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

Contact juggling and popping from Komei.

A nice mix of bodyrolling, multiball, hoop and baton isolations from Albert Tröbinger

Aragorn Boulanger aka Bishop and Ed Adams of the Ministry have decided to team up to bring you the most in-depth and high level Isolation and Illusions workshops ever given.

Aragorn will be responsible for making the impossible possible as he teaches Animation techniques with the body. He will mostly work on time perceptions and distortions. The stillness, or immobility, will be the first step. But it is to discover laws of the flow. Isolation will be a priory skill of course but we won’t spend much time on this. There will be more focus on global time and living movement awareness. That’s how Aragorn will introduce energy changes and bring pupils to popping, ticking, strobing, rewind, matrix effects, etc…
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My man, Daniel Gunthorpe shows off all his research on poi manipulation in one take. (And then adds some more on the end.) He’s studying at Circoarts in NZ, and he is also a bit good at triple contact staff. Can’t wait to blog that.

He’s all about the parallel same-time!

Apparently, good botting can move lady judges to tears.  The routine has progressed nicely since its first version in January 2010.

I can’t sleep. My job, my days..my life..I’ve lost the pleasure to sleep.
But a sleepless man is not necessarily a dreamless one. and this vid would tell you how.

thanks for watching!

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Around the time of the Firedrums Festival in Santa Cruz, California, The Vulcan in Oakland, California was flooded with visitors from all around the world. There were even more people at the Vulcan than seen in this video.  So you should watch for the next one —> here

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It’s Pich, isolating 2 curved sticks with amazing skill. Wow.

Contact juggling of all shapes and styles; this is the first annual collaboration video from the users of www.contactjuggling.org !

Multiball is evolving!

absolutely wonderful ideas.

thanks to all the people that brought this to my attention this morning.

Hat, cane and cigar manipulation with some awesome ‘Kris Kremo’ style multi-object kickups and an intense ‘cup of water inside a ring’ section.
This was recorded on 07/03/92 during the Paul Daniels magic show.

Thanks to Lawrens Godon for the link.