good day yesterday

Today I bought a giant inflatable grey ball, the biggest I could find <pictured above in relation to my head>
I think its my favorite ball of the collection so far.

Yesterday I got my budget approved to make an hour long theatre show for inner ring.
Its going to be called 'Bounce' and involve lots of awesome bouncing.
I think i'm going to try to fly moon from Italy out here.
Bounce @ Capilano College theatre, June 7th.
One night only
get your tickets asap.


also, please come see my hoop routine at Thomas Arthurs show 'Airplay' at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre at the end of the month.

fingers on the keyboard

I've decided to start blogging again, for two reasons:

(1) I miss Dawn (she is away studying at Uvic) and not being part of the tribe community means i miss a lot of her blogging.

(2) My work requires a lot of writing nowadays (writing show concepts, company description stuff for the website and newsletters, school newsletters, etc) and it would be good for me to get back into the habit of writing.


Hopefully some of the people who used to read my blog are still out there. I'll try to post lots of neat circus related stuff, things I'm working on, etc etc.

oh my goodness...

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I got really quiet for a while there, eh?

Back to the juggling, then.
Thanks to jaine for her recent outburst of juggle-brain goo.

Office day, evening work...

I am burying myself in work this evening; Idle hands are the devil's tools.

9-10pm - music editing. I finished the 2nd draft of the audio mix for the BMW corporate show on thursday. I'm happy with how it turned out; have a listen (its a 15 minute show set to funky organic breakbeat stuff)
www.vancouvercircusschool.ca/mus....mp3

10-11pm - run throught my 3 ball section (5:00-7:30) and all the group choreography. Contact the 3 other performers (chris murdoch, jake west, nigel wakita) and remind them of the rehearsal tommorow night.

11-12pm - Found some good photogallery software at the circus school office today. Used it to build a collection from Anomalies, the show i did with Jago.
ministryofmanipulation.com/imag....html

12-1pm - prepare my lesson plan for the circus classes tommorow.

I will keep working... until I am on top of my life, until i can feel a sense of pride in what i do, until 'something' just 'works',

Instinct video

I just released a new video over on The Ministry of Manipulation;
A short art-object-dynamic promo I call ''Instinct''

ministryofmanipulation.com/blog...romo/


I haven't made a video in a while, so.. enjoy.
Let me know what you think!

Check 'dis

Fenfire be tinkin' I is da shite!
www.fenfire.at/English/Ma...Mellors.htm

here's a peak at some video from the student workshop in Vienna
video.google.ca/videoplay

I did juggle good

mostly. Jago and me did our show at the CJC, it went pretty well. My time spent directing the spinner people at fenfire.at in Vienna was really successful, as was the day-long isolation workshop (not as boring as it may sound) The toulouse juggling convention show was a bit of a mishap for me which was a downer but otherwise i'm feeling good about the state of my juggling nowadays.

Looking forwards to spending a few days back at the Hangar, and then getting home to my lovely apartment and even more lovely Dawn.

Working life

I work during the day on the 19th floor of a 21 story office building in the heart of Vancouvers business district.
This is the view. Certainly a change.. the view from my room in the Hangar looked down on aerialists, not traffic patterns and gridded intersections.

I miss England... but Vancouver seems promising. I'm about to head off to a meeting with the Vancouver Circus School...
www.vancouvercircusschool.ca
I hope to be working with them a lot in the future.
This weekend I'll be in Seattle performing at the Shorecrest Performing Arts Center.
I feel very busy.
oooh.. and there are some new video releases coming up on The Ministry of Manipulation....
thats the update, anyways.
r

Happy Halloween

Above is my pumpkin from this year... one of Banksy's rats
www.banksy.co.uk

All is good.. I've had some free time off work (can you tell?) and am finding myself in surprisingly good form with my juggling. Got a show coming up in Seatlle, and am starting to peak the interest of the vancouver circus school people.... who knows what will happen next?

Hope all you out there are having fun....
r

4 week update.

Ive been in Vancouver a month
I've been working at UBC for 3 1/2 weeks of that month
tonight I found a home.

Finally.. the whirlwind that was the past 4 years can settle, and I can look forwards with a sense of clarity and peace.
awsome.