filmed by philip bloom at skywalker ranch on the canon 5DmkII conformed to 24p and the canon 7D shooting native 24p. soundtrack: venus by gustav holst
for the past 20 years i have been following my passion as a career and it has taken me around the world to places i have felt privileged to have seen – philip bloom
i consider myself as one of the new breed of cinematographers…
on 24 january, romanian crina popescu (coco), member of montan altitudine sport club climbed the highest mountain peak in indonesia, carstensz pyramid (4.884m), becoming the youngest climber in the world to have reached this peak and the first romanian climber on the the carstensz pyramid peak. (the world record was previously held by american samantha larson who reached the peak in 2007 at the age of 18)
the expedition included three mountain peaks:
kosciuszko (2.228m),
giluwe (4.368m)
carstensz pyramid (4.884m) – the highest mountain in oceania and is considered to be the most technical in seven summits.
coco escaladed all three in a five-week expedition along with her father, ovidiu popescu.
at 6 years old climbed the omu peak, romania (2.507m), at 10 was already in the alps, climbing the dente del gigante (4.014m). coco plans to climb two other mountains this year: pico de orizaba, mexico (5.636m) and denali, alaska (6.194m).
over the past three years, coco climbed four peaks in seven summits (aconcagua, kilimanjaro, elbrus and carstensz pyramid) and five peaks in seven volcanoes (elbrus, ojos del salado, damavand, kilimanjaro and mt. giluwe).
personal best:
2007 – ararat, turkey (5.165m), age world record
2008 – kazbek, caucasus (5.047m), age world record
2008 – damavand peak (5.671m), iran, age world record
2008 – ojos del salado, chile (6.893m), highest active volcano, age world record
2009 – sconcagua, argentina (6.963m), part of seven summits, age world record
2009 – kilimanjaro, tanzania (5.891m), part of seven summits
2009 – elbrus (5.921m), part of seven summits
listen [ good beginning by sigur ros]
english version:
bright hopes come true/ as we walk downtown/ smiling and laughing happily/ friendship and exhaustion collide/ we celebrate the day/ a two year wait/ a distant dream is born (…)/ we were all in agreement/ in agreement about most things / we’ll do better next time/ this is a pretty good beginning…
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* good beginning
here is a short film by hedi slimane featuring oscar nilsson, a 16 year old ballet dancer from royal danish ballet theatre. mathias sarsgaard, is the drummer of supershine .
improvisation by hedi slimane
black swan by thom yorke
i don’t care what the future holds| cause i’m right here in your arms today| with your fingers you can touch me| i’m your black swan, black swan…i’m for spare parts, broken up | (black swan by thom yorke)
ap photo by rajanish kakade
according to afp : the head of swiss pharmaceutical giant novartis warned that governments now trying to cancel swine flu vaccine contracts might not be dealt with so swiftly in the next pandemic. chairman and chief executive daniel vasella said those that had been reliable partners would be favoured.
“the same governments that exerted a lot of pressure on the industry (…) to deliver vaccines very quickly were the same governments that then said ‘we don’t want any more what we ordered’, once they saw they ordered too much,” he told afp
“if you want an effective vaccine industry you have to be consequent, because the next time that there will be a pandemic – and there will be another one – the governments who have been reliable partners will be treated preferentially,” he added. mister, are you out of your mind?!
ap photo by eduardo verdugo
several big nations that rushed to order pandemic flu vaccine from pharmaceutical firms while it was being developed last year have been trying to scale back their orders. officials have blamed the poor response to mass vaccination campaigns and a change in expected dosage.the french health ministry announced earlier this month that it wanted to cancel an order for 50 million doses of vaccine 32 million from gsk , 11 million from sanofi pasteur and seven million from novartis.
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