World Record by Three Cirque du Soleil Teenage Performers

 This article used to be part of my Cirque du Soleil Primer article, but I decided to remove it from there and make it its own article instead. Note that this World Record was already set in September 2007, much over 1 year ago. 

Highest Circus Act Ever Performed

Did you know that three of Cirque du Soleil's contortionists, Natasha Patterson, 10, born in San Francisco, Julie Bergez, 14, from France and Dasha Sovik, 15, from Russia, who perform in KOOZA, the Cirque's latest touring show, attempted to and actually set a new Guinness World Record™ for the Highest Circus Act ever performed?

Well, they did just that on September 25, 2007 at the top of Toronto's CN Tower, the World's Tallest Freestanding Tower. This feat was performed in the Glass Floor observation deck, 342 meters (1,122 feet) above the ground and as high up on Toronto's CN Tower as you can get as a human without getting into serious trouble.
 
The CN Tower-Canada's National Tower- is standing tall as the defining landmark of Toronto with a total height of 553.33 meters (1,815 feet, 5 inches). This means that the record by the three teenage girls from Cirque du Soleil can be broken, but it would have to be a much windier and chilling performance in lofty heights and exposed to the elements, or somebody has to build a higher tower. Not an easy task obviously, because the tower was already built in 1976 and nobody built a higher one in over 30 years yet.

Watch full video of this performance on YouTube.

*Note: Natasha might have been 11 and Dasha 16 already when they made the performance on September 25, 2007. I don't have their exact birth dates to say for sure.

Another World Record by Cirque du Soleil

There was another World Record that was set by Cirque du Soleil on June 16, 2004 for the most people walking on stilts at the same place and at the same time. Cirque gathered 544 of its employees at their corporate headquarters in Montreal, Canada and set the new record.

I wrote about this in a separate article, if you want to learn more about this (including a some video material).

It has long been taken away from Cirque since then. The record was 625 by May, 2009. Cirque attempted to recapture the record on June 16, 2009 at 5 locations worldwide simultaneously, in Orlando, Florida;  Moscow, Russia; Montreal, Canada; Macau, China and of course in Las Vegas, Nevada. If they succeeded or not is still undetermined. The auditors of the Guinness Book of World Records are still counting :).

From the description of their video of the 2009 event at Facebook.com

Worldwide Cirque du Soleil cast, crew and staff went to great heights to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people to simultaneously walk on stilts on June 16, the date of its 25th anniversary.

In Las Vegas, nearly 300 Cirquesters took over the sidewalk in front of Bellagio to attempt the 328 foot distance on stilts that had to be at least 12" off the ground. Stay tuned to see if we broke the record. But even if we didn't, everyone had a great time!!!

However, the 300+ stilts walking Cirque du Soleil employees in front of the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada was a spectacle nevertheless and I am sure that people in Vegas and the other 4 locations worldwide had a lot of fun, world record or not. You can watch a 1:34 minutes video of the 2009 event at Facebook.com or Watch the video on YouTube .

Back to the Cirque du Soleil Primer

Cheers!

Carsten aka Roy/SAC and CirqueDuSoleilGuru

Roy/SAC Intro Development

When I decided to pack my collections of scene art logos and pixel art fonts to make them public for others to download, I got the idea to create a nice little intro that comes with the packages. Following an ancient tradition in the scene, an intro does serve the purpose to announce the release and to relay greetings and messages to fellow sceners. The intro (or Cracktro), which is short for "Crack Intro") pre-dates the text NFO files by many years. In fact, NFO files are something that was developed pretty late in the game and was only extensively used for releases on the PC.

NFO files were pretty much a novelty on machines like the Commodore 64 and also not common for the use in releases on the Commodore Amiga. I created a NFO file and file_id.diz for my collections releases of course.

Anyhow, I created an Intro with the help of the OSDM (OldSkool Demo Maker) intro engine developed by the fellow German scener with the name Peace/Testaware and released my collections with that new intro of mine.

As always, I was not 100% happy with the results and started tweaking, changing and expanding things. Here are the results of that tweaking and one intermediate version that will probably never be used for a release ever. The current version will most likely be used for any update to the current packages or for some new collections (I have a lot more stuff floating around here than just logos and fonts hehe).

Current Version 4.5 of the Intro

Code: Peace/Testaware
Design, Graphics, Concept & Direction: Roy/SAC
Music: Mantronix/Razor 1911

• Watch on Vimeo
• Watch on YouTube
• Download Video Version in AVI Format (263 MB)
• Download Win32 Executable (370 KB)

Previous Versions of the Intro

The credits for the previous versions of the intro are slightly different. I used a different intro tune there.

