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You'll find more posts to more links to video clips in every post I make in this thread - Look out for 3 angels
Todays video for your pleasure:
Baton twirling - Sheryl Welykholowa, Jill Ford, Stacy Singer - Triple Threat
Linky linky
Details: On stage probably 2002 . A super tight performances from world champion standard baton twirlers.
Amazingly talented trio including Stacy Singer doing monster rolls - a move apparently invented for her and remamed matrix by the edinburgh staff twirlers.
See Glitzy stuff, 3 baton juggling, contact sequence and some qualilty strutting about.
If you like this, make a post below. If you have any requests, I can post them too.
Dr Ew
Tosser
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Location: Bristol,UK
Any contact poi in that archive or yours Drew?
1 + 1 = 3
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Location: Bristol UK
Or even some contacty ball vids... That actually star you for once!
There isn't enough Drew on film...
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
God, you're all so demanding
Getting to the other side 
Tosser
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Location: Bristol,UK
*shuts up and waits*
The Ministry of Manipulation
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Magic on tuesday
I am indebted to Mr Coleman for sending me this link, its a good un.... he wrote:
Click this for some easy-to-get-to videos of my current favourite performer, cyril takayama.
the shadow trick and the briefcase illusion are pretty good if you are pressed for time and can't be bothered to trawl through the lot of them).
even though the presentation is in japanese, the quality of his work is still obvious."
Ok its manipulation/ magic not poi and staff but I've spent a whole day in front of CAD and I have to get away from my computer fast
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Location: Netherlands
i just love the reactions of those people...
Hmm, there's gotta be something round and shiny, I can play with
veteran
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Location: lost, Canada
I was with a bunch of fish yesterday, surrounded by a school, and thought maybe I could kind of choreogragh or orchestrate them to move like that...
No go, unocoperative little buggers more interested in nibbling my toes...
lol
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Pah!
Goddamn fish Andrea.
They never listen... even when you do that special finger wiggly thing that the man was doin...
Getting to the other side
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Location: austin,tx
yeah that chicks face at the end of the card trick... looks like what happened last time i dropped my pants in front of someone.
she doesn't invite me over anymore.
-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Her mum won't let you visit?
Getting to the other side
1 + 1 = 3
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Location: Bristol UK
Maybe it was her Mum that he dropped his pants for...? And that's why she doesn't want to see him anymore...
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
old hand
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
That shadow trick was very cool
"Don't do it naked!"
The Ministry of Manipulation
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Whoop whoop. this one is a teat for you today, I am toatlly indebted to Ado-P for sending me this awesome link, really put a smile on my face - especially the styling on this hip reels - :omg:
Ruslan FOMENKO
https://www.juggler.artinact.com/local/video/juggler_artinact_com__1_s.mpg
Technically this is amazingly difficult, with a bit of poi and a bit meteor and a bit of juggling and with....
and I quote the site "tastefully and professionally designed costumes" !!!
Heres the link to his front page
https://juggler.artinact.com/
Thanks again Ado-p - I love it
Drew
Bastard Newbie Messiah
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you sure that works?
or it could just be me..
More useless information courtesy of Rev...
Confusing the masses, one post at a time...
"Obviously, you're not a golfer.."- The Dude
"Buy the ticket... Take the ride..." -Raoul Duke
"FEMA has never done catastrophe planning..."-Michael Brown
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don't work for me either....
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
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Location: South Wales
Goddamn!
That guy is really good!
(video does work
) 577 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
Bwahaha.. that's great
I've never seen such great clowning with poi before. Nice find! Definition of poi- A Hawaiian food made from the tuber of the taro that is cooked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.
Ahnold discussing poi - "It is naht a toober!"
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his balls are much bigger than mine.
that's saying a lot
-Such a price the gods exact for song: to become what we sing
-Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
-When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path.
Bastard Newbie Messiah
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Location: Apparently lost in my ego, USA
I use firefox... maybe his site is non-mozilla compatible... I've come across those.. what do you use ucof?
More useless information courtesy of Rev...
Confusing the masses, one post at a time...
"Obviously, you're not a golfer.."- The Dude
"Buy the ticket... Take the ride..." -Raoul Duke
"FEMA has never done catastrophe planning..."-Michael Brown
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Wow. That's possibly the bestest pesented, technicalist shizzle I has ever seen!
Thanks to you both!
I live in a world of infinite possibilities.
Pirate Ninja
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Location: Galway/Ireland
I must of watched that vid about fifteen times in a row the after watching it the first time.
And the music... I love it.
Twas Ronopotamus who sent me this superb link.
