Stolen from a facebook friend
I think the most amazing thing about this video is that by virtue of being old and in black and white it feels completely whimsical. It's thrilling without being scary. If we saw something like this in "real life," for example, the guy who climbed up the NYTimes building- we'd call him a reckless idiot. But in this video, the guy's smile is so
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homeboy is absolutely a reckless idiot
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I first saw it and posted it at work, where the sound on my computer is disabled. I recommend watching it on mute. The music is lame.
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i watch these videos, and i just think about how cool we are as human animals. we wouldn't be surprised to see, i dunno, big cats or monkeys doing some of this bad-ass stuff. impressed, yeah, but not surprised. so why not us?
and reckless? maybe. but really primal and exciting. right on.
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This video definitely offers an interesting contrast to the one I posted. The "old school parkour" seemed to be performing for an audience for all of his stunts- I almost expected him to wink and do jazz hands at the end of the video. This video has a sort of stealth theme to it- "new school parkour" is always running, from something, with a very inward focus- and yet the fact that it was edited together as a montage specifically for YouTube has a performance aspect as well.
Also, since Beller made me think about the music, let me say that I think the music really takes away from this video as well. I tried both with and without and mute was so much better. "New school parkour's" movement is already musical and dance-like, with it's own quality and rhythm. Superimposing Eminem's unforgiving strong rhythm feels like forcing a square into a circle.
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