{"id":3056,"date":"2008-10-18T16:21:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T20:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2008-10-18T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T20:21:55","slug":"video-performance-art-with-crutches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/10\/18\/video-performance-art-with-crutches\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Performance art with crutches"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why I like this video so much, but I just had to post it. It’s a short clip featuring music from a artist known as RJD2<\/a> (who also appears in the video — he’s the man with the beard at the beginning who tries to help the man on crutches), and it features a man<\/a> with a specially modified set of crutches who does a kind of acrobatic street dance down the sidewalk. Watching some of the looks he gets from passers-by is part of the fun. The video was filmed by Ghost Robot<\/a> director Joey Garfield, and there’s also an alternate version, which you can watch side-by-side with the original<\/a>. For some reason this reminded me of another of my favourite videos: Christopher Walken doing a dance he choreographed himself in the video for Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice<\/em><\/a>. (link via Neatorama)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know why I like this video so much, but I just had to post it. It’s a short clip featuring music from a artist known as RJD2 (who also appears in the video — he’s the man with the beard at the beginning who tries to help the man on crutches), and it … <\/p>\n

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