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HN mentions it as a favorite ambient track and as a nicely edited tribute to Kittinger's jump.
The official video for Boards of Canada's Dayvan Cowboy, built from reassembled documentary footage. It forms a dreamlike journey from space to the sea and shore, including Kittinger's 1960 high-altitude jump and surfing footage.
“you can watch nicely edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 record of 100,000 feet” (HN, 2012)
While we're waiting for the weather to clear, you can watch nicely edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 record of 100,000 feet; it's at the start of the Boards of Canada video for Dayvan Cowboy: [this video]
Music video opens with edited footage of Kittinger's 1960 jump
Aphex Twin: Avril 14th [link] Boards of Canada: Dayvan Cowboy [this video] Solar Fields: Reborn [link] Brian Eno: Music for Airports [link] And so forth, I have something of an incomplete playlist of similar 'ambient' [link]
Your comment reminds me of Boards of Canada's "Dayvan Cowboy" video, which blends Joe Kittinger's space jump with Laird Hamilton's surfing: [this video]
Blends Kittinger's space jump with Laird Hamilton's surfing
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