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.
A short film by Cirque de Soleil (in collaboration with ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios) featuring an eerie dance with ten computer-controlled quadrotors.
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.
Polish busker Mariusz Goli does his thing on the streets of Katowice.
His fretwork is somewhat nifty.
A pit crew doing its thing at the 1950 Indianapolis 500 (1 minute, 7 seconds) and its modern counterpart at the 2013 Australian F1 Grand Prix (somewhat nippier).
Shot in 2012 by Thomas Hubener (most likely filming with the GoPro attached to him) this POV video shows a perfectly synchronised gymnastic rings duet (with fellow performer Raphaël Schulé in shot) .
Watch (GoPro first person POV style) from behind the hands of Portuguese street performer Luís Reis as he does his thing. Part of an ongoing search for top quality street performers by the Hello Europe Project.
A version of ‘Love the Bomb’ by London-based band Bold Things.
Performed in Co. Louth. Filmed and edited by Claire Byrne
(Thanks Jim O’Donoghue Martin)
Dance coach Poppin John and The Robot Boys (danish dancers Nick Nitro and Jeppe Long) present a robot masterclass.
Arguably as good as anything you’ve seen up to 1.40, then just plain gobsmacking for an extended period after that.
An impressive and revealing performance by Neil Hilborn at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in which he expresses the finding and loss of love through the lens of his own OCD.
Of this funny, heartbreaking piece, which he’s been perfecting and performing for two years now, he sez:
Through a lot of therapy, I have managed to get most of the tics under control, so the poem is more representative of my symptoms at, say, 16 or 17. However, it’s much more difficult to represent obsessions than compulsions, so I decided to focus on those symptoms as they are easier for a broader audience to digest.
