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.

Emily Wells loops and samples violin over a beat, then adds her unique voice to the mix.

Take Ronan, one of the most talented spinner I’ve ever seen, and an amazing editing and you’ll have this fantastic vid. Images manipulation…and very good spinning

enjoy!

Beat juggling is a term used by DJ’s who use two identical records, allowing one record to play the breakbeat while setting up the next record, and when one beat finishes the DJ smoothly cuts to the same beat on the other record, thereby extending the song.

In this clip, Qbert showcases a single turntable technique called ‘drumming.’ He steps up to the turntables and actually re-arranges the beat itself; mixing up the snares, kicks and hi-hats by quickly cueing up the record, playing the sound, killing the volume, re-cueing the record, playing the next sound, etc. The amount of dexterity required is absolutely insane; Q-Bert isn’t human and definetly deserves a place here on our blog.

excellent scratching skills from DJ SICK of Scratchadix
sorry if its off-topic; but as a contact juggler; i’ve gotta respect that finger control.