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Jugglers are Obsolete VI – Flying Ball

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

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Non-Contact ball has built in video camera and Top Gun theme.
Forget practising, get a set of these babies and anyone could juggle 5 balls in one hand.
That MoM’s Christmas list sorted out, hint hint.
Edit: OMG its a real Magic Gravity Ball!! ;)

Kinect Graffiti™ – No Object Manipulation

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011


The kinect is a Microsoft camera that can sense motion in 3 dimensions.
Jean-Christophe Naour, a French Interaction Designer based in Seoul (South-Korea), has developed this awesome realtime visualisation software Kinect Graffiti™, which is crying out to be integrated with object manipulation and dance performances.
I can’t be the only manipulator who visualise the motion of my props like this.
Wow.

Friday Fun- Human Jump Rope

Friday, May 13th, 2011
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Pendulum Wave

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

YouTube Preview Image Waves, snakes – Science.
Wow, that is ace!

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.

Lego Ship in a Bottle

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

YouTube Preview ImageJulia Morley spent a week of planning, 3 days of building and many expletives to build a lego ship in a bottle! Yay.

Jacob Tonski – Balance Study

Monday, April 4th, 2011


A video studying balance, isolated from a fixed horizon, inspired by disorienting episodes in life. Made by Jacob Tonski in 2008, if you liked this, his other videos on Vimeo are also worth a look.

Is it Friday? [paper toy]

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

I’ve got something fun:

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Friday Fun – “You can do anything”

Friday, January 28th, 2011
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Friday Fun – Juggling in Futurama

Friday, January 7th, 2011
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The Jamaica song from Futurama. Features a 3 object cascade as well as cigar box style manipulations.. and they actually animate it properly (rather than the silly/impossible circular shower pattern that normally is used whenever a cartoon needs to show someone juggling)!

via Reddit

Bugs Bunny Tutting

Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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Christmas is over, and 2010 is almost done with as well…

Time for one more fun video before new year’s eve.

Bugs Bunny inspires the tutting scene.

Dope!

“Fighting Gravity” dance crew – ALL performances from GotTalent2010

Monday, December 13th, 2010
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Using UV materials and ‘kasou taishou’ esque visual illusions, Fighting Gravity rocked Americas got talent pretty hard this year. Here is a video compilation of all their appearances this season.