What is The Skill Crane Kid? As an official part of United Arts' ArtsFest 2011, conceptual artist Brian Feldman produced a project called "The Skill Crane Kid" February 6, 2011. (@SkillCraneKid on Twitter) During Skill Crane Kid #1, Feldman remained inside a skill crane machine for 16 hours, 8am - midnight on February 6, 2011 at Stardust Video & Coffee in Orlando, Florida. Visitors plunked quarters (50 cents per play) into the machine for the chance to win some of the stuffed animals Feldman swam in. The event streamed live and each hour was recorded on video per posterity. It was brought back February 17, 2011 for two hours during Mobile Art Show #18 (Twitter) in downtown Orlando. The photo at left is from that show. Photo credit
About Brian Feldman Projects: Brian Feldman (Facebook, Twitter) is an award-winning conceptual artist. The recipient of the 2011 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, he is best known for leaping off of a ladder 366 times over 24 hours (“Leap Year Day”) and eating dinner on stage with his real life family over 40 times (“The Feldman Dynamic”), in addition to over 100 other projects he has presented through Brian Feldman Projects, one of America’s premiere presenters of experimental time-based art, since August 2003.
