The process of archiving something is not linear and you are constantly "falling down" and "getting back up". There are even moments in which everything seems futile (almost giving up and failing completely) but you can always put yourself back up.
That's the basic idea, but it's a little too much "meritocratic" for me. So I would personally add that the trampoline is the net made of your social network, friends and family that push you back in your path.
This.
This falling and getting back doesn't work for most who dont have the 'trampoline'. There equivalent would be him falling from the third stair seriously getting hurt. Slowly getting up trying in again from the bottom. Being already damaged failing again and breaking a leg not being able to get up that stairs ever again.
Initial conceptions of goals and paths are often misguided or overly narrow. We may fall from our path and miss our goals, and that may at first feel dismaying. But there’s opportunity in failure, even joy in it if we embrace and use it. Indeed, we might start to seek it out for the joy of discovery and growth. Life becomes more meaningful and musical when we embrace all of its dimensions and stray from our childish narrow views.
Aspiration over adversity - the steps are our progress [growth, accomplishments, efforts] towards a goal or ideal in life - the falls are the set backs, trevails, and obstructions on our path. What makes it poignant is the relationship between the increased distance of every fall as the climber ascends, and typified by the unremitting and increasing effort required to ascend to the top, and then the apparent difficulty of just remaining on top. The abruptness of each fall is juxtaposed with a certain grace as the climber is righted on his course, even if a few steps behind where he had fallen. Their is an implicit meta element in the performance, which assumes the audience tacitly understands that the fall is what imparts the potential energy to spring back, which allows for the grand denouement at the end, whereby the climber falls from the top and _fails_ to refoot himself, losing more and more of the momentum needed to get back on the stairway, suggesting that his journey has ended, only to resupply the energy needed, through a series of great efforts, to once again rise to the top, suggesting that _persistence_ is ultimately the vital element in success.
🤣. Lol. Funny to actually think we could replace all of our Latin, French, and German loan words and rhetorical phrases with backwater hillbilly and it would be no less cogent and just as obscure. Lol. Next time I find myself reaching for some erudite foreign maxim, I'm going for some Creole expression about nonsense instead. 🤣
Magnificent ! This is the most beautiful clip I've seen since I've been on Reddit. 😮
Ellie, do you have a source, a name of this artist, a place ? Thank you so much ! 😉
To u/alphabatic and u/worsenperson, thank you again.
Here's another clip, [showreel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df7n-k2Cq34), with other artists. It's beautiful and dreamlike... A breath of oxygen.
But also, I want to show this to a friend's granddaughter : she has balance problems, following a blow to the ear two years ago, and it's disturbing her. Maybe this will give her hope again. :)
I found this on YouTube
[Yoann Bourgeois capitvates audience ](https://youtu.be/x_DA3dgRSrw?si=qMAa1ppxexjDOLF_)
The same artist has done other versions on the same theme
[Clair de lune](https://youtu.be/SFRiHQ-Lwzk?si=NfYlbGmUd08ULzSi)
[Yoann Burgeois Fugue trampoline](https://youtu.be/Ez5Dw6joc6s?si=NkMz0x2Tb9mlIn5W)
And there is more of him if you search
Edit: This is the artist own YouTube page
[Yoann Bourgeois ](https://youtube.com/@yoannbourgeoisartcompany?si=B1hGsGZqJbl2MtF9)
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People thinking this performance piece is about the difficulty of the performance are missing the whole damn point. This isn’t interesting for the difficulty of execution.
I think this same guy did a show with a woman where they danced on this big spinning disc that like pushed and pulled them away from each other. It was quite good I thought.
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Damn youre kinda restarted...
"Oh wow this painting is just paint on a canvas i can also put paint on a canvas."
"Oh wow this book is just words in a particular order. I can also put words in some order"
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Some of his gravitational potential energy (mgh) is converted to sound and heat upon impact with the trampoline which converts his Kinetic energy (1/2mv^2) to elastic potential energy (1/2 × k × x^2 before then being converted back to Kinetic energy as he lands a step lower than he started.
🤔 🤔 🤔... 😬
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That guy is so lucky that trampoline was there.
Less than 0.0003% of the planet surface is covered by trampolines. This was a staggering coincidence.
Hehehe
Especially as he kept falling, again and again
Otherwise he would have been badly hurt
Sixty people clapped for a man playing on a trampoline. I approve.
Sixty people clapped for a poignant metaphor.
What's the metaphor?
trampolines can save lives from unsafe banisterless stairs
Bravo for that
The process of archiving something is not linear and you are constantly "falling down" and "getting back up". There are even moments in which everything seems futile (almost giving up and failing completely) but you can always put yourself back up. That's the basic idea, but it's a little too much "meritocratic" for me. So I would personally add that the trampoline is the net made of your social network, friends and family that push you back in your path.
My wife got offended when I referred to her as "the old trampoline" I'm going to show her this.
Maybe call her the “hot new trampoline” and see if she responds better.
An old battle axe would have been better I think
Yeah the trampoline is a little silly as it isn't reflecting what it represents more than a bouncy net but yes I get it now thanks.
Mondays, ammirite?
This. This falling and getting back doesn't work for most who dont have the 'trampoline'. There equivalent would be him falling from the third stair seriously getting hurt. Slowly getting up trying in again from the bottom. Being already damaged failing again and breaking a leg not being able to get up that stairs ever again.
Be careful when you look at the moon; you may fall from the stairs and bounce back to illusions and dreams.
Addiction
Initial conceptions of goals and paths are often misguided or overly narrow. We may fall from our path and miss our goals, and that may at first feel dismaying. But there’s opportunity in failure, even joy in it if we embrace and use it. Indeed, we might start to seek it out for the joy of discovery and growth. Life becomes more meaningful and musical when we embrace all of its dimensions and stray from our childish narrow views.
Beautifully said
No matter how you shake and dance the last drops end up in your pants.
Life will knock you down tons of times but you gotta bounce back up again and not ever let it keep you down.
Progress
ask zuckerberg
u/godmodeschaos_enabled what's the metaphor?
Aspiration over adversity - the steps are our progress [growth, accomplishments, efforts] towards a goal or ideal in life - the falls are the set backs, trevails, and obstructions on our path. What makes it poignant is the relationship between the increased distance of every fall as the climber ascends, and typified by the unremitting and increasing effort required to ascend to the top, and then the apparent difficulty of just remaining on top. The abruptness of each fall is juxtaposed with a certain grace as the climber is righted on his course, even if a few steps behind where he had fallen. Their is an implicit meta element in the performance, which assumes the audience tacitly understands that the fall is what imparts the potential energy to spring back, which allows for the grand denouement at the end, whereby the climber falls from the top and _fails_ to refoot himself, losing more and more of the momentum needed to get back on the stairway, suggesting that his journey has ended, only to resupply the energy needed, through a series of great efforts, to once again rise to the top, suggesting that _persistence_ is ultimately the vital element in success.
Denoument. What precedes an explanation of what an owl is attempting to communicate. \[Provided it's spoken phonetically by an Appalachian\]
French: Day new mah
You hear that, mah?! it's a new day!
🤣. Lol. Funny to actually think we could replace all of our Latin, French, and German loan words and rhetorical phrases with backwater hillbilly and it would be no less cogent and just as obscure. Lol. Next time I find myself reaching for some erudite foreign maxim, I'm going for some Creole expression about nonsense instead. 🤣
Even if you ignore if this is good or not, it's certainly a huge step up from the falling buckets of sand, or some other arts installations
I would clap for that guys style alone.
Sixty people used to clap here
Now it's a trampoline town.
he's really old
I'm bald and I couldn't do this
Dude really needs to set up a guardrail.
Nah it's time for him to get one of those chair escalators
Walking upstairs but with extra steps.