Code: Peace/Testaware
Graphics, Design and Concept: Roy/SAC
Music: track "Cognition" by Jozz/TRSI

Version 1	Version 3
Watch on Vimeo Watch on YouTube Download Video in AVI Format (63 MB) Download Win32 Executables	Watch on Vimeo Watch on YouTube Download Video in AVI Format (54 MB) Download Win32 Executables
Note: You can always download the AVI version of the intro at VIMEO.com. Look to the lover right of the detail page for each of my videos there.

I thought it was a nice idea to include greetings to most of the guys that I knew and dealt with in the scene and still remember, so I started creating a list to collect all the handles of those folks and included them in the second scroller (the smaller copper-bars scroller at the bottom). Most folks are from Germany, especially Berlin, where I grew up, but it also includes some folks from other countries in Europe, Israel, Canada and the United States.

Long List of Personal Greeting (Alphabetically)

Ace , Acen , Ados , Akim , Alf/ACC , Alf/Melmac , Alien/Nostromo , Alphatron , Amblin , Amok , Angel Death , Antibody , Argon Factor , Asphyx , Axess , Bacchus , Bad Boy , Beatmaster , Ben Garrett/Defacto2 , Bionic , Black Spyrit , Blacklord , Blaster , Brian O Neil , Brockhaus , Bug Lord , Busy Bee , Buttcher (Berlin) , Bymn , Caihai , Camel Joe , Capone , CC Catch , CeeJay , Censored , Cercyon , Chester , chub DrUid , Coast , Cosmic , Count Zero (Berlin) , Crackfield , Creator of Hell , Crypton , Cyber Brain , Cyric/DOD , Cyz , DAC , Dalezy , Darkside , Datacrime , Deathbringer , Deathwalker , Deleter , Deryll , Dipswitch , Dr.Acid , Dr.Lazy , Dragnet , Dream Design , Dusty , Elvin , Elvin Knox , Elwood , Exterminator , Fan Fan Latulipe , Fatman , Feldmann , Ferrex , FFC , Firebird (Berlin) , Fli7e , Fox , Frank Borally , Frog , Fulcrum , Garfield , Gee , Giovanni , Glink , Goonie , Grap , Gregory , Grymmjack , Guiver/EXS , Gumbo , Hagman , Hetero , Iceman , Iceman/WOF , iD MUD , Idefix , Idiana , Intruder , Jagor , Jaset , Jason Scott/Textfiles.com , Jester Radics , Jkowall , Johnny Cyberpunk , Kaethe , KC Kid , Killer , Kobold , Kral , Krazy Nomad , Larry ILG , LBM , Leecher JTC , Lemming , Logic , Lord MX , Lord Scarlett/SixteenColors.net , LTD/BLH , Mach One , Mad Danger , Mad Mac , Madmax (Berlin) , Madmax/CPI , Magician , Magnum , Marky , Matador , Matt , Maverick , Max/DOM , McLoud , Mefis , Menion Leah , Mitfit , Monday , Monster , Mozart , Mr.Axxess , Mr.Diesel , Mr.Lightning , Mr.Mad/NRG , Mr.Mixx , Mr.Rox , Mr.Swapper , Mr.Twister , Neon , Neophyte , O-Dog , Oliver Stone , OSHO , Overdoze , Palladin , Paragon , Paso , Pennywize , Pilot , Pitbull/RZR , Pitty , Poldi , Proton , Psychofox , Puschel , Quickmix , Rad Man/ACID , Radiocity , Rainer/AFL , Rainer/SAC , Raiser , Ramses , Ranx , Ratso , Rave , Rescue 911 , Retaliator , Rhett Jones , Ripwave , Roach , Rowdy , Royal Knight , Salty , Sextronix , Shamen , Shockwave , Shot , Skin , Sky , Slash , SLE , Snoop , Snoopy , Sonic , Spacerat , Sparky , Speedlock , Spoon , Sporky , Squizzy , SSC , Starx , STB , Stone , Stonehedge , Stryker , Suicide , Svenzzon , Synec , Term , Termi , The Barrier , The Driver , The Outlaws , The Punisher , The Shark , The Syndicate , Thunder , Thunderhawk , Tic , Toast , Toony , Toth , Toxic Trancer , Trans/BF , Trinitron , Trixter , Tronics , Trouble , Twin! , Twinbit , Twister , UCI , Ufonaut , Ultimate , Ultimate Warrior , Uridius , Urmel , Vax , VFast , Vincent , Virago , Werner , Wessi , Whiteheat EXLC , Wilkins , Wing , Wizard , Xan , Xeek , Xerxes , XLR8OR , XOX , Z80 , Zerovision , Zippoid , Znake , Zyrix

If you have any comments or feedback to the intros, let me know and post a comment below.

Thanks and Cheers!

Carsten aka Roy/SAC

Scene Pixel Art Logos Collection Vol.1

I blogged about scene pixel art logos last December and about the Flickr.com collection where I posted many scene logos and more.

