madagascar spintop
madagascar spintop
Last edited by Ludo on Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:27 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Wonderful document! Thanks for sharing it!
Love the tops! I wonder if the ball is a fruit/nut or if they are turned out of wood. I need to get one.
Love the tops! I wonder if the ball is a fruit/nut or if they are turned out of wood. I need to get one.
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Intetesting how high
Guessing these are primarily battle tops. In making my own, I discovered that play value in battle depends critically on CM height. Too low, and the top travels too little and scapes the ground too easily after a blow for lack of ground clearance. Too high, and the top is knocked over too easily and has too short an undisturbed spin time.
But there's a sweet spot where the top takes hits but pops right up again, like a Tourenado. Very cool dynamic that I have yet to fully understand.
Me, too! Intetesting how high they put the center of mass (CM).ta0 wrote: Love the tops!
Guessing these are primarily battle tops. In making my own, I discovered that play value in battle depends critically on CM height. Too low, and the top travels too little and scapes the ground too easily after a blow for lack of ground clearance. Too high, and the top is knocked over too easily and has too short an undisturbed spin time.
But there's a sweet spot where the top takes hits but pops right up again, like a Tourenado. Very cool dynamic that I have yet to fully understand.
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Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.
—Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1883-1955
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Muy buen video
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i thinks its trailer of movies normaly this movies its 52 mm very good
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High-CM tops and their odd tendencies discussed here in 2017.
Video posted by Iacopo there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqxF3jGKlQ
Video posted by Iacopo there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqxF3jGKlQ
Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time ... and with spinning tops, we decorate both.
—after Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1960-1988
Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.
—Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1883-1955
—after Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1960-1988
Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.
—Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1883-1955
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great presentation by Iacopo! I had missed it
to come back to the video from Madagascar
I find it very moving
from the subtitles and soundtrack :
1st plan
the girl plays with small rocks ,pretending they were dolls
2nd plan
they take some long leaves to make a hairdress for their dolls
they wash the leaves and they it is braided
3rd plan the tops
4 th plan
building mini cars out of wood
at the end one of the wheels breaks
the whole vid is introduced with a text explaining
how children in extreme poverty still strive to have fun
as ludo wrote it's the trailer of a longer documentary
jim
to come back to the video from Madagascar
I find it very moving
from the subtitles and soundtrack :
1st plan
the girl plays with small rocks ,pretending they were dolls
2nd plan
they take some long leaves to make a hairdress for their dolls
they wash the leaves and they it is braided
3rd plan the tops
4 th plan
building mini cars out of wood
at the end one of the wheels breaks
the whole vid is introduced with a text explaining
how children in extreme poverty still strive to have fun
as ludo wrote it's the trailer of a longer documentary
jim
"oeuvre de coeur prend tout un homme"
