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- Fire / Glow / Other Arts
- Poi, Staff, Contact Staff, Glowsticking, Raving, Musician
- How did you first get into fire / glow arts, and how long have you been involved?
- A friend of mine started going to classes in early '08 and I saw a few people messing with them at Download Festival that year. I decided 'I HAVE to learn to do this!', so made myself some sockpoi sometime around August. I haven't looked back since! I've also been spinning contact staff for a few months... Hmm... What to choose next?
- Tell us about your life outside of fire / glow arts...
- I'm a IT Network Manager with a history of dabbling in the odd bit of hedonistic behaviour. I love all kinds of music... Rocker by trade, but there ain't nothin' like raving my pants off til 5am! I also play the guitar at a fairly amateur level. I have a predeliction for dying my hair crazy colours and a penchant for piercings and tattoos. So far got 6 in my face and 7 in total! Thinking horizontal anti-brow next XD
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Totally buzzing! This feeling's infectiouuuuusssssss!
Hey all!
A quick and unnecessarily hyperactive post for ya!
Odd happenings last night at the spinning meetup... We were all happily spinning away in our little corner of the housing estate's recreational area, when a CSO (Community Service Officer; basically a police officer with little or no actual powers except to spot people up to no good and call for backup) started walking towards us. We all immediately thought "Bugger!", assuming that this was going to be the end of our happy little spin… Continue
A quick and unnecessarily hyperactive post for ya!
Odd happenings last night at the spinning meetup... We were all happily spinning away in our little corner of the housing estate's recreational area, when a CSO (Community Service Officer; basically a police officer with little or no actual powers except to spot people up to no good and call for backup) started walking towards us. We all immediately thought "Bugger!", assuming that this was going to be the end of our happy little spin… Continue
Posted on August 7, 2009 at 11:01am — 3 Comments
Around China in 16 days...
I'm off to China for 2 weeks tomorrow! Whoohoo! Just thought I'd leave a post to say expect videos and pictures aplenty of me spinning all across the country!
Visiting Shanghai, Beijing, the Li river, Xian, Chengdong and the wall (not necessarily in that order!).
As always when I bugger off places, anybody who has their birthday while I'm away - have an awesome time, and you have my best wishes!
Now just for the matter of packing, which I haven't even started. Damn my inherent disorganisation… Continue
Visiting Shanghai, Beijing, the Li river, Xian, Chengdong and the wall (not necessarily in that order!).
As always when I bugger off places, anybody who has their birthday while I'm away - have an awesome time, and you have my best wishes!
Now just for the matter of packing, which I haven't even started. Damn my inherent disorganisation… Continue
Posted on July 16, 2009 at 10:16am —
Off to Download!!!!!!!
Just a quick 'un!
Off to Download Festival tomorrow morning (well, this morning technically)! Sooooooooooo excited! If anybody's going who's reading this... Look in Blue camp for the massive BUTLINS sign. That's us... The Happy Campers!
Just wanted to say that if I miss anybody's birthday I'm really sorry, but I'm probably completely drunk in the middle of a field :P Take it as red that you've got a birthday wish from me!
Anyway... Just wanted to convey my utter excitement.
Hope you all have… Continue
Off to Download Festival tomorrow morning (well, this morning technically)! Sooooooooooo excited! If anybody's going who's reading this... Look in Blue camp for the massive BUTLINS sign. That's us... The Happy Campers!
Just wanted to say that if I miss anybody's birthday I'm really sorry, but I'm probably completely drunk in the middle of a field :P Take it as red that you've got a birthday wish from me!
Anyway... Just wanted to convey my utter excitement.
Hope you all have… Continue
Posted on June 10, 2009 at 12:22am —
What a success!!! (aka Ow! My poor swollen arms!)
So North Lakes Spinners had our first meetup last night. Y'know I don't know if it could have gone any better! Everybody there had a great time and learnt something, and we even gave some locals something interesting to watch at the park :P I've even made a (really bad) little clip to celebrate - it's under the videos here. Sorry about the quality of editing, it's the first time I've ever used Adobe Premiere.
I was m… Continue
I was m… Continue
Posted on May 15, 2009 at 10:48am — 7 Comments
Yup, staff spinning rocks :-D
I've been meaning to take up some kind of staff spinning for a while now, and I finally decided to bite the bullet and buy a 140cm contact staff from Firetoys. When it arrived I was kind of surprised by the weight of it, given that it's made mostly of fibreglass,
After an hour or 2 of playing with it in the park this evening, though, I officially love it. I seem to have taken to it relatively easily - I think the poi has helped with the arm positions BTB etc...