I collected a lot more logos since then and I did not update the Flickr.com collection yet. The main reason for that is the inability for me to avoid uploading the same logos again that I already uploaded to Flickr before. Flickr does not provide any option to de-dupe images within an account, collection nor set (bummer).

So I decided to pack everything up and make it somewhat of an official release. I saw Ben Garrett's logo pack for Defacto2.net and pretty much copied his format hehe. My collection includes the Defacto2.net collection entirely (as of May 2009), unless Ben added a significant amount of new logos to his collection since I last synchronized it with mine.

My Scene Pixel Art Logos Collection of over 6000 logos for over 1500 groups, bbs, demos and more from the Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and PC demo and warez scenes.

The collection can be downloaded at my Mediafire.com account. The ZIP archive is about 162 MB in size.

The release was created like a standard scene release, the collection itself was compressed with WinRAR and the RAR file was then packed with WinZIP. The Zip file also contains the release NFO file, File_ID.diz and a small intro for Windows. You can watch the intro as video capture and the NFO + File_ID.diz below.

Download and Spread RoySAC-LogosPixelArtSceneVol1.zip!!!

I hope you will enjoy this pack.

 

The release Intro

Backup Link to video on Vimeo.com
Download this video in AVI format

Credits for this little intro:

Code: Peace/Testaware
Graphics and Design: Roy/SAC
Music: tune "cognition" by Jozz/TRSI

The Release NFO File

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                         Roy/SAC presents

                    Scene Pixel Art Logos Collection V1.0


              Packaged and Released on June 17, 2009


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              Release Notes:


              Over 6200 Images for over 1500 Groups, BBS, Demos and more
              from the Commodore 64, Amiga and PC Demo– and Warez Scenes
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              Installation:


              Simply UnRAR the file "Logos Pixel Art Scene.rar"
              It should automatically create 27 sub folders named
              Logos 0–9, Logos A .... Logos Z


              Below that are sub folders for each Group, Demo, BBS etc.
              where you can find the logos that I collected for each of them
              to this date. There are duplicates, where I am slowly but steady
              working on eliminating, but I rather have a logo twice or more 
              than not having a logo at all. :)
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              Greeting:
              Defacto2.net, Scene.org, Textfiles.com, Pouet.net
              Demoscene.tv, GfxZone, Intro Inferno, C64.org, OSDM, 
              AMP, Edge, Sizteen Colors, Flashtro, Old–Skool.net,
              Untergrund.net, Bitfellas, Exotica and everybody else who 
              works on preserving the rich history of the scene and makes 
              it accessible for future generations to enjoy.


              Group Greetings:
              Blocktronix (thanks for keeping the ANSI scene alive and kickin)
              CPI (Oldskool forver!)
              RoORS (nice DVD Release)
              Andomeda Software Development (Your demos rock! Period!)


             Personal Greetings to:
              Madmax/CPI, Peace/Testaware, Smash/Fairlight, Shamen/Dytec,
              DaLezy, Dipswitch, Mandibular Joint Dysfunction, RaD Man/ACiD,
              Jason Scott/Textfiles.com, Ben Garrett/Defacto2, my blog readers, 
              Lord Scarlet/SixteenColors, Zerovision/Blocktronics and everybody
              else I know and forgot to mention :)

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              Check out the intro in this release "LogosCollectionIntro.exe" :)


              and don't forget visiting http://www.RoySAC.com
              and to check out my blog at http://www.roysac.com/blog



   Additional URLs you might want to check out
              
   Over 300 demos, cracktros and other scene related videos
   http://www.youtube.com/sacreleases


   Scene Images of all sorts
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/cumbrowski/collections/72157611288618058/
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/cumbrowski/collections/72157612320706642/
           
   My Mediafire.com file share related to the scene, tons of files to download!
   http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b570d9e07985879c7069484bded33bcd06b0971baa3373fa


   My ASCII Art Academy to learn more about classic Text Art
   http://www.roysac.com/learn/


   Links to other useful resources online to learn more about the scene
   http://www.roysac.com/roy_links.asp

              Signing off!
         
              Roy of Superior Art Creations, CPI, Dytec, Razor 1911, TRSI, TDU–Jam, PNS

The Release File_ID.diz

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            Roy/SAC presents
 Scene Pixel Art Logos Collection
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 Over 6200 Images for over 1500
 Groups, BBS, Demos and more
 from the Commodore 64, Amiga and PC
 Demo– and Warez Scenes
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 Packaged on June 17, 2009
 and don't forget visiting RoySAC.com

Update! Scene Fonts Collection Vol 1.0

I also released "Scene Fonts Collection Vol 1.0"

A collection of over 600 font sets from demos, intros, cracktros, demo makers and other sources from the Atari ST, Amiga and PC. The collection is 37 MB in size and can be downloaded from my MediaFire.com account as well.

Download and Spread roysac-scenefontscollectionvol1.zip

Cheers!
Carsten aka Roy/SAC