Weirdly, I find the stabilization almost as interesting as the actual act.
Also: Never, ever, in a million years. Ever.
But once this was completed, he had access to the rubber trees on the other side of the mountain, and could fulfill his dream of bringing an opera house to Iquitos.
Would have expected this sort of article from Digg.
Is āstabilizationā why the video has weird irregular black sections and a transparent rectangle hovering over the main action?
The feat looks pretty ballsyā¦ as in, āwhoa scary I would never do that but Iām impressed that it was done (and ended well)ā!
The question then would seem to be: Who knows more about this sort of thing? The driver, or OSHA?
Digg is nowhere as wonderful as BoingBoing. Itās full of thingsĀ®!
As someone who gives scornful looks to hikers/bikers who take shortcuts and erode trails, Iām dying a little bit on the inside.
Did he ever get back up?
Terrifying and awesome. But not surprising or the first such video Iāve seen. You combine a lot of expertise and familiarity with the desire to be expedient and show off a bit and this shit happens in the workplace all the time.
I used to be able to stand near the top of a 12ā extension ladder and just sort of walk it around the shop, which was full of glass, because climbing down over and over was a pain in the ass and no fun.
Now I just cook for thrills. Knives and fire are plenty dangerous.
Dugg for the Digg reference!
Best watched with the sound off unless you really like warning beeps. This is apparently how one climbs using an excavator.
Yeah, itās basically turning the original shaky video into a panorama, then playing the video at the right place at the right time. Very nifty. The black sections are bits there never was any video of.
Alas, one of the rednecks who so helpfully guided the excavatory explorer saw that a final step was needed to appease Nature - wait for night and dash the vehicle on rocks further belowā¦
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhā¦Ā
I think this also falls under the category of stupid excavator tricks.
But it proves that you can use an excavator arm to support the entire vehicle.,
Iāve never seen video processed quite like this before, anyone know the software that was used? (I think itās neat.)
It looks like the output of a standard stabilizing filter of the type used in Adobeās editor, Premiere Pro, or whatever itās called now. Basically, they figure out a point that never moves but is always visible during the video. Like a spot on the root of a plant, or a pebble at the top of the hill that is left alone.
Then the algorithm locks onto that as a sort of zero-point that never moves on the canvas. Then as the camera shakes and moves, the video area moves around the screen in a sort of inverted copy of the way the camera got jiggled during filming. Thus a larger, stationary panorama of the scene is created, and you wonāt get motion sick while watching it, even if you blow it up to IMAX scale.
Yeah, some of the stuff I used to do on a forklift would peel back your eyelidsā¦ the amount of damage I couldāve caused if Iād sneezed at just the wrong moment boggles my mindā¦ you get pretty confident if youāre able to push it.
One of the related vids spun me outā¦ really quite weird in a kinda cool way (watching in 720p probably helps sell the weirdness, otherwise the terrible anatomy on the driver sorta makes a bit more sense):
Judging from the comments, itās a fair bit overcooked and the funky lattice boom would lack torsional strength, but itās pretty damn nifty.