Falling with style
Or playing with a trampoline with extra steps.
Unironically pretty cool
Psh my grandma does it all the time
I do that all the time when I dream
It isn't cool bouncing off of your backfat, my aunt bunny does it and breaks the stairs
When you are drunk as hell sneaking back to your room
Thats the sleepiest dude I've ever seen
True but gotta say, this might be Tim Cook’s best performance at any Apple launch event I’ve ever seen.
Life story. I have seen leaderships that keeps failing but still on the top. Cos they spin stories of other's achievement as their own
Ohhhhhh it’s because they spin stories of others achievement as their own! Now I understand
You should know, I told him to say that.
Rabbit hole goes deeper 🤯⚠️🐑
Until U see a mole rat... Mole! Mole!
Mole hole!
Mole hole… hole mole… holy moly?????? WAAAAAHAADVDDBRKKRKF🤯🤯🤯😵😵🪦🪦🪦🪦
Symbolic representation of how life be sometimes
That's actually quite a fun piece of performance art.
im 62 and this is deep
First time I feel Impression art or what it calls for. Love that, thx u OP for sharing.
Upvote for Marty Short
His role is The Morning Show was so disturbing. I was disgusted and captivated at the same time.
I’m binging this show right now and this is immediately what I thought of! Putnut for life
Why does he keep falling even after getting back up? Is he stupid
Maybe it's an metaphor
Maybe you're a metaphor
*an
Never before has 3 characters infuriated me so much lol
Guess you haven’t seen Sex and the City
Stupid people be like: maybe maybe maybe
Part dance, part poem, both elegant and inspiring. Bravo!
So that’s what Larry David’s up to now
Literally had the same thought!!! IDK what it was about the first couple of steps, but they were very 'Larry'.
This is harder to do than it looks, especially to make it look so smooth.
I just can't stop stairing.
This is stupid # and cool at the same time.
Art!
Now do it from the other side.
I love Sigur Ros music
Olsen Olsen fits so well
Deep
It's like Ross showing off his synth keyboard skills to his friends
And then after doing all of that, we still die
So get a few joyful bounces in
Would have been deeper if he never made it back up
Magnificent ! This is the most beautiful clip I've seen since I've been on Reddit. 😮 Ellie, do you have a source, a name of this artist, a place ? Thank you so much ! 😉
To u/alphabatic and u/worsenperson, thank you again. Here's another clip, [showreel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df7n-k2Cq34), with other artists. It's beautiful and dreamlike... A breath of oxygen. But also, I want to show this to a friend's granddaughter : she has balance problems, following a blow to the ear two years ago, and it's disturbing her. Maybe this will give her hope again. :)
Beautiful
yoann bourgeois
I found this on YouTube [Yoann Bourgeois capitvates audience ](https://youtu.be/x_DA3dgRSrw?si=qMAa1ppxexjDOLF_) The same artist has done other versions on the same theme [Clair de lune](https://youtu.be/SFRiHQ-Lwzk?si=NfYlbGmUd08ULzSi) [Yoann Burgeois Fugue trampoline](https://youtu.be/Ez5Dw6joc6s?si=NkMz0x2Tb9mlIn5W) And there is more of him if you search Edit: This is the artist own YouTube page [Yoann Bourgeois ](https://youtube.com/@yoannbourgeoisartcompany?si=B1hGsGZqJbl2MtF9)
Thanks, u/worsenperson. :)
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Ugh, that's what happens when your apprentice accidentally casts 'time-bulb'
People thinking this performance piece is about the difficulty of the performance are missing the whole damn point. This isn’t interesting for the difficulty of execution.
I think this same guy did a show with a woman where they danced on this big spinning disc that like pushed and pulled them away from each other. It was quite good I thought.
nice
That last bit seemed to break physics.
That's life
Mercerism in practice.
This is oddly satisfying.
All you talking about the metaphor and meaning behind this, and I’m just in awe at how accurate and fluid he looked
Two steps forward, one step back. Life gets hard but you can’t give up fighting.
what song is that playing?
