In the head (short animation movie)
Antoine Bertrand, a young man leaves his girlfriend Anna to enroll in the army. During a conflict, he gets shot by a bullet in the head. Antoine then arrives at the gates of Paradise…
A funny animation movie directed by Grégory DAMOUR, Maxime ENTRINGER, Anthony GILLES and Allan SELLIER, students at the ESMA school in Montpellier, France.
The music is from Clod.
On the official page of the movie, you can also find a small making-of and some HD shots.
BIGZc : Freeskate in Paris
The sharp eye of ReKil has followed Ben, Greg and Zuber, some of the best freeriders around the best skating spots in Paris : Bercy, Louvres, Gare de Lyon, Invalides… Just relax and enjoy.
You can find on ReKil’s website, a high definition version of this movie and some great shots from this 3 days Paris tour.
Yves “Fusion Man” Rossy crossed the channel
On Friday September 26th 2008, Yves Rossy, a swiss pilot and modern adventurer born in 1959, became the first man to fly across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, using a homemade single jet-powered wing.
He reached the UK within 13 minutes, covering a 35 kilometres trip at an average speed of 200 kilometres per hour.
Watch the best of this historical flight, which was broadcasted live on National Geographic, and find out more videos on his official Youtube channel.
Alain Robert : The french Spiderman
Do you suffer from vertigo ? Alain Robert does. But this does not keep him from climbing the world’s tallest structures using only … his bare hands. Known as the french spiderman, he started his carreer as a solo rock climber, before entering a urban climbing carreer. Now 46, and despite 7 accidents, he continues climbing to raise awareness towards global warming and other humanitarian causes.
The video presented here is an extract from his movie : “the legend of the french Spiderman“, that you can watch on vodeo (in french).
Alain Robert also have his official channel on Dailymotion, where you can find more videos about him.
Johann Pachelbel’s Canon played by Funtwo
Since October 2005, and the uploading of this video on Youtube, Jeong-Hyun Lim (aka Funtwo) has become a famous guitarist all over the world. Yesterday, he has been invited at the Youtube Live concert and he went on the scene with Joe Satriani.
You can read the whole story of this video, which is now over 52,000,000 views on Youtube, in this article from the NewYork Times : Web Guitar Wizard revealed at last.
Since I found this rock version of this 18th century composition, arranged by JerryC and played by Funtwo, I keep on listening to it. “this guy iz great!!!”
He goes down the moutain
Even if it was released in 2003, “Il descend de la montagne” (He goes down the moutain) is still a big pleasure to watch. This animation short movie has been directed by Arnaud MATHIEU and Laurent RIBOULET, who were students at the L.I.N. in Angouleme, France.
Stomp out loud
Do you know about Stomp ? It’s an english dance troupe that uses ordinary objects like brooms or trashcans to create a percussive physical theatre show. In this video, they’re doing a percussion performance with basketballs. Amazing.
Find out more about them on Stomp Online.
Microsoft Ipod
This funny video appeared in early 2006 on Youtube, uploaded by someone who said about it : “sorry folks but I lost the original source. can’t find the author – apologies to the author”.
It is even more funny to know that this video was made by … Microsoft packaging team, as confirmed by Tom Pilla to Ipodobserver.com.
Jean-Yves Blondeau is “Rollerman”
Jean-Yves Blondeau first conceived of his plastic 31-wheel inline skating body suit in 1994, while he was a student in Paris. 14 years later, it has received a lot of improvements, and Jean-Yves “Rollerman” Blondeau is now able to reach 110 km/h using his suit on open roads. It’s now a sport named Buggy Rollin.
A huge community of fans is waiting for the sell of the first commercial buggy-rollin’ equipment, which could happen within a few months.
You can find more videos of Rollerman skating down moutains on his official channel on youtube.
Where the hell is Matt ?
Well, what can I say ?
Just that this is one of my all time favorite. I keep smiling while watching Matt dancing around the world.
I had to start my blog with it.