A Poi break?

For quite a couple of weeks I don't enjoy Poi the way it was before, so I thought I should probably take a break from it. Why? Hmmm, good question! Well, maybe it's just a period of time that will past when I will have a break...that's what I really hope. Also I changed a bit. Like I was tould that some people gone to Birte at Feuerwelt and asked her why I didn't play Firepoi there because they like how I'm playing...don't understand me wrong, I feel very honored by that, it's really nice to hear when someone likes the ting you're doing, but on the other hand it puts a strange pressure on me. I always have some thoughts somewhere in my head that I have to play beautiful to cope with those expectations. And that's strange. When I started playing poi I always did it for me, and only for me. Maybe I have to find that relaxed attitude again. Then it might work again without thinking "man, that was a really crappy piece of poi-playing" Then I might find the door to the place again that the poi-people call "the flow". I'll work on that. But I'm looking forward to do a video with Karen in SF, and also I will play fire at burning man...nobody knows me there (ok, not nobody) so I can play just for me...let's see if I'll find the flow again! Another strange thing happened also related to poi...a guy talked to me at camp tipsy, he's the one making the glowballs and he wants me to test the new prototypes...nice, I really felt honored then. So I'll do that as well and I'll post my opinion about it here, but at the moment I really think they have the potential to be better than the Ogg-Poi from Flowtoys!

Fusion, Silly Poi Videos, Burning Man and Workshoptour

Yay! I just came back from Fusion Festival...it was a bit of a last minute decision to go there but it was worth it! And I rediscovered my likes for electronic music...and now I want more! But all the stuff I had was on my old harddrive...and that broke. But I met nice people there, ant the festival itself is soooooo nice. Like intallations everywhere, theaters, cinemas, slacklines, performances...and a nice firespace (thanks Tom)

I also have done a new Poi-Video because Karen asked me...but it went totally wrong and the only thing i could do was making fun out of it, so here it is:



I also decidet to go to burning man! Huzza! So I'm selling my car and my motorbike a base amplifier and a cabinet...if someone's inrested, let me know.

Since I have no job at the moment I think I'll do a small Poi-Workshop tour in germany...but I'm only at the beginning at the organisation, hope that'll work. Thanks to Birte to encouraging me to do it!

German customs suck...and new Poi-Video

So I finally ordert some Flowtoys in the USA and sending the by priority mail was only 1$ more the normal I did order them that way. So the delivery from the US to Germany took only a few days and I was looking forward to have them by thursday (which is today) but they a stuck in german customs now for two days! :-/ What are the doing with them?

I also posted a new Video on youtube, not a particular good one just from the last spinning meeting in Mainz. But since then I know that I really have to get some light firepoi, it was so much fun playing with Doros poi which were a lot lighter then my superheavy Isis Poi!

Here's the Video:

Firecircles Weekend

As some of you know, I spend a Weekend at the Firecirles Convention near Berlin and had a great Time there! So here's a link to Lenas blog because she described it so nice! Thanks Lena ;-)

Frankurt Fire!

Gestern war ich zum ersten mal in Frankfurt an der Weseler Werft wo sich die Feuermenschen im Sommer treffen. Ich war zwar etwas matschig in der Birne...aber schön war's trotzdem.

Von CaPoiEira

Von CaPoiEira

Von CaPoiEira

(und wenn ich die Kamera ruhig halten könnte würde das bestimmt noch besser aussehen!)

Bali Poi

Sooo...hier mal wieder ein Video vom Poispielen, genauer gesagt vom Bali Poi Retreat.

Und zurück!

So...nach langer Abstinenz im Blog bin ich wieder zurück im guten alten Deutschland, wohlbehalten, etwas braungebrannt und müde. Aber es war wunderbar. Die Woche mit Nick und den anderen Leuten aus aller Welt war toll toll toll wie man in diesem Video von Karen (Thank you so much for it) sehen kann:

Playpoi in Bali - April 2009 from iamspidermonkey on Vimeo.

Was habe ich ausserdem noch gemacht? Naja, ich habe natüerlich viel viel Sightseeing hinter mir, aber dafür fährt man ja schließlich in den Urlaub...zum Beispiel habe ich den Vulkan den ich in einem meiner älteren Posts erwähnt habe erklommen:

Von Far far away

Von Far far away

wilde Tiere gebändigt...

Von Far far away

heiße Öfen gefahren (OK, den nicht)...

Von Far far away

und tolle Tempel gesehen...

Von Far far away

Von Far far away

wo ich neben dem Tempel eine der Attraktionen war...ich glaube ich bin nun auf 1000 und einem Urlaubsfoto von haptsächlich Javanesen (sind das Javanesen...oder wie nennen sich die Einwohner von Java?)

Von Far far away

Eine Woche im Paradies

So...der Workshop im Purnati Center of teh Arts ist vorbei. Es war unglaublich! Aber heute ist Earth Day, dort werden wir uns wohl alle treffen und die naechsten Tage ist wohl auch einiges. Also mal sehen. Ein genauerer Bericht und Bilder folgen.

Die erste Lesson!

So, ich trau mich einfach mal die erste Stunde online zu stellen...Spiral Wraps. Aber der Ton und das Bild und sowieso muß noch deutlich verbessert werden! Aber aller Anfang ist schwer!

Hmmm...poi lessons?

Aaaalso: Da ich ja gerade wenig zu tun hab, hab ich mir so überlegt ob ich nicht auch mal ein paar Poi-Lessons ins Interweb stelle. Aber vielleicht mal in Deutsch, englische findet man ja zu hauf. Postet doch mal Kommentare ob ihr das gut fändet und ob es Präferenzen (was Tricks angeht) gibt!