The Ministry of Manipulation

Quality of Acrylic Balls

July 22nd, 2008

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How to select the best quality of Acrylic Balls and care for acrylic balls.

A new addition to the Ministry’s articles library a 2 page PDF extract from appendix 1 of Multiball Contact online for the first time, which explains how you can select the best quality acrylic balls and care for acrylic.

Not all acrylic balls are created equal.

Interview - Metra

July 20th, 2008

Metra

Japanese contact juggler Metra blew us away with the release of his recent multiball video Free Drive and is leading the way for the new generation of isolation-heavy ‘popping and gliding’ contact juggling.

MINISTRY: Where do you live?
METRA: I live in Tokyo, Japan.

MINISTRY: Is there a community of contact jugglers where you are?
METRA: Yes, There is. Yoyogi park is a mecca for Japanese contact jugglers. Contact juggling conventions and meetings (gallery link) are held periodically there.

MINISTRY: How would you describe contact juggling?
METRA: Contact juggling is a lens of the contact juggler (in a figurative sense). I mean, we must project ourselves onto a spectator. The leading part is contact juggler, balls and moves are nothing but an instrumental.

MINISTRY: Why do you contact juggle?
METRA: Contact juggling is a spontaneous action for me. It is as natural as breathing or walking.

MINISTRY: What is the best piece of contact juggling that you’ve ever seen?
METRA: Tony Duncan. I started contact juggling under the influence of him.

MINISTRY: What is the future of contact juggling?
METRA: It is not fixed. Therefore, almost everything we can imagine will be possible.

MINISTRY: What do you think about when you are contact juggling?
METRA: I do not think anything, but I feel. Mostly I feel the weight of balls, and the sense of acrylics.

MINISTRY: Anything else you’d like to say to our MoM audience?
METRA: The world of contact juggling is full of glory. Go for it!
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Thanks.

Marco Paoletti in Galway

July 17th, 2008

Marco has incredible skills, and is such a fun and bouncy person to juggle with. This video shows quite a lot of Marco’s diversity. Looking at the youtube title of this video, he has a new DVD coming out soon as well…

This promo video is well produced, filmed and edited, as well as the amazing manipulations. Although 8 minutes long, a joy to watch, apart the moments of pure disbelief accompanied with ‘OMG he didn’t just do what I think he did!?’

Thanks Splinter for pointing me to this one :)

10 Light Graffiti Artists - WebUrbanist

July 16th, 2008

10 Light Graffiti Artists and Photographers | WebUrbanist

Fausses Notes et Chutes de Balles

July 15th, 2008

Fausses Notes et Chutes de Balles. Excellent juggling and contact juggling by Adrien Mondot in 2003.

Previously on MoM: 3 ball juggling

Egorova “Foot Juggling”

July 13th, 2008

Interesting approach to antipodiatry… antipodism… Antipo…Foot juggling. Interesting props and some nice moves too.

Undressing a Woman Using a Digging Machine

July 11th, 2008


Friday Fun: Undressing a Woman Using a Large Digging Machine: Crazy Construction Worker Foreplay
SFW
JCB Manipulation??1?
Bellisimo!

Nimi the Tree Statue

July 8th, 2008

Nimi can usually be found in Barcelona, busking as his Tree character. Nice presentation, good character, and some awesome skills. check out his one (!!!) finger balance.

Thanks to the Silver Man for the video.

Metra - Free Drive Multiball Contact

July 5th, 2008

Metra dropped an unbelievable multiball video onto youtube.

2:41 made me go ‘oooooooooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah oooooooooooohhh’
Once again.
omg againPrevious Metra videos: Busker, Techno, Metrart, More popping.

Ryans Glasses
See any similarity?

Ryan

Ministry: Canada - Workshop update + Video!

July 1st, 2008

Ministry Canada

First video in the new series; shot on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan Mellors
and Daydream will be running a series of contact juggling workshops across Canada this summer. The aim of the workshop is to give students a foundation in contact juggling technique as well as introduce them to many of the concepts that form the basis of modern contact & manipulation. The unique workshop is divided into five parts, and will be structured as follows:
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Staff [Manipulation] DVD - Trailer

July 1st, 2008

Staff [Manipulation] DVD just published by Meghan MCP and Steve “NX” Wilson*.

MoM’s got a review copy, we’ll put together a detailed review soon, in the meantime. They’ve done the decent thing and put 4 clips, and loads of info on their site so you can decide for yourself.

Order it on their site, the tax is £16:99 if you live in UK and £17:99 if you live in International.

More details after the Jump

[Contact] Juggling and a bit of magic

July 1st, 2008

Short Version above Longer version: Juggling and a bit of magic // Current
Profile of contact juggling street performer - Nimi Ben Shalom
Produced by Elizabeth Wood.
Yea yea. we know - we’ve been pushing the contact juggling videos a lot recently - normal diverse service will return to MoM shortly