The Ministry of Manipulation

Downhill biking and a fisheye lens

October 3rd, 2008

Mondial Du VTT Descente de Venosc caméra embarquée
Uploaded by 103TuRtLe

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
There’s no ‘big trick’ at the end, just a neat perspective on a thrilling ride.

Slo-mo + skateboarding + explosions

October 2nd, 2008

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Beautifully shot slo-mo skateboarding video from Lakai footwear.

Basketball prodigy

September 30th, 2008
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From youtube:

11 year-old baller. Kids in 5th grade and he does stuff serious 12th graders would have trouble with. His mile is ridiculous too, 4:50. What a little beast, I hope to see this kid in the NBA, he’s got the work-ethic, as long as he stays healthy. Also, I apologize on behalf of the most annoying news anchor and reporter ever.

Modeshifting - David Elsewhere

September 30th, 2008
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It’s Elsewhere being cool again. Apparently he’s sold out for mega-dollar to Motorola, that company that makes the phones with the horrible s**tty interfaces.

This advert is to tell you, that Motorola have introduced an amazing *new* feature. When your listening to music on this phone, if someone calls you, the phone will stop playing the music and ring - OMG. What will they invent next? Oh apparently, a phone that can take photos.

You can find more of David’s excellent clips on youtube.

His body isolations are sooo tight.
Thanks to Coleman for the link.

Creature Comforts - The Circus Part 1 & 2

September 26th, 2008

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The Genius of Aardman, visits the circus, Yay for Bristol.
“That’s not really juggling is it?”
“Nah, that’s just chucking stuff up in the air, isn’t it.”

little Seiko - Unicycling robot girl

September 25th, 2008

Tokyo-based electronics company Murata yesterday unveiled a small humanoid robot that can unicycle forward and backward and is also able to stop without falling over.

Murata’s new robot is called Seiko-chan (”little Seiko” in Japanese) and stands 50cm tall (weight: 5kg). Seiko-chan is equipped with a slant detection function and a balancing system that is placed in its chest. Users can control the robot girl via Bluetooth and a built-in wireless camera.

The future today. Soon all clowns will be obsolete.
Via CrunchGear

contact juggling - 2 ball isolations

September 24th, 2008

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Neat little improvisation with 2 balls. Footage taken from the Contact Juggling in Canada project (which we will be blogging about sometime soon)

JCJC 2: Contact Staff: Shion

September 23rd, 2008

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Contact staff by Shion. From the same yoyogi park ‘Japanese Contact Juggling Conventinon (JCJC)’ that brought us the Okotanpe clip.

Audition (1) - Olivier

September 23rd, 2008

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Olivier Super High Skill Dancing…of some kind.
Jea9 loves it.

Friday fun - Mr. Wind

September 19th, 2008

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Great characterization in this ad for Epuron.

Lasse Gjertsen (& juggling tribute)

September 19th, 2008

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Silly faux-beatboxing video that has had far too many views on youtube.

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Cover of the Lasse Gjertsen beatboxing video; this time with juggling by peter åberg

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Musical tube juggling

September 16th, 2008

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Tube juggling act by Peter åberg

from youtube:

My tube act which is an extract from a longer show on the connection between juggling and music. The music you see in the beginning and the end is the actual act written down on paper. And this is prejected on a screen during I do my act so you can follow what I play.