Week 2: ‘It’s gonna be cool’

Wonder spawned in: 2010

Wondered into being by: Danny MacAskill

Wonderspan: 8 min

To experience this wonder at its best: Click on the full screen icon and make sure you can hear the sound.

Here’s a man who can ride a bicycle along a wall…. the side of one.  And in this film his fellow wonders – the bicycle and the Scottish hills – are proud to co-star.

From the YouTube comments:

• ‘And on the eighth day God created Danny.’
• ‘I hate it when people compare Danny MacAskill and God.  I mean c'mon he's good and all... but he's just no Danny MacAskill.’

But can he mend a puncture?  Joanna W, who proposed this wonder, says it doesn’t matter.  Here he is (with apologies for the dreadful advert at the beginning):

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw

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Week 1: Cosmic Zoom

Wonder spawned in: 1968
Wondered into being by: Eva Szasz for the Canadian Film Board
Wonderspan: 8 min
To experience this wonder at its best: Click on the full screen icon and make sure you can hear the sound.

First, a quick twirl round the universe, won’t take long. Are you familiar with Picture Box, the 1970s schools TV programme that tried to widen kids' horizons? Every week, TV is wheeled into classroom, Picture Box takes us beyond our world, TV wheeled out of classroom. Picture Box rolled us across the American desert with a ball of tumbleweed, sloshed us down Canadian white-water rivers to the sea in a hand-carved canoe and, in this film we're about to see, whisked us to the top and bottom of the universe, before dropping us off right where we started.  My world was particularly small then, called ‘Warwickshire’, and if it wasn’t for Picture Box I’d have thought the whole universe was just one long road of quaint gardens, each with a Range Rover parked outside.  And it's Picture Box that gave me the idea for this little project, so if you're sitting comfortably...

• http://www.nfb.ca/film/cosmic_zoom

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And if you liked that, you should also look inside your fridge. As suggested by Sunniva T, here’s Monty Python’s polymath comic Eric Idle taking us for another cosmic spin (with green-screen graphics that were cutting-edge stuff when the film was made):

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

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