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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Because of wow. / Because Every Now And Then It’s Good To Stop And Look At Something Amazing

Because Every Now And Then It’s Good To Stop And Look At Something Amazing

by Tom Levenson|  December 5, 201611:38 am| 36 Comments

This post is in: Because of wow., Open Threads, THIS WAS AWESOME

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Yo Yo Ma and Lil Buck would be draw enough, I’d say.  But manohmanohman — check out what Lil Buck does to draw his performance to a close:

My every joint and ligament screams in mute sympathy.  Human bodies shouldn’t be able to do that.  An extraordinarily gifted human has done I have no idea how much constant, brutal, consuming work to make it look…well, not effortless, but graceful.  Beautiful.

Enjoy, for just a moment, before resuming our regular coverage of the Trumpocalypse.

Oh — and open thread, also too.

PS:  I thought about the “not normal” tag, for obvious reasons, and for equally obvious ones, declined to use it.

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  1. 1.

    Culture of Truth

    December 5, 2016 at 11:58 am

    Well that’s pretty impressive

  2. 2.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    December 5, 2016 at 12:06 pm

    Thanks for a true moment of Zen in a crazy #Pizzagate world.

  3. 3.

    Droppy

    December 5, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Kind of a amazing that a person can move around like that with NO FRIGGING BONES!

  4. 4.

    OzarkHillbilly

    December 5, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    I’m afraid that about 30 secs into this Marty’s dance cycle from the Big Lebowski popped into my brain and I just could not evict it. Totally unfair to Lil Buck but that’s what the Cohen bros have done to me.

  5. 5.

    skerry

    December 5, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Wow. Thanks.

  6. 6.

    J R in WV

    December 5, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    Amazed, total control, even when it looked as if he was trying to keep a balance you just knew he was acting. Sliding along the very edge of the stage, totally unconcerned about that edge.

    I dunno how he does that at all. Keepin’ loose, isn’t it !

    Thanks for sharing.

  7. 7.

    mai naem mobile

    December 5, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    I just think of cello music as death music and holocaust music. This is mot.helping deling withave Trumpocalypse.Just sayin’

  8. 8.

    randy khan

    December 5, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    Genuinely good news: McCroy gives up

  9. 9.

    Wag

    December 5, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    Thanks, one of my favorites. Here’s another version with better lighting, outdoors.

  10. 10.

    Wag

    December 5, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    Link fail. Trying again

  11. 11.

    Larkspur

    December 5, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    Oh, am I grateful for the extraordinarily gifted among us. I can’t do those things; I suspect I was born incapable of being able to learn such things, but when I see him – and Yo Yo Ma, and all of the extraordinary people – honestly, it makes me appreciate being ordinary. I mean, I can’t do that, but my body moves and breathes and walks and sometimes my mind is blown by realizing I am a moving entity. I mean, I’m nothing special – except I have my place on the timeline and I am here in the world. That’s cool. Also, thanks for letting me think about non-orange things. Oh. I just had this flash of fantasy where Someone wanders into the orchard on his estate, and suddenly the branches of the citrus trees twist and writhe and then launch a thousand oranges at high velocity, in revenge for disgracing their very color. I should probably go lie down.

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    gogol's wife

    December 5, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    This seems to be a tribute to Anna Pavlova, no?

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 5, 2016 at 12:57 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    Here’s film of Pavlova.

  14. 14.

    Lalophobia

    December 5, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    Has anybody done any kind of hip hop ballet yet? Because I would watch that. I think more than a few people would. Could do for ballet what Hamilton’s doing for musical theater.

  15. 15.

    Tom Levenson

    December 5, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: and here’s a picture.

    #UnclearOnTheConcept

  16. 16.

    Tom Levenson

    December 5, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    @Lalophobia: Lil Buck talks about being at the intersection of hip hop and ballet in this video.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 5, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    @Tom Levenson:

    That looks delicious! The Pavlova (dessert) was created by a chef in New Zealand in 1926, when Pavlova (ballerina) visited there on a world tour. It’s meringue and berries. What could be tastier?

