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1. The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse
6 months ago
November 9th 2007 - November 13th 2008
one year on foot - 4646km through China
unlimited beard & hair growth
thelongestway.com
musical score by the kingpins ( myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo
Additional info:
- I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany. Instead, I walked for a year and roughly 4500km, passed the desert of Gobi, and then decided to stop walking for now.
- All of the distance from Beijing to Ürümqi has been completed solely on foot, straight good old walking. There are instances where you can see me in the video sitting on a plane or riding a boat, but those are during breaks I had to take from walking, either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of some personal things.
- I had been planning this trip for over a year before I even started, and getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.
- Obtaining the necessary visa for a trip like this was not very easy, hence I had to go back to Beijing a few times to resolve some issues.
- The songs I used in the video are 1) Zhu Fengbo - "Olive Tree" and 2) The Kingpins - "L'aventurier" - visit the Kingpins website if you want to know more, they are very cool I think.
- This is not a strict "1 pic a day" video, because I wanted to make it a bit more alive by adding some additional movement. Sometimes during the film you would follow me turn around, or something would happen in the background. I tried to capture these moments to make the video more interesting.
- The core of this project is in fact my website "www.thelongestway.com" where I have posted my extensive travel diary, starting from day 1 (Nov 9th 2007) and describing every single day until the end one year later.
one year on foot - 4646km through China
unlimited beard & hair growth
thelongestway.com
musical score by the kingpins ( myspace.com/theoneandonlykingpins ) and zhu fengbo
Additional info:
- I never finished my original goal of walking to Germany. Instead, I walked for a year and roughly 4500km, passed the desert of Gobi, and then decided to stop walking for now.
- All of the distance from Beijing to Ürümqi has been completed solely on foot, straight good old walking. There are instances where you can see me in the video sitting on a plane or riding a boat, but those are during breaks I had to take from walking, either to sort out bureaucracy issues or to take care of some personal things.
- I had been planning this trip for over a year before I even started, and getting as far as I got was an experience for which I am very grateful.
- Obtaining the necessary visa for a trip like this was not very easy, hence I had to go back to Beijing a few times to resolve some issues.
- The songs I used in the video are 1) Zhu Fengbo - "Olive Tree" and 2) The Kingpins - "L'aventurier" - visit the Kingpins website if you want to know more, they are very cool I think.
- This is not a strict "1 pic a day" video, because I wanted to make it a bit more alive by adding some additional movement. Sometimes during the film you would follow me turn around, or something would happen in the background. I tried to capture these moments to make the video more interesting.
- The core of this project is in fact my website "www.thelongestway.com" where I have posted my extensive travel diary, starting from day 1 (Nov 9th 2007) and describing every single day until the end one year later.
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It works very well to mix in short video clips, and groups off shoots into the day to day snap. Gongrats.
The hair and beard thing was fun, but I'm more amazed by the trek you did. Inspiring!
I have traveled with backpack many places, but my dream is to do something similar. (Hard to do when you have a family, but when my son is older, maybe I can sneak away for a year or two.)
Só a idéia já é digna de elogios!!!
I have been backpacking in China for a month. Beatiful and amazing country but I know how stressful some situations can be. Anyway, u couldn't achieve ur target but You made a great work. CONGRAGULATIONS!!!
Congrats !
A life lesson ! :)
By the way, I couldn't access you web page. I bet this is down to the high demand
BTW, nice sound track :)
The most I walked was 40 km.
Has your walk something to do with the Silk Road?
Best regards, dude.
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(The URL for the band has a ')' character as part of the url, if you want to fix that for future people.)
Great video ! ! !
BTW as of Aug 2, 2009 your webiste is offline.
Thanks for sharing your journey.
I'm sure you'll carry the experience with you for the rest of your life!
how did you take your footage? what cam did you use and how? very good stuff. thanks!
J'adore
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i'm Inspired!
佩服，佩服！！
Steve
Being back home after what you've been through must have been quite confusing and maybe painful...
Utmost respect to you, Mr. Rehage!
Sin duda, ha debido ser una experiencia única
¡¡Enhorabuena!!
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