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
On our sidebar to the left you will now find randomly selected links to awesome videos from the past.
<As our archive is old, you may encounter videos and links that are no longer working. Flag these in the comments and we will do our best to update the old links>
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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Video made by Luminous Fractal (how cool is that. He should have been on stage!!)
Good stuff all around, some great manipulators on stage in this teaser clip from the 2010 Madskillz Gala show.
From the 30th July to the 1st August, A new festival is going to launch itself on the manipulation/movement scene.
Held in Bury St. Edmunds, Elements of Flow aims to bring together the finer techniques of martial arts, dance, circus skills and alternative therapies into one big field of Self learning. If you look at their webpage, you’ll see they have some truly amazing teaching line ups.
I’ve been booked to teach Workshops in Multiball and incorporating movement into your contact juggling, as well as Matt Hennem teaching single ball contact, along with the myriad of other circus skills and martial arts they are providing workshops for, as well as what looks to be a truly entrancing show!
I for one, am really looking forward to hanging out and teaching there. Hope to see as many people as possible. 
Tickets are available now through http://www.elementsofflow.com
MCP, Kyle and me (Ryan) will be at the Madskillz Vancouver juggling and spinning festival next month, June 11-13th. Should be a good one for manipulators of all types, so organize your road-trips now!
The people we’ve taken on as guest contributors over the years are awesome people.
When Kyle, Wes Peden, Moon, or MCP make a new video, you know it’s going to be good.
So this is a thank you, from me (Ryan) to the rest of the M.o.M crew. You guys rock, seriously. Thanks for stopping in and adding your favorite stuff here on M.o.M and thanks for your commitment to your disciplines. You are all phenomenal artists and we want to see more of you here!
Click below for 4 videos (never posted here before) reminding you why our contributors are awesome.
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www.MinistryofManipulation.com welcomes new guest blogger Wes Peden.
Anyone who has been watching this blog for a while knows that we talk a lot about him. And lately he has been emailing us suggesting things for the blog (and creating some brilliant stuff himself!), so we’ve given him a set of keys and now he can come and go as he pleases. So just sit back and wait for the awesome, everybody. Wes Peden is here.
There is a very special Christmas tree at www.contactjuggling.org.
Every year (since 2004) users from the site create new videos and place them under the tree for the delight of all contact jugglers worldwide on Christmas morning. This years tree (LINK) is set up to be awesome, with a new batch of videos ready to be uploaded and will be appearing in the thread very soon!
Previous Years
2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009
Are you a fan of the annual tradition? Post youtube links to your favorite videos from past DotOrg Xmas Trees, and I’ll embed the videos in the comment section.
Browsing circus videos at the Ministry of Manipulation just got even more addictive.
We’ve installed a ‘related videos’ plugin to help you discover some of the past content that has been featured on our site. Click the post title, and just above the comments for each video our super-intelligent MinistryofManipulation.com robots (from Japan!) have prepared suggestions for past videos that are just as awesome as the one’s you’ll find on the front page of our site.
Every new video leads to MORE awesome videos you may not have seen yet. Check it out! (and let us know what you think in the comments)
Kyle Johnson can roll a ball from his foot to his head like nobody’s business. He has a great eye for juggling and manipulation videos too, and so he is joining our crew here at M.o.M. and will be contributing videos alongside myself, Drew, Ed, Moon and MCP.
Kyle can also hold 9 balls up for an impressively long time… which makes us all feel a little insecure.
Welcome Kyle! glad you could join us!
Hi di hi campers…
We know we’ve been silent for awhile now, sorry about that, too busy with other proejcts to post at the moment.
We’re looking for some guest bloggers, (and some ideas as to what to do next with the ministry project).
If you think you’ve got what it takes, to find and post videos or articles of high quality skills with movement, dance, juggling or manipulation, five posts in a week for 1 or 2 weeks, send a copy of what would be your first post to: drew @ this domain . com .