So all thanks to Mr Flop himself
I use firefox and can view it no bother. You need the quicktime plugin...
Love is the law.
big and good and broken
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that was tremendous!
i've had an image of this guy for a while now (which i've even posted on hop before) but had never seen his promo - as i suspected, that guy totally rocks
he makes juggling four of those meteors look like its nothing!
superb
cole. x
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
The Ministry of Manipulation
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
... and then he juggles 5 of them.!!
POI =OK, for the first clip of today I'm gonna point you over to a video of Millenium that he posted today in this video forum:
[Old link]
its uncut footage in 3 parts
what you wanna look at is the footage between 2:26 and 3:52sec which is fire poi spinning where he really gets into the flow of it. Its nice to see some good flowing movement, and clean planes strung together with flow
(the start is fire nunchucks which is ok - but not for me-
and the 3rd part is a combination of neck wraps and isollations which is technically difficult, but looks more like a technical demonstration rather than some flow that we can really get our teeth int enjoying.)
OK thank you and well done millenium.
Lots of russian circus performances in low resolution real media.
Then w have another link sent to me By Colin J - Thanks colin.
its very funny to watch weightlifters, hoola hoopers and contortionist!!
https://www.circusland.com/top/eng/kategor.phtml?Sort=1&idkat=1&Sstart=5
Sorry its quite low res real media, Colin points out that he has managed to save them to his hard disk by raiding his cache/ temp internet folder.
and the skill leven is very high.
theres lots of them, so if you find some that you think are particularly good, please post below.
I found that I couldn't get the clips to work on the english language version of the site, BUT they worked very well on the russion version.
happy friday.
Drew
Bastard Newbie Messiah
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Written by: ado-p
I use firefox and can view it no bother. You need the quicktime plugin...
maybe it was just down when blue and I checked... because it seems to be working now and I have changed anything..
More useless information courtesy of Rev...
Confusing the masses, one post at a time...
"Obviously, you're not a golfer.."- The Dude
"Buy the ticket... Take the ride..." -Raoul Duke
"FEMA has never done catastrophe planning..."-Michael Brown
addict
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Location: Ireland, but floating around at the moment...
That meteoring is absolutely amazing! Bloody russians!
And thanks to ThaiTom for showing it to me first, but a much longer, better quality vid,
where can we find this tom!!??!
Love the thread drew keep up the good work!
Ronan
ps I vote that the alternate butterfly HOP lesson vid is changed to Ruslan's version!
Don't bolt your door with a boiled carrot...
The Ministry of Manipulation
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Its like totally star wars:
Pink 5 - Ever wonder how the Rebel Alliance would have fared if a Valley Girl was at the controls of an X-wing fighter during the daring raid on the Death Star? Now you can answer the troubling questions that arise from this very concept!
https://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/pink5
so off topic - to poi, not staff, maybe a bit of lightsaber in the sequel
This really is a Star Wars Fan Flick
what-ever. EDITED_BY: Glåss (1139346349)
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and steve the ninja should see this one :
https://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/fuggy_fuggy
Holistic Spinner (I hope)
The Ministry of Manipulation
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Todays link was sent to me by Dave Moseph:
Der Lauf der Dinge: the way things go Peter Fischli and David Weiss in 1987
2 of my favorite modern artists
Some slightly different object manipulation... this is only a trailer
https://www.tcfilm.ch/pop_lauf1e.htm
Their pieces about balancing everyday objects are cool,
https://e-artplastic.chez-alice.fr/classe/sujet/art38.html
Their clay sculpture titled: "Mick Jagger and Brian Jones going home satisfied after composing I Can't Get No Satisfaction" (1981) charmed me somewhat. although its not much to look at.
You know that they considered sueing Honda after the "Honda advert", seeing as this story dissapeared, My guess is that Honda rapidly became generous patrons of their art in order to provent a PR nightmare
I've long been a fan of their work and it turns out that both Dave and I have got the full version, which goes on for about 45 minutes, and involves fire and chemicals and fireworks. Yay!
They also did somthing which would be of great interest to twirlers, look in the phaidon book of their work on pages 107-111. (Moseph you especially, I've been dreaming of making a 3D version for a few years)
Heres a hint:
https://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/13212
No digital effects here - this a photo, and is created mechanically and has fired up my dreams recently
Flying Water Muppet
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oh cool. I thought the honda commercial had been inspired by rube goldberg. (and dominos) But it's nice to see more of the same.
...
wow, wikipedia has lots of cool stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
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I was amazed by Der Lauf der Dinge many years ago. I picked up a copy when I was at Le Centre Pompidu.
Oh I'm so international.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
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