{"id":33237,"date":"2021-04-13T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/?p=33237"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:48:58","slug":"how-to-make-a-living-room-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/how-to-make-a-living-room-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make a Living Room FLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first article in a new series looking behind the scenes at outrageous skydiving stunts \u2013 Joe Jennings explains how he made a living room fly…\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Stuntman Jeff Provenzano watching TV in his ‘living room’ above Arizona
Photo by Joe Jennings
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But first, the story itself, this is an extract from an article<\/a> Joe wrote for Palos Verdes Pulse, a lifestyle digital magazine\u2026<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Imagine yourself sitting on a couch with a heavy-duty strap twisted across your lap like a seatbelt… You, the couch, and your entire living room are anchored to a 2,500 pound platform made of welded steel, and you\u2019re in free fall over the desert. Five thousand feet above ground and approximately 20 seconds before impact, you release the strap, but it doesn\u2019t move. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years ago, I put a good friend into this exact predicament.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In college, I studied business management and Spanish intending to build a career in South America, so naturally I became a skydiving cameraman in Southern California! Today, almost thirty years later, producers contact me when they have a story to tell with people and\/or objects falling through the sky. Normally, they\u2019ll have a shot list or storyboards and I help them to coordinate whatever they need to get the job done <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I\u2019m asked what I love most about my job, my job, hands down, it\u2019s teaming up with friends to design, build, or modify an \u201cobject\u201d, to then drop it from an airplane or helicopter to film in free fall. It\u2019s a combination of geeking out on fluid dynamics, and the pure rush of crashing things into the ground from two miles up. I like to brag that we can make a car stay upright in free fall. No other team has accomplished this without special effects or parachutes, and we\u2019ve done it dozens of times!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a combination of geeking out on fluid dynamics, and the pure rush of crashing things into the ground from two miles up<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, NVIDIA asked if we could make an entire living room fly.The campaign to promote the NVIDIA \u201cShield\u201d streaming device, was called \u201cRule The Living Room\u201d; heroic stories of average people in precarious situations taking command of their living rooms. In our story, a guy is watching TV with his cat when a huge door opens behind them and the entire room falls into the sky. He casually dons a helmet and settles in for the ride. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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