All Blog Posts Tagged 'performance' (12)

In what promises to be one of the most exciting dance performances to hit Scotland, contemporary choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and 17 Buddhist monks ages 10-26, from the Shaolin Temple in China, present Sutra. After a successful run in 2008, the show is back for two days, May 17 and May 18 at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Sutra blends martial…

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If a stranger sat silently across from you and stared straight into your eyes, what kind of emotions would you feel? Or, better yet, how long would it take before you broke down and cried? In 2010, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic put on The Artist is Present, or what's been called, "a milestone in…

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Last year, performance and installation artist Wilmer Wilson IV conducted a series of three public performances, collectively entitled Henry Box Brown: Forever, along the streets of Washington, DC. For each performance, the artist covered his entire body with a single value of postage stamps, with increasing values for every journey. He then walked a planned distance across the…

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Just when we thought he couldn't outdo himself, artist Liu Bolin is back with a variety of new and mind-boggling disappearing acts. We have seen many of his camouflaging techniques in action here and…

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An exciting new show is opening tonight, January 10, in New York! South African-born artist Robin Rhode will be taking over both of Lehmann Maupin's New York galleries in a two-part exhibition. One gallery will feature a new series of his street-based photographs while the other will house an educational wall drawing…

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South African artist Robin Rhode uses everyday materials like chalk, charcoal, and paints to create these creative scenes. In his performances, he finds public spaces to create sketches on walls and then photographs himself interacting with the drawings. Promenade is a flipbook-style…

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The Dave Matthews GPS debuted on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show and it is suh-weet!



Traffic, jam! You go girl!



For those of you who are not in the U.S. (and not able to access Hulu), you can try the smaller version below.…



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Katy Perry showing us where babies come from, at the MTV Japan Video Music Awards on May 30, 2009.



Highlights according to the Guardian:



On the red carpet, guests fall into three categories: Japanese male pop stars who try to look as bored and pissed-off as possible, Japanese female pop stars who try to look as scared and under immediate threat as possible, and foreigners … who just muck about.



Fourteen-piece mega troupe… Continue

Nathan "Flutebox" Lee and Beardyman, England's preeminent "fluteboxers," performed live @ Google offices in… Continue

Further proof that the iPhone is the best thing that ever happened to cell world. In this video, The Mentalists play Kids by MGMT on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using only apps downloaded from the Apple App Store and they do a surprisingly damn good job. Apps used: Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, DigiDrummer… Continue

Motivational speaker, stand-up comic and cyber celeb Judson Laipply is back with the sequel to his YouTube sensation "Evolution of Dance", one of the most watched Internet videos of all time.



The follow-up is not as good as the original. After years of corporate appearances, he has lost the intensity in his facial expression and the sharpness of eye contact. In short - he's lost that lovin' feelin'. And hello? A "… Continue

A little government push can go a long way. A while ago the European Council came up with a new rule which will lead the automakers to manufacture cars with an 130g/km limit of the CO2 levels by 2012. Instead of freaking out, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said that they are planning to reduce CO2 levels by 40% before 2012. Thanks to a new hybrid technology, Ferrari might build cars powered by turbocharged V6 engines which are smaller and more… Continue