Brian Feldman is celebrating the leap year by leaping from the top of 12-foot-high ladder at Orlando City Hall for the entire duration of Leap Day - 366 times
Shhh. Don't bother Brian Feldman. You'll recognize him easily enough — he's atop the ladder in City Commons Plaza outside City Hall. Today, this performance artist makes 2008's most boring holiday, Leap Year Day, memorable by repeatedly leaping off a 12-foot ladder for the day's duration.
Feldman will be saving his breath for this experiment, inspired as much by Roy Shifrin's sculpture The Leaper as his own fear of heights. You're on your own with deeper questions you may have for him, but we are happy to ask him the stupid ones:
Hey, aren't you that guy from "The Feldman
Dynamic"?
Yeah, that's me.
What are you doing up
there?
Trying to make Orlando more exciting.
Are you going
to be OK? Should I be calling the cops?
No, we've got all the proper
permits.
So you're jumping off that thing all day?
Leaping.
Leaping off. 366 times, yes. I have a little
notebook.
Sounds dangerous. Have you got medical supervision or
anything?
Should have thought of that. I knew I forgot
something.
Are you wearing, like, special sneakers?
We
don't have any sponsorship for that.
Did you practice for
this?
Uh ... well, no. I've done a little training. I've been
running, biking, climbing stairs, climbing ladders, jump rope. Cardiovascular.
Staying up late. ...
Not exactly a "Rocky" montage.
Maybe
if Rocky hadn't run up the steps of the art museum and had instead been calling
people trying to convince them of the validity of the idea. That would be your
movie right there. I am from Philly. I don't take human growth hormone,
though.
