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Login/Join to ParticipateStill wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
comedy geniusGetting to the other side 
Tantamount to fatuity
15,966 posts
Location: Down the road, United Kingdom
*amuses himself with the dust bunnies and partial views of the world afforded him from his world of carpet underside*
Meh
member
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Location: UT, Sweden
I hate to admit this, but some of us (me) have never seen a COL. So I have a question that I hope you people can answer for me.
With the video submission, if we have music we have to have it authorized by the musician to make sure that we don't get sued and all of that other legal mumbo jumbo. That's understandable, not getting sued is a good idea. However, my question is, if a person turns in a video with no music does Malcom put in music or is their video simply muted?
missegyptology: I'm gonna be a terrorist when I grow up anyway
veteran
1,495 posts
Location: Stillwater, Ok. USA
hmm... Video Submission... makes it sound kind of naughty. Like B&D, S&M.... time to get necked!
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just lost .... evil init
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
i will pay you to keep your clothes on
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
enthusiast, but not enthusiastic
367 posts
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
As a total beginner, I have the COL2 & 5, and they're fantastic. A great way to learn, be inspired, etc. And I like having a few non-poi arts sprinkled through it - in case we're not familiar with other stuff going on. But I agree that it makes sense to keep the focus on poi in the "Home of Poi" videos. Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but I don't recall much glowstick/ball/lights stuff, which I would very much like to see.
I know it's difficult to get legal clearances for music, but my one suggestion would be to either require people to submit with music, or give them choices - like here are the 10 tracks we have, you must use one - because when the routine doesn't fit the music, it's distracting and/or irritating.
Really glad you're going to do another one!
(I always misremember the name as Carnival of Light, anyway, so I'm okay with changing the name.) You can't fall off the floor, but sometimes you need a chair to reach the cookie jar.
Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
1,584 posts
Location: Angels Landing, USA
I'm sorry, I would feel totally awkward sending in glowstick/glowstringing footage to CoL. It feels like a whole different scene and group of people.
I will however, most probably be sending in some fire footage - just because I love it.
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
enthusiast, but not enthusiastic
367 posts
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Kael~ That makes sense. Maybe you need a separate compilation.....
You can't fall off the floor, but sometimes you need a chair to reach the cookie jar.
Returning to a unique state of Equilibrium
3,289 posts
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
mmm I think Kael should send in some glowstringing stuff as I reckon many fireys out there could learn from it. Perhaps put a couple of minutes on the end of your fire section?
Josh
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
i think glowstringing is a hell of a lot more applicable than juggling and making balloon animals.
I wanna see Kael's glowstringing! It is almost poi! it is spinning! it is happy lights!
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
'circles of light'
i think that applies pretty well to glowsticks on strings
cole. x
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i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
old hand
920 posts
Location: New Zealand
'circles of light'
So all Fire is In,
And glosticks are In,
Sock poi are Out?
Mauri poi are Out?
Staff is Out?
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
my sticks makes circles
and light
and bruises
are we allowed enter bruises?
Love is the law.
enthusiast
272 posts
Location: bristol, uk
i think if spherculist can spin a staff for four minutes without making any circles then he should still be allowed to enter. everyone should stop being so damn shapist.
i think "circles of light" refers to the dots of colour that appear in front of your eyes when you hit yourself in the head with your chosen prop. i have achieved these "circles of light" with pretty much all the toys we've been discussing (both lit and unlit), so i think you can probably enter with any of them.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,964 posts
Location: Southampton - Possibly..., United Kingdom
Written by: 2bags
. everyone should stop being so damn shapist.
what a word!!
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
old hand
1,092 posts
Location: In a van, United Kingdom
Written by: strugzWritten by: 2bags
. everyone should stop being so damn shapist.
what a word!!
I agree.... It's not my fault im round!
passing through, this world still lives.
old hand
920 posts
Location: New Zealand
haha, i can't spin staff at all, well, you know. Poi wibbling isn't very circular tho. MAinly playing 2diablo at the moment tho, no lights at all cos they are supidly expensive and make your diabli even heavier.... so i guess no entry.
Spherculism ~:~ The Act of becoming Spherculish.
Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
1,584 posts
Location: Angels Landing, USA
That's a bit weak eh matt? You've always been my half-techy side of inspiration for poi and you're a no go?
I very well might go ahead and submit. Just have to wrestle with whether I believe it fits or not.
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
1,359 posts
Location: London/ Surrey
Heehee, the best arguement for not exercising if nagged: 'I am in shape- round is a shape!!'
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
Pooh-Bah
2,109 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Actually, round is an adjective... Circular would be a round shape
Let's turn those old bridges we crossed into ashes.
We'll blaze a new trail,
and torch the rough patches.
-Me
1,359 posts
Location: London/ Surrey
Yes, if it were meant to be a grammatically correct sentence and not a pun.
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
Basu gasu bakuhatsu - because sometimes buses explode
1,584 posts
Location: Angels Landing, USA
who uses grammar on the intarweb anyway
To do: More Firedrums 08 video?
Wildfire/US East coast fire footage
LA/EDC glow/fire footage
Fresno fire
3,638 posts
Location: Brum / Dorset / Fairy Land
cantus
Geologists do it in the dirt................ 
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
*crosses fingers*
I've written off an application to use a certain piece of music.
If I get it - it'll be my COL entry.
If I don't - it'll be a download only affair
*Get's back to choreographing*
I might actually get around to entering an, erm, entry this year
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,895 posts
Location: Cambridge UK
I've got some mates who are interested in making some music for COL6. If people are stuck for music, particularly in London, might be an option...
Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant
Like sex, I'm much more interesting in real life than online.
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ohm mani padme hum
134 posts
Location: Worcester, MA, USA
I think there should be a $1 USD entry fee, or something like that. Then, everyone who submitted, whether or not they were accepted can vote and the winner can get a HoP gift certificate in the amount of however many submissions. That way the people who get to vote are the ones who contributed, which is fair, and I do not know ANYONE who would go through the trouble and expense of making an entry and not being able to drop 1 extra dollar. For all those folks in England it less than a pound! That way there can be a competetive spirit, and a prize, and still not be a fiscal downfall for Malcolm.
I am not sure on the policy on multiple submissions, but anyone submitting multiple entries would pay for eac submission, but only get one vote.
What does everyone else think? I think this is a good compromise, and I knwo that I wouldnt mind sending an extra buck in with a submission, I cant imagine anyone would...
member
112 posts
Location: UT, Sweden
finally got back to a comp with a good connection to the internet that didn't kill out on me. I'll be sending off my submission to New Zeland sometime soon.
missegyptology: I'm gonna be a terrorist when I grow up anyway
veteran
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Location: Stillwater, Ok. USA
oh ben, how much money would you pay?
we eat and we drink and we smoke and we try!
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,252 posts
Location: sheffield, United Kingdom
Written by: Malcolm
I guess COL has different meaning to many of you.
To me it means...
Circles = type of motion with a pivot point & groups
Light = Inspiration & so we can see you & gathering point
That's a really nice way to look at it
I finished my entry off yesterday; it's got plenty of non-fire poi, as well as some fire ropes, a bit of fire-club juggling and the soundtrack is me on my home-made flute.
Once again, editing time has been a bit limited, but I'm happier with the final product than I was with last years.
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But you can make the Bastard work for it."
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"Last of The Lancers"
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just lost .... evil init
2,474 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
dan theres some things you cant put a price on
ive got a nice little sequence sorted all i need now is a wig and some meg like clothes ........
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