Whilst in the States I discussed 59 Seconds at length on the Eye On Books podcast, the interview has just gone online here.
Anyway, thought you might enjoy this amazing video……
But is the clip genuine? If so, is it just practice?
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I would hazard a guess it was genuine. He can definately throw the bricks up, which suggests he has been doing this a long time, and I can’t see why if his balance is good, he couldn’t carry them.
What a pain in the neck job though.
But how does he get them back down without breaking them?
This one is really old. But still amazing! Looks pretty genuine to me.
I’d say it’s genuine. As to how he gets them back down, he could have a helper there, too. Kneel down, let the other guy take them from the top.
Why don’t they use a wheelbarrow?
Because having a guy doing it costs less, evidently…
I would agree, it costs less and I think it’s quicker (he loads on the boat, walks across plank, then to wherever…)
Can’t really take a wheelbarrow across a plank like that one easily, can you?
I think it’s entirely possible. I love how he just nonchalantly tosses the last few on.
the higher the wall the higher the stack
When the builder gets to the first floor, does he just stand there so the brickie can reach down and pick them off?
Heck, does he stand on someone’s shoulders then they get to the second?!
I can definitely believe this. I have a similar video I shot myself in Egypt featuring a wall of oil cans several metres high balanced on the back of a bicycle. Never did figure out what the rider was going to do when he needed to park up!
I vote for genuine. If you were faking you would probably use foam bricks with Velcro or other sticky material. The foam wouldn’t act the same way in the air when you threw it as the bricks do.
Since the bricks are heavy, they have a high inertial mass, making it easier to balance them than something lighter. The video is certainly plausible, but pain in the neck is right!
I vote for genuine too. Practice makes perfect.
Suddenly my job seems less crappy…
probably fake bricks with something so that they stick together, eg. Magnets? hmmm o well. guess everyone else right! Its not a fake!
Surely genuine. As Flavio says, getting the guy to do it is cheaper. If you had a wheelbarrow you’d still need the guy to push it!
People all over the world carry heavy weights on their heads e.g. large pots of water.
Speaking of crappy jobs, when I was in the Philippines I went 10-pin bowling. After each round the pins were set back up by a small boy who sat ABOVE the pins whilst you were bowling at them. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. Health&Safety officers in this country would have had a fit!
Actually, the automatic pin setting machine wasn’t invented until the late 1950s. In Canada and the US before that, pins were reset by “pinboys” who actually crouched between lanes waiting for the ball to come. Not only would they reset the pins, they returned the ball to the ball return too. My father (b. 1927) did that sort of work as a young boy, and as a young boy in the late 1960s I saw a few pinboys working as well in the bowling alley my uncle owned.
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I’d have expected the plank bridge to deform more under the weight. But then I’d expect the guy to deform more too! Guess it could be genuine.
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What is the obsession with claiming every video of people doing something that isn’t commonplace in _our_own_ society as a fake. This video would be much more difficult to fake, than it would be to just fly to some country where people carry things on their heads regularly — which, by the way, is common practice in many cultures since it allows the carrier to transport greater weight over greater distances without injuring their back from the torque created by carrying it anywhere else. Someone suggested “foam bricks” … to do this with foam bricks would be phenomenally difficult since the weight is what makes them easier to balance.
I’ve seen people comment on big-wave surfing videos with everything from a terse “fake” to a longwinded explanation of how it could be faked. Big wave surfing is a very real sport, not just something that one person did one time, and definitely not something that would be easy to fake a video of realistically.
Now can’t we just leave the nay-saying to snopes, and do a little google searching before we doubt the reality of everything presented to us.
I don’t think there are any comments suggesting that the video actually is a fake. Everybody seems to think it’s real. Just a few people have considered the intellectual exercise of how it *could* be faked. Not the same as actually saying it’s fake.
Sure, it’s dumb to blithely dismiss anything that seems extraordinary as “fake,” but one person’s obsession is another person’s healthy skepticism, especially regarding anything on the Internet.
real and the person has obviously been doing this for many years.
Fake. The only thing faker than this is the video of a guy big-wave surfing with bricks on his head.
I wish I had that kind of balance and strength! There are some amazing people out there.
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