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
Rather adorable performance of a classic magic illusion. Good job kid, extra applause for you from the internets.
Thank you Sennyo for making this cute animation using xtra-normal. For the rest of the world – Fushigi brand contact juggling balls are being advertised on TV in North America.
While some elements within the contact juggling community are vitriolic in their attack of Zoom TV’s attempt to rebrand the art of Contact Juggling, far more numerous criticisms seem to come from users of Fushigi facebook group complaining that they have been overcharged, and that they are having to wait 4-8 weeks from ordering to receiving delivery of their ball, and that they cannot contact customer services. Further criticism comes from the video blogging kids on youtube who feel that the adverts are misleading, and are dissapointed that their ball doesn’t actually levitate, or even “gravitate”.
If you are looking to get into Contact juggling, we don’t recommend you buy a Fushigi ball. Save yourself time, money and hassle by getting an 85mm Acrylic ball from Home of Poi, you might also want to read MoM’s ball guide.
MoM is currently baking her response to Fushgi. It’s on the cooling rack and will be ready for consumption shortly. It will be quite tasty.
Finger skills FTW, Jerry C rocks it like only a kid in his bedroom can. 4:14 makes me jump out of my chair and pump my fists in the air… I can’t help it.
Ebbinghaus Illusion – 
See the whole set of these wonderfully subversive Illusion Illusions on Flickr here.
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Nostalgia Chick reviews the Labyrinth. She pays particular attention to David Bowies balls. Friday fun, now on Saturday, probably the best review of this movie…ever. (includes Innuendo and adult humour).
Cute overdose of dancing robots; a longtime favorite on the M.o.M. blog. I particularly enjoy the ballet choreography.
Happy Friday!
p.s. these little guys also play in the RoboCup
Rick K. and the Allnighters perform ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ with Steve Moore: the wierdest, twitchiest and most fascinating drummer I’ve ever seen. Mesmerized… I dig all the straight line linear stuff at 2:30, and the explosion of awesome that is 2:59)
Vintage Sesame Street.
Bret Wengeler performs his Shadow Juggling during an ice show in 2002.
Hi everybody,
here there is a small multiball vid, filmed in Milan by PaP production.
we wanted to show a “different” kind of manipulation vid. 
hope you like it!
balls are 76mm and 100mm (Ray), 90mm and 100mm (Moon).
thanks for watching!
Lovely juggling, character and skills from Neta Oren of Israel. A perfect video for a friday on MoM.