Perhaps an odd combo, but Drew seems to know what he’s doing… its officially “Vernacular Jazz Dance and historic Chinese Ball manipulation week on the Ministry blog.

Sorry Guys, While I’m away I’ve had a spot of trouble with the printer, the upshot is that it turns out that despite quoting for it, they can’t actually print it!
Grrrrr.
So now Multiball Contact wont be ready for the middle of January.
There was nothing I could do about it I’ll do my best to get it published by the end of February.
New slogan: Multiball Contact - Later than Windows Vista!
As an apology, I can tell you that the ministry is planning something, and expect a few goodies on the site appearing in the next month, but I’ll make sure that the book is ok first.
Happy new year… Sorry
Drew

Multiball Contact - Your first 10 years.

Yippee. Mulitball Contact the book, is completed and has been sent to the printer.
Fingers Crossed, the first copies hit the shelves on the 16th of January 2007. SRP £15.99.
Want to see what the covers will look like, theres high res versions over with the sample pages.
Stay tuned for Euro and Dollar Prices and details of how to pre-order so you can be one of the first to get your hands on this book, the definitive guide to Multiball Contact with 3 to 11 balls; Palmspinning, Pyramids, Snakes, Formations, Morphing and a whole load of Technique.
Tired, but happy.
Drew

The London workshop at the Hangar is no longer operating. Ryan has moved back to Vancouver, and The Hangar is being torn down to make way for the London 2012 Olympics.

Ryan writes:

I cut this video together out of footage from the last workshop. Its worth watching… the beginning of the video is about the Hangar and the aerial classes that they offer, and the main section of the video is a montage of moments from the evening of juggling and manipulation. The end of the video is when the real obsessive juggling kicks in.. and I head to bed at 2am.

Thanks to Keri for this year’s Tree image

The Tradition of the Xmas Tree Videos:

- Every year www.contactjuggling.org members create new video greeting cards for each other, and place them under the sacred DotOrg Xmas tree to be opened on Xmas morning.

- If you want to release a video on christmas morning (whatever time that is for you!), Post your link to the forum in THE ContactJuggling.Org THREAD.

Be sure to check the Ministry Blog in the days after Christmas for the best of the Xmas Tree submissions… a whole new batch of contact juggling videos to accompany your new christmas props

Colin and Ed are now official members and will be posting to the blog.

These two ”new-style” manipulators both became known to us through their activity at contactjuggling.org, as well as being regular visitors to the Hangar workshop in London. Check out their new Bio pages here on the Ministry and check out the video links (if you havent seen them already)

Colin’s Bio & Ed’s Bio

Drew from The Ministry has been working full time producing a book on Multiball Contact. It’s being proof read at the moment and very nearly ready for publication. We though you might like to see some sample pages and a now updated press release.
Contents Page
Free Sample Lesson 9 - Snakes
(These are unproofed and untested: A cookie for anyone who tries them out and finds new typo’s or suggests good ammendments. We know of 2 already in that pdf.)
When can you get a copy? Somewhere between Christmas and the end of January. Price: TBC.
Nearly there now.
Smiles, Drew

Ejc2007 the European Juggling Convention - 30th July to 5th August 2007 Athens,Greece.
Are you coming?

No Brunn post today, as I’ve spent the evening fixing Internet Explorer Bugs on MoM. Improved a lot of IE6 bugs and display (although there’s still the double scroll bars on the static pages). We’ve got a new IE7 bug (don’t use the IE7 page zoom function, it cant handle many background images!) the IE7 developers claimed that they’d fixed it… but alas a lot of pages including MoM suffer from display issues with this.
Great news: Firefox 2 has a spell checker so expect things to improve around here
For the third of you who still use IE, I highly recommend you: Get the Firefox browser. the web is safer, prettier and easier with Firefox. (here’s a video to prove that, well this is a video blog after all!)
And please guys, keep your browsers updated, (got to help>updates) we got some hits this month from firefox 0.8 and IE 4 !! those things are so old, they’re a security risk.
IF you’ve got a new and interesting display bug from the site, and You’d be kind enough to report it, that would be grand, a screen shot would be a bonus. we’re gradually cleaning up the code.
Send to: Drew@this domain
thanks, Drew

The new OCCJD video “The Padded Room;” a 3 minute short which builds on the ”obsessive compulsive contact juggling” theme. Shot in Vancouver, the original story behind the video appeared HERE on the Ministry last March.

“Vancouver police took action to halt the wave of confusion and terror associated with recent outbreak of OCCJD (”Obsessive Compulsive Contact Juggling Disorder”) that has been infecting this city. Several members of the “contact juggling” community, including Ryan (noted global contact juggling ringmaster and FMP affilliate) and Dawn (street-name: Daydream) were apprehended early sunday morning and are currently being held at the Riverview Correctional Facility on the ouskirts of the city.” READ MORE…

The pre-release of the High Quality 720×480 download has exceeded its bandwidth. You can now watch the video on youtube:
YouTube link.

The British Contact Juggling Convention 2003
interviews/footage with Mr. Om, Pich, Andy Wilson, Daniel Kerr, Mr. Crystal and more…