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jedusorHi! I'm back from North Carolina, and I bring with me evidence of one heck of a week. Do not click the cut if you're on dialup.
The second leg of the trip, from Philadelphia to Greensboro, was in a tiny plane. Airline personnel provided for scale.
The Greensboro airport has padded benches and rocking chairs. These Southerners sure as hell know how to do comfort.
The day after I arrived was my birthday, so Theo made me a birthday present out of my juggling props and his mom's scarf and helped me "unwrap" it.
The Youth Showcase was really good this year. This is a bunch of kids dressed as (respectively) a construction worker, a cop in short shorts, a Native American, a pirate, and a sailor, doing the hand motions while juggling rings to "YMCA."
You know those air cannon toys? They made one out of a garbage can. It was epic.
A law office between the convention center and Subway. It made me snerk.
This is the main gym. Some kids were bouncing juggling balls off that giant happy face balloon thing.
They were paying twenty bucks a person for two tablespoons of blood for DNA research. I got my twenty bucks, plus I got to hang out with this adorable fellow.
This is Wyatt. He's been a juggling-fest pal of mine for more than five years, and he is awesome in that quiet way you don't really notice until you spend some time with him. He was absolutely great with Theo.
These guys tried to do a three-way fist bump to exchange contact info. I believe the endeavor resulted in Rick's iPhone flying through the air. I don't know who the other two fist-bumpers are, but the kid sitting down is Emmanuel and the guy bending over is Martin Frost, and Taylor's face is just visible on the right. (By the way, Rick, if you're reading this: here's that picture I mentioned.)
This is Nick, our IHOP waiter. He was a damn cool waiter.
Fred's creamer architecture.
This is Spencer, Wyatt's little brother, posing with the abstract art he made out of his Subway trash.
This is Danny Hodge, age nine years, one of the three remarkably capable Hodge brothers. There are actually two more Hodge brothers and a Hodge sister, but Chris and Andrew and Danny are the really good jugglers. Anyway, I took this shot during the extreme juggling (Xtreme? X-Juggling? Something like that) competition, and I really like it. I might crop it and send it to Danny's mom, who was running one of the prop vending tables.
Passing balls with Wyatt. His mom, Darrie, took this picture because she thought we looked cute, and I must say I agree.
This is Skyler and his belly buttons. He was one of the emcees for the Youth Showcase. He was playing with Theo, and then he and Wyatt and I started playing three-way Speed, and then Cindy took Theo and I ended up going out for subs with Wyatt and Skyler. He's a cool kid, and I think he's going to become a very cool adult. At one point, he noticed the purple 5 on a five-dollar bill and asked how long those had been there, and I ended up reading most of the Wikipedia article on five-dollar bills out loud from the hiptop while Skyler and Wyatt found the security strip and colored fibers in the bill.
This is the games. I didn't get to watch very much.
Bike patrol?
Ayup. Bike patrol.
No idea who this dude was, but I really liked his style. Check out the buttons all over his shoes.
I didn't bring many props, since I was carrying on my luggage and I'm pretty sure the TSA frowns on bullwhips and the like. I did bring my beanbag balls and my contact ball, and got a new purple diabolo while I was there. I think Matt Hall was the one who made a crack about the gym's carpeting while emceeing, saying that it was designed perfectly to camouflage dropped props.
Warren was wearing kickass pants made out of a bunch of juggling shirts.
The dance floor after the award ceremony at the closing dinner. Jugglers know how to party, yo.
Theo attempts to put a clown nose on Wyatt and kind of misses.
Ho hum. Another small child doing incredible things. This one is Jack, who is from Texas and has a piercing in The Gay Ear, which amused me.
Yaaaay, an amazing juggler who is not half my height! This is Tempe (sp?). He's the one whose impressive devilstick routine I mentioned a couple entries back.
Theo and Cindy. The kid isn't very good at manipulating props yet, but he knows what he's supposed to do with them and tries hard to do it. He's going to be very good when his motor functions develop a bit more. (I think that's Sean Blue and Tony Pezzo on the right.)
Oh, Adria. (Note the condom sticking out of her top.)
I don't know who this is, but I saw that hair and had to snap a picture for Mom.
There was a fire alarm Tuesday morning that I missed, and another one Saturday night after renegade.
Everybody just brought their props outside and kept juggling. The guy in the foreground is Jeremiah Johnston, co-winner of the bronze medal in the teams competition (and ridiculously nice guy). The girl in green is Katherine (sp?), whom I met on one of the late-night IHOP trips. The guy on the right is Kevin Axtell, a really great contact juggler and artsy-type performer. The dudes on the far left are passing canes. Later, after we went inside, the cane passing turned into a Calvinball-style game involving various props, a lot of running, and the elevator. I would have joined in if I hadn't been so jazzed about practicing my new diabolo trick (see video below).
Videos:
This was the last part of the YMCA bit at the Youth Showcase. I wish I'd gotten all of it, especially the part when they did the hand motions while juggling.
Taylor and Emmanuel juggling four creamers apiece at IHOP.
This one goes outside the cut, 'cause you all totally have 23 seconds to spare to watch me land a cool trick on my brand-new purple diabolo. In related news, I have a new default icon!
