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Tag Archives: BASE
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Bassins de Lumières – a 13,000-square metre former German and Italian WW2 submarine base at Bordeaux – soon to be the world’s largest digital art centre.
In April 2020, French art events management company Culturespaces will open the huge facility to the public, hosting immersive exhibitions of classical and contemporary art on the walls and beneath the surface of four water filled basins.
A preview from National Geographic of the upcoming independent short film about extreme athlete Dean Potter and ‘his little family’s vacation in the Alps, ‘When Dogs Fly’.
Already documented in detail on NatGeo’s Adventure blog, the preview features Whisper, the miniature Australian cattle dog Dean takes BASE-jumping with him. Dean sez:
I’ve never had a close call wing-suit flying. I practice a very conservative form of human flight. When I fly with Whisper, we only jump off the safest cliffs in the world with the longest and cleanest rock drops. This allows Whisper to go on amazing, long mountain climbs and hikes with us, instead of being trapped in the car or left at home. It was mostly a matter of practicality of not wanting Whisper to miss out on incredible mountain dog-walks that led us to wing-suit flying together.
Various beverages organised by their alcoholic content, taste and year of creation by Brazilian designer Mayra Artes.
Full sized version here.
Nearly 60 years to the day after Edmund Hilary and Tensing Norgay made it to the top of Mount Everest, Russian extreme squirrel Valery Rozov leaps off the north face for the world’s highest ever BASE jump – gliding from 7,220 meters above sea level.
A short film about wingsuit designer Robert Pecnik and the BASE proximity flying team – Need 4 Speed.
Stick around for spectacular footage of human flying squirrels skimming cliff walls and rocky terrain at speeds of over 100mph.
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What’s it like flying down a mountain (in Norway) at 250 km/h? Espen Fadnes – The World’s Fastest Flying Human Being 2010 – teamed up with Project Managers Goovinn to communicate the experience of flying. ”SENSE OF FLYING” came out of the collaboration.
They claim that (aside from the pounding bass effect presumably) what you’re hearing is the real sound.
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Shot last summer (and lumbered with a title that does no justice to the footage in this promo for a longer doc) by Sebastien Montaz-Rosset, who sez:
I have been filming the Skyliners on an incredible exploration into the world of free flight. Tancrède, Julien, Seb and Antoine are pioneers in ‘highlining’ – a vertiginous combination of climbing, slackline and tightrope walking. We travelled from our home in Chamonix to our training ground in the Verdon gorge, testing the limits for our ultimate goal…We rigged highlines on the skyscrapers of Paris, and finally came to the spectacular cliffs and fjords of Norway.