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The Ben Ali Returns campaign

Dictator President Ben Ali was chased out of Tunisia. Since then many had lost interest in politics. After many uneffective attempts to push Tunisian people to go out and vote for the upcoming elections, a new campaign was set up, to the shock of residents. Behind a big “old school” picture of Ben Ali, there […]

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The thin line between tight rope walking and base jumping

Breathtaking…and really good shots. Beautiful movie. “We travelled from our home in Chamonix to our training ground in the Verdon gorge, testing the limits for our ultimate goal… We rigged highlines on the skyscrapers of Paris, and finally came to the spectacular cliffs and fjords of Norway.”  

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Water Projections are the new Building projections

When the  Jordan Melo M8 was presented at Pier 54 in New York City, they used both: a big Barco projector beaming on a waterspray cloud creates a 3D effect. They throw a building projection together with it. Nice effect! (via SansSouciCrea )

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Water never looked that good – Phantom high speed camera

The Phantom is a digital HD high speed camera. High speed as in  100 frames/second in HD. Combine this with a waterproof housing and you get great water shots. Even if it’s frozen as in the ski demo clip they made. (the topless Miss tahiti shoot is also ok…admit it)

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Nest The Sexy Hot Thermostat

Nest | The Learning Thermostat is a completely rethought thermostat. The most unsexy thing that you have on your walls became hot (pun intended) . Love the site, love the idea. Love the idea that it sits on top of other manufacturers. Love that they made an app out of it.

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Who needs a full size halfpipe…we can leave some unused parts out no?

Simon Dumont had an idea of making a cubed halfpipe…leave the parts out where you don’t touch snow, basically. Red Bull got ‘m what he wished for. Was he happy? Sort of…in the end. Man he goes high!

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Antoine Montant grinds a lift cable

Antoine Montant combines his skïng skills with his parapente knowledge into Speed Riding: going ridiculous fast with a small kite , close to normal un-skiable slopes. So if you can fly, why not grind a cable car ? Above a short version. Below the must see 13minute version which is breathtaking in fullscreen. The speed made my […]

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Meet the spoon of the legendary George Greenough

George Greenough is famous for his unconventional surf design/ surf things he rides on. One of those things is an inflatable airbed. After that, he was experimenting with kneeboards and build a “spoon” : a small spoonshaped board which was the pioneer for shortboards. Remember, in those days people where surfing big longboards. Deus Ex […]

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The plans of my treehouse

Should look something like this cabin. Seems cosy, no?

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For guys only – Professional Russian – guns & explosions

Ok,  I know: guns kill people & animals…but killing zombies, bottles or toilets, or cars with guns & explosions…that’s toys for boys. The t-shirts are wrong too 😉 Example video: bad sniper. Love how he has to wait for a second for the rest of the car to land ….

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