The Ministry of Manipulation » Miscelaneous Manip

5 years, 1000 posts, 1 000 000 views

Drew — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:43:03 +0000

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

Patricia and the amazing magic gravity ball

Ryan — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:58:51 +0000

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Rather adorable performance of a classic magic illusion. Good job kid, extra applause for you from the internets.

Modified Clubs

Ryan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:20:31 +0000

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JointDemise (aka Ameron Rosvall from Sweden) shows off some of his latest research in club juggling / manipulation and modification!

Albert Tröbinger – contact promo

Ryan — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:59:06 +0000

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

Staff / Fei-Cha – Robert James Webber

mcp — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:19:56 +0000

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Yowsa! This was the first guy I ever saw do Fei-Cha in an old Internet Video called “Janitors”. In the interim he appears to have gone to Circus School in Montreal and has gotten some pretty sweet tricks nailed in his act. He also does slick combined hat manipulation and has a cute goofy ending. Win.

i found this video via Lewie Wests’ favourates. Why isn’t he a blogger yet anyway?

Le Cirque de Calder

Ryan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:07:19 +0000

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Strangely unique and surreal circus art from Alexander Calder. Suggested by one of our readers, Morgan Wilson.

From Wikipedia:

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry and jewelry.

Friday Fun: Paper Airplane Surfing

mcp — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:30:51 +0000

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Learn how to surf a paper airplane on a wave of air! This is totally awesome, for like five minutes. Better than that rizla paper trick.

Diabolo: Cie Tr’espace Trailer

mcp — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:34:38 +0000

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Tr’espace are always awesome. This is a trailer of their various shows. It’s beautifully made but obviously is just small excerpts. It also have diabolo on a horse. You don’t see that everyday. Well I don’t anyway.

Moon – Sleepless

Moon — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:03:51 +0000

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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!

moon

Michael Karas – “Spark” juggling video

Ryan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:11:23 +0000

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Michael Karas writes:

Hi guys,

My year-long juggling film project has finally been released (on world juggling day) and I was wondering if perhaps you could feature it on your video blog? I would be eternally grateful. The film is a combination of traditional toss juggling and innovative non-traditional kinetic-based art.

I think it would greatly appeal to your audience of followers.

Spark is available to purchase here as a $15 digital download.