Did you know that this kind of circus routine is called "Icarian Games"? I didn't! Well, as you can imagine, the name comes from the Greek myth of Icarus and his flight across the sea... That was a little bit to close to the sun. His poor father Dedalus had to watch him fall from the sky and perish tragically after they escaped the minotaur's labyrinth.
     But in the circus, things are sunny and fun! The "Icarian Games" can be described as a discipline of the circus arts that was rarely seen in today's contemporary circus culture until a while ago, but it's now a big centre stage attraction. It is very traditional, and usually presented by members of the same family (which also alludes to the legend). The human juggling is done by using one person's (the porter) feet as a catapult and catcher and the other one (the flyer or voltigeur) as prop for tossing and juggling.

~Ally

      Watching "Ocean's Twelve" has got me wondering about thieves this past weekend.
     Arsène Lupin, for my disappointment, is a fictional character from a book series of detective fiction/crime fiction novels by French writer Maurice Leblanc. Lupin is described as a gentleman thief that acts as a force for good sometimes, even though he is operating in the wrong side of the law. The men defeated by Lupin are often worse villains than him. In Francophone countries, he has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world.
      Leblanc was a contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and, in some stories, Sherlock Holmes appears, only to be challenged by Lupin! However, legal objections from Conan Doyle back in those days forced Leblanc to change the character's name to Herlock Sholmes. Yeah, you didn't fool anyone with that one, dude. With the expiration of copyright protection many years later, Holmes and Lupin showed up together again in the 2008 PC 3D adventure game "Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène Lupin". In this game Holmes (and occasionally others) are attempting to stop Lupin from stealing five British valuable items. Lupin wants to steal the items in order to humiliate Britain, but he also admires Holmes and thus challenges him to try to stop him.

~Ally

     Yeap! I feel really old right now! I remember playing this game a lot when I was a kid, along with my cousins. My favorite characters were Chun-Li (I thought it was awesome to have a girl kicking guys buts - still do! Teehee) Ryu and Vega.
     In the documentary above you can learn various neat things about the game. Enjoy!

~Ally