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- danielrh9, on 10/12/2007, -8/+384What's funny about this is that you know that a split second after the image was captured, these guys are faceplanting the cold hard concrete beneath them.
- karuberutsu, on 10/12/2007, -5/+357Posing for these pictures must be really painful.
- cracker42, on 10/12/2007, -7/+193Would it be too much trouble, in an effort to save yourself from the face-planting, to take a photo of the scene without the person then a photo of them jumping onto a mat and 'shop out the mat? I'm not saying that's what was done here, but I'd certainly try that first before diving onto some pavement.
- vexxefx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+151Great photos but "pulling a matrix" is the lamest phrase ever
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+120Not to be an ass, but gravity is not a law. It is a theory whose foundations are outlined by another theory, the theory of relativity. As such, I support schools teaching alternate theories of gravity, like the Magnetic Underground Gnome theory.
- jmkiii, on 10/12/2007, -6/+109The shadows are not well defined because it is an overcast day.
You don't have to yell "Photoshopped" every time you see something that looks a bit odd! - Fordi, on 10/12/2007, -22/+124Note the lack of shadows beneath most of these guys, and the regularity of the shadows for those that have them.
These are composites. - strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+95For those that don't speak French:
"When the social elevator is broken down it is necessary to know to rebound. Between the take-off and the fall, the man parachuted in the city learns how to control his trajectory.
To the raw material of architecture, it opposes the elasticity of its body and its desires. This exercise of gravitation calls some with a strict discipline, even if it is not that acquired on the benches of the school. After the riots of the last autumn, the photographer Denis Darzacq carried out sixteen of these perilous photographs which say, cold, turbulences and the life in precarious balance."
Erhh... thanks Google Translate? That reads more like the gibberish in a spam message than anything else. - Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -5/+83looks like some freeze-frame parkour. pretty cool
- karlid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+60Yes, notice how it's never the same person twice.
- Future2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54Automatic translators always sound so pretentious.
- RMD78, on 10/12/2007, -16/+68Okey dokey... free my mind. Right, no problem, free my mind, free my mind, no problem, right...
- pred8tr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41@fety
Take 'em both? I am pretty sure that would be bad. Real bad. Like, crossing the streams bad. - LuciferSam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36There is an art, it says, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss
- kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -8/+41"Automatic translators always sound so pretentious."
No, thats just the french language - socoolisme, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36I think those are just photos of people killing them selves right before they hit the ground.
- jdfoote2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28A closer translation of the last paragraph is:
The brute matter of architecture opposes the elasticity of the body and its desires. The act of falling calls for a strict discipline, the kind that isn't learned in school. After the riots of the last autumn, the photographer Denis Darzacq created sixteen of these perilous photos, which capture, in still, the turbulences and the precarious equilibrium of life.
I'm no native speaker, but that's better, anyway. :) - ihlemic10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Its not flying, its falling with Style...
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29why do you insist on pushing your crap that no one cares about on these pages?
- Tippis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26This might come as a shock to you, but outside in the real world, shadows aren't big dark blobs stenciled below people like it is in old computer games.
In the real world, there are things like ambient/indirect lighting, low-set lighting, and multiple and reflect light sources, all of which remove shadows or make them appear in new and interesting places. You might want to step outside to see these things.
Oh, and I would also suggest looking again, since you're just plain old wrong: there are shadows in most of them, and in the ones where they're not readily apparent, you can see why if you look at where the light is coming from. - sgtawol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26How is it fake? Most of these people are just doing flips, spins, weird pushups, etc.
Think how a martial artist contorts themselves sometime. Now take a freeze frame. Bingo. - bootle, on 10/12/2007, -18/+41@cracker42
I'll say that that's what was done here! - evilesttoast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Ahhh, now I understand
- Tippis, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31@ Fordi
"Note the lack of shadows beneath most of these guys"
Look again. There are shadows, and where there aren't, they shouldn't be beneath the person anyway. - zeero, on 10/12/2007, -9/+30these aren't photoshopped... jeez. do you know how hard it would be to match the exact lighting of the scene inside a studio with blue mats all over the place (if they're in those gyms with the blue mats)?? i work at a tv station and we have to cut people out from greenscreen "keying" and put em in with the tv channels graphics backgrounds..you don't know how much spill (light reflecting from the green studio) is on their faces and clothes and the different lighting. also, there's not a lot of shadows because the day is overcast..so the light is coming from all directions. i think these guys just know how to land properly without faceplanting.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Red pill? No.
Blue pill? No.
I took the purple pill. And man, things have been ***** up ever since. - fety, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18aww ***** it, take em both!
- rrossen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Looks like a bunch of breakdancers/capoerista's/freerunners (or stylers..I know there IS a difference but no idea WHAT the difference is so excuse me if wrong) on a really fast shutterspeed. And the lack of shadows might be because the photographer chose a cloudy day with not much sun or something?
