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  • It's great not to work for exposure--we also need to stop working for validation
    Posted 4 years ago

    For years there’s been a campaign within the Flow Arts community (and let’s face it throughout the artistic world) to stop accepting exposure as a form of compensation. It places negative pressure on the value of performance and the...

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  • Voting Breakdown for Top 10 Favorite Poi Spinners of 2019
    Posted 4 years ago

    This is the 8th year for the Poi Top 10 list!

    Once again, manipulation, contact, and poi juggling were heavily represented in the people who made the list with a surprising return to the world of 2-poi now definitely trending.

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  • Cool is Overrated
    Posted 5 years ago

    Sometimes I think we all want to be it, whether privately or publicly. Some of us carry a scar from not being it when we were younger. Some of us got a taste of it at some point and want to drink deeply of it.

    But what is "cool?...

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  • Talent vs Skill
    Posted 5 years ago

    I've long been a proponent of the idea that talent is either overrated or non-existent but I'm finding it makes for a convenient way to frame something that I've been having a difficult time putting into words for a while now.

    Frequently...

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  • 3 Trials, 3 Lessons
    Posted 5 years ago

    Discipline

    Tell me if this sounds familiar: ever since my early teen years I had a bit of a pattern in how I tackled different skills. I would dedicate myself night and day to learning a thing until I could do it...

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