Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 08:25:29 -1000 From: cjsigal@netcom.com (Chuck Sigal) Message-Id: Organization: Berkeley Buggy Bums Subject: Kite Jumping in Levi's NO ONE IS ACTUALLY KITE JUMPING IN THESE COMMERCIALS. The models/acrobats are jumping on a trampoline. They're holding handles attached to ropes, which inturn pass through a pulley on a boom well above the frame. The other end of the ropes were held by the stunt co-ordinator and pulled as the models jumped to keep the portion in the frame taught. Through clever editing you get the effect. These models were very talented. The routines they did on the trampoline were great fun to watch but not one of them was able to fly a sport kite. We (the Kite Specialists) spent some time trying to teach them but the wind would not cooperate. During the course of the first day the wind went from a sand storm in the morning to nothing that afternoon. Fortunately they had two VERY large wind machines without which nothing would have flown. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in | | human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. | | Mitch Ratcliffe, Technology Review, April, 1992 | | Chuck Sigal | | Albany,CA,USA Voice/Fax:01.510.527.3547 e-mail:cjsigal@netcom.com | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =