tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post4431097471634331145..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Whom Will you Inspire Today? by Dan HollowayKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-83176300064507931622013-01-18T10:43:35.859+00:002013-01-18T10:43:35.859+00:00ah yes, definitely, there are times when less fanc...ah yes, definitely, there are times when less fancy editing and cross cutting is more so as to let what's happening speak for itself - this is definitely one of those cases (the other thing is that we are primed to think that when something's cut it's been spliced together and stunted - and whilst I'm sure Daniel Craig isn't a traceur magnifique, it would be a shame if people didn't realise that all Foucan's stunts are real)Dan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-30113352174978676042013-01-18T01:42:12.106+00:002013-01-18T01:42:12.106+00:00Glad you liked District 13. Looks as if we'll...Glad you liked District 13. Looks as if we'll see more of Belle, the action actor, in 2014: Brick Mansions with Paul Walker. I did love the start of CR, btw--but the editing, though thrilly-dilly, didn't as fully convey--imo--how cool parkour really is. Still, it was a rad sequence and a great intro to the new James Bond.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-80664481567517970852013-01-18T00:10:46.121+00:002013-01-18T00:10:46.121+00:00yes, District 13 is fabulous! I love the start of ...yes, District 13 is fabulous! I love the start of Casino Royale as well, I have to say - the parkour there is Sebastien Foucan, star of the Jump films and erstwhile friend of BelleDan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-9338597453374976892013-01-17T23:49:28.966+00:002013-01-17T23:49:28.966+00:00One final comment. The great spiritual parkour mas...One final comment. The great spiritual parkour master, Robert Pirsig, was rejected 121 times before somersaulting into print with his masterpiece Zen and the Art. Be spectacular, indeed.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-7031772835986540642013-01-17T23:23:33.116+00:002013-01-17T23:23:33.116+00:00Ah, I'd forgotten something: District 13 starr...Ah, I'd forgotten something: District 13 starring David Belle is worth a look for its sensational parkour footage.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-79276779800401958532013-01-17T23:21:02.690+00:002013-01-17T23:21:02.690+00:00That video puts the parkour sequence in Casino Roy...That video puts the parkour sequence in Casino Royale to shame. 'Be spectacular'--two words to live by for 2013. Great post.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-34662979903839996352013-01-16T14:37:24.868+00:002013-01-16T14:37:24.868+00:00Bill, I understand that completely. It's exact...Bill, I understand that completely. It's exactly how I explain it to my wife when she asks why I don't like edges. It's the feeling of amost physical compulsion, being sucked over into the abyss. Yet it's fascinating at the same time. To try and conquer the feeling, I spend a lot of time jumping off tall buildings, imagining every detail around me. And on holiday I once went on this http://annettewoodford.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/aiguille-du-midi-a-superb-cable-car-trip-in-the-french-alps/ which was a remarkable sensation.<br /><br />Lee - I picked up a copy of the McCann at lunchtime from Waterstones - it looks wonderfulDan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-84073489078745487732013-01-16T14:23:22.704+00:002013-01-16T14:23:22.704+00:00Fascinating, thought-provoking post, Dan. I have t...Fascinating, thought-provoking post, Dan. I have to confess, though, that the actions of the Parkour people and the Man on the Wire are so uncomfortable for me to watch that I can only take them in small doses. It's partly vertigo but it's also that inexplicable magnetism of the abyss. When I stand near an edge, I'm not afraid I'll fall over but that I'll actually be drawn to jump. It's a great Romantic theme, of course, the void, the fathomless unknown, the place where selfhood is lost. So, even though I can't confront those physical chasms, their existence supplies me with the imagery of ... well, either despair of triumph. Just don't take me near any edges.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-89040463487708340282013-01-16T11:10:20.344+00:002013-01-16T11:10:20.344+00:00I am finding having fingerless gloves in every roo...I am finding having fingerless gloves in every room an essential at the moment!<br />How wonderful to see people in action in Shrewsbury. Apparently there are some parkour practitioners in Oxford though I've never seen them - perhaps I should look up more. I think the world of wire walking has some wonderful metaphors for life (Viv's blog to which I linked is called Zen and the art of tightrope walking) - I think for me it's about moving forward without looking down, but not because youare in denial of the drop, not because you have taught yourself to ignore it - that's just more self-delusion. Rather it's about not looking down because you have familiarised yourself with and come to accept the abyss on all sides, and move through it with the ease of moving through your natural environment (a parkour of the mind as it were)Dan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-3822903168764086222013-01-16T11:03:50.394+00:002013-01-16T11:03:50.394+00:00Oh dear, except that you couldn't, of course [...Oh dear, except that you couldn't, of course [say it, I mean] if your heart stopped! Just shows how ridiculous your thinking processes can become when your fingers are frozen by the cold and even your brain is numb. Hpwfully you'll have got the gist of what i mean. Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-81648492770625323672013-01-16T11:01:25.546+00:002013-01-16T11:01:25.546+00:00Found this really interesting on a number of level...Found this really interesting on a number of levels which don't have time or ability [fingers freezing here] to go into. Suffice to say parkour, yes. Spent last evening talking to an urban explorer based in Shrewsbury, and seeing some of his amazing rootop - in some cases - spiretop pics. <br /><br />Loved Man on a Wire too, and for all same sort of reasons. Was in Niagara last autumn - wire set up, didn't see it happening though. Was there on wrong night. Makes my heart stop even thinking about it, but how great to be able to say that about the way one lives one's life. Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-86581682805881005112013-01-16T10:06:25.543+00:002013-01-16T10:06:25.543+00:00(I like the bit where Gonazalo does battle with th...(I like the bit where Gonazalo does battle with the press/lettering machine!)John A. A. Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613779477853664598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-15863001166769245132013-01-16T09:40:51.399+00:002013-01-16T09:40:51.399+00:00Heheh Dan, my memory is becoming abysmal.
