5.4M views · Aug 18, 2006 · 4:37 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2012–2023
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN mentions it as a favorite ambient track and as a nicely edited tribute to Kittinger's jump.
“you can watch nicely edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 record of 100,000 feet”HN comment, 2012
“you can watch nicely edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 record of 100,000 feet”
Music video opens with edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 jump
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: this video
Listed among favorite ambient tracks
Aphex Twin: Avril 14th link Boards of Canada: Dayvan Cowboy this 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
“blends Joe Kittinger's space jump with Laird Hamilton's surfing”
Blends Kittinger's space jump with Laird Hamilton's surfing
Your comment reminds me of Boards of Canada's "Dayvan Cowboy" video, which blends Joe Kittinger's space jump with Laird Hamilton's surfing: this video
