Performance drawing

These days, anything can be made into a performance -- even the simple act of putting [implement] to [surface].

Field Music - In Context. A music video featuring an illustration drawn in a single, unbroken line. A very long, intricate one. Impressive.
Via 30gms.





The Graffiti Machine. This bizarre contraption, a spray can suspended between two computer-controlled ribbons, can produce a painted scene to rival the work of any street punk.
Via blanketfort.





Ambidextrous Drawing. Pretty self explanatory. The artwork is not my favorite, but you can't quibble with the technique. Ever feel like you're wasting half your life -- or body?





Drawing The Perfect Circle By Hand. This guy really knows how to play up a freak talent. (Hint: There's not really a world championship.)

Nights at the circus

The Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva is a beautiful and enchanting dance performed by twenty-one members of the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe; all of the dancers are deaf.
Via The Athanasius Kircher Society.




Greg Kennedy, the Innovative Juggler, performs nifty juggling tricks with unusual props and setups. Google Video has Juggling in an Inverted Cone, plus a few short clips from his stage performances, including the very cool Boxes. Many more on YouTube.
Via Wohba!.





A very flexible gymnast.
Via Look At This....




Crazy Bike is a sort of acrobatic performance of ballet-on-a-bicycle, stunning talent displayed on the modest stage of a high-school gym.




Quebec performer Michel Lauzière uses a variety of unorthodox instrumentation to perform familiar tunes. In the first video, he plays Mozart's Symphony No. 40 with wine bottles, on rollerblades. In the second, he performs a selection of tunes in a bike-horn jumpsuit, and the third is a series of clips of his other performances, including some wineglass music and non-musical antics with some kind of strange yellow balloon.
Via A Sweet, Familiar Dissonance.

Urban climbing

Check out this amazing video of a couple of Russian kids who can climb, scale, leap, roll, and move like nobody's business. They literally jump from rooftop to rooftop in this incredible series of stunts as they navigate the urban landscape with seeming ease.





Reminds me of House Gymnastics, an indoor version of a similar, though much lower-key, sort of climbing acrobatics. A couple of guys perform what they describe as a blend of "yoga, breakdancing, climbing and gymnastics", and photograph the poses. It's participatory, with difficulty ratings, step-by-step instructions, and a community forum, but it looks like prime Do Not Try This At Home material to me. Well, maybe some of the easier stuff is pretty safe.