Pre-Christmas Tune

Grade - A Year In The Past, Forever In The Future

Mid-Week Tune

Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt 

Swap a Ginger - the PC Pinkos Strike Again

Looks like the PC pinkos in New Zealand have had another advertisement banned on grounds of being "offensive". So I'll post it here for posterity. You can read about it all here.

Susceptibility & Insularity Meet. . .

. . . resulting in propaganda-induced hypochondria:

Ripped from Jessica Hagy's Indexed.

Perception is Everything. Climbing El Cap with 3 Limbs

Gimp Monkeys from ARC'TERYX on Vimeo.

'We are climbers first, disabled second,' says Arc'teryx athlete Craig DeMartino. 'If you're a climber, you want to climb El Cap.' Gimp Monkeys follows DeMartino, Jarem Frye and Pete Davis' successful ascent of Zodiac, a 1,800-foot route on the Southeast Face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Hugh Hendry at The Buttonwood Gathering

Hugh Hendry again. Always worth watching:

theeconomist on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

The Revisionaries

More dogma peddling assholes. This time it's the Americans (well, certain ones in positions of authority) doing what the Chinese and the Japanese have been doing for years - tweaking or outright revising historical and scientific fact away from the truth in school curricula.

Here's the trailer:

Rowan Atkinson on Free Speech

The freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all. 

- Lord Dear, House of Lords

How to Really Ride a Road Bike

Martyn Ashton demonstrates how to really ride a road bike. Road Bike Party:

Steve Keen Interview

Steve Keen gives a great explanation on how debt drives asset price bubbles and the implications for housing markets (especially in NZ and Australia). Well worth watching:

Split of a Second

Wingsuit World Champion Espen Fadnes and Project Managers Goovinn team up again for "SPLIT OF A SECOND" after last year's film "SENSE OF FLYING", this time for an up close, personal look at Espen's thoughts and motives behind flying and some never-before-seen footage of human flight.

Ricky G.

The Crazy French. . .

Blow it to full screen:

I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies ). Free segment from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Trade-Offs & The Hard Way. . .

Source: Jessica Hagy @ Forbes

Where To Live In London

Europe Explained

Build The World's Tallest Building In 90 Days ? Yep. . .

Chinese construction company BSB plans to do just that. They have form - having built a 30 storey hotel in just 15 days (time lapse video of this below).

Full story on the 90 day build here.

More Mountain Biking in New Zealand - Mount Burke

Mountain biking in New Zealand

Dirt Park NZ 2012 NSMBA Film Fest submission from sheGNARnigans on Vimeo.

Michael Sousa's submission to the 2012 North Shore Mountain Bike Association Film Festival. See what happened when the second half of the shegnarnigans team shred Dirt Park while in New Zealand with the boys from Diaries Down Under.

Image Of The Day

Creationism

Trike Drifting on Auckland's North Shore

I watched this last month. Plenty of other trike drifting vids about too. Looks like the cops are after these guys now - that's what 4m+ 'tube hits gets you. . . .

Lives of the Artists

I first saw this film at a festival at Rich Mix (Shoreditch, London) a couple of years ago. The film's Producer from Relentless and the Director were there and did a lengthy Q&A session afterwards. A small group of us went to the pub with them afterwards to chat further.

The film follows the lives of three quite different artists and perfectly captures their drive and promise of no compromise.

What an awesome film. . . .  When you've got an hour or so spare with no distractions, grab an alcoholic beverage, blow it to full screen, turn it up and. . . watch:

Kayaking Noccalula Falls

First descent of Noccalula Falls (90 feet) with kayakers Pat Keller (First Descent), Isaac Levinson and Chris Gragtmans.

Cured

More Jeb Corliss & Friends

BIRDMEN: The Original Dream of Flight TRAILER from Team Thirteen on Vimeo.

Segways Are For Grannies. The DTV Shredder. . .

What One Does To Pass The Time While Waiting For Wind To Kite

A teaser edit from episode 5 of catchin' air. Andy Hurdman wakeboards through an ice field while waiting for the wind to pick up. You can download the show at http://hydrusmedia.spinshop.com/

Music - "Magical World"--Bassnectar remix