planetdamage.com: hard labour with the lovely paris
Hello. I am Damage, gonzo journalist, catalyst and an explorer of weird and futurologistic. A month ago I knew how to time travel. Now, only a few hours ago, to my best knowledge, I woke up while being abducted by space aliens and remarkably under the drills. It gives me great satisfaction, erection and self-confidence to conclude that ambassadors of superior civilizations warp time and space just to drill me. And I also think this was also the equivalent of a galactic job interview. Because we finished the new issue of The Dose magazine. About Paris. And you will buy this magazine. Because all the money I will hoard up from sales will go into new pancreas and a one-way ticket to Singapore. But more about this after the embed and the jump.
THE DOSE magazine - Issue 3 (Paris) TEASER
The Dose. For those who're late for class, it started as a free PDF mag targeting one city per issue to showcase its weird underdog talents: musicians, artists, designers with a focus on music, more music and great eyecandy. I had friends helping me out but it was mostly a solo project and it was a great thing to do, doing a pilot on Budapest and then two more issues, on Tokyo and London. Then three years passed. And we decided to go back to the original plan we liked, I quit being a full-time IT journalist and after long months of working in our free time, here's the Paris issue. If you were following up on what I did, I promised so many times that this will come that you probably didn't believe me. But it's here now.
Yes. The Paris issue. It has features on French steampunk, cyberpunk, netlabels (amazing stuff ranging from mad orgy freejazz to pumping warehouse techno), parkour, psytrance (a great comparison of chocolate and goa!) and fashion. And a great piece of infographics about French bands we loved. Features on LVA, brain hacking and Chinese underground music. Interviews with Clélia Altaïr, Punish Yourself, Lukas Zpira, Die Puppe, Foretaste, Miss Kittin, Scan X, the guys at Dejobaan Games and RJDJ, Nohno / Kibuka, Blue Stahli, Shiv-R and Black Nail Cabaret. And e-readers. And our recommendations for 2010. And lots of reviews.
So spread the news, enjoy the show, buy our mag, support the artists, don't steal this mag if you don't exactly need to, send us feedback and contact us if you think you could help us rock more. And here are a few music videos from these previous artists you gonna love!
the damage report 005: parkour, avagy a srácok, akik nem torkozták le a tehetetlenséget
A hólyagod annyira elnehezedett tizenkét órányi formagyakorlatozás után, hogy saját neve és IP-címe is van már, te meg csak annyit veszel észre az egészből, hogy jobban be kell hajolni a térdsöprés előtt, na ez a flow, a pozitív pszichológia legnagyobb vívmánya. Hiába motollázik vele a magyar öntudatban a fogalmat elhíresítő Csíkszentmihályi Mihály pszichológus, a legtöbben itthon büszkén letorkoztak ötszáz évnyi tanult tehetetlenséget és nem értik, hogy miért lehet belefeledkezni boldogan abba, amit csinálunk, a párizsi fiatalok inkább izzadtak egy kicsit, eltörtek párszor kart meg lábat, aztán elindították világkörüli útjára a parkourt.
A júniusi Mondóban megjelent damagereport arról, hogy mi a parkour, miért jó meg Japánban mennyire van elterjedve (kb ugyanannyira, mint bárhol máshol) és csendben hallgatunk arról, hogy gyakorolnod tíz évig kell napi nyolc órát ahhoz, hogy tényleg jó legyél benne. De pssszt. Kattintsatok inkább, megint peaket akarok.
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the raven: cyberpunk parkour short in los angeles
Summary: Chris Black possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and they will stop at nothing to destroy him. The chase is on as Chris runs for his life in this sci-fi thriller set in an alternate and futuristic Los Angeles. Directed by Ricardo de Montreuil.
Light traces of both parkour and cyberpunk, title is for clicks only. But click you should. Awesome production, great visuals. theravenfilm.com, sent in by oizys, thx!
the damage report 005 teaser: parkour, avagy a srácok, akik nem torkozták le a tehetetlenséget
A hólyagod annyira elnehezedett tizenkét órányi formagyakorlatozás után, hogy saját neve és IP-címe is van már, te meg csak annyit veszel észre az egészből, hogy jobban be kell hajolni a térdsöprés előtt, na ez a flow, a pozitív pszichológia legnagyobb vívmánya. Hiába motollázik vele a magyar öntudatban a fogalmat elhíresítő Csíkszentmihályi Mihály pszichológus, a legtöbben itthon büszkén letorkoztak ötszáz évnyi tanult tehetetlenséget és nem értik, hogy miért lehet belefeledkezni boldogan abba, amit csinálunk, a párizsi fiatalok inkább izzadtak egy kicsit, eltörtek párszor kart meg lábat, aztán elindították világkörüli útjára a parkourt.
