The worlds most awesomest, hella wicked clips of humans in motion
May 8th, 2009 12 comments link to (permalink) posted by david
One of the few mini-clip-meme thingies that I can bear, unlike dogs on skateboards, is the whole YouTube fetish for dance or body movement stuff – from Parkour to ‘that nerdy looking dancing guy‘ – which lends itself to video bites.
Both Parkour and the Nerdy looking dancing guy show ordinary people doing extraordinary things, but in a format which is far more genuine than the formulaic arena of ‘_’s Got Talent’ and Susan Boyle.
My Choice: James Brown Gives You Dancing Lessons via Rob
Anyway, I’d like to put together an, ahem, postmodernly cerebral, definitive list of this stuff. Add to this list by embedding videos in comments.
(The title of this post is supposed to be ironic, I have not lost my mind).
tags: lists
12 responses so far »
divadwg : May 8, 2009 at 9:00 pm
[youtube yOOmFgBAdIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOOmFgBAdIA youtube]Another fave, Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics
divadwg : May 8, 2009 at 9:04 pm
[youtube yBBhgzA4_Z4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBBhgzA4_Z4 youtube] More Russian gymnastics, 35 years later – Russian Parcour.
Jim N : May 8, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Dance styles are the most ephemeral pop cultural phenomena. When I used to go to clubs in NYC in the 90s, there were recognizable patterns that had, afaik, no names, and are now almost certainly lost except in human menory. There were dances with names, like the Cabbage Patch, but nobody actually danced like that. The versions of these styles in music videos are usually exaggerated or over-choreographed.
divadwg : May 8, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I've been listening to you answering machine massages from the 1980s. This is not a sentence that I get the opportunity to say often enough.
http://nachlin.com/tapes/46-great-jones-st-answer...
Jim N : May 8, 2009 at 11:22 pm
(Speaking of ephemera!)
tim : May 8, 2009 at 11:23 pm
[youtube XSdhDyPhyiU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdhDyPhyiU youtube]
always a classic
Dan Westlake : May 10, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Loved the answering machine messages – something really sad (as in touching not rubbish) and poignant about them. Not really sure if I should have been listening to them as I am neither Maggie Nachlin, Wendy Young, Jason Leaf, Matt Israel, Ben Posnack, Sonya Newell, Isabel Pippolo, Lisa Townsend Rogers, Mikaela Frank, Doug Margolis, etc. but found them very moving – more so than say a strangers cine-film or photographs would have been. Interesting…
westlake
Eunice : May 15, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Robert Muraine!
[youtube kNK_r6iFRVQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNK_r6iFRVQ youtube]
rosie : May 19, 2009 at 6:45 pm
weeeeeeeeeeeee!
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rosie : May 19, 2009 at 6:47 pm
sorry! i meant to do this [youtube R0BHxhUnokU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU youtube]
divadwg : May 20, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Oh my! That's made my day.
Simon Perry : Aug 31, 2009 at 11:28 am
Amazing to see 'robot dancing' that long ago.
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