Drews Poi and Stick Video Blog

white?

i dreamt about owning a pair of those once but that dream died long, long ago...




cole. x

Thanks drew



xx

Drew; I think we completely agree. I was just saying it sucks is all. I agree it's magic and it's legal and lies and deception are all part of the show.

But if I have to naturally assume that every 'volunteer' is a paid actor and every trick on TV is digitally altered then it becomes no fun.

I think it also COMPLETELY discredits actual slight of hand artists (who are truely artists) if I pretend to do the same thing but with digital effects.

OBVIOUSLY every magic trick is a trick.

I think there's a big difference between FILMING a magic show, and having the camera be integral to the show.

When I'm watching Penn and Teller on TV, I'm certain that the card tricks they're doing look just as good in person. That'd be an example of having a show flimed. Stupidass David Blane using camera tricks is a different story.

Here's the link to the website of
http://www.ayaco.org/aya.html
Online home for the fantastic Mr Om with Katanka.
Poke around a bit and you will find their promo video Metamorphose
Lots of contact of all styles, bits of daftness bits of diabolo. But more importantly - a performace rather than just "doing tricks" and a lot of fun.

Ludovic/ Mr Om: is a good friend who came to stay with me last year, He is a legend of the contact world, incredibly tallented at 1 ball and multiball, and does yoga poses with a ball on top of his head!!
Katanka - I've never met, but all reports say that she is groovy too.
and now it seems also Miss Frix has joined the company wow
The awesome miss Frix (source of my fluffy pink ears who I owe 28 euro worth of good Karma from the last time I saw her at EJC2004.
Enjoy:)
PS - Mr Om is the only other person I know who can do any kind of contact with 11 balls - its in the clip
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NYC Ditto. I completely agree, with that- although usually I'm not quite so eloquent.
It the same reason that I don't enjoy films like "crouching tiger, laughing hyena"
CGI fakery oh NO
Jackie Chan really doing hard crazy . oh YES (the mans is totally brilliant)
Rev: I think thats also part of why I don't relly watch wrestling either I can't "suspend my disbelief" this is the modern era of hyper-reality.
Cole, you better get in quick, there are 2 pairs left on my desk in white and 2 pairs in orange.

cool
thanks for sharing again!

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.... Drew's white poi

Could you keep me a pair until I manage to visit?!

Hope all is well in your world m'lovely (and several hundred hugs for mithi too )



(and wicked site too...)

drew-
I don't care for wrestling at all... redneck soap-opera is how we refer to it... but one of the teachers on my thesis committee (also really good philosopher of mind and language) has fallen in love with it.. which is why him and others are doing work on this whole 'suspension of 'suspension of disbelief' '.. its not the suspension that you need for wrestling.. its the second order suspension.. which I guess presupposes that to some extent you can do the first order one.. haha.. I can't do it.. its still men in tights fondling each other.. at least japanese and mexican wrestling has acrobatics.. better sotrylines too I'm told.. a well.. not my cup-o-tea


awesome link today too btw

I saw a special on magic on the history channel.. and they had to use teller's silloutte and not put his name, because he was actually talking... I liked to have lost my mind actually listening to him speak.. haha

Olivier... you do indeed rock

"yiggy"

jiggy in german akzent = yiggy



no music by spinning just rock n roll in me ; )

so you didn't tell us the whole truth olivier?
didn't give us the pure teachings?

gettin' yiggy with it.. that's awesome..

that's it, from now on it's yiggy...

rodo egal wörter sind wörter für die kreise macht das kein unterschied ; )



rev u got a ego problem to solve and ur humour is not creative



y...y for ever in my circles !!

It's not a video like all the rest. Just an autistic kid having the best day of his life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBYPaNc57Ik&search=autistic%20basketball%2

If you've worked with autistic kids, you can only imagine how amazing it must have been for him.

wow he gets enlighted maybe amazing tears in my eyes
i played with doro on street performance tonight and there was actually a autistic person he loved our fire and started to give us his whole money
i stopped him of course.

he stayed there for 2 hours watching the fire with a big smile on his face ; )

Oh my god.
NYC, I could Kiss you.
That's sooo cute, I'm gonna go to bed with a big Grin form that one.

Rodo - Thank you for the videos.Your poi should be with Olivier tomorrow or at worst monday
The Delay has been entirely my fault. And i'ts only because alphalight sent me a nice message every week to remind me, that you have got the poi at all.

alphalight: I will PM you with the rest ofthe details.

3 videos posted here today, and I certainly can't top that last one, So I'll be back tomorrow with something else - Something Very Very Gay.

Drew


Ps Thread super Hint: Arguements, missunderstandings and Strong dissagreements are a long way off Topic in this thread. Keep it fluffy. Hugs.)

nice one NYC... that made my day..

Puh. Weirdo...

I just can't deal with his intensly manly stubble,

but damn you could grate cheese on those abs

(not qiute poi poi poi, but Flags Flags Flags

Axis Danz Flagging
http://www.axisdanz.com/index.asp?PAGE=viewourreel
Not quite poi, but flagging from this US performance troup.
Most of them seem to work in TV, so unsurprisingly. this is a very well produced promo.

Its well worth having a look at the "performance highlights" slideshows, showing shots of impressive looking shows -
Mind you their, performance highlights do include a "Mariah Carey Music Video"

Not necessarilry anything special in terms of twirling, but worth seeing the video for some great moments where they show some big choregraphed twirling shows performed by multiple pro dancers

Video Overall Rating 68%
+ performance, twirling, filming, editing and dancers
- technical, and those orange and green flags
Smiles
Drew

Hey, that's George!

He gives flagging classes downtown, I've taken a few. He's a great guy. We've crossed paths many times.

Yeah, you can all laugh at the thought of me trying to keep up with a tall goodlooking well-moving dance troupe.

Yup, George is great. They do all sorts of Gay fundraisers as well as performing at various international venues. Local New York Boy done well.

Lots of dancing and good flowy dancy poses.

Loving flags at the moment. There are couple of recent threads in the videos forum with some nice flag footage. I hadn't realised that its a whole seperate art form quite distinct from poi where they use flags with no handles. I'm going to get me some of them! Cheers Drew.

nice drew !!

its coming the fusion just started ...... move ur ass and dance...
we organize at the moment meetings between dancers and us ( tango, belly dance, oriantal and releaze dance) and uh its amazing what they do after having 3 hours the pois in there hand


peace light and more of that

ap