The Busking Project got a chance to stay with Diego Jeorge and Daniel Ercila and live in their studio space in Montevideo. They use a “German wheel” (check out the video below), performing at traffic lights.
We loved it, because up until then we had seen several hundred contortionists, escapologists, tightrope walkers, fire breathers and so on around the world. And generally at traffic lights we’d seen clubs, balls and unicycles. But here, these two acrobats in Montevideo, Uruguay, were doing something different, taking a huge, lumbering metal German wheel to the streets to entertain people in a way that few others were worldwide.
A second difference were that we were living with Diego and Daniel, which allowed us access to their lives in a more intimate way. They were playful, trusting, and allowed us to take shots we wouldn’t have been able to elsewhere (like, fake brushing their teeth for us).
In case you were wondering, the shot where we taped the DSLR to the rig was both foolish and dangerous, but Chris was an eagle scout and can do basically whatever he wants with tape. My hero.
It was a lot of fun.