There was a lot of discussion today about art and what makes something art that was very interesting. I asked if it would make a difference if the skateboarding was part of a performance. I found something like that on youtube in this video:
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It alternates between bboys and a handbalancer, but it is a creative use of the skateboard. I found another video of the same group doing similar things, so it appears to be choreographed. Just something to think about.
For the parkour article, on thing that stood out to me was that Atkinson did his research in 2005, just as youtube was starting up. Since then youtube has become a pretty big part of that culture. Parkour "samplers" are all over. From watching them I feel like there is a difference between the attitudes of the traceurs then and now.
Atkinson reports that a lot of the people he interviewed seemed to talk about how it was a personal thing, and the main thing that separated it from other sports was the de-emphasis on being better than others, but many of these sampler videos tend to be very show-offy and glamorize the person doing it, with their name often being very prominent in the video or description. Any thoughts on this? And in a more general sense, does mass-communication like this seem to affect other subcultures in similar ways?
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