In a piece of art certainly not imitating my life, this is a worthwhile video of French artist and dancer Yoann Bourgeois repeatedly falling off a set of stairs and bouncing right back up again. The whole performance is incredibly well orchestrated with such fluidity. And how towards the he
This is a video of Studio Drift’s 1,000 drone light show performing at Burning Man. The drones make a bunch of different moving geometric shapes before ending the show with a giant human face. Trippy. I can only imagine what I would have thought if I’d actually been tripping, but
This is a video of a Brooklyn street performing riding his bike around while balancing a full trash can on top of his head. For reference, I could never do this, because my head is too– “Penis shaped.” Thanks honey. A quick mental note to start an argument in bed
I’m not going to lie, when I first read the title I did think cadavers at first. Thankfully, not the case. This is a video of very skilled ventriloquist Nina Conti performing with two human dummies picked from the audience during a Live At The Apollo performance. She does a
Because this is the internet, here’s a surprisingly worthwhile compilation of dancer and Youtuber Smac McCreanor performing interpretive dances to a variety of different objects getting absolutely crushed by a hydraulic press (courtesy of the Hydraulic Press Channel). I finally managed to get Al Gore on the phone to ask
This is a video of street performer Windyman (aka Wayne Scott) performing his pièce de résistance at Plaça de Catalunya (‘Catalonia Square’) in Barcelona. How he remains so still is beyond me, but I suspect it may involve a handful of tranquilizers. Now being able to stand after downing a
These are several videos of French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s traveling museum exhibition ‘From Here To Ear’, which consists of a large room full of 70 zebra finches flying around and playing electric guitars as they perch and peck at the instruments’ strings and visitors walk around enjoying the impromptu jam
Dream it, and you can achieve it. Case in point, Chinese street performer Lan Guangping, who in this video jumps on four raw eggs without them breaking. Well, he breaks one the first time he tries, but the second time he succeeds, although he breaks an egg on the dismount.