Alien Jon: nano-Tech Blog

So, It's been a long time coming, for me to start up a video tech blog. I tend to get carried away with the scope of the video projects I'd like to do, so much so that I end up not completing them.

I just had a silly little epiphany the other day: make my video blog like twitter. Frequent short snippets of random poi moves and ideas, with only a brief description of what it is and how I think about it or do it. That way when I do release the tutorial videos that I want to get out there, the body of fun examples for the ideas, will already be brewing.

They call twitter a "micro-blog", so Burning dan and I thought it would be funny to call my tech blog a "nano-tech blog"!

Without further ado, nano-Tech Blog #1:

great man. took me a couple o watches to see whats goin on, even with you explaining it at the start!
i should make some time for these - and of course theres got to be synch and same direction versions...

nano-Tech Blog #2

Cheers Jon, I liked that second one. You know...i never thought of using that under the arm, over the shoulder stuff to create a pattern. I've always used it as something to use on my way to something else. I'll go outside and give it a play if it ever warms up, this spinning with ski gloves on really sucks.

Thanks Stout.

LOL, yeah I had my fill of cold winter growing up in Maine. I like equatorial ones much better now.

Concerning spinning in ski gloves: Sure it sucks but at least your hands are warm... how do you think your practice poi feel getting swung around all naked in the winter air?! You should put ski gloves on your poi too!

That would actually make for a kinda hilarious video!

itd be a good one for that xmas eve video thread meg started...

nano-Tech Blog: Sneak Peak -Spherecamp Texas 2009-

nano-Tech Blog #3

nano-Tech Blog #4

nano-Tech Blog: -for Mieneye-

"Youtube is faster than you!"

nano-Tech Blog: Spherecamp -fire stage-

hey alien =] do you mind if i steal these so i can put the on my psp?
you dont have to send me them or anything theres some program that takes the vid file and audio ( quite genius really )
i just thought be nice and ask for permission first =D

Certainly! Rip away! They are for sharing.

nano-Tech Blog #6: Now with slomo and Antispin weave compound fountains (can I even say that?!)

It'd be harder and more clear without isolations by the way.

Anyway you shoud check out the discussion in "I'just
learn a new move / combo thread", what the guys are
talking about and give them a propper dirrection .

nano-Tech Blog #7: Thom Thumb and I playing with some 3-poi passing.

That would look craaazy with glow or fire.

nano-tech blog #8 - Pulse weaves, linear extension weaves, and a ellipse fountain.

Well, why call an extension pulse and I saw Drew doing this a few years back,
but yeah back from the giants, the "pulse" idea is nice and I like.

What would we do without mirrors..