Saturday lunchtime is time for super Japanese Juggling Geeks!
Thanks to Mark Preston for the link.

“About Manipulation” is a project wanted, created and directed by Moon and Ministry of Manipulation. We’ve tought there a lot of videos with people playing, and so few videos with people talking about their experiences and ideas in contact juggling. So we’ve tried to show you what’s behind a contact juggler, and what he lives with this amazing art.

Ejc was the perfect moment to do this full length (19 mins.) movie; we are sorry because there were so much great contact jugglers we’ve missed at Ejc (Okotanpe, Richard Hartnell, Kyle Johnson..just some big names)..but as you probably know weather was terrible and time wasn’t so much. We’ve chosen some interesting, new and old, personalities in contact juggling world, and ask them what’s contact juggling, how’s changing and where is going. So, this is a gift for the contact juggling community and for the new wave of contact jugglers. Hope you’ll like it…Please feel free to share it wherever you want. Big thanks to Stefano Ricci and Federico Tasso for the patience and help.

And obviously..thank YOU for watching!

Piryokopi is a new collaborative graphic manipulation project from:

Pilolip (Fr), Ryan Mellors (Ca), Okotanpe (Jp) and Pich (Fr).

This is the first teaser from their work together : three routines of manipulation with hoops, batons and balls.

More information at

www.piryokopi.net

Contact Juggler and performer Eric Girardi showing off his one-of-a-kind giant spinning top at Wildfire in Sept 2011. WoW 250K views in a week, Go Eric

The Busking Project have travelled the world in search of the world’s street art, finding the beauty in each of the people they meet, recording it, editing it, then sharing it for the world to see. With 114 high definition videos, they certainly have a beautiful collection of interesting and inspiring people, like the Hong Kong Rose Sculptor.

They are interested in the discussion of what it means to be a street performer and are interviewing anyone they can to find a wide variety of opinions and ideas about what it means to busk.
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This is an extract from the show SPA created specifically for Circa festival by Flic students. Busk is the 3 clubs performer. Very nice manipulation and concepts. Enjoy!

Really interesting manipulations with balls and other props by our friend Teku.
Good luck for your new life, all the best!

I do love a giant post of really awesome acro videos. So here is one:

Alex Lane, doing epic Roue Cyr, new tricks, great movement. Looks like he went to the big Montreal circus school. Youtube Alex Lane

Rubberlegz keeps pushing what he’s up to, so I love him. Not convinced by drainpipe jeans but clearly he needs the clearance. Youtube Rubberlegz

Alliance Russian Parkour ‘Crew’ / ‘Team’. Looks a little bit like they are destroying their bodies, but they’re young, slightly crazy and doing huge tricks, doubles anywhere and everywhere. Youtube Alliance

Johan Bichot. Crazy cute and elegant acrobatics. Really different and really nice mood. Nice hat too. Youtube Johan

Peter Jasko – I found this video and was super awed by it. This guy is an amazing dancer, doing some super interesting stuff that I can’t describe very well. Watch it and see. Youtube PJ

Youtube Link
Original full quality video here: On Vimeo.

Whaaaaa! Super nice style, super nice devilsticking. I don’t know much about devilstick, but I like what I see!

Tomas Di Tomaso has made this beautiful video. I said some otherstuff that wasn’t true before. I got things wrong. But Drew is decorating his bathroom so I guess I can do what I like. Ha ha!

Tomas is from Argentina, and has a website here: Tomasditomaso.com.ar (edited to update url)

Youtube Link

A skating film made for the Channel Four tv show “Concrete Circus” featuring in this short film, Kilian Martin from Spain. Kilian is a skater who skates like Rodney Mullen, whom I love more than pretty much anything. Listen to Mullen’s life advice: Mullen Youtube

The pool scene is particularly awesome. I am totally a sucker for real slow motion.

Kilians website: Kilianmartin.net

Youtube Link

Abbas Farid is a British Football Freestyler who’s won competitions and awards and that sort of thing, check out his website here: Abbasfarid.com for lots of info about that.

He does ace body rolling obviously, and integrates foot juggling, acrobatics and some amazing ball control that I’ve never seen before. He’s a bit good in other words.

An extract from my act “Sleepless”. Hope you like it..thanks for watching!