Chris Newman – Chopper Flight School

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Tagging along with Devin Super Tramps latest Insane Rope Swing Video is Chris Newman’s guide to getting started with Chopper Flight School. Chris runs CineChopper.com and is going to provide a great resource to those of us looking to jump into this fun world of playing with really expensive toys. Luckily it is NOT that pricy to get up and running.

Here is his list of things you need to get started.
Blade MQX Quadcopter Ready to Fly Version (RTF)

-or-

Blade MQX Quadcopter Bind and Fly Version (BNF)
with one of these…
Spektrum DX6i Transmitter (TX, Remote Control)

Or this controller with software bundle…
Phoenix R/C Pro Simulator (Windows only) with Spektrum DX5e

And don’t forget some batteries…
MQX Batteries

Thanks for the tutorials Chris. Looking forward to more.

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Mountains in Motion

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Thanks to JP Auclair for finding this beauty. And thanks to the creators for sharing how they captured some of these full season shots with their DIY Solar Camera for multi-month time lapses.

Awesomeness.

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Red Bull Kluge – The Athlete Machine

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Forgot to post this last weekend when I was browsing trending videos on the Apple TV.

What does 2 years planning, 12 machines, 11 athletes, 4 RED digital cinema cameras, 45 GoPros and 3,422 man hours look like?

11 athletes:

  1. Sean MacCormac – Red Bull Air Force
  2. Joey Brezinski – Skate
  3. Rickie Fowler – Golf
  4. Danny MacAskill – Biking
  5. Ryan Sheckler – Skate
  6. Drew Bezanson – BMX
  7. Bryce Menzies – Trophy Truck
  8. Rhys Millen – Drift
  9. Robbie Maddison – FMX
  10. Lolo Jones – Track and Field
  11. Pat Moore – Snowboarding

Notes:

Director of Photography – David G. Wilson
Project Manager – Ian Votteri
Director of Red Bull Media House – Nicholas Schrunk
Director of SYYN Labs – Adam Sadowsky

Technology – The Ultimate Arm

KLUGE – A witty, yet inelegant solution that succeeds in performing a particular task.

Go team.

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HYDLE – TSOIGDH

In the history of HYDLE.com… this ridiculous “TSOIGDH” entry marks my 999th public blog post since May of 2009 – When I started this crazy world of blogging ideas, thoughts and Genius vs. Not Genius intermanents and social media successes or failures.

So for the sake of getting google credit for it…

“TSOIGDH” = TURNING SHIT ON IT’S GOD DAMN HEAD

Turning shit on it’s god damn head is going to be my 1 single inspiration for the next 999 blogpost entries. I can’t wait to open up my connection layer for all my loyal readers… so I can start finding out who you actually are.

Cheers to 999!

TSOIGDH

Brain Farm Digital Cinema 2012 Reel

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Brain Farm (Think Red Bull) Digital Cinema is starting to grab some subscribers on their 10 YouTubular videos. If you think this is some amazing footage from the past year... wait until they start releasing videos captured with their new toy [5,046]

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Audi – e-tron Sound of the Future

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“Audi’s future e-tron models will cover long distances powered by practically silent electric motors. To ensure that pedestrians in urban settings will hear them, the brand has developed a synthetic solution: Audi e-sound.”

Silent electric with artificial sweetening. What would your Audi e-tron R8 sound like?