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December 15, 2006

So into this right now...

posted by dana at December 15, 2006 11:07 AM

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holy! this one gave me chills, especially the first half. thanks for the link.

posted by: nicole [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 09:27 AM

It is kinda lurchingly spooky for a sec isn't it ? - the part where the camera enters the cloud layer. I had read on Pitchfork that this is recycled documentary footage from the 60's: a man took a balloon up to 102,000 feet.

Then JUMPED OUT.

I also like the shot of the empty balloon carriage after he jumps. Lonely and beautiful.

posted by: Dana [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 10:31 AM

definitely lonely, definitely beautiful, beyond words.
and as if that wasn't enough: I've read that afterwards, kittinger said that on his way down, he hallucinated that his parachute hadn't opened, and that he fell through the earth and had begun falling through hell.
I can only imagine he was a changed man when he landed, and forever after.

posted by: nicole [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2006 11:59 AM


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