Archive for the ‘Silly & funny’ Category

Freestyle Canoe – Marc Ornstein

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

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Breaking one of MoM’s golden rules with this post: No Chris de Burgh, but we really enjoyed watching this routine.
Nowadays you could name any object, add the word “freestyle”, a bit of cheesy music, a tuxedo/street wear and you’ll find somewhere in the world they’ll be a crew battlin’ it.
Readers suggestions please for the next “big” thing in freestyle manipulation:
We’re looking forward to next years world championship of Freestyle Teabag, and we hear that freestyle broomstick is sweeping the nation.

Will Ferrell reminds us that ‘nothing is impossible’

Sunday, May 15th, 2011
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Quite funny guest appearance from the American version of the office, Will Ferrell demonstrates a dynamic juggling routine with invisible balls.

Michael Karas has taken the logical step, and performed the same routine with real juggling…

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Friday Fun- Human Jump Rope

Friday, May 13th, 2011
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BrineChild’s Basic Contact Juggling Tutorials

Friday, May 13th, 2011
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BrineChild’s hilariously awesome “basic” tutorial for the contact juggling butterfly has racked up 15k views on youtube, and left a lot of people confused and stranded. My favorite comments from youtube:

  • you are the least helpful video…you are giving a lesson on the first trick we should learn and then do all these other tricks that make it harder to learn because you have to learn to balance it on your head…very discouraging first try with contact juggling  mrunicycle13 3 weeks ago

  • @mrunicycle13 :D my videos are a metaphor for life. If you take it too seriously you may miss the point. (This comment is included in that metaphor) brinechild 2 weeks ago

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Jugglers are Obsolete V – Rollin’ Justin

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

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Wow, seriously, Wow. This pace of development of technology is amazing.
I see no reason why this Bot would not be capable of juggling balls or passing balls with a human partner.
MoM prediction – it will happen within 1 year. Get ready for retirement all you mortal human jugglers.
Bonus XKCD!
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Prop Box Chronicles #9

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
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Some cool tricks in Prox Box Chronicles #9 (thanks to Kyle for the edit!). Table Juggling Ftw. nice diabolo stuff.

Genki Sudo – MACHINE CIVILIZATION

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
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Everything about this is amazing and overwhelming. the group tutting sequences are just unreal. Words cannot express enough appreciation for Genki Sudo and World Order.

From Youtube (english translation below):

「MACHINE CIVILIZATION」/WORLD ORDER
作詞:須藤元気  作曲:須藤元気/ Takashi Watanabe
Group name is 「WORLD ORDER」,Music by Genki Sudo /Takashi Watanabe, Words by Genki Sudo
http://www.crnavi.jp/company.html(Crystal Navigation Inc.)

い ま日本で起きている地震、津波、原発という前代未聞の震災は今後、どのようにでも変わると思います。そこで僕なりにメッセージを届けようとWORLD  ORDERで表現しました。この災害は文明の転換点となるものだと捉えています。世界の人々が現状の社会、経済、政治のシステムに対して地球と共存する変 革の時期が来たと

­思います。出来事と言うのは中立です。この深い闇の中をさまよう僕らですが一人一人が恐れを手放し前向きに事と向かい合えばどんなことでも乗り越えられると信じています。­世界は変わりません。僕ら一人一人が変わるのです。そうすれば世界が変わります。夜明け前の夜は一番暗いもの。人類にとって本当の輝かしい朝を迎えるためにみんなで立ち上­がりましょう。 WE ARE ALL ONE

mp3フリーダウンロード:
http://www.genkisudo.net/dw_file/WORLDORDER_MACHINE%20CIVILIZATION.zip

須藤元気

Many disasters are ongoing in Japan; earthquakes, Tsunami, and nuclear accidents. These unprecedented things may be able to change however from now. That’s why I expressed through World Order to convey some message to you on my own way. I see these accidents will become a turning point of civilization. I think the time of revolution is coming, where people in the world coexist with this planet against the system of modern society, economy and politics.
Any accident is neutral. Although we are straying around this deep darkness, I believe we can get through anything when each of us can let go of our fear and face things positively.
The world won’t change on its own. We do change one by one. That makes the world change. The darkness just before the dawn is deepest. So, we do rise up together to greet the brilliant morning truly coming for the human beings.
WE ARE ALL ONE

