Where in the world am I today?: In Ketchikan, Alaska joining the GOLDEN Princess
Youtube has become a replacement for TV these days and an amazing resource tool. I’m a huge fan of how one video clip leads to another and then to another… While researching hat manipulations while prepping for a teaching session with Andrew Lee Potts on Tuesday I was checking up some videos that I thought might be useful resources for him to check out –
This first one is of Kris Kremo in action with a hat, cigar and ball routine then goes into his three top hat routine and finishes with his cigar box routine… It’s a classic stuff which may look a bit dated but is still pretty magical.
Kris Krimo – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzkoZH1JKmo
I also mentioned how Johnny Depp did a sort of street performance piece in the film Benny and Joon which starts with a bit of hat manipulation… Andrew seemed interested in seeing this, so I tracked down this clip on Youtube for him…
Benny & Joon – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBafYlgSCXs
A few years ago now Chris Bliss made a big splash with this video of a juggling routine to a soundtrack provided from the Beatles Abby Road Album.
Chris Bliss – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f8drk5Urw
This video really seemed to hit a chord with the public, though a lot of jugglers were left unimpressed by the actual technical level of juggling. Jason Garfield went as far as to create the Chris Bliss Diss Video in which he created a routine to the same music but used five balls instead of three.
Jason Garfield – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUXaYCkv-A
One of my favorite juggling videos in recent years shows off the juggling talents of Vova Galchenko and the video mastery of Mark Bakalor. The video was featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, The Ellen Degeneres Show, ESPN, Nightline and more and is amazing!
Vova Galchenko – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEb3YknGUks
One of my all time favorite beginning to end juggling routines has to be AirJazz’s club juggling routine. I got to meet Peter, Kezia and Jon in 1985 while traveling with Holly Greeley, then Championships Director of the International Jugglers Association. Their club is still one of my favorite
AirJazz – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRGk2tb3eJg
Got some favorites of your own? Please do list them in the comments section. I’d love to check them out.
