Tag Archives: Tutorials
Amanda Palmer – In My Mind
My friend Katelyn played me In My Mind by Amanda Palmer on her guitar and it stuck. So now I’ve managed to track down the tabs and lyrics and am going to start learning it! The lyrics are a great reminder to live in the present instead of constantly planning […]
Arbroath Beach Spinning
It’s been an age since I got a clip of myself just jamming with my poi, but we managed to get one when I went north to Arbroath to visit a friend. It was an amazing day and there was nobody around for miles so we had ourselves a play […]
Phone Customising
After nearly turning my HTC Desire into a matte-brown and rather expensive paperweight, I emerged on the other side with a bright shiny new phone which now has a whole bunch of things installed on it. The first thing that I did after recovering it is immediately flash Oxygen 2.1.4 […]
Body Movement & Poi-Fu
Flow arts – poi, staff, clubs, juggling, contact, etc – are all arts for the body. Yet, this amazing, flexible, beautiful and vital piece of the puzzles goes ignored for the longest time! This is a recurring trait that I see over and over among new budding flow artists. It […]
Time Lapse Tutorial
Hey folks! I’m going to start to play with time-lapse photography and one of the most useful tutorials I’ve found out there is this one on Vimeo.
Poi Tutorial: Ground-State Moves
As promised in my earlier post, I’ve thrown together a quick video on the subject of ground-state moves. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!
Ground-State Poi Moves
I want to introduce folks to a concept I’ve been thrashing out in my head while teaching. I call it ‘ground-state’ moves. The Lead-up While playing around with a bunch of new stuff that I had seen in various videos on YouTube – Rastaxel, PoiBoy, Drex, Alien Jon, G, etc […]
Tornado Wicks – Post Burn
Ok, so as I mentioned in my previous post on the topic – I made some lovely new Tornado wicks (so called after the Tornado weave that is used to make them), following Jez’s instructions on the topic and with some modifications that Alien Jon and I came up with. […]
Basics of Poi Take 1
As promised: here are 2 quick videos on the very basics of poi. I shot these with my brand new (and already battered and scratched) Xacti HD camera. Apologies for awful letterboxing and general cockups as I’m still getting to grips with Premiere Elements, for lack of a better option […]