The second leg of the trip, from Philadelphia to Greensboro, was in a tiny plane. Airline personnel provided for scale.
The Greensboro airport has padded benches and rocking chairs. These Southerners sure as hell know how to do comfort.
The day after I arrived was my birthday, so Theo made me a birthday present out of my juggling props and his mom's scarf and helped me "unwrap" it.
The Youth Showcase was really good this year. This is a bunch of kids dressed as (respectively) a construction worker, a cop in short shorts, a Native American, a pirate, and a sailor, doing the hand motions while juggling rings to "YMCA."
You know those air cannon toys? They made one out of a garbage can. It was epic.
A law office between the convention center and Subway. It made me snerk.
This is the main gym. Some kids were bouncing juggling balls off that giant happy face balloon thing.
They were paying twenty bucks a person for two tablespoons of blood for DNA research. I got my twenty bucks, plus I got to hang out with this adorable fellow.
This is Wyatt. He's been a juggling-fest pal of mine for more than five years, and he is awesome in that quiet way you don't really notice until you spend some time with him. He was absolutely great with Theo.
These guys tried to do a three-way fist bump to exchange contact info. I believe the endeavor resulted in Rick's iPhone flying through the air. I don't know who the other two fist-bumpers are, but the kid sitting down is Emmanuel and the guy bending over is Martin Frost, and Taylor's face is just visible on the right. (By the way, Rick, if you're reading this: here's that picture I mentioned.)
This is Nick, our IHOP waiter. He was a damn cool waiter.
Fred's creamer architecture.
This is Spencer, Wyatt's little brother, posing with the abstract art he made out of his Subway trash.
This is Danny Hodge, age nine years, one of the three remarkably capable Hodge brothers. There are actually two more Hodge brothers and a Hodge sister, but Chris and Andrew and Danny are the really good jugglers. Anyway, I took this shot during the extreme juggling (Xtreme? X-Juggling? Something like that) competition, and I really like it. I might crop it and send it to Danny's mom, who was running one of the prop vending tables.
Passing balls with Wyatt. His mom, Darrie, took this picture because she thought we looked cute, and I must say I agree.
This is Skyler and his belly buttons. He was one of the emcees for the Youth Showcase. He was playing with Theo, and then he and Wyatt and I started playing three-way Speed, and then Cindy took Theo and I ended up going out for subs with Wyatt and Skyler. He's a cool kid, and I think he's going to become a very cool adult. At one point, he noticed the purple 5 on a five-dollar bill and asked how long those had been there, and I ended up reading most of the Wikipedia article on five-dollar bills out loud from the hiptop while Skyler and Wyatt found the security strip and colored fibers in the bill.
This is the games. I didn't get to watch very much.
Bike patrol?
Ayup. Bike patrol.
No idea who this dude was, but I really liked his style. Check out the buttons all over his shoes.
I didn't bring many props, since I was carrying on my luggage and I'm pretty sure the TSA frowns on bullwhips and the like. I did bring my beanbag balls and my contact ball, and got a new purple diabolo while I was there. I think Matt Hall was the one who made a crack about the gym's carpeting while emceeing, saying that it was designed perfectly to camouflage dropped props.
Warren was wearing kickass pants made out of a bunch of juggling shirts.
The dance floor after the award ceremony at the closing dinner. Jugglers know how to party, yo.
Theo attempts to put a clown nose on Wyatt and kind of misses.
Ho hum. Another small child doing incredible things. This one is Jack, who is from Texas and has a piercing in The Gay Ear, which amused me.
Yaaaay, an amazing juggler who is not half my height! This is Tempe (sp?). He's the one whose impressive devilstick routine I mentioned a couple entries back.
Theo and Cindy. The kid isn't very good at manipulating props yet, but he knows what he's supposed to do with them and tries hard to do it. He's going to be very good when his motor functions develop a bit more. (I think that's Sean Blue and Tony Pezzo on the right.)
Oh, Adria. (Note the condom sticking out of her top.)
I don't know who this is, but I saw that hair and had to snap a picture for Mom.
There was a fire alarm Tuesday morning that I missed, and another one Saturday night after renegade.
Everybody just brought their props outside and kept juggling. The guy in the foreground is Jeremiah Johnston, co-winner of the bronze medal in the teams competition (and ridiculously nice guy). The girl in green is Katherine (sp?), whom I met on one of the late-night IHOP trips. The guy on the right is Kevin Axtell, a really great contact juggler and artsy-type performer. The dudes on the far left are passing canes. Later, after we went inside, the cane passing turned into a Calvinball-style game involving various props, a lot of running, and the elevator. I would have joined in if I hadn't been so jazzed about practicing my new diabolo trick (see video below).
Videos:
This was the last part of the YMCA bit at the Youth Showcase. I wish I'd gotten all of it, especially the part when they did the hand motions while juggling.
Taylor and Emmanuel juggling four creamers apiece at IHOP.
This one goes outside the cut, 'cause you all totally have 23 seconds to spare to watch me land a cool trick on my brand-new purple diabolo. In related news, I have a new default icon!
