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
Nimi in the Park, Barcelona.
Nimi practicing in a park – Superb control and beautiful Contact Juggling.
And this is MoM’s 999th post…
Contact juggling and popping from Komei.
Contact Juggling Kelvin Kalvus.
It is always a pleasure to watch Kelvin‘s awesome Contact Juggling, and it seems that he has got a new website for 2010, worth a look.
Aragorn Boulanger aka Bishop and Ed Adams of the Ministry have decided to team up to bring you the most in-depth and high level Isolation and Illusions workshops ever given.
Aragorn will be responsible for making the impossible possible as he teaches Animation techniques with the body. He will mostly work on time perceptions and distortions. The stillness, or immobility, will be the first step. But it is to discover laws of the flow. Isolation will be a priory skill of course but we won’t spend much time on this. There will be more focus on global time and living movement awareness. That’s how Aragorn will introduce energy changes and bring pupils to popping, ticking, strobing, rewind, matrix effects, etc…
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Ryan’s been making more Isolationist Contact Juggling videos. Yippee*.
He made this one for contactjuggling.org forum moderator IMark, to thank him for a present, a new ball of course.
*a positive focus for some of his frustration with Fushigi
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.
Lewie West shows that there is still lots left to be done with the human body. In particular with his body. He can do some kinda crazy full twist gainer dive forwards roll…. It’s super sweet, as is the rest of the video. I am in awe of the straightness of his legs during his ‘trickz’.
I like how each video has its own vocabulary of new movements he’s researching. A constant inspiration to us all to keep creating and innovating. WIN.
Starting off this week with a dance solo from Phillip Chbeeb, who has shown up here many times before.
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
Bruce Lee
It was just earlier today that I managed to spin a flat 4in1hand with 3″ balls, and i was feeling pretty good about myself for about 4 hours until i stumbled across this great clip from Japanese youtube user Ysthr
His one ball routine is super-tight with loads of good concepts; well worth checking it out.
Beautiful manipulations of 1-4 clubs. Lovely Performance, some absolutely insane tricks, and lovely speed and prop control.
Thanks to Valery for the link! : )
Here it is an awesome vid by my friend Manu Perez..in 3D! 
Are we going in juggling videos’ new frontier?
Try to find some 3d glasses, and push PLAY!