Monday, February 7th, 2011
Trophy for the 2011 Ultimate Battletop Championship: Wisconsin
The Ultimate Battletop Championship is a contest that Alan Gray, Eric Wolff and I designed to see if upper lever top-spinners could break each other’s tops. So far no one has managed it, but we’ve realized that we would need crappier tops. In order to get the best players to participate I decided that we [...]
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
2009 Ultimate Battletop Championship: Wisconsin Trophy
Yup. That’s right. I made a new trophy for this year’s contest at MadFest:
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Getting ready to work on the next Battletop trophy
Yup. I think I finally have all the parts I need. This photo actually has quite a few projects in it, including the machinery for the pumpkin laser vortex… but that’s another story. And yes, that is a Barbie hair dryer. This trophy will be for the 2009 Ultimate Battletop Championship: Wisconsin, and it’s gonna [...]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
A New Version of Battle Top
I love hanging out with spin-top people. It’s always a ton of fun, and at MadFest this year we had a ridiculously good time. Eric Wolff with his 11″ diameter top. The largest he’s ever made… so far. For the average person, the phrase “spin-top people” is not one that is heard very often. Of [...]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
MadFest and Chris Bliss
Having just finished another great MadFest juggling convention I have come to a better understanding of why there was such a controversy over the popularity of the Chris Bliss video that swept the internet a while back. (If you haven’t already seen it, check it out here before you read the rest of this article.) [...]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
Wisconsin State Yo-yo Contest and MadFest
Tomorrow I leave for Madison WI to start the ramp-up to the MadFest Juggling Festival. I have to go earlier this year than usual because I will be doing a radio interview on Tuesday morning (at 6:30 am… ug) on Z104. As usual I’m really looking forward to the fest, and a bunch of my [...]
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Amazing Juggling Video
I just watched what may be the best juggling clip-video I have ever seen. It was done by Vova Galchenko and Mark Bakalor as a contest entry for Fat Boy Slim’s new video for his song “That Old Pair of Jeans” There was a lot of frustration in the juggling community when the video of [...]
