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"Callistus Valerius" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just curious, will you be watching the IMAX that followed Tyler during this years TDF, when it
comes out? Would it be cool for a cyclist to

watch

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this, or uncool?

It's cool for anybody to get loaded and watch an IMAX film.

"Callistus Valerius" <jazzyboss.net...

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Just curious, will you be watching the IMAX that followed Tyler during this years TDF, when it
comes out? Would it be cool for a cyclist to

watch

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this, or uncool?

What would be coolest would be the coolest Gods of RBR plan an event in each continent upon the IMAX
release and see it together.

We could ask Tyler to speak were it to premieire in N. America.

Cool? Hell yeah!!

-Ken (Absolut Oranji and Ketel 1 Citron -- TGIFF!)

Ken Papai said:

"Callistus Valerius" <jazzyboss.net...

Quoted message said:

Just curious, will you be watching the IMAX that followed Tyler during this years TDF, when it
comes out? Would it be cool for a cyclist to

watch

Quoted message said:

this, or uncool?

What would be coolest would be the coolest Gods of RBR plan an event in each continent upon the
IMAX release and see it together.

We could ask Tyler to speak were it to premieire in N. America.

Cool? Hell yeah!!

-Ken (Absolut Oranji and Ketel 1 Citron -- TGIFF!)

Assuming IMAX films debut on the same day, which I do not believe they
do. Are there IMAX theatres outside the US/Canada? I've never heard of them, but of course that
doesn't mean they don't exist (possibly in some Euro standard %-)

There's an IMAX about 1 mile from work, at the San Jose Tech Museum. I'll be keeping an eye out for
this feature, which should be when, about 2004 some time?

Lastly, considering TH's injury, it does seem a little macabre to be following an injured guy
around the TdF stages. Heroic, no doubt, but considering the sound quality of these affairs, do we
get to hear his grunts of pain and gnashing of teeth? What about the body-double, did he have to
receive some coaching on riding, not just like the lactose, sun, food, et al, are about to drive
him over the edge, but he can't get out of the saddle, etc. ("Now ride like you're Quasimodo, yeah,
like that..."😉

Ignatz Q. Mouse said:

Are there IMAX theatres outside the US/Canada? I've never heard of them, but of course that doesn't
mean they don't exist

Well we have one omniversum.nltheater.htmlOpen ↗ (dome/OMNIMAX). Brussels has a standard IMAX
theater, and most of the larger European cities have.

Callistus Valerius said:

Just curious, will you be watching the IMAX that followed Tyler during this years TDF, when it
comes out? Would it be cool for a cyclist to watch this, or uncool?

Depends, whether the movie is about cycling or will it just have 30 seconds of tour footage in a
movie about the human leg.

It would be cool to see, but its dorky to have to ask whether its cool or not.

G

Ignatz Q. Mouse said:

Assuming IMAX films debut on the same day, which I do not believe they
do. Are there IMAX theatres outside the US/Canada? I've never heard of them, but of course that
doesn't mean they don't exist (possibly in some Euro standard %-)

We have one in Denmark (tycho.dktycho.dkOpen ↗).

The IMAX movie from Tour de France, will be about what happend in the brain of a team/rider under a
event as Tour de France, and the premier will be late in 2004.

Poul Erik

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There are a couple in Paris.

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Ken Papai said:

"Callistus Valerius" <jazzyboss.net...

Quoted message said:

Just curious, will you be watching the IMAX that followed Tyler

during

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this years TDF, when it comes out? Would it be cool for a cyclist to

watch

Quoted message said:

this, or uncool?

What would be coolest would be the coolest Gods of RBR plan an event in each continent upon the
IMAX release and see it together.

We could ask Tyler to speak were it to premieire in N. America.

Cool? Hell yeah!!

-Ken (Absolut Oranji and Ketel 1 Citron -- TGIFF!)

Assuming IMAX films debut on the same day, which I do not believe they
do. Are there IMAX theatres outside the US/Canada? I've never heard of them, but of course that
doesn't mean they don't exist (possibly in some Euro standard %-)

There's an IMAX about 1 mile from work, at the San Jose Tech Museum. I'll be keeping an eye out
for this feature, which should be when, about 2004 some time?

Lastly, considering TH's injury, it does seem a little macabre to be following an injured guy
around the TdF stages. Heroic, no doubt, but considering the sound quality of these affairs, do we
get to hear his grunts of pain and gnashing of teeth? What about the body-double, did he have to
receive some coaching on riding, not just like the lactose, sun, food, et al, are about to drive
him over the edge, but he can't get out of the saddle, etc. ("Now ride like you're Quasimodo,
yeah, like that..."😉

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GregR said:

Callistus Valerius said:

Just curious, will you be watching the IMAX that followed Tyler during this years TDF, when it
comes out? Would it be cool for a cyclist to watch this, or uncool?

Depends, whether the movie is about cycling or will it just have 30 seconds of tour footage in a
movie about the human leg.

It would be cool to see, but its dorky to have to ask whether its cool or not.

