Sense of Flying

Would you like to know what it’s like flying down a mountain at 250 km per hour? Would you also like to know what that is like without actually having to go through it yourself?

Then enter Espen Fadnes - The World’s Fastest Flying Human Being 2010 – who recently teamed up with Project Managers Goovinn to communicate the experience of flying.  Sense of Flying came out of the collaboration.

The result is something like out of a James Bond film but made even more thrilling by the fact that this is not a stunt man performing this feat for a pay packet but someone doing it just for the sheer thrill of it.  In some shots this guy really does look like a human rocket – it is visually simply jaw dropping.

Legacy

Sometimes the burden of family history – its legacy if you like – can weigh heavily upon someone.  So it is with the hero of this animated short written and directed by Adam Floeck.  Yet whether one makes one’s own way in this world or follows in the footsteps of who went before, perhaps the greatest resolution is to do it for yourself.  Maybe that is the greatest legacy anyone can bestow upon their children – the right to make decisions for themselves.

This is a thought-provoking and beautifully made animated short.  It is even more of an achievement when you take in to account that Floeck created it while a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design.  As an undergraduate piece this is outstanding.