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Happy 4444th birthday to Juggling Edge! Someone asked me the other day how old Juggling Edge was (and if I had been quicker of wit I would have said Juggling Edge is doing very well for their age), I wasn't very sure except thinking it started at roughly the same time as Inbaz 2.0 and a juggling facebook page.
So after some rudimentary research and haphazard mathematics, I decided today (The Ides of March) would be a good day to celebrate 4444 days of Juggling Edge.
Looking forward to the next siteswap valid anniversary.
#anniversary
Oops, also intended to thank Orinoco for creating such an longlasting website and resource.
Blimey we have been around for a bit!
Few more stats:
5833 events now in the events database - 2323 of them entered by Mïark take a bow sir!
17838 records logged
2.16 years of practice logged
8692 tickets sold through the ERS totalling EUR 355,962.01 & GBP 387,134.28 in sales
Not bad going methinks.
Quality time.
I recognized that I have spent more than a year of my life (> 400 days) on circus conventions. That is a lot, but it has been a great year!
So thank you to all organizers and participants who made this a time I appreciate.
Scott Seltzer - - Parent #
Impressive. I've been to around 250 days of conventions: 9 EJCs (9 days), 26 IJCs (mostly 5 days each), a few other international conventions, and a handful of local weekend events.
I always wanted to attend an IJC, but never made it. The stories of those people who attended the event and the videos (Let Them Come - Neta Oren, Toss Up And Sides Again - Ori Roth) made me want to be at this special location.
You have 104 attended events in your JE profile. I'm at 209, so I'd guess I've been somewhere around 2 years in Juggleland. Roll on the next one.
Marvin, could you pick up this piece of p— sorry, I mean, add up all our event-days for us please?
Happy 2 year conventionversary!
209 Events is impressive. I think I met you at EJC 2011 Munich and BJC 2018 Canterbury.
I have been to 8 EJCs and many 4 days events. What impresses me also that almost a third of the events (not days) I took part where abroad. So I am also happy that I could travel to foreign countries.
Your profile will now tell you how many days you've spent at juggling festivals.
& because we are all curious here is the full Festival attendance Leaderboard.
If you haven't updated which festivals you've attended for a while remember you can view the events list in Update attendance mode which adds a column of links to quickly add yourself to lots of festivals.
#NewFeature
It would appear regular Bungay attendees have a distinct advantage in this aspect!
Little Paul - - Parent #
Woohoo! Top 10 baby!
Not bad considering it’s been 5 years since I turned up in person at anything at all
Thanks Orinoco! I suspect me being on top is more due to full record-keeping, 3 virtual BBUs (which, clearly, "don't count"), and a few kendama and yo-yo events being in there too. Plus there are some events I wasn't at for the whole duration, but also a few early ones that aren't on the list, so I reckon I can still claim a full 2 years-worth. But someone younger and keener could easily close the gap with a consistent 5-10 years work. :-)
I guess place 42 isn't bad (nice number at least), considering I have also been to 14 week-long juggling events that aren't even on JugglingEdge. (Because invite only and mailing list.)
Does cancelled events count?
Richard Loxley - - Parent #
Wooo - #1 at 837 days! For now, until other people update theirs and overtake me 😉
4% of my life at juggling conventions. Or 7.6% of my life since I discovered conventions at age 25. Not bad going.
Erik Sannes - #
Hi I'm here to sign in for the ejc coming up to meet new and awesome people
Hi Erik, welcome to the Edge.
Just want to make sure you are aware that the Edge isn't affiliated with the EJC, to attend you need to buy your tickets here:
https://checkout.tito.io/ejc2024/ejc2024
…although of course you can add yourself as an attendee on The Edge’s event listing for #EJC2024: https://jugglingedge.com/event.php?EventID=5886
I won’t be there this year, but have a great time!
TIL there are "bluetooth" balls which make sounds when caught or dropped (based on strength of impact possibly)
A bloke at work got some for thingmas, he said he has made the catch sound the sounds of a shotgun cocking and the drop sound a shotgun going off
Modern wonders eh ?
What sound(s) would you pick ?
I think I'd go with maybe catch = tick and drop = bomb exploding, so tick tick tick tick ... boom !
or maybe something more peaceful like catch = drip, drop = splash, so drip drip drip drip ... splash
Catch sound: a single clap - get a round of applause for as long as you juggle. And therefore drop sound: "Boo!"
Definitely wouldn't get really annoying really quickly, I'm sure.
I'd go with a duck's quack for a catch & the sad trombone for a drop.
