What do you do if you're stuck in a hotel room with a high-speed camera ...?
(via @finnbarrw - who, if you're not following, you should follow; a mine of awesome finds around photography, especially).
The same Phantom technology is used in this film as we (BBH New York, Google Creative Lab, 1st Avenue Machine) used to create the Google Chrome Speed Tests; see below.
And slightly earlier . . .
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From the Vimeo video page:
The Need 4 Speed: The Art of Flight
A collection of shots from flights made during the 2009-2010 season by the talented group of wingsuit basejumpers, while flying the V3, Hybrid LD2/Trango rigs and testing several new V-series wingsuit prototypes around Europe.
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(via @uberblond & @lenkendall)
And here is the inspiration, from Gondry (thanks to Elaine Ra for the tip-off).
Favourite lines: 'here's a link to a bunch of cool digital work from Belgium' & 'Foursquare is a pointless app for dwots'.
Details about the film and the film maker (who ran the race - extra respect) are here.
This is apparently just production footage shot over the summer.
Full details here. Film out in 2011.
(Thanks to @finnbarrw for the tip off)
Everything about this film - the stunning (underwater) photography, melancholy music, & the honest, almost too-raw delivery of the voiceover, make this, for me anyway, a magical piece of art.
"For everything that brought us to that moment on earth, at that moment in time . . . to do something worth remembering, with a photograph, or a scar".
Humbling stuff.
(Once again via @finnbarrw - if you're not following him on Twitter you really should)
View in HD and full-screen for full magical effect.
There's a really excellent interview with Sam O'Hare here about the new film, how it was done and so on; worth the read: http://j.mp/aNE701 (via @finnbarrw)
Director: Sam O'Hare
Original music by Human (humanworldwide.com)
Composer: Matthew O'Malley
Music Producer/CD: Mike Jurasits
EP: Marc Altshuler
3 years, 45,000 photos.
The last 20 seconds plays all 3 years.
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Watch full-screen for full effect. Quite dazzling. Great work.
