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Alien Jon spins fire Saturday night Kinetic Fire 2011

Alien Jon spins fire Saturday night Kinetic Fire 2011

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Asaf Poiboi, Drex partner poi Saturday Kinetic Fire 2011

Asaf and I light up for some tunneling on Saturday night at Kinetic Fire Festival 2011. Charlie is on the camera--god help us all! ;)

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A Beginners' guide to Poi (QFT) Notation

If you were are the recent Kinetic Fire Festival or have spoken to either Charlie Cushing or myself face-to-face in the past six months, it's entirely possible you've heard of Charlie's Quantized Field Theory for poi and one of its applications: notation for props. We taught a class together at Kinetic in which Charlie enthusiastically explored the idea with the crowd while I, suffering from a nasty cold and laryngitis, did my best not to collapse and make everybody's day a little dreary.

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Video Tech Blog #165: Odds and Ends 2

More random combos I've been playing with--lots of stuff based upon the idea of breaking out of triquetra vs pendulum into various other patterns and back, plus a couple cool horizontal stacks with body tracers based upon some things Charlie, Alien Jon, and I played with back when they were in town and some ideas Ky Lee threw into the mix last weekend. Finally, some one-handed stuff I've been dying to put in a video and couldn't think of a better way to use :)

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A Walk in the Park -- 4 years of spinning poi

I realized I had failed to mark a milestone in April and the opportunity came up today to shoot some video. Nothing fancy here--just a single take of tech flow with a hilarious mashup in the background. Here's to 4 years of doing what I love :)

A couple people have asked about the song. It's from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspPE9E1yGM

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Video Tech Blog #164: Hybrid families

This is an expansion of an idea from a previous video: when you take 3 downbeat flowers and perform them at a 2-poi length handpath, 1/6 of the way around the handpath there is a point where the distance between the intercept for the hand and its reflection across the horizontal axis of the pattern is one poi length. If we vary the combinations and phasing of 3 downbeat patterns, we wind up creating the alignments of all the major unit circle hybrids. Here are 4 examples of how this cool quirk of geometry can be used. Major thanks to Charlie for the help in figuring this one out.

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Kinetic Fire Instructors: Alien Jon, Drex, and Charlie

This past weekend I got to host Alien Jon and Charlie here in DC as we geeked out for several days. We thought it would be an excellent opportunity to record a teacher information video for the upcoming Kinetic Fire Festival and here are the results. My apologies for the audio--I desperately need a better mic.

Kinetic will be May 12-15 in Earlville, IL. For tickets and more information, visit http://www.kineticfire.org

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Video Tech Blog #163: STSD 8-step hybrid

More STSD hybridy goodness! This time I'm taking the concept of an 8-step CAP with it a little more literally and utilizing the space created by CAP vs BTH static to take the CAP hand around in an 8-step pattern while maintaining the STSD synchronization with the BTH hand.

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Video Tech Blog #162: out of phase STSD hybrids

Taking a concept I've done and done to death, I wanted to add some out of phase flavoring to it. Taking the idea of the same time same direction hybrid Yuta taught me at Firedrums last year, I'm switching it up so that each hand has a different axis to perform its petals on and working through them in quarters. It's got a nifty quarter-time feel to it even as the poi stay in same time same direction all the way around.

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Noel and Jonah double staff tunneling FLAME Festival 4-10-11

Here is a nifty tunneling round Noel and Jonah from Ohio did on the last night of FLAME Festival. Jonah is rocking out some mini doubles and doing some wicked cool stuff with them. I so wanted to see more of this :)

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