Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it as a favorite ambient track and as a nicely edited tribute to Kittinger's jump.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2012 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends NelsonMinar · 2012-10 · on “Supersonic free fall from 120,000 feet live at 8:30AM EST”
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]
Recommends radiorental · 2015-08 · on “Ferrolic”
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]
Cites trimbo · 2023-11 · on “Don Walsh: The man who made the deepest ever dive”
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]