Danny MacAskill is a cyclist, but he has not ever taken part in the Olympics! He is a stunt cyclist and is now sponsored by Red Bull to perform the kind of feats that you see in films but have no idea how anyone has the nerve to attempt.
Danny returned this afternoon for a live performance commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival.
Though his performances are not immediately understood as visual art, MacAskill shares something with the other artists on show on Rose Street as part of the festival – a playful approach to the possibilities of the urban architecture around him which invites us to reconsider the spaces that his performances animate.
The nice people at La Strada Restaurant were kind enough to let us use their upstairs window for some of our shots!
His YouTube videos are massively popular with this one filmed in and around Edinburgh, having attracted over 21million views….
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