So JohnM informed me that tops appear in this years episode of Treehouse of Horrors XXI on the Simpsons. I did some YouTube searching and found a preview of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dX9-J1HMw&feature=channel
It's right near the beginning of this video.
Spintops in Simpsons
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Spintops in Simpsons
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...Is a top in the hand worth two on the floor?
...Is a top in the hand worth two on the floor?
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Re: Spintops in Simpsons
Here is another spinning top? on TV
Cirque du Soleil on Lopez Tonight last night.
I hope the embed thing works. Spinning is at around 2:45
Spinning from Circle du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil on Lopez Tonight last night.
I hope the embed thing works. Spinning is at around 2:45
Spinning from Circle du Soleil
Last edited by silvertop on Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:12 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Spintops in Simpsons
At the "Young Street Artists festival" in Mollina, Spain, where I gave the spintop exhibition a few months ago, one of the contestants did a similar cube spinning routine. A cube is a great object to spin as it spins balanced around any axis going through the center: in that sense it is equivalent to a sphere. Something that I would try is to add handles to the cube frame so it can be spun from a point away from the edges. It might give a nice effect, I am guessing. The handles could be matte black so as to be somewhat invisible.
