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September 11, 2012 Philippe Petit: Sane Wire Walker What do you think when you imagine a man walking on a wire higher than 10 stories high? A French wire walker named Philippe Petit walked over many structures from Notre Dame to Sydney, Australia, to New York. Through the things he has done, people may think he is crazy. However, Petit and I think that there is nothing crazy about what he has done. I believe the people/society thinks he is crazy. They see this man up hundreds of feet walking

The movie, Man on Wire is a documentary about wire-walker, Philippe Petit, who proves his impossible, yet inspiring dream above the clouds between the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers was indeed possible. During this documentary, Petit magically walked and danced across a wire, leaving the audience filled with suspense and extremely sweaty palms. This project, completed by James Marsh, was truly a job well done, because of the way he has Petit narrate the documentary and how he recounts the events

The documentary, directed by James Marsh, focuses on French tightrope walker Philippe Petit's high-wire stunt performed between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in 1975. The film serves as an sublime example of the Towers global symbolic importance, as well as a need man . Criminal turned

military. He took his childhood passion and joined the military academy of St. Cyr. He did well in school, and graduated thirteenth in his class of around 200. Upon leaving St. Cyr, de Gaulle joined the thirty third infantry regiment where he met Philippe Pétain, the colonel of the regiment and future marshal of France. De Gaulle’s first taste of real combat would come in World War one. De Gaulle gained recognition by crawling out with his men into no-mans-land to eavesdrop on the enemy. For the

Philippe Petit is an egocentric asshole. I will argue that his way of being diminished any value his accomplishments might have had. In Kierkegaard’s terms, Petit is an aesthete. Kierkegaard presents three categories in which he identifies and classifies different ways of being a self; these three groups are ethical, religious, and aesthetic. My argument is that in this situation, being an aesthete negated the significance of Petit’s “achievement.” The ethical self is one that puts his or her personal

their Mom, Dad, Jesus, an uncle, or a friend. In other words, people they have met. I have never met Philippe Petit. However, he is still one of the most influential people in my life. Philippe Petit is not a name most people recognize, but the few that do know him as the man who walked between the Twin Towers. Not on the ground, but on a tightrope 1,350 feet above the ground. On August 7, 1974, Philippe preformed for 45 minutes making 8 passes along the wire during which he walked, danced, lay down

Summary For over 40 years, Viacom, the American media conglomerate has been able to successfully reach millions. Viacom sits as one of the six major media companies, but has been rapidly falling to the wayside. The organization struggles publicly with maintain and executive that can effectively lead them, their stock prices are down 50% of its high in 2014, and the viewing habits of the consumer are no longer the same. With the millennial trends of streaming moving tradition tendencies out, Viacom

Yesterday, I was granted the opportunity, as a New York Film, Academy “alumni”, to attend a Q&A given by producer, Jack Rapke, preceded by a screening of his newest film, “The Walk” which is based on a true story. The movie stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (whom Rapke called “Joe”) who plays French tightrope walker Phillippe Petit who in 1974, strung a rope connecting the buildings of the world trade center then tightrope walked across it. The movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis (who Rapke called “Bob”)

to 1944 is a perfect example of one such document. Unlike most French intellectuals of the time, Guéhenno refused to openly publish a single word as long as France remained under the control of Germany, as well as the Vichy government of Marshal Philippe Pétain. Instead he wrote in his diary as an act of resistance, and as a chronicle of his country’s “servitude.” In an entry dated

Guest edited by Mark Garcia Book Review 14th Jan 2015 This book explores the future of details and how details can vary through different aspects of attempts, fields, aesthetics, narratives, the role of details in the future of architecture itself in terms of questioning that connection between the digital, the virtual and that of the physical and applicable. Here we are looking at details as a whole, as a way/ways of practicing architecture. Laying out all the different possibilities there are