A stray cat in Izmir, Turkey recently crashed an Imperial Russian Ballet performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, curling up to play with the lifeless Romeo’s hair after his tragic death. Admittedly, that’s some luscious looking hair, and I’d have a hard time not playing with it myself. Sometimes I
Because it takes all kinds, this is a video of artist Shoji Yamasaki dressed like, and dancing like, random pieces of trash blowing in the wind. Oh man, I’ve known my fair share of pieces of trash in life, and none of them danced like this. Most of them moved
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this horror movie and it gave me nightmares. This is a clip of artist and metalworker Ulysses (Oolie) Secrest sitting in the shower wearing a mask he made and setting it on fire. He says the metal frame of the mask took about 10 hours
This is a clip of a man (who I swear I posted on Geekologie back in the day — glad to see he’s still at it) demonstrating his complete disregard for gravity by balancing a number of glass bottles on each other in precarious ways. He also does some blindfolded
While we may have previously seen an uncurated compilation of dancer smacmccreanor’s impressions of a hydraulic press crushing various objects, this is her top 15 hydraulic press fashion moments. And let me tell you, they are some REAL GOODIES in there. Like, imagine the best goody bag you’ve ever gotten,
This is a video of object manipulator and prop designer SHAO performing a routine using a morphing cube prop developed by fellow prop designer Thomas Foyk. It was pretty fun to watch. How about all those faces he has though?! I’ve heard of people being two-faced, but four? That’s a
This is ‘The Kiss 2’ (the first kiss must have left them wanting more!), a piece of performance art orchestrated by artist William Cobbing in which two giant clay-headed humans smooch while smearing each other’s faces, complete with ASMR sound. That’s…something. Something I found way too erotic to be watching
This is a video of body artist Hittesh Patel performing an incredibly limber demonstration of just what he’s capable of, moving all his body parts in unison to create shapes and perform actions that can only be described as he’s an alien. Did you see that finger and toe wave?