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.

New Year's Day! We celebrate by going to the park and spinning toys in negative-degree weather.

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Tash Kouri doing a fire hoop routine at a New Year's Eve party at Taboo in Brooklyn.

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