Gandini Juggling : Gandini Juggling Journal

24 November 2009

So many patterns so little time

4 days spent in small spaces with 8 jugglers and 24 big red balls. So many new patterns! Group Juggling is marvelously embryonic. So much yet to do. I can see it keeping us busy for the foreseeable future.
We had fun thinking of each juggler as one hand...3 handed synch patterns, spacial translations of club passing patterns, valium basketballs, cartoon inuendoes, and the volume of space occupied by the juggling objects almost as big as the space occupied by the jugglers themselves.

Photo by Aline Angeli

Posted By Sean Gandini At 22:56 • Comments (1)

16 November 2009

Dropping

When i was in my twenties i could easily loose a nights sleep over a little drop in a routine. I thought i had lost this obsessiveness, but recently discovered, it is still there, the sensation and aluminum bitter taste of a drop, following one like a shadowy demon.

For those of us that practice regularly Juggling is addiction. Mostly it has the magical property of alleviating the darker sides of the soul. It is an absurd ritual, and yet as someone who has tasted more dangerous addictions, it is a healthy addiction, it keeps us off the streets.

If one is lucky the dropping poison only lasts a few days, and one returns to the happy insouciance of a juggler's life.

Photo by Aline Angeli

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13 November 2009

100 Years of Great Press Photographs

This nice shot of Fleur Laverack and Jem Hulbert (from the Fairly Famous Family) was taken in 1992 by Denis Thorpe, photojournalist who worked for The Guardian for 22 years. The Guardian has included this picture in its recent series "100 years of great press photographs." You can view it online here.
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