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Is this what gojo felt like being the honored one?
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I think this is supposed to be a metaphor for something, but I got distracted by this man's absolute gracefulness
I actually enjoyed this,lol.
My five year old after I've told him not to play on the stairs.
A live performance watching crypto prices
definition of success, many failures on the way
I was mesmerized 😂🤣
It’s not how many times you fall..
When I think of "performance art", it's this. Such a great piece
This was the most annoying performance I have ever seen.
I usually think art things like this are pretty lame but this one hits different, I dig it.
For some reason I was expecting him to say "And Jesus can save you too!" At the end I have no idea why I thought this was a church thing...
Good for him doing that at his age
“BURN AT THE STAKE!”  Lol
Me trying to walk up the stairs in a dream.
He should do this professionally, he’s really good!
What's so special about this?
HE CAME BACK TO THE TOP! LET'S GOOOOOOO!
This is a very inefficient way to climb stairs.
My guy after drinking 10 gallons of wine:
👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
People have lost their damn minds
Is that Larry David
POV: You are narcoleptic so you have someone install a trampoline on your stairs. Haven't we all been there?
I can’t decide if I like this or if I hate this.
Me, trying to complete the 12 steps of AA
So did Pink steal his idea?
I thought he was on his way to give a sermon
Soooooooooo art?
I did not consent to having my life's story turned into performance art. Who is this and how do I reach out for compensation?
Art, where no real difference is made anymore.
How it feels walking upstairs after 12 beers
This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing. Anyone know what this song is?
I can't believe I just watch that. I want that time back.
My dad doing his 12 step plan
One step forward, two steps back.
Not this again....zzzz
Who knew Larry David was so graceful and athletic?
Fucken reversed!
Wtf is this crap
The grade of your Art subject is "F".
"art" do some fairly basic trampoline routine with a staircase and everyone loses their mind. Seen this so many times, it's never not stupid
Damn youre kinda restarted... "Oh wow this painting is just paint on a canvas i can also put paint on a canvas." "Oh wow this book is just words in a particular order. I can also put words in some order"
Nobody Asked For a Science Lesson Some of his gravitational potential energy (mgh) is converted to sound and heat upon impact with the trampoline which converts his Kinetic energy (1/2mv^2) to elastic potential energy (1/2 × k × x^2 before then being converted back to Kinetic energy as he lands a step lower than he started. 🤔 🤔 🤔... 😬 #BETTER DOWNVOTE JUST TO BE SAFE!
How does he regain height though? By pushing himself down against the wall?
This is an analogy for how to live life. No matter how you fall, you must bounce back. More importantly, you should enjoy the journey!
love seeing this type of art.
Failure is only a part of success.
Sth sth conservation of energy sth sth
This looks pretty easy
I've seen enough of this clip honestly
What a dork
It looks cool and goofy at the same time
Pfft. I could have made it up those stairs easy peasy.
me trying to walk up stairs when im blackout drunk
Everything from the music to the message just makes me happy.
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I’d simply walk up the stairs 
I’m confused. Does doing this get you money?
That's such a gay way to climb the stairs.
Scene from the joker
Bounce with me, bounce with me.
The Sims build mode ass music *Clap clap*
bro bounced
Thought that was Larry David at first!
How much do they pay to see this?😅
C'est surprenant.
holy shit the end moves!!!! bro is way too good
me on my garden trampoline after telling my mum “watch this”
Fake, it’s in reverse
Me quietly going to bed after a night out
This genuinely inspired me so much
Okay, now hes doing it on purpose
This looks so much fun
This is like watching my cat deciding if he wants to go outside or not.
Is this one of those new weird ass art things
Me everytime I try to do something with my life:
This guy just turned on noclip mode.
 i get it now
Like a dream
What the fawk am I watching 😂😂
Not to be nervous nelly, but the back side is a death drop.
I’d like to see it played backwards