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By "accent" you mean really strong English accent, right? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Hey, Tony's beads and mirrors glide at 8 to 1! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Never saw it. Dude, you haven't lived til you saw it!!! Did you look at his avatar? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Probably because the foam was filling the mold better and trying to adhere to the surface. Also, maybe you should have re-waxed the cast if you didn't. Regardless, glad it worked out! I had a big divot in my foam head but I filled it in very carefull with microballoon putty. I used a trick where you put a few small nails in the divot area, sticking out too far, then use the cast the push all the nails in to the right depth so all the heads sticking out tell you exactly where the surface should be, if that makes any sense. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

In case you didn't see it already, here is a very detailed breakdown of the costs I encountered in my CCM construction. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It looks like you! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Ok, then it's also a photo of an air race, a drag race, a foot race, and a bicycle race (and many more). Since all those things may be in the vicinity of the picture, but not actually visible in frame. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

From here: At 3000 lux, the richness of the color was the most obvious characteristic. Sony does their market research, and rarely fails to give the public what they want. Saturated, rather than accurate, colors are preferred by the average camcorder owner, and the HC7 delivers. Our color chip chart looked like a box of crayons. Every color popped with remarkable crispness. The HDR-HC7 offers a Color +/- control, which affects saturation. Turning it up produced a horrid palette, reminiscent of some of Sony’s DVD camcorders from years past. But rolling the saturation down a little did improve the picture, especially if you find the HC7’s natural tendencies too strong. The picture was also sharp, which is something that you can’t fake. Even against the HD camcorders we’ve seen so far, the HC7 looked very good. There are controls included for increasing and decreasing the sharpening, but we found that a sharpness bump only served to hurt the overall image quality, increasing the amount of haloing along high contrast borders and boosting the general levels of noise. By comparison, the HDR-HC3 (Review, Specs, $969.99), last year’s only consumer HDV from Sony, offered a sharp picture without quite so much saturation. We did, however, remark in that review last year that the saturation was higher than the previous year’s HDR-HC1 (Specs, $2295), which indicates that boosting saturation is a trend. Last year’s HDR-SR1 (Review, Specs, Recent News, $1119.99), the camcorder that recorded AVCHD footage to hard drive, offered a slightly duller color palate and more noise; the HDR-UX1 (Review, Specs, Recent News, $729.95) (the DVD version), even more so. No detailed review of the HC5 on that site, but I would assume it is close to the HC7 in terms of saturation. I find it interesting they boosted saturation twice within the same model line (HC1 -> HC3. and HC3 -> HC7). There is a limit to how many times they can do this and get away with it. Now whenever I show my HD footage at the DZ, and people exclaim about how much better the color is, I can at least reply, "it's not all natural." www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It's true, and his father's name is Dennis Max. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Acetone will indeed eat a plastic cup. I'm also not sure it makes any sense at all to put it in a resin/hardener mixture. In fact it could even prevent the resin from curing, I'd guess. Wes recommends polyester resin for the sealing of the cast and the mold. It is cheaper than epoxy and cures much faster I think. It should not require mixing pumps because it is less ratio-sensitive. If you have leftover resin in your cup, when it fires and cures it will get VERY hot and will eat through the plastic and even could start a fire. It is best to mix in a metal cup (cut in half soda can) but I didn't do this... I just put every plastic cup in a stack of like 5 more so it wouldn't be able to melt through all of them as my excess resin was firing. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Shit, is 37mm small or big? Depends on how experienced...never mind. For palm-corder type cams, 37mm is large. Most /many are in the 23-30.5mm size. Once you jump from palmcorder/handicam to small camcorder, then it stabilizes (more or less) at 52mm, 55mm, or 57mm. BUT WHAT SIZE HAMMER DO I USE??? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Apart is never the big problem Keep in mind the person who suggested this is the one who manufactures most of our ringsights. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Shit, is 37mm small or big? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Nice Chuck! I hope your plasterer made match marks before cutting. It can be more difficult to line the halves back up without that, but still doable. When you seal the cast, add just enough resin to get a solid and smooth finish. Too much and you will start making the overall mold line smaller. On your next step, the foam head mold, it is ok to use "too much" resin as that will make the final mold line a little too big (too big is better than too small, especially with a CCM). P.S. Step 1 is the cast (negative). Step 2 is the mold (positive). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

And another way to think of this whole thing: Every single other suit that Tony makes is for men AND women. However, the "Lady Flyer" is a special tip of the hat to the ladies, designed just for them, but not in any way the only suit for them. If anything it's sexist against men since it gives us one less option. It's no different than Ladies' Night at a bar. The ladies are still welcome every other night. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

This is about the stupidest argument I've ever seen, so to add fuel to the fire: Lady flyer is no more "condescending" than Bird-Man. And in case I need to spell it out, no I am not being serious. I am "making a point" to illustrate how ridiculous this whole thing is. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Hmm, I am not sure how one would go about taking a 2 element lens apart... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

The title of your post made me think of this... read the whole story... it's worth it. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I wanna feel sunlight on my face.

There was a guy posting in the bonfire once, a pilot with 6,000 skydives (but no wingsuit jumps). He was commenting on a video of a wingsuit flyer getting above the tail of a Skyvan on a highspeed exit. He said that based on his piloting experience that was impossible and it was an illusion because the pilot was diving the plane. I've heard many people make that same (very wrong) argument, but none with his experience. How on earth can you pilot planes and not know that speed equals life lift (nice typo)? You can build a plane with fucking two by fours for wings if you push it fast enough. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

When are journalists going to start proofreading their shit again? How is "extreme skiing" a "characteristic"? It's an activity. This is minor, but it's in the first sentence to the damn article, and I read many articles these days where the grammar is so bad that you have to struggle to figure out what's being said. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Very cool Bryan, the silhouette figure with the sun in his hands is neat.

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Those look like fun... in the product info they all boast being able to move forward without pushing off. How realistic is it to use one of these for transportation on a long level road without pushing off... can you really maintain a decent speed? I always like playing with the snakeboards at the DZ but it never seemed useful in anything other than a small parking lot. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

(For those who missed the video, it was making fun of those who wear wool hats in the summer, for fashion). The thing is, if you criticize this fashion you must also criticize ALL fashion (wearing clothing not for function), or you self-contradict. Many people wear long pants and jackets to work (or dinner, or clubs), even in the heat of the summer, because it is either socially acceptable or even required in some cases. If a warm hat covering your head is stupid in the heat, a hot suit covering your whole body is even stupider. I think clothing fashion is a silly thing to begin with, but if I have choose between the guy in the wool hat and the guy in the suit, I will give the guy in the wool hat credit for at least trying to be original, rather than following the herd (though he's still a jackass). Seriously, all "fashion" is a trend to some degree or another, some of these trends just happen to be more accepted in our society (which is still just a grain of sand in the universe). "Dress shoes"? Ties? Shirts with collars? What function does ANY of that serve? In some alternate universe somebody is being denied access to a dance club because he doesn't have a wool cap on, and he's being called a "trendy urbanite" for dangling a flat striped piece of fabric from his neck. www.WingsuitPhotos.com