Wow. I never considered that someone could take juggling in a whole new direction.
Posted Nov 14, 2009, 3:07 AM UTC
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I kept waiting for him to take it up a notch...
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Try this guy
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Yeah. There were parts of it I was highly impressed - having to feel the rhythm and throw/drop before the beat at the right times... Technically, this is impressive - angles and forces have to be pretty close to spot on for the ones that bounce several times...
But, except for a few sections, I thought it was way too slow. Which is a bummer, because I respect the hell out of his talent.
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Are you telling me that the arms in the labyrinth spawned an entire subculture?
Because I've prepared myself to believe that.
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Agreed. I ended up balancing my checkbook while this was one.
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There is a lot of stupendous juggling these days, both traditional and newfangled.
Google Anthony Gatto for the apex of traditional juggling. Vova Galchenko is also great.
There are also near-traditional, but really innovative jugglers. I don't know all of them, but Wes Peden really sticks out as the great near-traditional artistic juggler in my mind.
Moschen is a contact juggler, among other things. His stuff always looks as if it took years of 12-hour days to perfect.
Google any of these guys and you're in for a treat!
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This could have been condensed to < 2 minutes.
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I read about this guy in an article in Smithsonian Magazine in 1995. At the time I wished I could see him perform. All I had to do was sit on my ass for 14 years while the Web was invented and deployed!
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This is what happens when you let a Mathematics major play outside.
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First time I've thought of Lord Valentine's Castle in a long time.
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Yeah!
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You should see him bake a cake.
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Best $75 I ever spent.
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Watch the other links from that page too - the cone juggler, orthogonal etc.
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The cone juggler was really cool. That cone must cost a fortune.
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This seems like it should have been much more impressive than it actually was.
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That "someone" is Michael Moschen. Remember the contact juggling from the movie Labyrinth? That was him.
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Peter Irish does some pretty amazing juggling also.
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He needs a metronome.
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This guy has a TED talk/performance if anybody is interested. It seemed pretty abstract as far as I was concerned, but if you're into juggling and other such feats of dexterity, it could be interesting. Here's the link
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This is like from the 90's buddy. As in the previous decade.
I mean, I'm just saying that - while I'm glad you discovered this and are tripping on it - it's old news.
You don't see many people saying "I never knew music could be taken to these new heights" and then link to Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon, now do you?
There's a reason...
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Who doesn't enjoy playing with their balls?
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Yeah, but I'm not so keen on watching someone else slam their balls all around a big triangle. ;-)
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I think thats pretty awesome, and I'm not any kind of European at all.
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he's sitting there acting like he never did this before
YOU KNOW HE HAS DONE THIS BEFORE
I dunno, he was standing the whole time.
It was a flashback for me. I remember seeing this exact triangle routine in the early 90s on PBS. I think this is even the same footage, though it was grainy on my tiny bedroom TV with the crappy antenna reception. He's actually the guy who manipulates David Bowie's balls in Labyrinth, and by that I mean he stood behind him and reached past him to hold those clear contact juggling balls that Bowie appeared to manipulate in the film.