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Posted: 2nd Dec 2009
great man. took me a couple o watches to see whats goin on, even with you explaining it at the start!
i should make some time for these - and of course theres got to be synch and same direction versions...

No air drumming - Bruford could change the timing up so fast you could snap your wrist!

Posted: 9th Dec 2009
nano-Tech Blog #2

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Posted: 10th Dec 2009
Cheers Jon, I liked that second one. You know...i never thought of using that under the arm, over the shoulder stuff to create a pattern. I've always used it as something to use on my way to something else. I'll go outside and give it a play if it ever warms up, this spinning with ski gloves on really sucks.

Posted: 10th Dec 2009
Thanks Stout.

LOL, yeah I had my fill of cold winter growing up in Maine. I like equatorial ones much better now.

Concerning spinning in ski gloves: Sure it sucks but at least your hands are warm... how do you think your practice poi feel getting swung around all naked in the winter air?! You should put ski gloves on your poi too!

That would actually make for a kinda hilarious video!

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Posted: 11th Dec 2009
itd be a good one for that xmas eve video thread meg started...

No air drumming - Bruford could change the timing up so fast you could snap your wrist!

Posted: 13th Dec 2009
nano-Tech Blog: Sneak Peak -Spherecamp Texas 2009-

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Posted: 13th Dec 2009
nano-Tech Blog #3

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2009
nano-Tech Blog #4

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2009
nano-Tech Blog: -for Mieneye-

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Posted: 23rd Dec 2009
"Youtube is faster than you!"

Posted: 11th Jan 2010
nano-Tech Blog: Spherecamp -fire stage-

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Posted: 19th Jan 2010
hey alien =] do you mind if i steal these so i can put the on my psp?
you dont have to send me them or anything theres some program that takes the vid file and audio ( quite genius really )
i just thought be nice and ask for permission first =D

KeepTheWorldSpinning with me =]

Posted: 12th Apr 2010
Originally Posted By: willow2xhey alien =] do you mind if i steal these so i can put the on my psp?
you dont have to send me them or anything theres some program that takes the vid file and audio ( quite genius really )
i just thought be nice and ask for permission first =D

Certainly! Rip away! They are for sharing.

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Posted: 19th May 2010
nano-Tech Blog #6: Now with slomo and Antispin weave compound fountains (can I even say that?!)

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Posted: 19th May 2010
It'd be harder and more clear without isolations by the way.

Anyway you shoud check out the discussion in "I'just
learn a new move / combo thread", what the guys are
talking about and give them a propper dirrection .

Posted: 2nd Jul 2010
nano-Tech Blog #7: Thom Thumb and I playing with some 3-poi passing.

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Posted: 7th Jul 2010
That would look craaazy with glow or fire.

Trees are the Answer

Posted: 13th Jul 2010
nano-tech blog #8 - Pulse weaves, linear extension weaves, and a ellipse fountain.

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Posted: 13th Jul 2010
Well, why call an extension pulse and I saw Drew doing this a few years back,
but yeah back from the giants, the "pulse" idea is nice and I like.

What would we do without mirrors..

Posted: 13th Jul 2010
Yeah, thanks for catching my vagueness. I've been playing with these concepts in various forms starting in late 2006/2007, but realized I never got any good footage up.

In my haste, I wasn't clear enough and glommed some ideas together. With repeated linear extension one makes elliptical obits, but never a loop/momentary isolation. This is what is happening during the continuous linear extension weave.

What I'm calling a pulse accelerates out to an ellipse, but as it comes back in, your hand slows and the poi head over takes the hand into a loop or a moment of isolation. Rovo had some videos of basics from buzzsaw up on DMP in 2006, but was just calling them ellipses. Because of the moment of isolation, it is possible to turn your hands around a unit circle or closer-to-point iso center and pulse out in a different direction. I'm doing a sloppy job of it, but that is what is supposed to be happening with the fountain.

I'd now like to differentiate "pulse flowers" from other elliptical flowers Zan talks about.. The procession of the hands pulsing moves in a sequence that is equivalent to inspin, but you get pulses that look like long petals, and a small iso center... it looks a bit like a daisy.

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Posted: 18th Jul 2010
nano-Tech Blog - Yuta & Jon at the Flow Space

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Posted: 18th Jul 2010
It's strange to find simple weave, low wave, mexican weave and all the straight arm flowers done clean so exciting after 8 years.

Movement is passion and Poi are just a mediator.

More foot work both!

Posted: 18th Jul 2010
I loved that! That's the kind of poi blog I like to see

The only luck is bad luck.

Shut up before I stall my poi up your ass

Posted: 6th Aug 2010
Alien Jon Poi: nano-Tech Blog #9 - Thom Thumb & I play more 3-poi passing

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Posted: 30th Aug 2010
Great vids!!

Posted: 19th Nov 2010
nano Tech Blog #10 - Boulder CO:

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Posted: 20th Nov 2010
mmm.. quality:

-I'm interesteed in crosser-meltdown too ..
-the first long/short arm 'form' is called sometimes - SA(straight arm, similar to SJ(double crosser, huggie..))
-Music please ?

regards,

Posted: 20th Nov 2010
Upon seeing the last thing in that video I exclaimed "WHAT THE " quite loudly. Also you helped me figure out a toss i'd been stumped by. Nice stuff, will steal.

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Posted: 20th Nov 2010
Originally Posted By: [ Unregistered ]mmm.. quality:

-I'm interesteed in crosser-meltdown too ..
-the first long/short arm 'form' is called sometimes - SA(straight arm, similar to SJ(double crosser, huggie..))
-Music please ?

regards,



The Music is an unreleased track by my younger brother called "Override". If you want a copy, I can ask him.

Somehow I though when people said "straight-arm" they just meant long-arm, I didn't realize they meant static spin vs long-arm.

What do you mean by crosser meltdown?

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Posted: 21st Nov 2010
As Rev would say first degee meltdown or meltdown with hands
crossed so crosser if you like as simple as that. Thing I've
been playing with this summer.

Just tell him that it's cool track and I like it ..

Also SJ meen "straight jacket" both old terms if I can say.

Happy winter to you!