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This Contact Sword Routine is Absolutely Mesmerizing

View this post on Instagram 表演者是很單純的,表演ã€è¡¨æ¼”ã€è¡¨æ¼”ã€é‚„是表演。 如果你有舞å°é©åˆæˆ‘請邀請我,我想在ä¸åŒçš„國家翱翔,與我的åŠã€‚ The performers is very simple. Flow, flow, flow, and flow. If you have stage,please invite me. I hope I can fly in the others country. With my sword. Shot: @bboylilwei #å°ç£ç‡ˆæœƒ #åŽé‡Œé¦¬å ´ #åŽé‡Œç‡ˆæœƒ2020 #è¡—é ­è—人 #contactstaff #sword #circus #flowarts #yoga #konfu #spin #trance #titostsai #firetitos A post shared by Titos Tsai 笑炎舞者蔡å®æ¯… (@titos_firedancer) on Feb 13, 2020 at 2:30am PST Apparently ‘contact swords’ is like a more dangerous version of contact juggling, not too dissimilar from baton twirling. It looks beautiful and pretty badass…

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Guy Hacks Google Maps With 99 Phones and a Little Red Wagon

Artist Simon Weckert transported 99 smartphones in a little red wagon to generate a virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. He was able to turn a virtual ‘green’ street ‘red’, which impacted the physical world by navigating cars using Google Maps on another route to avoid being ‘stuck’ in traffic. Check out the video below and scroll down to learn more about this project. The advent of Google’s Geo Tools began in 2005 with Maps and Earth, followed by Street View in 2007. They have since become enormously more technologically…

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This 1965 Live Version of Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers is Everything

Whenever this song comes on I get instant chills. “Unchained Melody” is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the little-known prison film Unchained (1955). Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the song’s publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of “Unchained Melody” have been made by more than 670…

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