Vulcan Tech Blog: objects in flight

Not as heavy on poi, but still hella fun to watch. Noel, Greg, and Jordan transferring balls in square patterns is probably my favorite moment of this video.

Slo-mo Poi

Wow...just, wow. There's nothing terribly complex or tech-y in this video, yet I can't remember the last time I saw a poi video that more reminded me of the beauty our art is capable of than this one.

Seriously, I want to see more slo-mo poi videos come from this--I dig this trend :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-aEt9TltEw

A fond farewell

Over the weekend I bid a fond farewell to two of my favorite people in the world: Tash Kouri and Sean Stogner. They've been keeping the firespinning community going in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the past four years as they've been finishing up college in between starting a hoop performance troop called the Gyronauts and doing more gigs than I can count.

Sean is one of my favorite poi artists to spin with--he can do all the crazy stalls that drive me crazy and somehow manages to come up with 1.5 combos I can barely wrap my head around. Now the two of them are moving off to Japan for a year while Tash teaches English and Sean stalks Yuta :)

I'll miss all the crazy times I've had with them in Brooklyn and spinning in the city, from the party a Grandspace where Tash tried to teach me how to do a three-beat weave with hoops (I was a very poor study) to New Year's Eve when I briefly became an honorary Gyronaut and the following day when we went to go spin in a nearby park in single-digit degree weather.

Japan is richer for you guys, so here's to you--and get back in one piece, dammit!

In the meantime, here is a vid of the two of them spinning on New Year's Day this year. Godspeed, my friends.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxrDp1lEX3U