Alessandro Maida
I know this video is long but if you just hang in there and be patient it will pay off with some very interesting contemporary movements on and around a walking globe, as well as on the ground involving three balls.
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Kyle Johnson can roll a ball from his foot to his head like nobody’s business. He has a great eye for juggling and manipulation videos too, and so he is joining our crew here at M.o.M. and will be contributing videos alongside myself, Drew, Ed, Moon and MCP.
Kyle can also hold 9 balls up for an impressively long time… which makes us all feel a little insecure.
Welcome Kyle! glad you could join us!
Kyle Johnson: Previously on MoM
So, Wes Peden has emailed me a few times in the past telling me about videos that he thinks would make nice additions on MoM. And everytime he emails me, I try to contain my ridiculous fan-boy enthusiasm, usually responding with “ya that’s cool wes. I’ll think about posting it later. Gotta run; lunch is ready” before running off to do a little “OMG-OMG-Wes-Peden-emailed-ME!” dance and gushing to all my friends about how awesome Wes Peden is and how he makes the best new juggling videos.
But this time he caught me off guard. I watched the video first, and then saw the email from him suggesting i blog it. In my excitement, I wrote back to him and said a lot of very nice things. So there you go; now he knows that we are huge fans and will pretty much post anything he tells us to. I declare Wes Peden, Patrik Elmnert & Ron Beeri to be the coolest jugglers in the world (for the day, at least).
Dawn and I spent some time this summer busking at the lovely Vancouver Chinatown Night Market. Good people, good food and good contact juggling.
Lewie West, and I hope he used his real name there, contains a nugget of purest awesome. He tours with CIRCA and is part of the CIRCA ensemble and here in this video, he is training in the CIRCA space in Brisbane.
In this and his other videos, which you should also definately check out because they all contain extremely high levels of awesome and epic combined, he is doing a mixture of gymnastics, tricking, breakdance and floorwork which is both graceful and (at least to me) extremely creative.
Another video of heaps awesomeness: YouTube again.
I hope to get to meet him at the CIRCA space soon. I’m going to totally be unable to talk to him.
Thanks to Mark P for the link…
Miniature intelligent robots playing soccer without remote control; in this case the robots are Team Osaka (Japan) vs. NimbRo (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany.) Robocup is serious business, but omg omg they’re so cute when they kick the ball and push each other over!!! aww….
From Wikipedia:
RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous soccer robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence.
The official goal of the project:
By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, complying with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.
thx to Dawn for the link.
YouTube – MANOI GO やるならやらねば！真打バージョン
Please enjoy this video of a robot breakdancing.
Ed can do “the robot”, but can the robot do “the Ed”? I think not.
Via
1-upping Ed’s post from a few days ago. File under top-of-the-head-balance/obsession. This stuff is nuts. He jumps a bench, and skates in a bowl with a solid balance the whole time. Cheers to Ricardo for the link.
Btw; facebook has a group page for people with top-of-the-head-balance/obsession (Link: Adictos Bola en la Cabeza (Ball on the Head)
Well… aerial dance, physical theater…. whatever you will call it. It’s got big objects and they are manipulated in amazing ways and that’s why we at www.ministryofmanipulation.com love them to bits. (well.. there are other reasons too… read below to find out)
More videos ( and a personal note from Ryan, Jea9, Drew, Ed and Colin) after the jump
Takes a little while to get started, but then it does and there’s lots of structures, fans, spinning, a tiny bit of juggling and some very clean card manipulation. Also nicely filmed and set to music.
Emiliano Alessi has made a video clearly showing off his beautiful combination of juggling and dance. Great shapes and he still has a keen sense of manipulation and how to make it interesting. I love it lots.
