Gear geeks be warned: these videos might get you hot under the harness. Digital design studio Tomorrow Bureau recently released a two-part film in which climbing gear and outdoor equipment appear in computer generated graphics, with spine-tingling sound effects. James Earls and Jack Featherstone combined their passion for outdoor activities with their digital design skills to create 'a tribute to the great outdoors and a study on the aesthetics of the technical equipment needed to navigate it.'
This is not a negative comment, but I was amused that my first reaction to the first photo was to mentally tick off all the hazards going on (krab on krab, rope running around screw gate, three-way load... and the presence of the planet Mars in the background, which clearly shows that they're all being used in space)
I mean in fairness metal on metal is absolutely fine, otherwise we'd never clip a bolt or wire. The rope wrapped round the gate however is the stuff of nightmares!
> This is not a negative comment, but I was amused that my first reaction to the first photo was to mentally tick off all the hazards going on (krab on krab, rope running around screw gate, three-way load... and the presence of the planet Mars in the background, which clearly shows that they're all being used in space)
I think most peoples teeth started itching at the errors! Pretty and good looking but just wrong at times.
I'm sure it's all very impressive to some computer generated geek, and probably took a lot of effort, but nothing in those clips looked even approaching real to me.
The movement just doesn't look real. The way the ropes bend the text on the labels stretches and wallows.
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