"Photograph showing four women playing "Diabolo" at the side of the road, while waiting for their male companions to fix their broken-down motor-car, 1907."
Showing posts with label Diabolo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diabolo. Show all posts
Thursday, March 4, 2010
More Diabolo!
Mother sent me another Diabolo picture, this one from The Illustrated London News. If I had any free time to spare I would learn to do this. They look very elegant indeed, playing in the road. Here is the picture, and the caption.
"Photograph showing four women playing "Diabolo" at the side of the road, while waiting for their male companions to fix their broken-down motor-car, 1907."
"Photograph showing four women playing "Diabolo" at the side of the road, while waiting for their male companions to fix their broken-down motor-car, 1907."
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Playing Diabolo
This is a 1868 painting by Cesare Felix dell'Acqua called, "Angel and Devil," or "Playing Diabolo The-Devil-on-Two-Sticks." Cool, right? I don't have a diabolo, but when I was in a contact juggling phase and buying acrylic spheres in New York, my parents got one for my little sister. To the best of my knowledge, she's never practiced with it enough to do anything particularly cool, but it would be a worthy endeavor. This is not something I know much about, but apparently you can do very impressive things. Go look on youtube... this is some guy on Japanese television, and I can't even understand what he is doing.
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