulate. I respect so much their work, and they helped me a lot to find new way to use cubes. I’m a multiballer, so why don’t try to morph with cubes? I had some ideas working with 8 (90x90x90, very big and HEAVY), and I think it could work, and maybe it could be (or maybe not .__.) an interesting innovation in morphing and multiobjects contact juggling (considering contamination spheres-half spheres- cubes too).

So..I’m studying how to morph the same patterns I can do with balls..with CUBES I’ve tried the CUBE (obviously), DIAMONDS, PYRAMIDS and RINGS. I can’t spin (yet, I hope ) them, but…here on this page you can see some photos!
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Emily Wells loops and samples violin over a beat, then adds her unique voice to the mix.

Original juggling from Morgan Cosquer, performing his act at Mondial du Cirque de demain in 2008. Super-technical use of head and feet.

Yesterday was the Gala show of the EJC – one of the biggest, and best juggling + manipulation shows in the world – We only found out 10 minutes before, that Jeanine would be performing Balledanse in the show – a routine which has been developed a lot since the BJC07 version we posted last week.
Lots of fantastic EJC 2009 photos online at albapasser.de.
While there’s nothing to see yet, her site will soon be live at Jeanine Ebnöther.com.