A fairly new concept in photography, or maybe ‘reverse photography’, is achieved by what’s called an Image Fulgurator. Patented by a guy called Julius von Bismarck, it’s used to effectively project images onto other people’s pictures when they’re using a flash.
The device itself looks alot like a real camera, however it works in the opposite […]
Archive for June, 2008
One of the most recognised moves in contact juggling is ‘The Butterfly’. This move is also one of the fundamental building blocks for many other contact juggling maneuvers, so you should eventually be able to perform with no thought involved. The Butterfly was most memorably performed (for me at least) in the 1986 film Labyrinth, starring David Bowie. […]
Another basic maneuver which is useful in many more complicated contact juggling moves, is the cradle to cradle transfer.
Step 1:
Rest the ball in the cradle position in your starting hand (The move works from both left and right handed starting positions, so it makes no difference which you choose). Have your other hand positioned in front of […]
Wordle is a neat little Java applet which creates text art using either text you pasted into its editor, or tags from deli.icio.us.
To give a demonstration, here’s this website run through Wordle!!
One of the two basic positions you should know how to hold the ball in, and be relatively comfortable with, is the ‘Cradle Position’. In this position you hold the ball in a trough formed between your index and ring fingers, when you displace your middle finger downwards slightly (See Diagram).
You should be able to […]