Boston-based b-boy and photographer Johnny Tang photographs b-boys by day and mutates them into monsters by night. Inspired by the work of Spunky Zoe, the results are beautifully boggling.
Check out his blog for more treats.
LINK: Johnny Tang Photo Blog
Nothing like a good parody to kick off the new year.
Anyone who’s filmed or photographed an event knows that it’s easy to lose a lot in the distance between the dancing and the camera.
While Style Wars is already considered a documentary classic in the hip-hop community, there’s still plenty of footage from the project that has yet to see the light of day.
There’s nothing wrong with filming battles and splicing together some exciting clips over some hard beats to make a highlight reel. On the opposite side of the event coverage spectrum, however, Navator takes jam footage and makes it an artform all its own.
We’ve all felt the urge to get loose and dance at inappropriate times. With his series Dancers Among Us, New York photographer Jordan Matter shows what the world might look like if the energy of dancers invaded the mundane drudge of everyday life.
Let’s just ignore the fact that there are a million possible Rihanna jokes that could result from this — according to The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Brown, Josh Holloway (“Lost”), Laz Alonso, Caity Lotz, and Josh Peck (“The Wackness”) will star in the feature film version of “Planet B-Boy.”
Most people will probably either love or hate this spot by Tony Kelly, but all I know is I can’t stop watching it.
Jalen and Lil Demon have been killing it for a while — and slow motion and bow ties and Debussy? C’mon!
Not everyone’s a Strife.tv, so it’s always an interesting to see how non-b-boy media outlets fare with b-boy interviews. Luckily for you, Detooz Films does an impressively slick job with the infamous b-boy Thesis (click here to read our previous Thesis feature).
Now that the hype on this has died down a bit, it’s worth showcasing this bit of b-boy comedy gold to those of you who might have missed it the first time around.
I mean, what else are those slick floors really good for?
(Insert your favorite fire-related pun here.)
Well, he is a legend.
But the real surprise here is how how obscure BlackBerry has gotten in its campaign.
“Among B-Boys” has been on my radar since I first saw its short film version a few years back when I lived in Oklahoma. My interest in the topic itself was complemented by the fact that at jams, I’d often run into the Tulsa-based Hmong crew Soul Rivals, of which one member was featured prominently in the film.
Several years later, I’m now in Minnesota, another hub for the Hmong community, and the film has blossomed into a full-length documentary. In that time, the pun-tastically named project has inspired not only a synonymous jam but also collaborative Hmong crew with members across the country.
