Which one? The one with the guy skateboarding without a helmet? The guy on the edge of a rocky cliff? The guy standing at night on a rock formation on the beach? The women biking without helmets without their feet on the pedals? Or the kayakers going over a waterfall?

If I didn't know better, I would think filming yourself cracking your skull open is exactly what they're selling.

That promotional video is fantastic. Beautiful scenery, photogenic people, shots of pristine nature, even the family visiting a theme park inspires a primal kind of longing and deep pride in how awesome it is to be an incarnated human.

The score--Odesza's "A Moment Apart" from the album of the same name--contributes to the emotion in no small way.

Given the discontinuation of the developer program is in line with the gradual decline of the GoPro brand, the video is at once sublime and forlorn and I can't help but feel GoPro's fate is to be lamented.

One can almost read in the GoPro's plight the unavoidable fate of humankind and the planet on which we live.

OK, I know all of that is a bit overwrought, and this is my first exposure to Odesza. But I was so affected that I decided to buy the album and, I know, I'm going to put it on repeat for the next month or so.

Thanks for the link.

Odesza's other albums are great too!

The vocal sample from "Intro" on Odesza's album "Summer's Gone" is from a 1957 BBC Radiophonics workshop [1] - it's a remarkably simple explanation, but must have been amazing to hear at the time:

"You take a sound. Any sound. Record it and then change its nature by a multiplicity of operations. Record it at different speeds. Play it backwards. Add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities. You combine segments of magnetic tape. By these means and many others you can create sounds which no one has ever heard before."

[1]: https://boingboing.net/2012/05/21/bbc-radiophonic-sound-expe...

I actually think gopros gorgeous videos may have contributed to its downfall.

They’re all shot on GoPro, and they make a big deal about this. So everyone who buys one assumes they may be able to make videos that are also awesome.

Then reality comes crashing down, and you realize theirs was shot on 5 continents with tens of thousands of dollars worth of extra gear, and days of work on high-end editing rigs, and yours looks like you should’ve just shot it on iphone.

I don't know about contributing to their downfall. But GoPro with all their videos and so forth definitely create this aspirational branding that a lot of people like to see themselves being associated with.

Then they shoot a few videos skiing down an intermediate ski slope and realize this is all pretty boring and they don't kayak off waterfalls or jump off cliffs themselves.

Personally, I feel the same way about drones. Every time I think about getting a good one I realize I'd shoot some videos around my house and then... I dunno. Maybe I'd take it out somewhere but really they're sort obnoxious so probably it would sit on the shelf.

Yeah, I think you nailed it.

I remember taking the footage from a mountain biking trip and excitedly looking through it only to realize it was painfully boring. I forgot for a moment that I’m not a professional mountain biker, and can’t even do a double backflip. Even I didn’t really want to watch it; why would anyone else?

Nah, it's a tricycle!

i ride my bike like that all the time