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Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
About this video
The official video for Boards of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy, built from reassembled documentary footage. It forms a dreamlike journey from space to the sea and shore, including Kittinger's 1960 high-altitude jump and surfing footage.
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HN mentions it as a favorite ambient track and as a nicely edited tribute to Kittinger's jump.
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From the Hacker News discussion
While we're waiting for the weather to clear, you can watch nicely edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 record of 100,000 feet; it's at the start of the Boards of Canada video for Dayvan Cowboy: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Aphex Twin: Avril 14th [LINK] Boards of Canada: Dayvan Cowboy [VIDEO] Solar Fields: Reborn [LINK] Brian Eno: Music for Airports [LINK] And so forth, I have something of an incomplete playlist of similar 'ambient' [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Your comment reminds me of Boards of Canada's "Dayvan Cowboy" video, which blends Joe Kittinger's space jump with Laird Hamilton's surfing: [VIDEO]
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