Category Archives: Sports

kaleidoscope
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Inspired by this TEDx Summit video by  Big Productions Paris, Italian director Luigi Pane of design studio Abstract Groove combines  a vintage kaleidoscopic technique and the Italian Gymnastics team ‘La Farfalle’ to eye-candiful effect. Abstract Groove sez:

We designed and built 4 thaumascopes of different sizes and shapes. The biggest one was 9 metres long with a triangular opening of 2.5 metres and the smallest was 1.5 metres in length with a square opening of 60 centimetres.
In order to understand how to achieve the graphics patterns we wanted, we started by studying small scale models and then we went onto CGI simulations. All the effects have been obtained in camera without the use of added post production.

Here’s how it was done.

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felix

A newly released video of Felix Baumgartner’s historic freefall from space on October 15th 2012: the complete unexpurgated experience this time, with multiple angles, POV and mission data.

If you’re a Rdio member (hey, who isn’t?), you can watch the full length documentary Mission To The Edge Of Space: The Inside Story Behind Red Bull Stratos here.

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tether

The utterly hatstand sport of tether car racing dates back to the 1930s. AMRCA which oversees the three existing US tracks in California, Indianapolis and Long Island explainz:

The classes are 1.5cc (.09 cu in), 2.5cc (.15 cu in), 5cc (.29 cu in), and 10cc (.61 cu in). Running on an alcohol-oil fuel and using tuned exhaust pipes the engines peak out at over 44,000 rpm in the smallest class. The cars run on a special circular track held to the center post by a wire tether. The person running the car stays on the outside of the track and the helper in the center assists the car off the line and stabilizes it until it reaches about 80 mph and then steps onto a small platform on the center pole until the car is shut off at the end of the run.

In the clip above, filmed at Whittier Narrows in California back in 2011, an especially nippy model accelerates to a squealy, supercar-bothering 205mph (330km/h).

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