Roooobot. Huuuuuman.
This woman does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions.
It’s mesmerizing watching people moving like machines — an interesting psychological thing. Like Avantgardey, which if you haven’t heard of them (just because they show up all the time on my Instagram doesn’t mean that happens for everyone), you should check them out:
(via @sevlu)
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The ring choreography was amazing, partially because I kept being surprised that it continued on!
I hadn't noticed the quadrupled-up rings at the beginning when she was manipulating just two, but during the 4-ring segment I caught a few glimpses of the pairs being slightly misaligned so I knew the 8 was coming. But I loved that the 8 was literally announced by forming 8s with the rings.
Really lovely stuff.
I've seen a bunch of Avantgardey videos before and to me they always hearken back to the Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation stuff, though I'm sure that choreography had its own antecedents.
I see you, Daft Punk reference in the post title, I see you.
This brings to mind Robin Sloan’s great post that defined the flip flop:
"flip-flop", what in interesting concept. I'm glad to see that a term has been coined. As our world became more digital as we grew up, we saw so much transition to bitmapped and digital forms. It's comforting to see the reverse process as well.
I was first struck by musicians performing like automatons with the Kraftwerk guys (1978). Devo did this well with their cover of I Can’t Get No Satisfaction which they did on SNL in 1979.
Venue for things like these really enhances my reception, like if this was someone in Central Park near a tourist photo spot it would seem hucksterish, but the fluorescent-seeming lighting and beat-up maybe-drywall colored backdrop and HVAC unit and ESPECIALLY the clock radio (do people still use that as a qualifier?) acoustics, chef’s kiss. I was also lucky enough not to see the title thanks to my safari vinegar extension making that a subtle html5 embed so I got to be like _eight!??!?_ 🥰
Thanks for posting, Jason. Human creativity, skill, dexterity and invention really have no bounds, as demonstrated by this artist Noel. Beyond amazing when the eight rings appeared!
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