I’ve seen this kind of thing before and always loved the inherent grace that these people have. While many standard jugglers are admittedly amazing in that they can frantically keep x amount of balls/fruits/knives/whatever in the air at the same time, I’d have to say that practitioners of contact (or tactile) juggling are much better value for money.
While your focus is concentrated on the solitary glass ball, the act can then become almost balletic or even narrative.
Witness, then, this Japanese fellow, courtesy of (of all places) Failblog.

Want to learn more about the history of contact juggling? Why not drop by the snigger-inducing Ministry of Manipulation.

I love this serious product review that is apparently making fun of a similar video where some cult of mac person was comparing their iPhone 4 to a Canon camera.

via Laughing Squid

A work mate was trying to relieve the boredom and found this video clip.
If someone laughs at you for suggesting that skipping a rope should be an Olympic sport, tell them to watch this and see their jaws drop.

Oh yeah – and it’s a storming tune by DJ Fresh to boot.
Cheers Dean!

Yeah, so the northern hemisphere is just getting into the swing of Summer, but folk in the southern half of the world will be freezing their various bits off and looking forward to a time they only have to wear three layers of clothing while they shiver at the bus stop.
That said, this video is utterly poor in timing (unless you read Danielle Corsetto’s excellent webcomic Girls With Slingshots, from which I have shamelessly filched this item).

So, sit back and enjoy a nice gentle ditty about the joys of springtime, presented entirely in ASL (USA sign language), with lyrics and backing track.
Oh btw… you did see that NSFW flag up there, right?

Myself, I love the fact there’s a couple of backing singers signers.

Part one, obviously, being the previous post. Truth to tell, I hadn’t thought there would be a second stage, or at least so early, but I Stumbled across a clip that slotted in perfectly.
You may recall I just posted a video about three guys proving that 4 chords are all you need to get yourself a decent tune. I remarked that the only other thing you needed was someone to write the lyrics for you.
But… what if you’re a bit strapped for cash and can’t afford to hire a decent lyricist?
You pinch bits from films and whack a backing track on it, that’s what…

…and raise you a cheerleading squad.
(Korean guy) Is that so? In that case, I’ll see your cheerleaders and raise you a human LCD screen.
(Me) What? You have got to be kidding. I’m calling ye on that one.
(Korean Guy) Here you are.

(Me) Well, crap. Well played. [pushes his chips over]

Cheers to Holz fer this find. There is another clip, longer by a couple of minutes, but this is the better of the two.

Starting with me. There I was last night, happily pootling around when ‘bam’, there goes my internet connection. All I can say is that it was trying to get me to go to bed…
Still, that’s no reason to not post a great little clip, is it?

It’s only a short clip, but there’s a great ‘fail’ here. Fail by the rider, that is. The bike itself gets an epic ‘win’.