Notational Madness
We are fortunate in the juggling world to have so much elegant software at our disposal. A few years ago i saw Forsyth's elaborate "One flat thing, reproduced" amd wondered how it was made, notated understood. I stumbled upon this extraordinary project here, which explains the piece, the notation and more.

http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu

I am very jelous! We want a juggling one!
Saturday London Parks
On Saturday we performed at a famous Playwright's party. An event we participate in bi-annually. The good and the great of the London intelligentsia attend. A tranquil park, marvelous food and educated conversation. So it got me pondering what makes these people successful, the line between recognition and obscurity is frightfully small...for every successful writer surely there must be a writer of similar talent lying undiscovered...

I'm my younger years i believed that people eventually get justly remunerated for their talent and sincerity. I no longer adhere to such beliefs.

From Samuel Becket:

    * All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

    * Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

On a lighter note 2 new Juggling Videos from the Nightclub event at Watch This Space.

Night Clubs from Gandini Juggling on Vimeo.

It will be interesting to see if the title on this one gets bigger hits than the others!

Big Balls from Gandini Juggling on Vimeo.

Turing Apology
Messages from another world

Hyperboloids of wondrous Light
Rolling for aye through Space and Time
Harbour those Waves which somehow Might
Play out God's holy pantomime.

Alan Turing on a postcard sent in 1954

So much of the theoretical work on juggling patterns was done by people from the world of mathematics and logic. Which is why the following i thought would be of interest. The treatment of Alan Turing by the British government was shamefull: Turing Petition

For more about Alan Turing Petition