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Life In A Day is a historic hour and a half film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. Executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.
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Load this beautiful video in 1080p (we know it takes a minute or two), hit full screen and enjoy a seldom seen view of our beautiful little planet!
An intimate tour… in 1080p… of Earth’s most impressive landscapes… as captured by astronauts with their digital cameras. Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA’s astronaut team describes the special places that spacemen focus on whenever they get a moment.
We start with the coast of Namibia in southwestern Africa, the very dry desert coast of the Namib Desert. You can see a cloud band butting up against the shore and some straight sand dunes in the lower left of the picture. Yeah those are big red sand dunes that the astronauts say is one of the most beautiful sites that you can get when you’re flying.
Coming into the view on the left is an impact crater right in the middle of the picture, right about now and some wind streaks. We know where this area is because it’s a bit unique. We’ve got a major dune field coming into the picture on the left there: the Oriental Sand Sea, as it’s called in French, and on the top is the Isawan Sand Sea.
This is the island of Sicily with cloud over Mt. Etna, so you can’t quite tell there’s a big volcano in the middle of the picture right now. And there’s the toe of the boot of Italy coming into the picture from the left. See a good example of sun glint on the right with the sea reflecting the sun.
This is the smooth east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula again. As you move inland it gets even more striking as a picture because of all the volcanoes on this peninsula and the snowy mountains. There’s a volcano just coming into the picture from the top left there. You can see a knob-shaped feature.
Here is a smaller finger of land in China sticking into the Pacific Ocean. In winter you can see all the snow lower left. This is called the Qindoa P eninsula and we recognize it. And again, the sun glint point moving along the coast upper center.
In a very clear picture, the Zagros mountains with snow on them in Iran, in the country of Iran.
Here we have the north coast of Australia and the gulf of Carpenteria and some islands. The biggest island at the bottom of the screen there is Groote island, which means the big island in Dutch.
When you see a huge powerful feature like this and the astronauts do shoot them a lot and we have had some detailed views looking right down the eye, looking at the eyewall. In fact I seem to remember views of breaking waves on the sea surface at the bottom of the eye. Amazing detail.
Look at this neat picture of Great Salt Lake in Utah. And the variation in color? That’s due to an almost a complete blockage of the circulation of the lake by a trestle for a railroad that crosses from one side to the other. It stops the circulation and things get a little bit saltier and certainly saltier at the north end of the lake.
Here you see two circles coming in to the top of the view now. These are either volcanoes or effects from inside the earth producing circular features. We think this is the Big Bend area of Texas.
This is an interesting sideways view of the peninsula of Florida, with the Keys stretching out into the lowest part of the picture there. And the shallow seas around the Bahama Islands top right. And Cuba coming into the picture lower right.
And this I believe is the coast of Northern Chile in South America. It’s a very straight coast, except for that strange headland out to the right just disappearing. And so the desert is the first part of the inland zone, and then you see much blacker at the top of the picture the Andes Mountains with some many dozens of volcanoes.
Here is a thunderhead. The typical look of the thunderheads, the big rainstorms, that develop over the Amazon Basin. And another one coming in top right. Here’s an obviously a major river. There’s an even bigger one coming in on the right. That looks to me like it could well be the Amazon River, with one of its big tributaries on the left. And the flow would seem to be from the bottom of the picture to the top.
Breath, life, vitality of the spirit.
Life on the road was something I was raised to embrace
Me ma always encouraged us to open our eyes and hearts to the world
Make up our own minds for experience and be inspired
I see life in angles, in lines of perspective
The slight turn of the head, the blink of an eye.
Subtle glimpses of magic other folk might pass by
Cameras help me translate, interpret and understand what I see
It’s a simple act that keeps me grinning
I never set out to become anything in particular
Only to live creatively and push the scope of my experience for adventure for passion
They still all mean something to me same as most anyone with dreams
My heart bleeds Keltic blood and I’m magnetized to familiar frontiers
Raw brutal cold coastlines for the right wave riders to challenge
This is where my heart beats hardest
I try to pay tribute to that magic through photographs
Weathering the endless storms for rare glimpses of magic each winter is both a blessing and a curse I relish
I want to see wave riding documented the way I see it in my head and the way I feel it in the sea
It’s a strange set of skills to begin to acquire
It’s only achievable through time spent riding waves
All sorts of waves on all sorts of crafts is more time learning out in the water
Floating in the sea amongst lumps of shrub you’ll always learn something
It’s been a lifelong wise old classroom teacher of sorts and hopefully always will be
Buried beneath headlands shaken the coast
Mind blowing images of empty waves burn away at me
Solid ocean swells powering through deep cold water
Heavy waves, waves with weight
Coaxed from comfortable routing with nightly imagination
Convey some divine spark whisper possibilities
Conjure the situations I thrive amongst and love to document
You’ll take knocks in the process
Broken backs, drowning, near drowning, hypothermia, dislocations, fractures, frostbite…
Head wounds, stitches, concussions, broke my arm and that’s just the last couple of years
Still look forward to getting amongst it each winter though
Cold creeping into your core driving you mad day after day
Mumbling to yourself why you hold position and wait for the next set to come
The dark side of the lens
An art form unto itself and the past
Silent workhorses of the surfing world
There’s no sugary cliché
Most folk don’t even know who we are, what we do or how we do it let alone want to pay us for it
I never want to take this for granted so I try and make motivation simple, real and positive
If I only scrape a living, at least it’s a living where I’m scraping
If there’s no future in it, this is a present worth remembering
The fires of happiness and waves of gratitude
For everything that brought us to that point on Earth at that moment in time
To do something worth remembering with a photograph or a scar
I feel genuinely lucky to hand on heart say I love doing what I do
And though I may never be a rich man
If I live long enough I certainly have a tale or two for the nephews and I dig the thought of that…
Breath, life, vitality of the spirit.
We can’t wait to see prAna ambassadors Chris Sharma, Steph Davis, Alex Puccio and a host of other great climbers in Chuck’s latest film!
THE SCENE
From the director of PURE and CORE, get ready to infiltrate four of the biggest scenes in the world of climbing.
Moab, Utah: a mellow desert town surrounded by massive sandstone towers, where climbers test the limits of danger while still maintaining a strict traditional ethic. Boulder, Colorado: the undisputed social hub of US climbing, with sponsored athletes of every discipline living in a city packed-full of talent, competition, and progressive ideas. Innsbruck, Austria: with possibly the highest concentration of talent in the world, the competition climbers here fight not only for the tops of podiums, but also corporate sponsorships and mainstream success. Catalunya, Spain: with near-limitless potential, Northern Spain has claimed the title of sport climbing capital of the world, and is now home to climbing’s largest population of elite sport climbers.
Filmed in stunning 4K Ultra High Definition, get ready for a fast-paced ride through the centers of the climbing universe.
Breath, life, vitality of the spirit.
