People, stop sending toys and beer to the edge of space in an air balloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpuxe0KryI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCAnLxRvNNc&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_00eZtsuJ9M&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fai9HBpTCC4&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMN-zg7r3M

IT'S ALL WE HAVE LEFT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdoGDf7Dw8s

Wonder how much that helium costs each flight (the current helium shortage has sent prices up 5 fold)

"Helium shortage oh NOOOOOooooooo" *voice drops two octaves*

Those are beautiful. I'm surprised there aren't a bunch of commercials doing this yet. Or maybe there are. If not there will be soon.

There's one or two up there in the first set of links, and I have an acquaintance who's been employed to work on another one here in Australia. You know what would de-twee this concept? Get a Lemmy Doll, shoot that up to space in an air balloon, and make the soundtrack the Motorhead track 'Capricorn'.

Or even 'Silver Machine'.

Hi moley!

Haha this topic is of particular amusement to me as our old tech director @ work wanted to do this with a camera about 2 years back, thnking he was being quite the pioneer (even then he wasnt). No one else shared his enthusiasm tbqh.

And anyway theyre all blown out the water by the grandaddy of doin' this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XsGg_4WB8
(the spacedude, not the band obv)

You know what would de-twee this concept?

twee? wtf, it's space. If you're too jaded to recognize the beauty of the light up there I feel bad for you.

Hi Trayce! Yeah, space dude jumper is the original badass.

wk, I didn't mean to apply that space was twee. That would be very jaded. You could probably not get more jaded than that. Maybe if you thought sunsets were risible, that might be almost as jaded as finding space twee.

I do think, though, that the jolly-folky-indie-music-plus-sending-little-toy-up-into-space-with-faux-naïf-cursive-script-commentary-plus-pretending-it-was-your-own-original-idea schtick is a bit twee. Especially when so much helium is being wasted. With the helium wasted on these projects you could make several thousand underprivileged children talk in silly voices for a year.

Well unfortunately I can't see much of space in these videos because of the toys/beer front and centre.
http://zensekai.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bruce-lee-student-finger-mo.jpg?w=510
"It's like a finger pointing at can of beer in front of the moon. Do not concentrate on the beer or you will miss all of this heavenly glory!"

True.

Though I think the first clip, the SGV clip, has particularly nice, clear film work, with the blackness and the curvature of the earth clearly visible. And they seem to have got that monkey very, very high.

Adobe should include a royalty free balloon clip with CS6, so that indie bands and advertisers can just green screen in whatever junk they want and not actually have to send anything into space.

And they seem to have got that monkey very, very high.

― moley, Friday, September 28, 2012 3:12 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great quote out of context

I kind of now want to send a dried poo tied with string up and film it flying about in space so everyone can go "cool man, space poo", while the Flaming Lips entertain us all with their musical musing.

apparently this was real. i thought it was cgi. still not sure i believe it.

http://a2.img.mobypicture.com/d2a02301f73d74e64e7cf4ca71618cdf_view.jpg

I kind of now want to send a dried poo tied with string up and film it flying about in space so everyone can go "cool man, space poo", while the Flaming Lips entertain us all with their musical musing.

No way man, you need Spiritualized playing their album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floaters In Space

And they seem to have got that monkey very, very high.

I sense an idea for the next Ian Brown video...

title is making me think of "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys"

I want to send ILX into space.

I kind of now want to send a dried poo tied with string up and film it flying about in space so everyone can go "cool man, space poo", while the Flaming Lips entertain us all with their musical musing.

― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Friday, 28 September 2012 09:41 (4 hours ago) Permalink

I can kind of visualize dried poo rocketing into space in sped-up/low-frame footage over the Smashing Pumpkins' 1979.

The 'miracle' of toys at the edge of the atmosphere continues...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPG-FYM_-ZU

...and now pastries...

http://www.3news.co.nz/Boldly-going-where-no-pastry-has-gone-before/tabid/1160/articleID/334919/Default.aspx

But the message remains clear. No matter what you send into space, it's heartwarmingly, safely miraculous.

The First Beer In Space seems like a nice marketing grab