Hamarosan az újságárusoknál a júniusi Mondo magazin, aminek a címéből hiába dől az orális fixáció, igazából a parkourról szól, arról a sportról, amivel három másodperc alatt le tudsz jönni az Árkád tetejéről úgy, hogy közben virágot veszel és öltözködsz is, a jobbak ilyenkor meghódítják a lányok szívét (vagy stílszerűen rögtön az IMAX 3D terembe szaltózták be magukat a légbefúvókon keresztül), a rosszabbaknak meg egy hónap fekvő- és tizenegy hónapnyi járógipsz MEG a sztori, hogy megpróbálták. Július elsejétől olvasható a blogon, de vegyétek meg, mert amúgy egészen serere.
samparkour and the "exploit yourself" runner
Problems offer opportunities. There is nothing more true about the l'art du déplacement, better known as parkour, the art of passing where other people merely see peril. If you've been following up on PD, you will know about the respect I pay for traceurs - and trust me, when you see Yamakasi and Banlieue 13, it is merely the Paris eyecandy - so it's a great joy seeing not one but two short parkour movies coming out during the past week.
Samparkour shows how Zico Corrêa traces the danger edge in São Paulo. Video was shot in HD with a 35mm lens adapter by Wiland Pinsdorf (co-directed by Arthur GW Guttilla, produced by Canvas 24p Films) and if you've ever seen some elaborate traceur moves done elegantly with style (and some decent camerawork as well), that's just it. (via renegade futurist)
Exploit Yourself is more like a NIKE ad, not really a short movie in its entirety of 50 seconds. What's so great about it is that it's been done by Big Lazy Robot VFX without any motion capture work at all, that it's accompanied by The Prodigy's The Big Gun Down which fits quite nicely to the oooomph-ahh tempo and it's all been directed by Carl Erik Rinsch who's actually directing a prequel to Ridley Scott's Alien. Exploit Yourself talks about pushing your limits just for the sake of it. Neatly said. (Thanks heaps to all of you who sent this in in the rush hours!)
damien walter free running showreel 2009
Google him and find nothing. Boing Boing is the first of the majors to report about free runner (and apparently not traceur) Damien Walter - who's someone completely different from fiction writer Damien G Walter. If running up that hill, running up that mountain and doing 540 flips before entering your car without opening its door makes you tick, this will make you rock hard. Enjoy. (via boingboing)
the physics of free running
Popular Science is running a gorgeous article on the physics of free running by Adam Weiner, author of Don't Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies, illustrated by the showreel of the human running Maitréya, Levi Meeuwenberg. Conclusions? You need speed, strength and proper technique (and kamikaze attitude!) and also maths will tell you to take the impact with the ball of the foot. Amazing stuff and to be continued. (via popsci)
the mirror's edge - parkour photo set on flickr
Dunno where I found this - but that's quite a well-executed Mirror's Edge themed set for starters by Savage Land Pictures. The haircut and the face are not 100% and obviously the 3D platformer geometry is just not there - still, a nice treat for a Friday afternoon. (photo set on flickr)
UPDATE 1: There's an another Mirror's Edge photoset on Pixelatedgirl - check the teaser pic below.
mirror's edge: new concept/images from the cyberpunk parkour game
Hardwired shows off some new (concept) images from DICE's cyberpunk parkour game Mirror's Edge. Gamers at the HW forum have a hard time deciding whether Faith (protagonist) is a well-equipped woman or not but honestly, martial arts and physics-heavy sports are sort of more geared towards this kind of build. (Check my previous post on ME here.)
mirror's edge: cyberpunk meets parkour (and apparently, nic endo)
We'd have a secret crush on Faith at the office: she's young, Asian, makes a living by doing parkour runs as a courier in a future where information has to be distributed physically (Gibson's Virtual Light plays the very same card) and has barcode-looking tattoos that give an extra. Instead, this very lady also looks like Bai Ling with her face pressed conveniently flat in a foundry, genetically merged with an alien and ripping off half a mascara off Nic Endo. No pussyjob for Faith.
But seriously. She's just a jpeg off DICE and a fanpage for a game DICE develops entitled Mirror's Edge. (Faith is the protagonist but there's a slim chance that the Asian chick is just a geek hit factor, nothing more.) This is going to be a FPS parkour game in a cyberpunk future with no weapons use at all, the body's gonna have all the focus, which is nice, as parkour is all about perfect body use in an urban environment. At the present On Mirror's Edge has all the info you need. Below, two screenshots and below that, a brief scene from one of the hottest parkour action movies ever, called Banlieu 13. The movie also headlines David Belle who is the founder figure of parkour.
