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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2006-04-14 01:01 am
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According to [livejournal.com profile] videos_antville, this is the first official video to a Boards of Canada song. It's not that great of a video but I thought it worth noting coz its first half appears to be footage from Joseph Kittinger's stupidly high-altitude 1960 skydive, which I knew about but hadn't seen before; I didn't know he was holding a camera when he did it. Holy crap he was really up there, huh. (I'm pretty sure that he did not have a surfboard, though.)

Also, I like Boards of Canada.

[identity profile] hauntmeister.livejournal.com 2006-04-14 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoah. Cool.

[identity profile] radtea.livejournal.com 2006-04-16 03:14 am (UTC)(link)

Fabulous. The scene were a guy under canopy drifts into cloud reminds me of a jump I did when when the plane crossed over a cloud at the moment I exited, so I dropped into whiteness and then the world re-appeared as I fell through the cloud-deck.

There's a book called "The History of Silent Flight" that has some good stills of some Russian dude's high-altituded drop, but that video rocks.