Five and a half years after starting MoM, we have; 1 book, 2 weddings, several MoM workshops, and over 1 000 000 unique visitors (according to our stats counter).
And this is MoM’s 1000th blog post.
Phew.
Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next 5 years.
The above image is from theFlickr acrylic balls pool. by Maido of Japan.
Smiles
Drew
A small extract from Miko no Inori
Ryan and I have been waiting for more than 5 years to post this, ever since we saw it as an installation at the Tate Modern. Unfortunately there is very little about it online:
This figure comes to life in the video Miko no Inori, carefully turning a crystal ball over in her hands while transfixing the viewer with her gleaming eyes. A recording of Mori singing a haunting song in Japanese plays in the background to enhance and intensify the unsettlingly beautiful performance. By assuming the role of shaman-a human being who acts as an intermediary between the earthly world and an unknown spiritual realm-Mori imbues her futuristic techno-spectacle with a sensibility derived from Far Eastern transcendental religious beliefs.
There is no contact in this video, just a big crystal ball, to quote Ryan: “Wouldn’t it be awesome if she did just the smallest contact isolation at the end of the video.”
This Delta Robot by Mimixmotion constructs a 3 layer pyramid and completes the routine with some 2 ball “spin-spin” flowers.
Multiball contact jugglers can soon to retire, while skynet takes over the world of manipulation.
Gotta love your Friday morning robot pR0n!
via the highly esteemed Lady Ada
This smiling old Belgian chap is absolutely obsessed with rolling balls and has been for 60 years.
The Ministry approves of this obsessive behavior.
Wow, we haven’t been hacked for almost 2 weeks, seems like normal service can resume…
Two friends of mine went to Kiev to train juggling with the crazy kids there. I talked to one of them (Petter) the other day and he said that they would be posting a video of some stuff they had been doing there along with some of what the ukranian guys are working on.
HOLY SHIT! I got so excited watching this! I’m not going to spoil the surprises for you but it’s an amazing video with incredible  technique and super new one ball and three ring work by the swedish representatives.
Make sure you check out Petters other video and subscribe to his account. He’s one of the coolest smartest jugglers I know and for sure someone to keep an eye on if you like awesome things.
A new infomercial marketing campaign in the U.S. threatens to rebrand contact juggling into…. Fushigi?
Update: If You are looking to get into Contact juggling, The best deal for an acrylic ball at the moment is an 85mm Acrylic ball from Home of Poi, you might also want to read MoM’s ball guide.
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Oh yeah, I have to not make jokes about big balls. Ok, so this is a girl doing three of those large gym balls, the squishy ones, that you supposedly use to build up your core strength, but you actually just roll around on. This I assume Russian Ukrainian, has made a whole act out of rolling around on them, in a graceful way. There’s also some ball spinning, behind the head rolls, antipodism, and acrobatics with the big balls.
It’s always nice to see new props being used with innovative manipulation.
i was chatting on facebook with one of my friends and we were trying to figure out if this finnish girl liked me or not. i happened to go to youtube while we were talking and saw this pop up in my subscriptions!!! boom! one of the few things prioritizes over my interest in finnish trapeze girls is japanese juggling boys!
More info on that ball – Rocky Mountain.
If that’s not enough, then there’s the Fiat Lux (see video at bottom of page), showing that balls don’t even need contact jugglers to make them look like they are floating…
This remote controlled bowling ball brings us all one step close to the point when we no longer need to practice. Muhahahahahaaaaaa!
More info on popular mechanics
