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Alien Jon shows how to compose a 6-petal antispin poi flower

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 9:07am by Drex Tags:

I had a lot of footage from Firedrums that I couldn't get into the video I made last week, so I'm going to post a couple of the things that wound up on the editing room floor this week. Here is Alien Jon teaching a crowd of eager onlookers (including myself) how to create 6-petal antispin flowers out of pieces we're familiar with from box and diamond mode antispin flowers.

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Firedrums 2010 Retrospective

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 9:04am by Drex Tags:

Here is a video retrospective of Firedrums this year featuring some of my favorite artists: Marvin, Yuta, Annetta, Valery, Adam, Kate, Noel, Memory, Bliss, Tash, Brecken, Thomas, Fyn, and many many more. Hopefully the utter thrill and joy of this event comes across here. Sorry for its tardiness--I had tried to edit it as a tech blog but found it worked infinitely better this way.

Firedrums2010.m4v

Vector graphics of poi patterns

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 2:34pm by Drex Tags:

As I've played around with my soft and hard transition ideas, I've found it helpful to move around the hand and poi paths of some popular moves in Illustrator and other graphics editing programs, but my technique for doing so has left a lot to be desired. Essentially, I've been putting the proper variables into an online spirograph program (located at http://wordsmith.org/anu/java/spirograph.html and mirrored below), taking a screencapture of the result, and importing it into Illustrator using the livetrace function.

Video Tech log #88: Stall chases with split-time opposites stalls

Fri, 05/21/2010 - 11:39am by Drex Tags:

Another move from this year's Firedrums. Kate from Florida came up with this one, that takes the old stall chase exercise and adds a twist to it by switching between the stall chase and a split-time opposites stall. It reminds me a bit of another variant on the stall chasing that Mel does, but has a rather unique flair that I dig. Enjoy! :)

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Video Tech Blog #87: Same time same direction hybrid flowers

Thu, 05/20/2010 - 8:52am by Drex Tags:

My last day at Firedrums I got in a one-on-one geeking session with Yuta and he showed me this lovely number. It's funky because it utilizes a type of spinning that we usually train ourselves out of very early on as poi spinners--same time same direction. Yuta's been playing with using this to create funky hybrid flowers similar to the type that Cyrille does with split-time same direction. This also evidently is where the static spin BTH vs CAP hybrid comes from. Enjoy!

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Drex's Tech Poi Blog #86: Russ's Hybrids (CAPs)

Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:59pm by Drex Tags:

I'm back from Firedrums and managed to get a lot of footage of the event, though not nearly all the footage that I wanted to capture. One of the classes I really enjoyed was Russ's class on hybrids, though I think the patterns he taught us were actually much closer to being CAPs. Here are the patterns from that class--enjoy! :)

techblog86.mp4

Yuta fire poi - Firedrums 2010 Friday night

Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:46pm by Drex Tags:

Yuta lights up at the first night of Firedrums 2010. A few guests pop by for some fun, but all told it's a pretty clean shot of him from start to finish.

YutaFD2010.mp4

Dale Fisher double staff - Firedrums 2010 Saturday night

Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:43pm by Drex Tags:

East coast represent! Here's Dale working his doubles on Saturday night at Firedrums 2010.

DaleFD2010.mp4

Chris Rovo fire poi - Firedrums 2010 Saturday night

Fri, 05/14/2010 - 12:40pm by Drex Tags:

Chris "Rovo" Bailey tearing it up in the circle at Firedrums 2010 Saturday night.

RovoFD2010.mp4

Ronan fire poi - Firedrums 2010 Saturday night

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 10:00am by Drex Tags:

Not the best angle, but also not bad given how much the crowd was moving. This was Ronan's second burn after I made it to the circle Saturday night at Firedrums 2010.

RonanFD2010.mp4

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