Holy crap. This is an awesome video of spoken word artist Giles Li performing his poem First Draft of Yao Ming's Retirement Speech, an eloquent, thought-provoking persona piece on the athlete who shouldered the hope (and hype) of a billion people. Really nicely done. Check it out:
Damn, Giles. You do have a way with words. The video was directed by David Kong, Junshien Lau and Giles Li. To see Yao Ming's actual retirement speech -- it's shorter, and not quite as eloquent -- go here.
