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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: H0llyw00d Flatlands
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:32:03 -0400
Organization: Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose
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Paul Heslop wrote:
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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.
> >
> > 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."
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> :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.
Why not jump onto piles of wool?
> 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.
Some film stunts I've seen involved piles of empty boxes, and probably
other padding. It kinda makes me think of bad old TEEVEE shows like
Starsky & Hutch. It's too bad you didn't film yourselves... that
would've looked awfully good on your webpage.
Any other interesting thing ever happen at the woolmill?
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