An impressive demonstration of focus, balance, and physics at work.
@docpop
> Any skill toy or juggling themed Mastodon servers out there
> Any skill toy or juggling themed Mastodon servers out there
@RussSharek and ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz are good people to ask, according to Trunk;
https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Juggling
I'd also ask @peterdrake, @yaxu, @DToher, and maybe @chestas.
I absolutely love receiving messages like this, and I'm happy to see friends from the #yoyo community dipping their toes into the fediverse!
In this message, @motmot is asking if there good for yo-yoers, so I thought I'd ask for suggestions. Any #skilltoy or #juggling themed Mastodon servers out there for him to check out?
@docpop
> Any skill toy or juggling themed Mastodon servers out there
> Any skill toy or juggling themed Mastodon servers out there
@RussSharek and ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz are good people to ask, according to Trunk;
https://communitywiki.org/trunk/grab/Juggling
I'd also ask @peterdrake, @yaxu, @DToher, and maybe @chestas.
Strypey
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It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..
Any help spreading the word across all the strange pattern-obsessed communities much appreciated!
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Algorithmic Pattern is a new festival and conference for people curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making, across algorithmic music, arts and craft. The first edition will take place both in Sheffield UK and online, during September 2025.
The call for talks/papers is now open, deadline 2nd June - please see our website for details: https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/
#textiles #weaving #algorave #livecoding #algorithmicart #cfp #conference #patterns #pattern #craft #juggling #siteswap #origami #geometry #ethnomathmatics #choreography
Russ Sharek
boosted
Well, it's still very hot here, so once again I'm limiting my expectations for tonight.
The bite is healing, and I tested negative for Lyme, though the test says that if it's been less than 14 days since the bite, that it is likely to return a false negative so who knows. But it's still sensitive so that minimizes the acro options for the evening.
So I'm gonna do my PT, and maybe hang out with some internet folks. Probably do some juggling.
Well, it's still very hot here, so once again I'm limiting my expectations for tonight.
The bite is healing, and I tested negative for Lyme, though the test says that if it's been less than 14 days since the bite, that it is likely to return a false negative so who knows. But it's still sensitive so that minimizes the acro options for the evening.
So I'm gonna do my PT, and maybe hang out with some internet folks. Probably do some juggling.
I'm so happy about this.
Inspired by @Aurin_the_classtraitor I started making a box of cards for myself, but not just your typical flashcards for #SpacedRepetition, but for whatever.
The first thing I love about this is that I love standardization.
▶️ The box is a wooden A6 box for flashcards (landscape format)
▶️ I use blank A& cards/paper (200g/m2) because I use my cards in portrait format and lined flashcards only exist in landscape format.
▶️ I use A6 tab cards in 4 colors
▶️ I put 16x9 mm labels to stick over the tab labels and write my own categories
▶️ All of this can be bought in nearby stores - no customization needed
But the main thing I love, is that this can be used for so much more than vocab.
My tabs:
➡️ Juggling: I put the names and a simple illustration of all the juggling tricks I know on cards and ordered them in 5 tabs:
play: tricks I can do very well and play around with, vary and e.g. use as warm-ups
perfect: tricks I can do pretty well, but want to be able to do better
train: tricks I can basically do, but not good yet
learn: tricks I understand and am learning
try: tricks that are new to me
➡️ Yoga: I put a lot of asanas and illustrations on cards and put them in the tabs:
calm
stretching
balance
strength
and new
(btw many asanas probably can't be put in one of these categories for everybody - this is about what I struggle with the most with the specific asana - except for "calm" which means I don't struggle)
➡️ classic flash cards with tabs for now, today, tomorrow, this week, next week, one for all 12 months of the year, done, archive and new
➡️ Drums: I haven't created the cards yet, but the tabs are similar to juggling: warm(-up), play, train, learn, try
➡️ Feelings: I created lots and lots of cards for feelings - not just emotions, but broader. I think this will help me better understand and describe how I feel. This deck will still grow a lot because there are so many things you can feel. So far the cards only contain the word(s) describing the feeling, but I'll probably add "links" to related cards and other stuff. It took me a while to find a tab system I'm happy with, and it will probably change, but right now I have these (all with 2 tabs for positive and negative feelings):
mood
balance (for anything related to calmness, freedom, stress, dependence, boredom, ...)