G

I've only seen one film at an IMax (University of Chicago Science Museum, IIRC) The Fires of Kuwait.
All that was missing was the heat, but I wonder how an IMax presentation relates to the TdF
experience of a rider. Seems more like the experience of a motorcycle camera man (Virtual Graham
Watson! Woo!) Still should be cool just for the better view of the race than I can afford (sitting
on a stool at the local pub, competing with Soccer and Giants fans because I can't get OLN or Sat.
TV where I live :-(

Callistus Valerius said:

Just curious, will you be watching the IMAX that followed Tyler during this years TDF, when it
comes out? Would it be cool for a cyclist to watch this, or uncool?

From NY Times Aug 5

From a Speeding Bicycle, a Look at the Brain. by Ian Austen

PARIS— Early on during this year's Tour de France, the American cyclist Tyler Hamilton stumbled out
of a crash with two fractures in his collarbone, an anxious time for him, his teammates and family.
To JoAnna Baldwin Mallory and Bayley Silleck, the accident threatened an elaborate project.

The pair were leading a crew of 48 people filming Mr. Hamilton's experiences at the three-week
bicycle race to create an IMAX movie about the human brain. Backed by Partners HealthCare, a
Boston-based hospital group, and with $3 million in National Science Foundation financing, the two
realized they might lose the star of their $9 million production.

"Frankly, I was at a loss as to what to do," said Mr. Silleck, the director of the film tentatively
titled "Brain Power." "I was prepared to jump out a window at that point."

But Mr. Hamilton not only stayed in the race despite his painful injury, he won one of the Tour's
most difficult daily races, or stages, and finished fourth over all behind his former teammate Lance
Armstrong.

Sitting in the television production area adjacent to the Tour's finish line along the Champs
Élysées, Ms. Baldwin Mallory, the film's senior producer, talked about the film's genesis and Mr.
Hamilton's role.

A former documentary producer, Ms. Baldwin Mallory has been managing an office for new ventures at
HealthPartners for the last five years.

"We train doctors," she said. "When we talked about extending that mission to looking at partners as
an institution that also engages in public science education, not just professional education, we
received a great deal of support at the top."

Since IMAX theaters, which typically have screens about seven stories high, are often situated in
science centers, they seemed an obvious way to extend Partners' teaching role to a wider public.

And the idea of using the Tour de France was immediately appealing, said Dr. Dennis J. Selkoe, a
professor of neurological diseases at Harvard and an adviser to the film.

"My initial reaction was that this was a very smart and clever way to illustrate the healthy brain,"
he said. "The rider is using the mind to integrate a huge amount of information and executing a plan
to beat the competition."

Rolling to the starting line for the final stage of the Tour, Mr. Hamilton spoke enthusiastically
about IMAX films, and his participation in this one. "I thought this film was a good idea and also
good for the sport of cycling," he said.

The on-screen images of brain activity won't actually be from the race, since no one can ride a
bicycle and undergo a PET scan at the same time. And while some scans of Mr. Hamilton's brain
activity will probably be made, many of the medical images will be from other people.

"We're not looking for something that's in his brain but not in the rest of us," Mr. Silleck said.
"We're simply using his brain as a metaphor for everybody's brain."

A portion of the film dealing with perception will move between what
Mr. Hamilton sees on the road, say the summit of a mountain pass, and medical images showing how
different areas of the brain work together to create vision. Other brain concepts will be
explained with graphics. One sequence, for example, is likely to show how Mr. Hamilton sorts
through a variety of conflicting and powerful brain messages: feelings of pain, fatigue, thirst
and hunger, screams from spectators, memories of his daily race strategy and the image of a fast
looming pothole. Mr. Silleck's current plan is to have artists create a "vast legislature of
Tyler Hamilton's mind."

"Every few thousandths of a second your brain is making a decision on what to do and then sending
out messages to the motor cortex and then to the muscles and the nerves," Mr. Silleck said. "There
are a lot of competing influences in the rider's brain at the Tour de France. It is your `self'
through willpower or volition that to some extent decides which of those committees you're going to
listen to at any given moment.

"In Tyler's case, he's able to overcome pain that's screaming out, `Let's go home, forget about
this.' Much more powerful is his personality, his memory and his sense of who he is."

Ms. Silleck, who has worked on seven IMAX films, including one about astronomy and another on the
environment, had to overcome a lot of obstacles in filming the race. The bulky IMAX cameras
proved daunting on a course, especially since about 7,000 official followers were already
congesting the path of the Tour de France, to say nothing about the millions of fans. He used a
custom-made motorcycle rig with gyroscopes to stabilize the camera. But that left no room for a
camera operator. He ultimately ran the camera by remote control from a helicopter 2,000 feet
above the race.

Some sections of the Tour route, particularly in the mountains, were too narrow to safely use the
rig when all the riders were present, forcing Mr. Silleck to substitute one of Mr. Hamilton's
teammates to act as a body double riding through the crowds ahead of the race while wearing Mr.
Hamilton's race number.

To integrate the racing with brain science, Mr. Hamilton visited a Paris studio just before the
Tour's start. Carefully guided digital cameras and laser measurements were used to create a 3-D
computer model of his body. As the film moves onto its post-production phase, the virtual Mr.
Hamilton will allow special effects designers to zoom from the race action into images of the
brain's inner workings.

"We've known from the very beginning that an event as powerful as the Tour de France can overwhelm a
film," Ms. Baldwin Mallory said. "Our challenge now is to knit together the science story with what
can be an overwhelmingly powerful event. I'm very confident we're up to the task. But this is a very
specific film and this is a very specific event so we have to be very careful."