The Ministry of Manipulation » Digital Manipulation http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com Manipulation, Juggling, Contact Juggling and Dance Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:21:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Romeo – How cool I am http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/romeo-how-cool-i-am/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/romeo-how-cool-i-am/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:03:57 +0000 Moon http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=5631
  • 5 years, 1000 posts, 1 000 000 views
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    Well done project by Rodenbros. Juggling and visual effects mixed together with a new technique where they have used 4 locations and 13 different clothes. Thanks guys, CRAZY video and editing!

    Check the website: www.juggleromeo.com

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/romeo-how-cool-i-am/feed/ 1     Anastasia Volochkova dancing to Adiemus http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/anastasia-volochkova-dancing-to-adiemus/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/anastasia-volochkova-dancing-to-adiemus/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:27:58 +0000 Drew http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=5602

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    As a counterpoint to Figure, the Graphic Dance video which we posted last week, here is Russian Ballet Dancer Anastasia Volochkova dancing to Adiemus, with digital post-processing to add trails.

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/anastasia-volochkova-dancing-to-adiemus/feed/ 0     FIGURE / *Asterisk – Graphic Dance Movement http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/figure-asterisk-graphic-dance-movement/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/figure-asterisk-graphic-dance-movement/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:13:53 +0000 Ministry http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=5566
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    The 1st video of the Experimental Multimedia Unit “*Asterisk” – a short dance video that simply expressed relation between music, dance and visual image.
    *Asterisk’s members are MEISAI (Dance), MANUKE (Direction) and Kariu Kenji (Sound).

    WoW. Amazing. This is the best representation I have seen of the patterns, lines and shapes formed by movement in Juggling, Dance and Manipulation. We’re excited to see more work from this collaboration.
    Thanks to Remi for the link.
    MoM
    Waiting for Pich to come and comment about “Graphic Juggling”.

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/figure-asterisk-graphic-dance-movement/feed/ 1     Floating Ball Tower (!!!!!) http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/floating-ball-tower/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/floating-ball-tower/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:37:03 +0000 mcp http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=5253
  • Ball tower
  • Tom Shannon – Floating ball sculptures – TED.com
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    Literally cannot believe my EYES. If this film is CGI I don’t care cos it does make me strangely happy.

    Time to search ebay for “Giant Electromagnet.”

    This video is called: F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival: Inductance – Apparently it was created for some festival with a theme of happy.

    Happy it is. All those exclamation marks are entirely necessary.

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/floating-ball-tower/feed/ 1     Kinect Graffiti™ – No Object Manipulation http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/kinect-graffiti%e2%84%a2-no-object-manipulation/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/kinect-graffiti%e2%84%a2-no-object-manipulation/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:38:26 +0000 Drew http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=5160
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  • Geek: The roundest object in the world
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    The kinect is a Microsoft camera that can sense motion in 3 dimensions.
    Jean-Christophe Naour, a French Interaction Designer based in Seoul (South-Korea), has developed this awesome realtime visualisation software Kinect Graffiti™, which is crying out to be integrated with object manipulation and dance performances.
    I can’t be the only manipulator who visualise the motion of my props like this.
    Wow.

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/kinect-graffiti%e2%84%a2-no-object-manipulation/feed/ 1     David “Elsewhere” Bernal – Detours http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/david-elsewhere-bernal-detours/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/david-elsewhere-bernal-detours/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 17:28:53 +0000 Ryan http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=5134
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    Once you get past the pure level of ‘abstraction’ in Davids dancing, you begin to notice that some tiny moments stand out as visually beautiful illusions or effects. In the 2nd part of this clip (starting around 3min)  the focus changes to his ‘battle’ tricks, and we can see a more clear demonstration of skill and ability.  With a wild range of his movement, everything is locked together by this super-controlled internal flow, the speed of all his arms and legs are moving together to create a sustained tempo and he is showing us crazy variations on a lot of old-school waving, tutting, botting,  strobing, liquid, popping, boogaloo techniques.

    For me, no-one has influenced my own sense of dance and movement more than David Bernal. In the early days of the Ministry of Manipulation, we would sit around in the Hangar and Jea9, Colin, Ed, Drew and I would watch his videos and be blown away, then we would run off to juggle with  a billion new ideas about movement and the way things can connect together.

    Detours isn’t retail anymore (only exists on the pirate bay) and lots of other clips from the two-Dvd box set are available. Check out : The Floor is my Canvas #2 (I prefer #1, but it isn’t on youtube….)

    It has been too long since he has been seen around here.

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/david-elsewhere-bernal-detours/feed/ 4     Etienne Saglio – Le soir des monstres http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/etienne-saglio-le-soir-des-monstres/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/etienne-saglio-le-soir-des-monstres/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 17:50:07 +0000 Moon http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=5049
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  • Juggling – Morgan Cosquer
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    ..probably one of the best and more impressive artists I’ve ever seen. He was in Cirque de Demain in 2009: I’ve seen this show live and I was painfully shocked..simply TRUE MAGIC.

    enjoy :)

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/etienne-saglio-le-soir-des-monstres/feed/ 1     How to fight shadows… with a sword http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/how-to-fight-shadows-with-a-sword/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/how-to-fight-shadows-with-a-sword/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:47:19 +0000 Ryan http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=4877
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    Via Reddit.

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/how-to-fight-shadows-with-a-sword/feed/ 0     Quantum Juggling (online pattern simulator) http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/quantum-juggling-online-pattern-simulator/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/quantum-juggling-online-pattern-simulator/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:18:12 +0000 Ryan http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=4829
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    http://www.quantumjuggling.com/

    An insanely detailed, highly configurable juggling simulator (for those of who who are into this sort of thing)

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    ]]>     http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/quantum-juggling-online-pattern-simulator/feed/ 1     The Ice Book – Pop up miniture theatre http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/the-ice-book-pop-up-miniture-theatre/ http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/blog/the-ice-book-pop-up-miniture-theatre/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:08:10 +0000 Drew http://www.ministryofmanipulation.com/?p=4815
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    This is great, such a simple idea by Davy & Kristin McGuire. It started as a maquette for a full size show, and grew into an amazing artwork of it’s own.

    I always had the dream of creating a theatre performance that opened up like a pop-up book. A show that would mix video projections with live actors to create a totally immersive experience.

    More info while the official site is down due to high bandwidth.

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