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I feel rather petty for saying this, but years along, I still want to dope-slap anyone who comes up to me insisting that that Chris Bliss three-ball-juggling-to-the-Beatles video is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I really should be long, long over this. I'm not.
Well, I finally have a way to deal with it: someone has finally uploaded some clips from Michael Moschen's "In Motion" special for PBS, which he filmed about 15 years ago, around the time of his MacArthur Genius Grant. My statement to the Chris Bliss fans will now be as follows: "Please watch this video, and then tell me if you still think Bliss is hell on wheels."
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Quod erat demonstrandum.
Well, I finally have a way to deal with it: someone has finally uploaded some clips from Michael Moschen's "In Motion" special for PBS, which he filmed about 15 years ago, around the time of his MacArthur Genius Grant. My statement to the Chris Bliss fans will now be as follows: "Please watch this video, and then tell me if you still think Bliss is hell on wheels."
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Quod erat demonstrandum.
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Date: 2008-03-16 03:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 05:05 pm (UTC)Lol, he's playing Pong with himself!
Ok, I have to send this to my dad, he'd love this.
Ooh, dancing!
What but how?
And the ending is weird and I don't really understand it. But fun!
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Date: 2008-03-16 03:35 am (UTC)*gigglesnort* Complete with sound effects!
What but how?
My thoughts, exactly.
And I don't get the ending bit, either. It's a weird special, all told.
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Date: 2008-03-14 09:44 pm (UTC)OMFG and a bag of chips!!! :)
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Date: 2008-03-16 03:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-14 09:50 pm (UTC)One makes you think
The other makes you feel
both are art.
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Date: 2008-03-16 04:08 am (UTC)I had people send it to me with notes saying that it was "something I could aspire to." I had to fight the urge to say, "Aspire to? I could have done this routine when I was in practice, and I wasn't even very good." His juggling is simply not that difficult; furthermore, his styling is awkward throughout much of it, and the routine is more than a little repetitive. To listen to people call it "the greatest juggling ever" when truly gifted and brilliant performers like Michael Moschen and Anthony Gatto and Vova and Olga Galchenko are being ignored can be maddening.
*cough* Sorry. Rant over. (By the way, I forgot to mention in the post: Moschen is the guy who did the crystal ball work for David Bowie in Labyrinth.)
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