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 short presentation about Cinematique, a show created in January 2010 in L’Hexagone. I don’t speak French, so if someone could add more info would be great! 
thanks to Mouna “Moon” (:D) Nemri from Brussels for the link! 
thanks for watching
Vintage Sesame Street.
Hi everybody
after acrylic party in bruxelles, I’ve studied a little these “Moogeng”. They are acrylic made S sticks, quite similar to Buugeng.
this is a little vid of me training with them. Sorry if I’m not so clean, but they very hard to use in my opinion and I haven’t studied them so much.
hope you like it
hugs from italy
Friday Fun, Contact juggling snail does flawless eyestalk to eyestalk roll, head balance with 3.
Thanks to Valerie 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.
Kentaro Kobayashi performs an interactive projection piece.
Thanks to Pich for the link (Kentaro is his new hero, apparently!)
Richard Hartnell (aka Gravity Defiance on contactjuggling.org) brought us this nice clip from burning man, with some great 200 frames-per-second slow-mo shots. Nice isolations and smooth rolls FTW!
Fun music video by Future Shock.
I’ve been watching this clip for years, and still can’t figure out if the dancing is real or carefully edited. Something about all the movements seems to precise; I can imagine that this video was the result of a tremendous amount of micro-editing (editing all the movements of the dancers to correspond with the beat) or head-swapping (editing the heads of the old man/police officer/etc) onto the source footage of one dancer.
Friday fun = Highbrow manipulation.
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
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.