- StumbleUpon. Skate parks are all well and good in the daytime when skaters can see where they’re going, but what about at night, when the sun goes down and vampires stalk the earth? Korean artist Koo Jeong-A has come up with a solution—not for the restless undead, but she can help with the night-skating with her glow-in-the-dark skate park which has been built in Vassivière Island, France.
Called Otro, this “skateable sculpture” is made from green phosphorescent concrete so it gives off a radioactive glare, which enables skaters to pull some rad tricks without bumping into one another. As well as the practical application of allowing skaters to practice their craft at night on the park’s different bowls, cradle, and tunnels, it’s also supposed to be experienced as an artwork—as a sensorial landscape, integrated into its surroundings, that plays with light and shadows.
[via Hype Beast] @stewart23rd. - StumbleUpon. The magic button & Make Everything OK. Eight Types of Hecklers and the Comedians Who Shut Them Up. In the 2007 documentary Heckler, Joe Rogan says that “the number one thing about hecklers is 100% of them are douchebags.” A stand-up comedian’s act depends on the audience reaction by nature, but when someone attempts to derail the performer’s work, well, that’s something a douchebag would do.
Still, heckling creates exciting moments of discomfort for the audience, and hecklers have instigated some great moments in comedy (Bryson Turner’s comeback) as well as some terrible moments (Michael Richards incident). Whether the outcome is funny, awkward, or awful, the eternal battle between heckler and stand-up is always fun to watch. Here are eight kinds of hecklers, and fifteen different ways of dealing with them. 1. The Instigator Some hecklers just want to start trouble, so they pick on comedians who are notorious for blowing their tops at hecklers. Joe Rogan embraces hecklers like few other comedians, and his confrontation with this strange young woman is another drop in the bucket. 2. Art 1. Optical Design.