Little Paul - - Parent #
I’m feeling all nostalgic for annoyingly noisy props of the past… so load them up with samples of chatter-rings, shaker cups and “audiballs”
hmmm howabout a mix of Void's and Orinoco's ideas, claps for catches, and wah wah sad trombone for drops
LP, no bleeps and bloops from your telephone exchange ?
Danny Colyer - - Parent #
I'd be tempted by "Sack the juggler!" for the drop.
cyan
my best video yet
is out
https://youtu.be/cCB2wogMfZ0
really happy to share it on juggling edge!
Beautiful work. Inspiring on all the levels...
Juggling patterns
Backdrop
Flow
Color design
Video editing
Super cool !
That was superb, well done Carlo & your team!
Do you treat the paper of your props in some way? The closeup at 2:07 looks like it might be sprayed with something? I'd guess the paper would break down & lose it's shape fairly quickly as you handle it.
Carlo Cerato - - Parent #
You are all very kind, thanks a lot!
PS: it's not paper!
You'd think he'd be happier about pulling this off...
https://moth.social/@TheVoidTLMB/111081088912098802
In other news, I tentatively think we can now embed Mastodon toots just by posting the URL.
#NewFeature
Dunno, but I quite agree. I call them posts. And happy? I’m just tired. Meanwhile, in the spirit of feature testing, here’s a link to a too^H^H^H post with an image in it.
https://moth.social/@TheVoidTLMB/111092455095976130
It's a pleasure to join the juggling edge.I'm practicing 645633. I'm not very skilled. I can throw a dozen times.
Ji ning zhang - - Parent #
是645,663,
Ji ning zhang - - Parent #
(4x,2t)*Does anyone know what this t * means?
...a tiny throw, briefly let loose, manipulation, gimmick within its beat, then.
Ji ning zhang - - Parent #
Oh, I see. Thank you!
Hi & welcome Ji!
' Wa lung qíu, da chan tao, wa lung qíu da cha huè ', you know ;o}
Ji ning zhang - - Parent #
不知道
Ji ning zhang - - Parent #
Don't know
Hi Ji ning zhang!
Is your given name Ji or zhang? I know the Chinese naming convention is family name then given name, but I believe Zhang is a very popular family name in China.
It is amazing how 645 and 633 is now considered, 'not very skilled'!
Also do you know when the second series of Sword Snow Stride is coming out?!
Ji ning zhang - - Parent #
My name is Zhang Jining张冀宁.Like to turn it over when filling out foreign forms.I have practiced the five-ball style for many years, so I am not very skilled because I have little time to practice.
Sword Snow Stride I don't know if it's an online article or a game, because I don't play either, so I can't answer you.🤗
I don't know much English. I translated it with Tencent translator. It may not be very smooth. You can just read it.
Just found this Steve Martin juggling skit that I had never seen before:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RRE8zxb5gfY
Definite Michael Davis vibes.
A lot of Steve Martin's stuff leaves me cold, but when he's good, he's realy good. "The Great Flydini" still cracks me up.
Have some WC Fields to go with that
Little Paul - #
Seeing as Jays pontificating about online communities has resurfaced 3 years later, I may as well ask something that has wandered across my feeble brain a few times recently…
Does anyone know of any juggling themed mastodon instances?
Giocoleria da diporto - - Parent #
Unless some server of that distributed social network has set the character limit beyond 500, I see no reason to create a space dedicated to juggling on Mastodon, since it would have no particular merits compared to Twitter.
Danny Colyer - - Parent #
It would have one major merit, in that it wouldn't be on Twitter!
I've given up on Twitter since Musk decided to disable the 3rd party API. As far as I'm concerned, having to use either a browser or the official Twitter app means that the value I would get from Twitter doesn't merit the effort involved in trying to see what *I* want to see, rather than what Twitter wants me to see. So I don't bother, and I'm certainly not alone in that.
Mastodon, however, works.
Giocoleria da diporto - - Parent #
But it is impossible to use Mastodon, as well as twitter, to make the slightest technical discourse.
I mean: in 2023 having to write a text of ten lines with continuous 1/10, 2/10, etc... is worse than having to use [1], [2] on a newsgroup due to lack of text formatting...
Danny Colyer - - Parent #
Ah, I see your point, and you're right, but I think you may have missed the point of the original question.
Not all juggling discourse has to be technical. Indeed, in the 30 years that I've been using online jugging forums, I'd say that the majority of discourse (at least the discourse that I've bothered to read) has probably been non-technical.
Microblogging sites serve a different purpose, which might not be of interest to you, but is of interest to others. That being the case, it's fair to discuss the relative merits of different sites for that purpose.
Giocoleria da diporto - - Parent #
For information on festivals or conventions or to advertise your videos, which are the two most common types of communication between us jugglers, the already used social networks seem sufficient to me.
