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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: H0llyw00d Flatlands
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:06:24 -0400
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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.
> > > >
> > > > 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:
> > > >
> > > > "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.
> >
> > 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?
>
> :O) There was method in our madness. The cartons had to be in the bay to
> be destroyed, where the wool was coming into the mill by crane and was
> hardly ever on the ground level for long.
I see. I so liked the idea of climbing mountains of wool...
> The cartons were used for expensive materials but wool, nylons etc came
> in huge bales, like plastic woven sacks, and their lids were held on
> with four wooden pegs, rather like leadless hardwood pencils... you can
> imagine the fun of getting one of them in some organ or other :O)
They probably made good drumsticks, though...
> We were a salvage company. Us drones were paid a pittance and worked in
> dirt while the boss drove round in a Lamborghini!
That sort of thing can be very irritating. It could be the makings of a
good story though.
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