Thursday, February 2, 2012
Sports & Rec Fascination with flight soars to new levels
Posted by Tristan Schmid @tigersharkmusic on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:30 PM
As the Super Bowl zipline in downtown Indy has shown locally, some people can't get enough of unnaturally soaring through the air.
But the following videos show the human obsession with flight taken to interesting new - ahem - heights.
In a ridiculous campaign for the movie Chronicle, marketing agency thinkmodo flew several humanoid remote-control vehicles over New York City. Whatever the movie's about (presumably, flying humanoid vehicles), we hope its special effects are more special than these:
Then we have Julien Roberge, who's trying to bring the sport of "wall trampoline" to the X Games. We have to admit that we've seen more ridiculous ways to push one's body to the limits before.
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