From O’Reilly Radar (Ya, Reilly.)
Beau Vrolyk just sent me the following email: “Once in a while someone takes something really simple and makes it absolutely extraordinary. This is a video of someone doing exactly this…. simply amazing… You’ll find this well worth the four minutes of your life it will take to watch it.” Beau titled his email “A zen master???? Dancer??? You decide.”
I totally agree. Wow. As Tim O’Reilly said: “It makes you realize just how much more humans are capable of than most of us display.”. Heart touching stuff. An opus.
At the very least, this makes all those street performers look like noobs.
Update: Jason Garfield does a Chris Bliss diss. With 5.
Yeah, Garfield’s routine is definitely a more technically-impressive display. But as we know in the design industry: bells and whistles a well designed piece do not make. Bliss shows simplicity and imperfection in his routine, and it emotes better because of it.
That said, the last 5 seconds of the video (after the end of the song) is amazing.
that was amazing. I recently felt in awe of human capability after seeing this movie
http://imdb.com/title/tt0456012/
Eye On The Ball
Very cool little video up in the Land of Glutnix. He posted an update with a “spoof” video done by a guy juggling 5 instead of 3, but I agree with most of the posters on YouTube – it isn’t the act of juggling that is well done, it is …