Fixing the garbage disposal
The most important thing I learned in high school stage tech was a paradigm. I usually phrase it this way:...
Archive for Object Manipulation
Magic to do
Yesterday, Kavi was blowing bubbles in a glass of water, using a straw. This morning, she again had a glass...
Poi
A couple of people have indicated that I should explain what poi are. Sorry about the lack of context. For...
Strange blue attractor
Kam took a couple of movie clips of me spinning glow poi in the dark the other night, but there...
Underhand weave
A couple weeks ago, it occurred to me that the three-beat poi-spinning weave I had learned involved spinning the poi in the "overhand" direction, and that it ought to be possible to do a variant on the same thing in the underhand direction.
Father’s Day plus assorted miscellany
Belated happy Father's Day to all y'all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day. My day was okay. Slow...
Weaving poi
Forgot to mention: at the party on Sunday night, we got out the glow poi and Gerry taught me the...
Items: Video
Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some...
Poi spin pondering
I wrote about my first interactions with poi (the spinning-balls-on-ropes activity, not the taro-root food) back in April of 2004....
Another disappearing weekend
Been a while since I've posted anything personal, hasn't it? Some assorted updates: First, I apologize for all those items...
Things done and undone
I started reading a submission just now and realized that I wasn't awake enough to read it, even though it...
Juggling soreness
Tuesday I went to the weekly juggling session at work. I used to go every week, but the past few...