security (for things like clarity, determination, confusion & brain fog)
energy (self-empowerment, drive, creativity, powerlessness, avolition, anhedonia, ...)
self-worth (pride, self-love, shame, blame, ...)
courage (hope, defiance, pleasant anticipation ("Vorfreude"), fear, panic, fright, ...)
interest (lust, curiosity, excitement, indifference, disgust, revulsion)
affection (love, friendship, admiration, closeness, hate, distance, agression, anger, ...)
interpersonal (this needs a new name contains mostly pseudo emotions that describe less how you feel, but why: esteem, praise, belonging, humiliation, punishment, jealousy, distrust, ...)
physical (scent, warmth, beauty, stench, heat, ugliness, ...)
On the first card I have gathered more ideas like embodyment & mindfulness exercises, mental skills, local plant & animal species, ...
On it's back I have written down all the measures so I can get more boxes, cards, tabs and labels, when I need them.
I might post more about #PaulasBox as I gain more experience with it.
Btw, this easily covers my #3GoodThings of today.
#FlashCards#StudyCards#CueCards#CardBox#TrainingCards#Juggling #yoga #drumming #drums #emotions #feelings#EmotionalLiteracy
Did everything I was hoping for and more!
My long hold handstand wasn't quite as garbage as I was expecting, I managed a 30s hold, and probably a longer one when I was playing with shapes later, but I wasn't timing those.
Hit 1000 clean with clubs, and worked on getting more control on throwing doubles (in a passing pattern my doubles are fine, but to myself I haven't really practiced in years), and then did 200 catches with the plungers, and missed the circus double I was going for for the clean out.
@RussSharek and I played around with some basic passing until something went wonky and I ended up taking a club to the face. Didn't hurt long, but the red mark was still there when I went to take my contacts out before food.
I played around with some body movement, and even managed a short hold on one arm!! (I don't know the name of the hold for sure, it's a variant of a crocodile if anyone's familiar with that)
Also did the tiniest bit of partner acro midway through when we were theoretically already cooling down and stretching lol
A very good night, and I really enjoyed it!
Today I'm feeling pretty good, despite doing a lot of yardwork in #thisOldClownHouse yesterday.
So I'm hoping for PT, some solid juggling numbers, maybe some pass juggling if my juggling partner is up for it, and a bit of work on maintaining my handstands. As I've been doing handstands, I haven't been working on holding for time in quite a while, and I'd like to.
It's really tricky to spread the word about events these days! I don't support corporate social media and you don't get read attention there anyway, mailing lists aren't what they once were, and this event wants to reach people across many patterny disciplines..
Any help spreading the word across all the strange pattern-obsessed communities much appreciated!
--
Algorithmic Pattern is a new festival and conference for people curious about the practice and culture of algorithmic pattern-making, across algorithmic music, arts and craft. The first edition will take place both in Sheffield UK and online, during September 2025.
The call for talks/papers is now open, deadline 2nd June - please see our website for details: https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/call/
#textiles #weaving #algorave #livecoding #algorithmicart #cfp #conference #patterns #pattern #craft #juggling #siteswap #origami #geometry #ethnomathmatics #choreography
Dear Lovely Peeps,
This is GORGEOUS. Make sure sound is UP. Trance-inducing even to watch, but the rhythm sound is at least as much part of the performance. 😊
I have never seen a juggler build his entire work around an external prop, but Michael Moschen does it so well. 🤩
I absolutely love receiving messages like this, and I'm happy to see friends from the #yoyo community dipping their toes into the fediverse!
In this message, @motmot is asking if there good for yo-yoers, so I thought I'd ask for suggestions. Any #skilltoy or #juggling themed Mastodon servers out there for him to check out?