Introducing new ones only further disperses the information, already too scattered around (every time I have to remember where I saw a video from a few months ago I go crazy!).
What advantages do you see in introducing microblogging as well?
Little Paul - - Parent #
Ok, so you don’t like mastodon. thats fine, not every technology has to be liked by everyone, and not everyone has to like every technology!
My question still stands though, are there any juggling mastodon instances out there?
Giocoleria da diporto - - Parent #
Burrage is quite active on Mastodon as well, if he comes by here again he might be of some help to you.
https://mastodon.social/@lukeburrage@masto.nu
Danny Colyer - - Parent #
Personally, none :-D
As far as juggling is concerned, I can't see that it's something I'd use, but for anyone whose preferred social medium is Mastodon it makes perfect sense that they would like an easy way to find juggling discussion on that medium.
I've certainly benefitted from information that I've found through Mastodon groups that is doubtless available elsewhere, but not anywhere that was as convenient for me to find it.
Relax your FOMO! You don't need to be able to access every public jugging discussion that's online!
Giocoleria da diporto - - Parent #
The dispersion of information is not my problem, if anything it is for an aspiring professional who wants to expand his network of contacts.
Ta daa!
https://jugglers.network/
However, it will be closing down at the end of the month :(
The fact that you were unable to find this might explain the problem with Mastodon!
I played with Mastodon for a while when it first came out, I found it much more pleasant than Twitter. I don't think being on a specific instance is all that important, following & using the relevant hashtags is the key. Myrdin has the right idea:
https://jugglers.network/@myrdin/109439146116788809
Just out of idle curiosity I just took a look at post lengths on the Edge. The average length of messages posted to the Edge is 410 characters. My personal average is 537 which ranks 195th in the leaderboard of wordiest posters.
Longest message so far is 53192 characters (yes it was by me, so were 8 of the top 10), shortest is 1 character.
EJC 2023 is on Mastodon jugglers network, but all the other public posts seem to be about French politics.
https://jugglers.network/public/local
I cannot recommend it as all my attempts to join have failed.
Giocoleria da diporto - - Parent #
Ta daa!
Isn't it forbidden by the regulation to recycle the animation of an n-ball siteswap similar to 774 (if I have seen correctly) on a second thread?
Or even transcribe the sounds of old versions of Windows? 🥸
How did you find it? Following the traces left by thematic hashtags?
In any case, I wasn't the only one who found it unattractive, if who created this «instance» (do they really call them that in those parts? To an Italian it sounds like a very bureaucratic or IT term, so I suppose it is extremely geeky even for an English-speaking) writes:jugglers.network will close on June 24.
The instance opened in November 2022 and only a few jugglers have joined.
I spend my days on the computer and would like to devote my free time to nature walks and seeing the people I love rather than more and more screen time. So I decided to close the instance and leave mastodon (at least for a while).
The toots have been few on the local timeline but always interesting, thanks to all who participated.
🤹 Happy juggling.
What character limit did it have? Because if there are already few and you have to sacrifice some for hashtags hoping to be read, the situation is heavier than Twitter, which however is now taking the opposite direction, opening up to long-winded speeches as long as you pay for a subscription...
Little Paul - - Parent #
I’ll be honest, I didn’t actually look.
I’m quite settled on mstdn.social and not looking for a move, I was just curious if there was an instance with any momentum amongst jugglers.
I offer no judgement about whether there should or shouldn’t be one, I was just curious if there was one!
Richard Loxley - - Parent #
When I joined Mastodon last year, I thought for a while about adding a Mastodon server to https://juggling.family/
In the end I decided against it, when I looked into the implications of moderation and having procedures in place to respond to legal take-down requests for international jurisdictions.
I have however just set up my own personal Mastodon server. It's doable, but not trivial. I still don't think I'm up for the moderation issues. (I set up my own host because the host I was on is closing down due to the moderation workload.)
oops forgot .. #Ones #SiteswapOnes
lol
mine are
• as narrow as ever can in 3b shower,
• past either hip in (2x,2x),
• and for a single ball to and fro nearly, but not all outstretched and not widest possible arms,
• past hips also for inv box [ how else that ].
Giocoleria da diporto - - Parent #
How wide I can't tell you, but they certainly aren't horizontal, alas, but rather diagonal; but on the other hand, at least for the 3 and 4 object siteswaps I always try to keep the rhythm (hearing the sound of the contact between the beanbags and the hands) constant in the execution, and therefore the proportion between a 7, a 5, a 3 and a 1 is very different from what you see around. That is some 3s which are so low that, when followed by a 1, are almost indistinguishable.
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