And my ...Heheh Dan, my memory is becoming abysmal.<br /><br />And my spectacular - finishing the novel-in-progress which threatens to defeat me.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-10163811811536562262013-01-16T09:31:36.335+00:002013-01-16T09:31:36.335+00:00ooh, that's wonderful!ooh, that's wonderful!Dan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-34802433628934821872013-01-16T08:56:00.723+00:002013-01-16T08:56:00.723+00:00OT warning...
Dan, here's a link especially f...OT warning...<br /><br />Dan, here's a link especially for you:<br /><br />http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/30/anais-nin-letterpress/Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-53984612970547970572013-01-16T08:55:02.269+00:002013-01-16T08:55:02.269+00:00ah, City Slickers, that brings back memories.
I d...ah, City Slickers, that brings back memories. <br />I don't know about Eye of the Tiger but maybe a little Portishead earworming its way into spring with me :) And yes, you do need to see Man on Wire!<br />Yes, Lee, absolutely you have mentioned it to me before and I'm hoping this year I will get to it - thank you!Dan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-67482157402683386642013-01-16T08:49:38.229+00:002013-01-16T08:49:38.229+00:00I may have mentioned this before, but if you'r...I may have mentioned this before, but if you're interested in Petit, I recommend Colum McCann's <i>Let the Great World Spin.</i>Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-4148696267462718092013-01-16T08:34:44.722+00:002013-01-16T08:34:44.722+00:00Ah, I knew I'd lost the essence of that City S...Ah, I knew I'd lost the essence of that City Slickers dialogue with paraphrasing...here's the real thing:<br /><br />Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? <br />[holds up one finger] <br />Curly: This. <br />Mitch: Your finger? <br />Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don't mean shit.<br /> Mitch: But, what is the "one thing?" <br />Curly: [smiles] That's what *you* have to find out. John A. A. Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613779477853664598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-4529461185935791412013-01-16T08:30:08.968+00:002013-01-16T08:30:08.968+00:00http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151397745507...http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151397745507577&set=vb.150082065062250&type=2&theater<br /><br />Have you seen that short Alan Watts video, Dan? <br />"What do we desire?"<br /><br />A friend left it on my Facebook page the other day and it's led to the viewing of lots of his zen/Jung/Spirit videos on Youtube...<br /><br />The interesting thing about Watts, and he recognised that he had this in common with Jung...they both believed that the Westerner entering the realms of eastern thought must still hold onto their own roots in Western thought...and yet both of them were fascinated by the eastern viewpoints of zen and Tao, Yin and Yang, and certainly wanted at least half of their consciousness to be taking flight at high speed down those labyrinthine paths...<br /><br />Pirsig too realised it was a half-and-half arrangement he wished, part zen, but part motorcycle too...the flower growing out of the head of the spanner was the perfect cover for his book. <br /><br />The Highland Scottish novelist, Neil Gunn, wrote ten western social realist novels...but then a friend gave him Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel...and that was it, Gunn's mind floated off happily for another ten novels with eastern flavour..which the critics hated, public too maybe...until he abjured his art and wrote one last book of "Highland Zen"...his apiritual autobiography, The Atom of Delight.<br /><br />It sounds like you're getting your dander up, my friend, and are about to head into 2013 with Eye of the Tiger playing in the background!<br /><br />Good.<br /><br />Man on Wire...ah, I need to see it now...will go off and search it down by hook or crook...<br /><br />The thing that caught my attention for years...don't know if you've ever seen it practised...ashtanga yoga...dazzling, moving meditation...<br /><br />There was that TV series on in the 1970s too, The Long Search with Ronald Ayre...series of programmes exploring different spiritual paths, culminating in a jungle forest and Ayres watching the walking meditation of a monk...walking slowly...but you could almost see the cells and neurones whizzing in that monk...<br /><br />Or does this all boil down to those lines from the Billy Crystal/Jack Palance film, City Slickers...?<br /><br />Palance: There's only one thing in life that matters<br />Crystal...waiting...staring...then saying: OK, what's that?<br />Palance: That's what you gotta find out.John A. A. Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613779477853664598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-77132623198375059782013-01-16T08:25:32.226+00:002013-01-16T08:25:32.226+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.John A. A. Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613779477853664598noreply@blogger.com