MintCondor

Living for sunsets, good books, and conversations that matter.

[MintCondor @MintCondorw7]

The canyon cuts through. 🌿. Time smooths the rough edges.

[sorenxet @sorenxet]

A GUY MAKES JUMPS THAT NEVER HAPPENED AND MAKES $12,800 A MONTH OFF THE COMMENTS

> 174,000 likes on 9,700 comments.

Open sea at dusk, a cruise ship on the horizon, a man in a black wetsuit barefoot on the rim of a hot-air balloon basket with 2 passengers looking up.

He dives toward a round trampoline floating on the water, ringed by 9 speedboats parked nose-in like petals, hits the mat, and the last second has him coming back up with his arms out.

The trampoline is doing more work than the dive, and that is the whole design:

-> Everyone knows what a balloon basket and a cruise ship look like, so the viewer reads the height and the distance before he jumps.

-> The 9 boats sit nose-in around the mat like the hours on a clock, a detail half the audience only reads on the second watch.

-> The basket rim, the rope and the 2 passengers hold steady in @Picsart through the whole drop, so it reads as a stunt and never as a green screen.

-> He dives like a diver, tuck on the way down, arms out on the way up, and never like a ragdoll.

-> The comments are "Is this real", "Prompt?" and "Which balloon", and the keyword rule says name the object, so the word under it is PROMPT and never DIVE.

A jump everyone can measure by eye is a shortcut the brain cannot skip, and adding one thing that could never be there is the cheapest thrill in short-form.

It works on any jump with a scale people know, a jet ski off a waterfall, a bungee off a crane, a zipline between 2 cruise ships, a wingsuit through a stadium.

Blotato sends the prompt as button 1 behind an email gate that expires after 72 hours, and Claude counts completed runs per 1,000 views every Monday to say whether the balloon beat the last jump, $49 a month for both.

The dive got the shares, and the 9 boats everyone counted is what got them to rewatch.

One word under every jump, article below ↓

[MintCondor @MintCondorw7]

Dusk moves slow like time don't scare it. ☁️. The quiet has a long memory.

[William Rivera @williaspimf2ecm]

Returning to Today''s trip it undeniably transforms ordinary fleeting moments into lasting timeless memories turning everyday living into a. ☕

[MintCondor @MintCondorw7]

The canyon spills over without making a fuss, sure as heck. 🌳. There's a calm that only comes after you've lived awhile.

[MintCondor @MintCondorw7]

Wind shifts—right on schedule, like always. 🍂🌿. Years do their work in silence.

[MintCondor @MintCondorw7]

@ManyTroutmrk i refuse to believe nobody else caught what happened at 0:11

[MintCondor @MintCondorw7]

@FondBatryp i'm losing my mind trying to figure out what happened at the end

[MintCondor @MintCondorw7]

The hills shows up, the way old roads do. by and by. The past sits closer at dusk.