The Ministry of Manipulation

So many good things…..
11 years ago in London, 3 Contact Jugglers inspired me to start Multiball Contact Juggling: Em, Dimitri and Doug.
Here are 2 new videos from Em… after watching this clip, I think you can understand why.

Em will be running a workshop at the Sardinia Juggling Convention Moon will also be there, it looks like an amazing event - the rest of MoM are sad to miss it.
One more video after the fold.
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Wes Peden, previously blogged here, asks the question ‘why is there not more innovation in the juggling scene?’

His … eloquent/arrogant… speech has generated huge response on youtube and rec.juggling

Highlights include:

BRING ME SOMETHING NEW!
BE MORE JAPANESE, K?
…

I’m not quite sure who he is talking to, but i agree with his sentiment. Lets see more awesome creative juggling!

Steve Cousins writes:

There comes a point in everyone’s life, that you choose to dress from head to toe in spangly red lycra and climb inside a giant balloon in front of a TV audience of over a million people, to potentially suffer a very public ridicule from acerbic media moguls…
Well at least, I’ve come to that point in mine.

In an episode of shameless self promotion, I’ve put my new act, ‘The Balloonatic’ forward as part of the uber-media machine, Britain’s Got Talent. It should be appearing on this week’s episode
Saturday April 19th, ITV1 8:05pm.

Previously blogged on MoM
Go Steve… Go Steve!

From Wikipedia

He juggled cigar boxes, hats, and a variety of other objects in what seems to have been a unique and fresh act, parts of which are reproduced in some of his films. Fields confined his act to pantomime, so he could play international theaters and overcome any language barriers. Fields toured several continents and became literally a world-class juggler and an international star.

You try telling the young people of today that, and they won’t believe you..
…Luxury
Classic Monty Python

Taken inside the catacombs of abandoned communist mines ….

Photographs by Evgeny Chibilev, from the times of Stalin’s Gulags.

Yep - as regular MoM commenter MCP points out - we are posting ancient stuff. We found that we have over 150 half written drafts, time for some spring cleaning.

Traces : Brilliant, dance, acro, pole and more from the incredible 7 fingers group. Please remember to pick you jaw up from floor after the video has finished.

There’s an important concept in juggling to experiment with doing any move in as many different positions as possible.

Yannick shows what happen when he takes this concept to extreme with three balls.

Some nice play with shapes and dynamics as well.

Unreal skills by some of the best breakdancers in the world from this Red Bull BC One documentary. Running time 25 minutes; its all amazing.

Hilty and Bosch [Japan] 6:00

QUARTERFINALS
Ronnie [France] VS Junior [France]: 7:17
Lilou [France] VS Omar [USA]: 9:10
Sonic [Denmark] VS Pelezinno [Brasil]: 11:40
Machine [USA] VS Hong 10 [Korea]: 13:09

Rahzel : 15:10

SEMIFINALS
Hong 10 VS Pelezinno : 16:40
Ronnie VS Lilou : 19:00
Ronnie VS Pelezinno: 21:21

FINAL
Hong10 VS Lilou 23:00

First part of juggler Jens Sigsgard soloshow performed at the Juggle this festival in New York 2008. Featuring 1 ball juggling, contact and manipulation and movement. High skill, highly creative, Some people may find it a little bit too “contemporary”. Gotta love the “waterfall” from the head to foot.

Previously blogged on MoM.
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Cute contact Juggling illustration on Comedity 2.0

The number one, one-hit wonder kiwi music video, of all times.

Traditional Maori poi in a poptastic 80’s style, complete with white glove bodypopping and roller skating.
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