I was shot over this link to My Modern Met who were given some pretty incredible photos from a television shoot National Geographic put together over the weekend. They put a team of scientists and engineers together and recreated the balloon lifted house.
UP is a tremendous film from Pixar with beautiful imagery and when applied to real life it is no less stunning.
My Modern Met has the specific details:
Yesterday morning, March 5 at dawn, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. The entire experimental aircraft was more than 10 stories high, reached an altitude of over 10,000 feet, and flew for approximately one hour.
This was all for a television show that National Geographic is premiering in the fall of this year called How Hard Can it Be?
I can’t wait to see this in action on film. My Modern Met has plenty more pictures where these came from and it’s quite a thing to see.
While we wait for this show to premiere, you can always watch UP. You can get the 4 disc Blu-ray set on Amazon for less than $20.