    We need a Pavlova Truck on every corner!

  18. 18.

    gogol's wife

    December 5, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That cuts off the end — I thought the way he began and ended was a tribute to her ending. But maybe I’m just reading that in.

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 5, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    Unfortunately, yes. I see that a lot on YouTube, especially with old films. Don’t know whether the curtailment is in the original film or in a bad editing job. But AFAIK (old as I am, I never saw her dance!) she merely collapsed gracefully to the floor and didn’t do any of those yoga moves.

  20. 20.

    gogol's wife

    December 5, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    No, I’m sure she didn’t do yoga moves, but he started out in that attitude with the arms that looks like the way she ends, I think.

  21. 21.

    daverave

    December 5, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    My two fake hips are speechless…

  22. 22.

    3Jane Tessier-Ashpool (a/k/a Lorinda Pike)

    December 5, 2016 at 1:39 pm

    @Tom Levenson: I saw that over the weekend, and was completely gobsmacked. Where you and I have knees and elbows, he apparently has three joints per arm and two per leg.

    Watching him is mesmerizing.

  23. 23.

    Bob2

    December 5, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    Reminds me a little of this version
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN5UUkmQYY0&app=desktop

  24. 24.

    Mike E

    December 5, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    Ding, dong, the witch is dead!

  25. 25.

    Cacti

    December 5, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    My weekend was made by catching my first ever Washington salmon.

    Wife outdid me and caught two.

    To give an idea of how strong and feisty they are, a morning of fishing snapped the tips on a pair of borealis rods and required us to go get warranty replacements for the following day. One would-be catch managed to snap off the 30 lbs test line I was running as a leader. Pacific salmon are a freshwater angler’s dream.

  26. 26.

    Miss Dashwood

    December 5, 2016 at 1:57 pm

    Simply magnificent – a master of his craft (both of them)

  27. 27.

    Yutsano

    December 5, 2016 at 2:03 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    The Pavlova (dessert) was created by a chef in New Zealand in 1926, when Pavlova (ballerina) visited there on a world tour.

    If you ever want to start an international incident, mention this origin story to an Australian. Apparently the origin of the dessert (a fave of Nigella Lawson’s in fact) is their biggest tension.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 5, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Yes, I am aware that there are competing claims. I honestly don’t much care; it’s wonderful to eat, and it matters not a whit to me which antipodean nation thought it up.

  29. 29.

    burnspbesq

    December 5, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    Will be proudly wearing my Cooper for Governor t-shirt at the Duke-UNLV game on Saturday.

  30. 30.

    MomSense

    December 5, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Did you ever see Altynai Asylmuratova perform Swan Lake? She was one of my all time favorites. She danced with Kirov/Ballet Mariinsky.

  31. 31.

    trollhattan

    December 5, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    @Cacti:
    Nice! Assume Chinook if tackle-breaking was on the agenda. Pound-for-pound I find silvers/Coho to be as feisty as any, but they lack the Chinook ginormity.

  32. 32.

    Emma

    December 5, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    It is like watching another level of physical being. Though I will say, the mental control it must take to time each move to Saint Saens must be just insane. I have a bad relationship to that piece of music — I keep wanting to scream “get somewhere!” and damned if he doesn’t.

  33. 33.

    Mike Hamilton

    December 5, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    This was wonderful! The only thing that irritated me was the editing. Why couldn’t they have simply played the shot from the audience view and let us see the whole performance as the artists intended it to be seen?

  34. 34.

    northquirk

    December 5, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    Thank you for sharing this Tom! It’s stunning and a much needed respite from the circus peanut.

  35. 35.

    jenn

    December 6, 2016 at 1:40 am

    Wow. Thank you for sharing this!

  36. 36.

    Gretchen

    December 6, 2016 at 2:01 am

    Very cool.

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