You might want to have a sling handy. For, y'know, picking your jaw up from the floor.

[slipjig3]

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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(YouTube page link here.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Comments

[maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com]

1. I have been a fan of Michael Moschen Since Just For Laughs: The Montreal International Comedy Festival (Showtime, 1991)



2. There are 2 tricks (in juggling, or anything else)
   
   1. Making the 'Difficult' look 'Easy'
   
   
   2. Making the 'Easy' look 'Difficult'


3. I knew about Labyrinth

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

No worries. (The Labyrinth item, by the way, was something I genuinely forgot to include in the original post, for the benefit of those who weren't previously familiar with Moschen; my response to you happened to be when I facepalmed and remembered. Sorry.)

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

(By the way, I'm impressed: precious few people have even heard of Moschen, in any context.)