In issue 15.11 of Wired Magazine there was an article that caught my eye, on page, 132 its an article entitled, the art of parkour, I wanted to find the article online so I could share it but no luck. So I will transcribe it for you, enjoy, forgive the typos, I'll be typing fast and looking at the article not the screen.
The Art of Parkour The OpenEnded Group usually works with the rarified high-art crowd, creating video backdrops for choreographers like Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones. THe Digital Art trio came across the BBC ad where parkour prodigy David Belle freestyles his way, a la Casino Royale, through London.
"The movement was beautiful and extra-human, almost animal-like" says Shelley Eshkar, one of the group's members. So along with partners Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser, Eshkar invited start Traceurs Exo and Blue to preform in a short impressionistic film that premieres November 10 at Jerwood Space in London. (Watch some clips at wired.com/extras).
To create the piece, called A-->B the OpenEnded guys set up a jungle-gym studio enviorment, wrapped the traceurs in motion-capture sensor suits and set them loose to kong-roll, gap-jump and tic-tac their way around the space. Infrared cameras shot the action.
"We wanted them to roam and flow" Eshkar says. which the traceurs did, once they figured out how to cope with the sensor suit that interfered with their all important hands and sneakers.
Want to make your own vid? OpenEnded will release its 3-D authoring platform called field as open source software later in November. (Traceurs and mo-cap studio not included.)--Todd jatras
I thought I would share this.
I tried to find clips online but they don't have issue 15.11 updated yet, wait a few days and you can find the clips. Its issue 15.10 thats up right now, so just be patient, the images in the mag look absolutely stunning
Not a bad idea in my opinion.
