Rovo's Vid's (New Flow Vids) *Updated 2/27/07*

Good work Rovo

blimmin eck, very nice and flowing and no mistakes and crammed with variety thanks

Thanks! I'm visiting some friends near the Canadian border right now and am compiling a bunch of footage of spinning and lots of other fun nonsense. I actually got recruited by the RA's in my friends dorm to put on a presentation and demonstration of poi and fire spinning tommarow. I'm pretty excited but I should have that on tape too. Later

comments i just posted on spherculism (edited with hop graemlins):

ah! that last video was supa-sweet man!

i really liked the first one anyway but by the second one you've tidied up all your timings and all those nice ideas really shine through supa smooth and completely in flow with each other. some really good poi thinking/movement going on with stalls in good places making the transitions between nice circle patterns...

the atomic stuff works fine an is some of the best i've seen to actually keep it in flow with everything else. reminded me a bit of how matt does it. like the slidy footwork too, and the fact that i can see the peron filming you in the mirror... i did prefer the location in the first one but that's irrelevant compared to the spinning!

very good job man, look forward to a fire/glow vid an meeting you for a spin someday...

Thanks dude! I actually don't like the atomic stuff in this vid too much just because I know whats possible looks a ton cooler then what I was doing. It's a pain in the arse to remember to put all the little tricks that make atoms fun together, especially in front of a camera.

I will have a fire vid up soon, I hope. I met this guy who does live digital video mixes for the projection screens at raves and for the use of my footage when he tours he's making me a half hour demo reel to send to promoters and whomever to try and get some gigs. From what I understand he mixes video like a dj mixes sound so what hes making me is going to be different then any videos out there. I don't even know what its going to look like when it's finished but I guess he wants another hour of footage by friday.

I definately need to get across the pond someday, and by someday I mean when I am not so poor. Then again people could come over here. There was already the first Uberpoi in the UK, then Uberoz, so I have to ask when is Uberpoi North America coming?

Since I knew some people wanted to see some clips of me spinning fire I decided to throw some clips together from some of the footage from my Demo/DVD thing. It's not the best quality video and they aren't the best clips but it's something for now. Enjoy!

wow! great stuff

Written by: Rovo

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Since I knew some people wanted to see some clips of me spinning fire I decided to throw some clips together from some of the footage from my Demo/DVD thing. It's not the best quality video and they aren't the best clips but it's something for now. Enjoy!

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About the fire teaser: you can finally see how a lot of the atomic stuff works visually: really liked that! The stalls were pretty tasty too, and the patterns were nice and neat! good work!

Thanks I just wish I thought about better lighting and had music to listen to while spinning. If it was a lil bit brighter you would be able to see that in the second clip I am standing on a four foot wide cement beam over water. It was a neat place to spin.

first of all let me say there's some really good, clean spinning in the atomic vid... some really nice flowers! but i didn't see any atomics? i'm just confused?

oh wait i see i think your link buttons need rearranging

that was a pleasant little trip! your spinning reminds me of me somehow

really nice stalls, you pop those things right back in dead on beat, nice job! the fire vid i think really accentuates the clean stalls and flowers.

my only critique would be your legs, i would say either keep your feet together much more than not, or move them more intentfully. you've got great body spinning, by that i mean i can tell your whole body feels what your poi are doing, and i thin with some intent in your legs you could really excel.

AFter I made those last videos I really started working on moving with the poi. Luckily I have a friend who teaches all kinds of dance so I am going to have her help me with my leg movement a bit.


I just wish I had access to a camera today. I took a few days off from spinning and went kayaking and hiking and now that I'm back I just semm to have improved a bunch from before my lil adventure.

A video I made to see what some ideas of mine look like on film.

that new video is sweet, full of sweet moves, loved it all... and bits of it made me go which i like even more hehe, also liked the music .

Great stuff Rovo! Watched a couple of your vids and enjoyed them thoroughly. You move really well and your spinning's flowy and a joy to watch. I enjoyed the glowstringing stuff that sneaked in, and generally it was good to see nice big chunks of smooth (yet tricky) spinning- gave me the chance to really get into it.

The latest sock vid (on the stage) and the atomic videos I liked muchly- the fire one didn't really do it for me though. Seemed a bit too hectic and the filming (constant zooming in and out, autofocus, lack of ambient light) really didn't help it.

Looking forward to more productions- keep up the great work!

definately need to turn autofocus off.. this vid was a bit hard on the eyes at times since the cam kept trying to adjust..

I also liked cleric's other glowgod pic better.. but that's just me..


apart from that, I think your spinning has improved a lot more from the last vid... I liked the one on stage a bit more, but I think that's because it was less experimental, so it had an nicer overall feel to it..

nice to you see you trying some new ideas though..

Rovo, the last half of the sock video really was amazing... You are working on some fascinating stuff! Intricate.

I can see that you are starting to get your feet free, way to go! Now they are making an escape from center ground pivot point, you could try and see what happens if you move through the floorspace, create floor patterns too... Could be interesting.

Hard to film though, sigh.

Thanks for the inspiration!
Andrea

Yeah sorry about the quality. I was the camerman and performer trying to use a camera I wasn't familiar with.

Ry- The fire video was something I just threw together so I had a video of me spinning fire online. It was more to show non-spinner friends what I have been upto. I have been on GS.c alot lately and wanted to show them atomic wraps so thats what the second clip in the vid is for.

Rev- Once it gets nice out I should put some real effort into making a beautifully produced video. It's pretty obvious all the editing is done quick and with a mediocre program. Some of the spinning was a bit out there in this hopefully next time I'll ahve it a lil more under control.

Andrealee- I wish I was filming in a place where I could have music but that wasn't the case last night. I have really been working on trying to move my body and feet more it's just alot harder when there's silence. I want my spinning to eventually become a mating of tech and dance to the point that my body/feet movements won't limit my ability to spin extremely technical. If only I was a better dancer without things in my hands this wouldn't be such a big task.

Oli- The music is by Keller Williams. He's amazing!

mm.. could see the gs.c stuff Seemed to work with the socks- especially the arm poi tapping movements (whatever they're called..) Good stuff overall though. Colour me impressed!

I have a video online now of a friend mixing some footage of me spinning fire to a track my friend made. I had to capture the footage from a dvd player and the quality is pretty poor. This video doesn't do the clip justice.

A little about the video: A friend of mine is making an "instrument" that enables you to mix videos live, similar to what a DJ does with sound. The clip you can download is a recording of my friend mixing clips of me spinning and adding effects at the same time. Keep in mind he was making this video along to the music, real time, we had a camera fixed on the monitor so we could record how he was manipulating the video.

Even though it's not the best quality, it is still unique and I haven't seen anything like it before. I think it's neat how my performance art was transformed into digital art. Anyway enjoy and....

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