Anybody got any ideas on an orde… Continue
After an hour or 2 of playing with it in the park this evening, though, I officially love it. I seem to have taken to it relatively easily - I think the poi has helped with the arm positions BTB etc...
Anybody got any ideas on an orde… Continue
Posted on May 12, 2009 at 8:32pm — 4 Comments
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holy moly! too bad I watched this vid because now I have to somehow fit juggling back into my schedule. this stuff is crazy awesome.
Awesome vid. Muchly impressive stuff. Borderline jedi's a pretty good description! Incredible!
but yea, these guys are like borderline jedi or something...just ridiculous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQdfAP8eBwo
heres a really cool contact juggling clubs video, the same guy has 2 more videos one where he does 4 clubs and one where he does 5. they're all really flippen cool.
I've found the perfect mix for myself is to tie my hair up in a bun, then to tie a bandanna round my forehead, covering the edges of my hair at the front, and the little hairs on my neck. I then wet my hair before the burn, just in case! It's possib…
You know, I have long hair (not quite the length yours is) and all I do is put it up in a bandana. I have no problems and Walmart has a great selection of designs. You can also get them at other locations, but the ones Walmart sells, seem to be the…
Well you're in the best place to achieve all of those goals!! As always, just shout if ya need a hand!
We're not all that close, but still reachable. We're in Penrith. It's about 70 odd miles west. Still, if you're ever in the locale, give me a shout!
Comment Wall (46 comments)
- At 4:50pm on July 25, 2010,
Lucia Avocinaj said…
- hey there// thank you .. i was away in a sunny mollorca for a while .. yea.. my alsso celebrated my b`day there// thank you ..
how are things? still at the uk?
take care x
- At 6:06pm on January 13, 2010,
Amy Mosley said… - hey hey, i need to get some photo's of me doing this...
erm, I dont think so.. name doesnt ring a bell, how come?
- At 9:44pm on October 7, 2009,
Lye said… - Thanks! I guess I skipped some steps. I learned the btb weaves and meltdowns, but i never did any turning with either of them. That'll likely sure up the motions. I'll get back on it. thanks for the advice!
- At 12:41pm on August 26, 2009,
Lucia Avocinaj said…
- i went to australia just a year ago and it was the place where i wanna live.. new zeland would be even more calm place for sure..
anyway i am in uk to.. edinburgh.. came to do studies..
what did you do in china?? it is traveling hey.. it could be interesting to see too:) anyway you dont need much money to travel.. it needs just a few savings for cheap flight and food and you always find a place to sleep.. and once you start traveling you meet ppl and if you go on well with them you usually get offered to come to their country.. that is how i was lucky and i was happy to invite them and it was good.. you receive as well as you give..
it works :) usually :) sometimes not but that doesnt matter,, i am still alive lol..
where do you live in uk?
- At 3:30am on August 9, 2009,
Bryan L. Dacanay said… - thank you very much for the advice... I never thought I would find someone very supportive to others... please keep in touch... Have a nice day...
- At 3:02am on July 17, 2009,
Bryan L. Dacanay said…
- thanks for the birthday greeting!
yeah, i'm trying so hard to learn poi, but it really seems difficult learning it alone. self study is is very hard... i hope you can give me advices.
- At 4:06pm on July 10, 2009,
Lucia Avocinaj said…
- ooohh.. going soon to a good soundsystem openair party.. need to get fuel though.. :)
- At 3:46pm on July 9, 2009,
Gareth Jones-Davies said… - damn right, I'll make a point of coming down at some stage. Made my own ropedart, cathedral stack fire wick, about 10" of chain(to take the heat) and 4.5m of climbing rope treated with chalk powder to reduce the friction of it(the main injuries you're gonna get doing dart are rope burns-get a triple neck strike wrong and you look like you just had a run in with the gallows pole) also made a light weight version out of braided ribbon tipped with a kobutan(martial arts weapon) but it's a bit dangerous for general use
- At 1:13pm on July 9, 2009,
Gareth Jones-Davies said…
- cheers dude, poi's been my obsession for about 3 years now but it's led me into learning to spin just about everything I come across, rope dart just kinda happened about a year ago after watching a kung fu championship. No particular course for tutorials, just watched a lot of videos on youtube. It's quite hard hard to see/understand what's going on at first so just try to pick out the most simple elements of the moves and after some practice, a few months(&some bruises) you start to see and understand more and more of whats going on in the complicated moves and your brain starts to invent it's own variations. Think i definitely need to come south to meet more spinners and get more onto the rave scene, glasgow is a bit empty:/
- At 6:11pm on July 8, 2009,
Oni -=[H.B.F.S.]=- said… - Thanks so much for the kind words! ^ ^
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