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Subject: Re: H0llyw00d Flatlands
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:06:45 GMT
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> > > I take it then that skydiving is out?
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> > Heh, we were just discussing this the other day. I worked in a mill as a
> > teenager and we used to pile cardboard boxes in one of the delivery bays
> > and dives from the top floor (about five stories up!) onto the boxes. I
> > guess the fear made it an extra buzz for me, or my stupidity was greater
> > than my fear, cos it still scared the heck out of me even as I did it.
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> Was it really 50 feet? That does sound like fun. I'd try it if I
> thought I had a good chance of avoiding injury, but I'd want to see you
> do it first.
>
> Once in a student film I had someone jump off a bridge to a dry river
> bed about 6 - 8 feet below. I did pad the ground a bit and I was sure
> to do it first to show how to hit the mark and avoid injury.
> Unfortunately the girl was slightly injured anyway. I never could
> decide whether ot not to feel guilty.
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> It was a nice shot... she jumps off the bridge, out of frame, then rises
> into frame, sopping wet, out of a bathtub... but sadly the (completed)
> film was destroyed by accident over the summer break. That film
> contained my favorite quote from Breton:
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> "We must surmount the depressing notion of the irreparable divorce of action
> and dream."
:O) I probably exaggerated a little about the height, I'm lousy at that
sort of stuff, but the building was a few stories and wool mills have
very high ceilings. Cartons were industrial strength and we'd stack them
about five deep, each carton being maybe four feet across, that was
quite a block. One kid did fall through a couple of layers after a few
jumps but the last two were sufficient to stop his fall. We were
supposed to crush the cartons after use, so this was our way of doing
it... much more fun than folding neatly.
--
Paul. (This machine will, will not communicate)
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