Genki Sudo

mp3 free download:
http://www.genkisudo.net/dw_file/WORLDORDER_MACHINE%20CIVILIZATION.zip

Jugglers are Obsolete IV – Quadrotor

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

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These 2 quad rotors can juggle 1 ball while flying. These robots will learn to juggle 3 balls before you learn to fly.
Lets face it, we human jugglers are nearly obsolete. via The Lady Ada

Loop – Share it all

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

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Partner poi training video from the wonderful Loooop. Very nice folk, who have a cute act involving underpants, well worth seeing live if you get a chance.
We must have watched this about 20 times now, it definitely deserves a wider audience.
Thank you, François, Hanna, Tina & Thomas.
Smiles Drew

[/There Is No Crew]

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

No video here, I apologise, but I have a dream.

I really cannot begin to express the magnitude at which teaching Movement and Contact juggling is enriching My life, and by doing so enriching further the lives of others right now.

It’s amazing. It feels FANTASTIC, and I want more. Watching ripples of inspiration pass from person to person is an amazing process to watch, and it’s exciting me so much to see where Illusion Based Contact is heading right now.

So, I want more. LOTS more. I want to teach the Fractal Method (TM) ;) to as many people as possible, and install warp drives (TM) in people’s minds, show people the wonderful things I see around me all the time, and see what is spawned as my visions are fused with someone else’s. I do have a sinister motive behind this, however, and that motive is that I am bored, and want people to play with. EVERYWHERE. as is the Nature of Fractals, I also learn a huge amount every time I teach this method, so by allowing me to teach you, you will be teaching me.

I call it [/There Is No Crew]. think ‘There is no spoon’. that’s how I see the possibilities of this mission, and f**k am I looking forward to the challenge. A crew is a tight net bunch of people, who know each other. they don’t need to speak to communicate and understand each other perfectly. they just know each other that well. they just know. they bounce off each other. they got each other’s back. they play together. they learn together. they are a pack. They are as a general rule limited to being in the same place, and so limited in size. f**k that, I say. scale doesn’t matter any more, it’s all the same thing, just bigger. and everyone knows bigger is better, right? (I learned one from the americans ;) )

So let’s do it. Let’s bounce. Me and You. Let’s come together and make a global manipulation Crew. Let’s blow up the current scene and make it new, refreshing, and exciting through and through. Let’s end the divides and build bridges anew. But I need your help with this project too. Let’s end this thought that There is no Crew.

I have masterclass workshops to give on Illusion concepts such as Time, Space, Gravity, Energy, Sound, Language/Communication and Mind over Matter, and how they affect Movement and Manipulation as a whole through the mathematical language of Fractals, Chaos, QED, special/general relativity and quantum theory, and just how damn easy it all is, and accessible to the complete beginner. I can teach alone, or I can teach alongside other people, to help make an event similar to the infamous Ministry Workshops we contact jugglers all know and love. I can teach one on one, at conventions, in circus schools, as a guest resident to improve the skillsets, awareness and in turn the learning abilities of your students all in one go. If they will learn, I will teach, simple as.

If you think you and the people in your area can handle a mind explosion of this magnitude (and judging by recent experience, that will happen), and you know of a space that will hold it. Tell me. Let’s Chat. We can make it happen. I will have you seeing the world as I do, as nothing more than a dance of forces, interacting with each other in a way that looks amazing to onlookers, and more importantly, FEELS great too. It’s true, contact jugglers do all eventually go mad. ;)

Have Workshops. Will Travel.

:D

Don Texas – Spot the Drop

Sunday, January 30th, 2011


Malte Steinmetz and Neils Seidel as Spot the Drop return to MoM blog, with this cute ball Juggling video, that definitely deserves a wider audience.
You can “like” Spot the Drop on Spambook and watch more on JTV.
Enjoy. Drew

Friday Fun – Greatest movie action scene ever (featuring balls & robots)

Friday, January 28th, 2011

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Hands down, the most awesome action scene from any movie ever. I challenge you to come up with anything even close.
Via Reddit