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So you think you can juggle?

Ariadne

19:54 / 27.03.06

This video is just wonderful. You need the sound on, to get the full effect.

Aertho

20:10 / 27.03.06

Wow.

Blake Head

20:11 / 27.03.06

It is rather special.

Definitely some kind of Zen / power of music juggling thing going on there. Or just lots and lots of practice...

illmatic

20:23 / 27.03.06

Thanks, Ariadne. I was in a really bad mood but ...

THAT WAS FUCKING AMAZING!!

Mon Oncle Ignatius

20:27 / 27.03.06

Ta for that. Exactly the sort of skill and dexterity to make jaws drop, and rightly so. Wow. I'm really quite in awe of Chris Bliss now. *shakes head in amazement*

sleazenation

20:48 / 27.03.06

I didn't think I could juggle before and am now even more convinced of my lack of skill in this area now...

Smoothly

21:49 / 27.03.06

[smoothly's beard] Is it wrong to be more impressed by Paul's singing? [/smoothly's beard]

Lurid Archive

22:20 / 27.03.06

Pretty good, but I wasn't as wowed as I hoped to be. None of the tricks looked that hard to me...I'm not sure how much harder it makes it to do it to music. Ups the precision required, I guess, but at that level I'm not sure its all that much harder.

De Selby

03:08 / 28.03.06

hahahaha that is cool.

It also provides proof that juggling is all about how you hold your mouth.

assayudin

03:38 / 28.03.06

Wow. I actually did think I could juggle.

I still can, but I am a mere peasant.

wembley can change in 28 days

05:32 / 28.03.06

I'm with Lurid in that most of the tricks are pretty basic (although I am really impressed by three in one hand and the behind-the-back stuff continues to elude me) - but he's gone and got me as a fan for doing something other than just juggling. The kind of brain power you have to use to juggle a goddamned guitar solo and have it make visual sense is like, fucking cool. w00t.

wembley can change in 28 days

05:42 / 28.03.06

Actually Lurid, here you go:

Bliss Diss - 5 ball routine

Sometimes the pisstaking is brilliant - although the original's still a better transposition of the music.

If anybody finds some decent (as in, not the crap on his website) video from Viktor Kee, the vaguely disturbing cirque du soliel juggler who does acrobatics at the same time, please post!

Jub

05:54 / 28.03.06

A nice way to start the day!

miss wonderstarr

06:35 / 28.03.06

Almost all juggling looks equally hard to me, so what I enjoyed was the translation of various instruments into rhythm and gesture -- the shift from rock-out to small-scale piano -- and the idea of the "flow" (M. Csikszentmihalyi) Bliss (apt name) was obviously within -- you can imagine how "at one" with it he feels, like knowing exactly the weight and velocity of the balls, and not having to think about each of his own movements.

miss wonderstarr

06:41 / 28.03.06

That "Bliss Diss" seems immediately inferior to me. Yeah, 5 balls is "better" than 3, but this is the whole point to me about why the original was somehow wonderful... because it seemed built around joy, not mean-minded put-down, and showed far more intuitive, witty melding with the music. Some muscle-jock juggler tossing 5 balls and doing spins in the middle does not have the same pleasure, for me, as a guy who's so obviously in the moment and mouthing the lyrics, trying genuinely to convey music through movement rather than just showing off.

De Selby

06:47 / 28.03.06

Did anyone else think that the second video could be a fake? The editing seems to be much quicker, and it cuts at strange points where you would think it would be more effective to hold the shot.

Also, in the first one the guy is juggling in front of an audience which would make multiple takes difficult.

Maybe I'm just rooting for the underdog....

miss wonderstarr

06:49 / 28.03.06

It seems fucking small-minded to see the first clip, then record another of yourself doing something similar, just with two more balls. Why not walk onto stage during Bliss' act and beat on him, then throw balls at his head for good measure, if you're that kind of ass.

Lurid Archive

10:06 / 28.03.06

Thanks for that wembley. Maybe it is having juggled myself a bit (very badly) but 5 balls isn't just a little bit harder than 3, its hugely more difficult. Largely because, as you can tell, the balls often have to be thrown about twice as high or more...this means the juggler has to be about five times as accurate.

So, for me, that was much more impressive.

miss wonderstarr

12:54 / 28.03.06

I know what I'm saying may sound soppy, but I don't like the attitude behind the second one. Maybe I'm being naive but the first guy seemed to be doing it out of love of those balls, and the music, and what happened when the balls merged with the music (I'm sure he sold tickets) while the second was saying "that guy's shit, look at me, whoop I can do a spin in the middle. Plus, I'm buff."

gingerbop

12:55 / 28.03.06

Alex- it's not. My flatmate knows him. Apparently he's a cock. Unfortunately I'm in the library, so can't hear either of the videos.

Viktor Kee (I've seen his bum) is amazing, but in Dralion it is, as you say, frightening. Well, it's just the costume really.

If you ever get a chance to see a duo called Luka Luka, then do. Their (club) routine is as slick as Kee's, but much more lovely and quirky.

sibyline, beating Qalyn to a Q

22:25 / 28.03.06

here's my artistic contribution to this thread:

http://ecult.org/visions/images/knitting-juggling.mov

notice the music in the background and how perfectly timed rod's juggling and my knitting are to it.

he can juggle seven balls when he's not drunk.

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