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9
Jan
2021
When he was still a young man, a friend of a friend had a job for a while as a movie stunt man. He learned how to fall off a cliff. How to survive an explosion. And how to roll a car, crash a car, flip a car, and still emerge alive.
He learned how to work out all the calculations of speed and weight and lift so that he could safely launch a car off the end of a ramp and land without killing himself.
And then one day he was asked to send a car crashing through a giant billboard.
My young friend knew exactly how fast he had to be going, how steep the ramp must be, how far the car would fly, how it would land on the other side.
But it felt different when he couldn’t see ahead through the giant billboard. Even if it was just made of paper.
Categories: Soft Edges
Tags: Stunts, barriers, New Year