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Astonishing Contact Juggling by Yanazo at the 2012 Japan Juggling Festival

Astonishing Contact Juggling by Yanazo at the 2012 Japan Juggling Festival performance juggling balls

Earlier this month the 2012 Japan Juggling Festival was held in Tokyo, attracting juggling enthusiasts from around the world for three days of workshops, experimentation, and performance. To give you an idea of what JJF2012 was like participant Darren Wakefield captured some fun video highlights. However one of the most astounding moments was when juggler Yanazo took the stage to perform six minutes of contact juggling, where balls are maneuvered around the juggler’s body rather than being thrown in the air. The video is admittedly a little shaky however that doesn’t make it any less incredible, this is truly one of the best juggling performances I’ve ever seen and it landed Yanazo first place at the championship. (via neatorama)

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Suspended Bouncy Ball Installation by Nike Savvas

Suspended Bouncy Ball Installation by Nike Savvas installation balls

Suspended Bouncy Ball Installation by Nike Savvas installation balls

Suspended Bouncy Ball Installation by Nike Savvas installation balls

Suspended Bouncy Ball Installation by Nike Savvas installation balls

Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder was a 2005 installation by artist Nike Savvas at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. The piece involved an immense array of suspended bouncy balls creating a dense field of color in the gallery space that was gently moved in waves by a nearby fan. How fun would it have been to walk through this? Savvas most recently exhibited a series of complex geometric thread installations at Breenspace. (via job’s wife)

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2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery

2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery tennis multiples installation balls

2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery tennis multiples installation balls

2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery tennis multiples installation balls

2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery tennis multiples installation balls

2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery tennis multiples installation balls

2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery tennis multiples installation balls

Spanish visual artist Ana Soler is known for working with a multitude of objects from dangling hundreds of pairs of scissors or spoons, to creating dense clouds of string, coins, and paper cranes. In her most recent work, Causa-Efecto (Cause & Effect), she hung 2,000 tennis balls in spaces throughout the Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante, Spain. The balls are carefully aligned in suspended trajectories that appear to bounce off walls, floors, and other surfaces providing an uncanny sense of motion similar to a photograph taken with a strobe light. See much more on Soler’s fancy Flash website. (via collabcubed)

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