pop!vlog is proud to present part 1 of a 5 part interview with Parkour Legend Ryan Doyle conducted by Bullettrun.
Ryan is a member of WFPF (World Freerunning and Parkour Federation) and Airborn. In this interview, Ryan discusses his career, attitudes towards Parkour and Freerunning, the future of Parkour as an art form, and its evolving relationship with popular media.
When I was younger in the late ’80s, I recall flipping through the pages of W before it was a magazine.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the post-party write-ups with boldfaced names and being hypnotized by the glamorous photos of High Society in New York, Palm Beach and their wacky royal cousins in Europe and South America.
Magazines like Vanity Fair and Quest usually filled in the gaps in the ’90s until SocialiteRank.com appeared on the scene and made it more fun to see my favorite members of High Society battle it out for column inches and photo captions. (Of course, New York Social Diary is The Bible!)
Since returning to NYC in 2004, I found it hard to avoid rubbing elbows with socialites like Tinsley Mortimer, Fabiola Beracasa, Zani Gugelmann, Bee Shaffer, Olivia Palermo, and Jules Darling Kirby at every Uptown and Downtown party or event. Sometimes we would exchange words, but most of the time I preferred to watch from the sidelines and take copious mental notes for future use (!).
Next week on the CW (March 10th to be exact), I’ll be watching HIGH SOCIETY, a new reality TV show that actually follows Tinsley — “Princess of Park Avenue” — as she navigates her way through NY High Society parties, benefits, fashion excursions and other rarefied things that socialites do, with her collection of misfits nearby, like Paul Johnson Calderon (So Bret Easton Ellis), Malik So Chic (So Leigh Bowery) and her sister Dabney Mercer (So…right…).
So far, one IT Girl has already stolen the show from Tinsley, and she’s Jules, who admitted on camera that she occasionally uses the “N-word”, yells at hotel staff, throws drinks in nightclubs, and doesn’t have many black, Jewish or gay friends. (That makes it 1 out of 3 in my case…so I should count myself as lucky.)
In part two of the exclusive interview, Conor delves deeper into his artistic process and reveals how the natural world in Africa influences both his art and the way he sees the world as The Art World’s Next Renaissance Man.
When he’s not working the runway or gracing high fashion magazines with his strong androgynous look, Conor Mccreedy lives up to his “hip young artist on the brink of international success” label by effortlessly meshing with other beautiful people from the fashion, film, high society and art worlds.
In this exclusive pop!talk art interview, Conor discusses his evolution from high fashion model to fine artist, what inspires him in both the concrete jungle and the wilderness of Africa, and how he creates artwork that include collectors such as Nelson Mandela, the National Arts Club and Hotel on Rivington.
Subscribe to pop!talk today to catch PART II of our exclusive interview with the uber-talented international art superstar!
For decades, thousands of skateboarders, BMX Bikers and Traceurs use the Brooklyn Banks to practice, gather and socialize. Now NYC’s department of transportation is threatening to shut this amazing space down to make way for construction for 4 years.
On January 23, 2009, Steve Rodriguez of 5Boro organized a rally to save the Brooklyn Banks. This video by Nadia Lesy from Bullettrun touches on the Parkour community’s connection with the larger Bank’s community and their relationship to this very important space.
Few spaces remain open to urban youth to express themselves in NYC, which is why a compromise between the D.O.T. and the Bank’s community needs to be reached.
pop!talk is proud to join the rallying cry: SAVE THE BROOKLYN BANKS!
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