With always being on the go, trying to stay on top of your game, meeting deadlines, building new projects/ideas, and balancing some sort of a social life. Its hard to fit time to feed your imagination and get inspired. I remember spending countless hours not only absorbing inspiration and energy from everything around me. But spending countless hours stumbling and sharing inspirational content I would find on the internet. But everything is now replaced by the “convenience” of Instagram. Scrolling aimlessly through set changes, bathroom breaks, and while commuting is the closest I’d get on most days to tickle my imagination. Its frustrating and sometimes you can find yourself feeling mentally stale. Everything looks the same and you’re tired of the lack of content with no context.
Last week I took time out to recharge and somewhat reset myself, by starting to scratch the surface of an old habit of finding great content. On that note here are some get shorts below!
Crazy Legs by Sean Frank
Capturing a mix of skate veterans, first-timers and everyone in between, Frank’s film celebrates a motley crew of characters from the little boy called Prince who could “whip around the rink at lightening speed and would ride through the legs of anyone who got in his way” to opening narrator Movingstar, a NYC skate scene regular. “She used to skate for years with one blade and one quad skate,” says Frank of Movingstar. “She has choreographed music videos and skated behind Michelle Obama and Kathy Sledge, but still returned to Crazy legs every Wednesday night.” More…
Lite Feet by Scotty Carthy
Born in the mid-noughties, “litefeet” is a descendant of breaking, or b-boying, the dance culture that accompanied the early days of hip-hop in the Bronx in the 1970s. But where b-boys tended to keep to the streets, litefeet crews have taken their moves aboard New York’s subway trains – and, subsequently, run into the policing philosophy that has transformed the city over the past 15 to 20 years. “They’re trying to end something that’s beautiful, that’s positive,” laments dancer Goofy, founder of the respected W.A.F.F.L.E litefeet crew. “They’re trying to end an art.”
But the banning of dancers from trains will hardly mark the end of litefeet, nor the music that drives it on, nor the kids who want to take it to the next iteration. Goofy describes how litefeet dancers “saw the pole on the train as an opportunity.” No doubt the W.A.F.F.L.E crew and their fellow innovators already have the next opportunity in their sights. More….
First We Take Manhattan by Casey Brooks
Take two budding dancers, 15 locations around New York and many late nights making instructional cards, and you have Casey Brooks’ improvisational short, Casi (almost). The photographer, director and former hip-hop dancer took to her favorite spots in Queens, as well as seminal landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge, to explore how simple movements transform in different contexts.
As a longtime fan of Peter Lindbergh, Brooks incorporated a mannish suit into the wardrobe. “The girls brought all their own clothes, and I would just take out looks from suitcases in the back of my car,” she says. “It’s really about not thinking, putting things together and seeing the sort of underlying narrative that emerges – even when you didn’t feel one.” More..
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