Either way, I think they're real =) - wiihuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16you "played" judo?
- SteelFrog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I'm natively french so, here's my take on it. Some of the thoughts expressed are very awkward to translate so this may sound a bit strange and may also be off by a bit.
"When the social elevator breaks down, man needs to know how to bounce back. Between flight and fall, a man thrown towards land must learn to master his trajectory.
Against the raw material of architecture, man opposes the elasticity of his body and his desires. This gravitational exercise requires a strict discipline, despite it's acquisition outside of the class room.
After last fall's riots, photographer Denis Darzacq has realized sixteen of these perilous photos that coldly describes turbulence and life on the edge." - odmonk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Part of the problem is it reads like "deep thoughts", even with smoothing.
There is a lot of subtext. Try a more colloquial, interpretive rendition:
"When the cable of society's elevator snaps, it's good to know how to bounce."
(Think social climbing, "glass ceilings", and what happens when the elevator brake
breaks.)
"Between the launch and the landing, parachutists in the city better learn to control their trajectory.
(The leap out of the plane or off the base for base-jumping gives urban troopers at least
a little room to learn what they need to survive.)
"Naked architecture is opposed by their bodies' and desires' resilience ."
( Flexibility is advisable in a rigid environment.)
"This lesson in gravitics calls for strict discipline, even if not the kind
learned in school."
(Lessons of the street rule.)
"After last fall's riots, photographer Denis Darzacq made
these sixteen photos that speak, chillingly, of the turbulence of
life in a precarious balance."
Translation: watch out for that last step: it's a lulu.
By the way, "maîtriser" is "to control", not "to pull a matrix" :-) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'm not too sure that would even make sense even in it's native language.
- loup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Are you sure that you're not just bitter that none of the stories you've submitted have hit the front page yet?
- Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16"Automatic translators always sound so pretentious."
Remember this is a French artist's writings we're talking about here. - lexbaby, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16"Woah."
- Tippis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@ kennyelend
"Of course, to the untrained eye, the shadows (or lack thereof) may not seem obvious, but next time you are standing outside at noon try checking your shadow."
...and in an overcast sky, or in the middle of a courtyard where there is only indirect light, you'll notice that you have very little in the way of a shadow, and that what small traces are there are mostly amorphous.
Some of the images look a bit odd, yes, but they nothing in there is impossible.
...oh, and noon wouldn't be a good representation anyway, since the images that show some sunlight also show that the sun is rather low on the horizon. - Skitzzo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19It's not "fake" as in photoshopped... however, several of the more brutal looking pics are done using mannequins or crash test dummies.
Look at the way the hand isn't forming to the ground on this one (http://denis.darzacq.revue.com/la_chute/photo14.html) or the fact that they made sure you couldn't see the face on this one (http://denis.darzacq.revue.com/la_chute/photo16.html) not to mention the gray plastic hands? - syco123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The overall lighting suggests overcast skies for most of these, hence no sharp shadows.
- Bigcat75, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8For all people saying it's fake, Denis Darzacq is a real and talented photographer. He is member of the VU' agency : http://www.agencevu.com/en/photographes/default.asp?Photographes=23 . I know him for more ten years and I can affirm these photographs are not photoshoped ! Do you know what is the World Press Photo ? It is one of the most famous prize for photographers. Do you think they gave a first prize for fake pictures ? http://www.worldpressphoto.com . People on these photographs are hip hop dancers, and Denis capture them at the perfect instant, that's all !
- cheera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Last I checked, photographs didnt capture sound.
- myfanwy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8stop saying the word 'shopped'!
use of a colloquialism, abbreviation, acronym or other industry-used shortcut does not convey that you know what you're talking about. just that you'd like people to think you know what you're talking about.
it's lame
and anyway, it's not. have some faith, naysayers, they're fine gymnasts
dugg for being awesome and real - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11My goodness you're an idiot. Aren't you?
- friedcalamari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Flying is simple. All you have to do is throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- maffiou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I think you're being dugg down for being stupid... I'd rather be French than stupid !
- fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7woah... it's like they know kung-fu...
- coyotejones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@kmartshopper
Letting people know that link is NSFW is appreciated. Thanks. - stealthboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7> "Real bad. Like, crossing the streams bad."
Tell him about the Twinkie... - pintong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You can see how the pictures were done from the first shot - his feet are on the wall. How would he be able to get his feet on the wall if he was doing a free-fall? From the looks of things, he propped his feet up on the wall and then pushed off hard from the ground.
You can also see from the curve in his back in #9 that he's quickly pushed himself up off the ground for the shot: http://denis.darzacq.revue.com/la_chute/photo9.html
Good photos, though! - wiirdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Here's a couple of my kids... Matrix style. This is with the help of Photoshop though.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86125562@N00/ - finista, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7...and a collective *THUD* a second later...
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