The Start of the Dream - an article in a French newspaper about the proposed building of the Twin Towers (incorrectly labelled the Trade World Centre in the French paper).
And 6 years later, Philippe Petit walked & danced for a glorious hour in the sky above New York ...
Images above all from To Reach The Clouds (Philippe Petit) a 2nd-hand book I picked up at a charity book sale the day after I read the movie review of Man on Wire in the NYT - how is that for synchronicity!
What I find even more fantastic is that the planning & execution of this feat happened secretly (and illegally!) with the help of only a few friends. The Ultimate Guerilla Performance Art! (Now I'm looking for two high buildings in Cape Town. Oh, and I have to take some tightrope walking classes ...)
Read review of the documentary 'Man on Wire' here. (Image above from the movie).
4 comments:
I look forward to seeing your version of the hire-wire dream made real! You go girl!! But please wear a harness - at least 'til you've got your tightrope diploma. Or maybe it doesn't work if you attach safety equipment to dreams?
I can't wait to see this ... it's just amazing.
OMG! Not in a million years would I dare something like that, even the thought makes me queasy. What an incredible and crazy feat. Wow!!!
kendalee - What?? Harness, me? Hahaha!!!
stephanie - Oh, I do hope they release it in SA, sometimes I really think we get the dregs of what the world of movies has to offer us. But it is sure to come out in DVD?
bronwyn - I know what you mean! I just do not know how somebody like that thinks!
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