For my final performance art video I went with my friends to AirHeads, an indoor trampoline park in Tampa. We wanted to do some extreme stunts off the roof of our house into the pool, but we thought it would be smarter not to put that on the Internet. Because I was already researching AirHeads for my capstone Management 431 class, it seemed like a practical yet safe way to kill two birds with one stone. My roommates Owen, Sean, and I took a ride out to the facility and did some cool jumps and played some intense dodgeball and used Owen's GoPro to film the footage. We got kicked out in about less than an hour because apparently flipping is against the rules, but beforehand we managed to get some cool shots of our tricks and jumps.
Here's the link to my video on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9y2tCELQTA
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Anarchy with a potato gun
At first I was quite unclear about what exactly performance art is and how it's portrayed. After watching a couple videos in class I was struck by once such performance, where a woman named Marina Abramović allowed an audience to come up and use various different objects she laid out on a table any way they wanted to on her. One such object was a gun, which she knew was loaded. She claimed she was ready to die if it came down to it, but thankfully nobody pulled the trigger.
While not as brave or daring as miss Abramović, this did give me an idea. Would one of my friends pull the trigger on me if I asked? Of course I don't own a loaded handgun, but instead a homemade potato launcher my roommate constructed using only a couple PVC pipes, a grill lighter, and cement glue. When put together and infused with generic hairspray, the lighter ignites the flammable spray and shoots an object out of the pipe, with the capability of reaching a hundred yards.
With this at our disposal, I thought why not shoot things at me and see how far we could go?My one roommate refused to shoot me, but my second one was more than willing. We started out simple with just balled up toilet paper, nothing too sturdy but still enough to pack a punch, and believe me it did. Then we moved on to grapes wrapped in napkins to keep them together. This sprayed them everywhere and hit me both on the head (protected with a lacrosse helmet) and on my thigh. These were pretty hard but still weren't too dangerous (i think). Finally, we attempted to launch a portion of a bagel. Thankfully, my roommate was not too accurate and the bagel wizzed past my leg at no less than 30 miles an hour, but even the brush on my leg was enough to let me know this was as far as i wanted to go before we shot something really hard and actually made contact with my bones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flgUJNapDlQ
While not as brave or daring as miss Abramović, this did give me an idea. Would one of my friends pull the trigger on me if I asked? Of course I don't own a loaded handgun, but instead a homemade potato launcher my roommate constructed using only a couple PVC pipes, a grill lighter, and cement glue. When put together and infused with generic hairspray, the lighter ignites the flammable spray and shoots an object out of the pipe, with the capability of reaching a hundred yards.
With this at our disposal, I thought why not shoot things at me and see how far we could go?My one roommate refused to shoot me, but my second one was more than willing. We started out simple with just balled up toilet paper, nothing too sturdy but still enough to pack a punch, and believe me it did. Then we moved on to grapes wrapped in napkins to keep them together. This sprayed them everywhere and hit me both on the head (protected with a lacrosse helmet) and on my thigh. These were pretty hard but still weren't too dangerous (i think). Finally, we attempted to launch a portion of a bagel. Thankfully, my roommate was not too accurate and the bagel wizzed past my leg at no less than 30 miles an hour, but even the brush on my leg was enough to let me know this was as far as i wanted to go before we shot something really hard and actually made contact with my bones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flgUJNapDlQ
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