A very pleasing performance on the sansula – a modern version of the traditional African mbira – by percussionist Conny Sommer.
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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s feelz-laden Oscar ceremony performance gets the Bad Lip Reading treatment.
Previously: Absolute STATE Of The Union
Pro-Bubbler
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The charming Melody Yang of the Gazillion Bubbles Show explains the science and stories of her career as a ‘bubble engineer’ which is so a real thing.
349 by filmmaker and artist Kirsten Lauth Shaeffer – a stop motion animation based on a dance performance composed of synchronised hand drawn frames by over 300 individuals.
AMA
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A moving underwater dance performance by French writer, dancer and director Julie Gaultier. She sez of it:
Ama is a silent film. It tells a story everyone can interpret in their own way, based on their own experience. There is no imposition, only suggestions. I wanted to share my biggest pain in this life with this film. For this is not too crude, I covered it with grace. To make it not too heavy, I plunged it into the water. I dedicate this film to all the women of the world
The Bird Man
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An excerpt from Kelly And Company – a crowdsourced variety show that aired on Detroit TV channel WXYZ from 1977 to 1994.
The winner on this episode was one Ralph ‘Whistler’ Geise, with an extraordinary (or, if you’re no fan of his pursed-lip exertions, excrutiating) rendition of ‘Georgia On My Mind’
Ralph still performs to this day with a group called Whistler’s Muthers.
Sparked
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A short film by Cirque de Soleil (in collaboration with ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios) featuring an eerie dance with ten computer-controlled quadrotors.
It’s Alive!
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Painting Surgeries by French Canadian artist Marie-Lou Desmeules, an alarming blend of ‘performance, painting, sculpture and photography’. To wit:.
Marie-Lou works directly on her models. She covers them under acrylic paint, clothes, plastic, paper & hair to create sculptures out of them. The final artworks are photographs of the living sculptures.In her series “Celebrities”, Desmeules (re)creates pop culture icons and famous personalities. Her work questions the notion of beauty, the growing plastic surgery industry, genders & identity.
Büsker Dü
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Polish busker Mariusz Goli does his thing on the streets of Katowice.
His fretwork is somewhat nifty.