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Watch these two videos. They are incredibly insightful and enlightening. I honestly cannot say any more in their praise!

As promised, I’ve taken Corinne’s burn clips, performed unholy magics upon them and now we have this! Enjoy!!

After my lovely trip up to the Frozen North to catch up with friends long absent I brought back tunes, videos and stories! So firstly, massive thanks to my perpetually happy friend Corinne, I’ve been introduced to Blogotheque which has lots of delicious, crunchy and smooth music from all manner of artists on. Here’s one that I love especially As well as discovering new music, Corinne, Cat and I got to geek out over poi for about 6 odd hours which was many different kinds of fun. ...

I love Scotland. One of the last bastions standing tall against the black tides of Poltical Correctness.

Ok, so as I mentioned in my previous post on the topic – I made some lovely new Tornado wicks (so called after the Tornado weave that is used to make them), following Jez’s instructions on the topic and with some modifications that Alien Jon and I came up with. On Sunday I got the chance to play with them alight and after some fairly heavy thrashing I can now post a pretty balanced review. ...

Saw this on The Oatmeal – yet another case of sea-dwelling mammals being slandered and abused for our entertainment. However, it is quite amusing. Compound-eye walrus sees EVERYTHING!Seriously, don’t fuck with Compound-eye walrus. That dude’s a badass.

A friend introduced me to this rather awesome band whose only instrument is the drums. They do covers of popular metal songs. Watch this one first to get an idea for what the song’s like: Then take a look at the Van Canto cover: Pure awesome, I think you’ll agree!

The backstory So for a while I’ve been researching into making some new fire poi heads to replace my HoP 90mm monkeyfist heads that I got from Alien Jon. The monkeys are great but they’re heavy and because they’re spherical, they tend to smack into one another frequently which annoys me somewhat. Added to which, they have a massive I-bolt embedded in the core and the eyelet of the bolt is absolutely enormous – about 30mm across. ...

Nick Woolsey of Playpoi posted this video on his blog and I thought I’d share. It’s a clip of a Thai guy making ice tea in the flow style! Enjoy!

Take good care of my baby Oh don’t you ever make her cry Just let your love surround her Paint a rainbow all around her Don’t let her see a cloudy sky This tune popped into my head a couple of days ago and I’ve been thinking about it. The whole ‘care’ thing – fine. Caring for one’s child and loving your offspring is what makes us human and it’s perfectly natural. ...

October’s garden party was magical, crazy and exciting! Also, there was fire and pretty lights and awesome people. Skins shot some pictures – check them out here: Skins’ Blog. Here’s a sampler! Opposite 3-petal antispins!We all wore “Carpe Awesome” tshirts to celebrate Burning Dan’s awesomeness too! Videos will undoubtedly come soon!

TEDTalks has a rather fascinating talk on how the Internet is driving innovation in communities that span continents. Well worth a look

Today’s xkcd captures ISP tech support perfectly. Except Virgin Media. Those guys seem to actually be able to deviate from the script and realise I know what I’m talking about when I walk the tech through all the steps that I’ve tried.

Everyone likes a cup! I know I do!

Burning Dan, a man of great kindness, boundless optimism and unbridled Awesome joined with the Force on the night of the 4th/5th of October. He was a friend to many around the world, a mentor to many more and an inspiration to still more. Here’s a video of him explaining some things about the world we live in. He also helped found hitRECord.org with his brother, Joe. It’s hit Joe pretty hard, as well as Tea Faerie and Thom who are all very close. ...

So Kat and I shot a bunch of footage at the last Epic Garden Party and haven’t had a chance to edit it. We recently got together and did some hardcore Premiere sessions in which she taught me a bunch of awesome things. I did some tweaking and post-production of my own and we ended up with this: Pretty nifty, I feel! Watch this space for more!

A friend linked this to me and now I have to learn this. And then do it with fire. Seriously, how awesome is this?!

So a while ago, I posted this lovely video of G doing his thing: Well, a few days ago, my long-lost twin brother Joe and crazy Scottish hug monkey Cat came down to visit and we went to do the touristy thing in London by way of Buckingham Palace. We got to the Queen Vic fountain in front and got some toys out for photos. 2 hours later, we left with a video and made a lot of people very happy indeed! ...