Showing posts with label extreme sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extreme sports. Show all posts
Wave Garden
Wave Garden is apparently an artificial wave generator for surfing. Via.
*Buy Gary Wright's Am I The One at Amazon.
(Anyone know why I would post a link to this song in this post?)
Surfing a giant wave at night
Short video of Mark Visser surfing at night while wearing a vest covered in LEDs. You can see more here and here (both links include auto-starting videos).
Cool snowboarding trick
Cool snowboarding trick (the video is very short). (And I don't care if it's real.)
Surfing plus bullet time
Surfing plus bullet time:
Here's slightly more footage featuring Steph Gilmore:
And this is the making of video:
Via.
*Buy underwater cameras at Amazon.
In collaboration with Timeslice Films, Rip Curl took on an ambitious bullet-time campaign shoot in Malaysia's Sunway Lagoon Wavepool with lead surfers Mick Fanning, Stephanie Gilmore, Owen Wright and Matt Wilkinson.
The revolutionary campaign captures surfing in a way never seen before, with the final visuals baring more resemblance to a fight scene from the famous Matrix movies than a promotional surfing video.
The two-day rental of Sunway Lagoon Wavepool allowed Rip Curl and Timeslice to operate in a more stable environment than the open ocean offers. The Rip Curl surfers were repeatedly towed into the machine-controlled waves by Jetski and their operational space was determined by the 52-camera rig set up in the pool.
Here's slightly more footage featuring Steph Gilmore:
And this is the making of video:
Via.
*Buy underwater cameras at Amazon.
Gymkhana: wild car tricks by Ken Block
Impressive drifting by Ken Block. Make sure you wait until he spins around the guy on the segway.
This second video in the series features lots more props: water balloons, paint guns, explosions...
*Buy Ken Block sneakers at Amazon.
Video roundup
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 trailer.
Trailer for Child of Eden (fight pulsating laser jellyfish while listening to techno).
Dead Space 2 trailer.
Video shows several key plays from Game 7 of the Lakers/Celtics series. (Why is ESPN nothing more than a bunch of high-paid shouters with access opining about whether Kobe is a top 20 or top 10 all-time player?)
Watch freediver Guillaume Nery plunge into the abyss.
Classic Star Trek clips set to Kesha's Tik Tok. Via all these fine sites.
*Buy Street Fighter action figures at eBay.
Red Bull has a science team and here's what they made
"The Red Bull Stratos science team has unveiled the first space suit ever to be produced by David Clark Company for a non-governmental space program. The team has also revealed the pressure helmet, which with the suit will serve as Felix Baumgartner's sole life-support system when he steps off his capsule at 120,000 feet to attempt a record-breaking freefall from the edge of space."
Here's a shot of the suit being tested:
And here's a great shot of Felix making a less ambitious jump:
The David Clark Company's motto is "We don't make sno-cone machines. We make full pressure suits."
*Previously: Red Bull-themed plasmid for Bioshock.
*Buy Red Bull collectibles at eBay.
Skull dress (link roundup)
Skull dress by Thom Ravnholdt. Via.
And a few more links:
1. Steambirds is a fun, simple dogfighting game. Via these sites.
2. The Marathon des Sables is a 151-mile, 6-day race in Morocco across the Sahara. Competitors must carry all of their gear, cook their own food, and endure temperatures of 120 degrees. Via.
3. Recipe for the vegan version of KFC's Double Down sandwich. Via.
*Previously: Meat dress.
*Buy survival tins at Amazon.
Skateboarding in a spaceship
Nike's new shoe for skateboarder Omar Salazar is filled with space age materials, so they also created an appropriately futuristic half-pipe. You can see video of Oamr in action, download desktop wallpapers, and check out the shoes here. Via.
*Previously: Guy skateboarding while wearing a homemade Max costume from where the Wild Things Are.
*Buy skateboard collections at Amazon.
Visible sonic boom (video roundup)
Rocket passes through ice crystals, creates visible sonic boom (two minutes in). Via.
Soccer commentator faints during broadcast (30 seconds in).
Pro Kayak Angler Drew Gregory gets attacked by a goose. Via.
Shaun White watches his X-Games wipeout with Letterman. (Crash at 2:26.)
Caleb Moore shows off some incredible tricks on a snowmobile.
*Previously: Crate Men Attack Australia.
*Buy Olympics posters at eBay.
Aliens-esque gunship (link roundup)
SciFi Gunship by Ignacio Bazán Lazcano. Via.
And a few more links:
1. Thus year's Volcom Pipeline Pro was about as close to a retelling of North Shore (one of my favorites) as could be. Gerry Lopez even plays a role.
2. $27,000 Hermès suitcase, $18,000 Slayer Espresso Machine.
3. Trees with ominously grasping shadows.
*Previously: Surf-jousting with sea monsters.
*Buy vintage surf posters at eBay.
Extreme Arm Wrestling
XARM: The Next Generation in Combat Sports. Fighters are tied (or duct-taped) to each other and to the table.
*Previously: Armwrestler with giant right arm.
*Buy boxing posters at eBay.
Kitesurfers jump a pier (link roundup)
Video Lewis Crathern and Jake Scrace kitesurfing over a pier. They waited three years for the right conditions. Via.
And a few more links:
1. When you put in the Fight Club Blu-Ray disc, the initial title screen is for Never Been Kissed. A prank cooked up by David Fincher and approved of by Drew Barrymore. Via.
2. When your son wants to know the worst swear word in the world.
3. Twilight's screenwriter got her first agent because they mistakenly thought she was Joan Rivers' daughter. Via.
*Previously: "You're on my sh*t list" stationery.
*Check out Amazon's Black Friday Blu-Ray deals.
Kayaking the Congo (link roundup)
Point of view video of kayaking the Congo. Hard to believe it's a river and not the ocean. Via.
And a few more links:
1. February 2010 DC Comics solicitations have been posted. I didn't see any particularly notable covers, but the Wednesday Comics hardcover is listed, and can be preordered for 27% at Amazon.
2. Russell Davies talks about ARGs and condenses the Bourne Identity movies to a handy pie chart. Via.
3. Twisted street (reminds me of a good Mieville short story).
*Previously: Giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest found in the Congo.
*Buy spy tools at Amazon.
Papercraft Hockey Mask Murderer(link roundup)
Papercraft skeleton, werewolf, hockey mask murderer and monstrous fridge can be downloaded here. Via.
And a few more links:
1. Some ultramarathoners get their toenails surgically permanently removed - - you can read more about how and why, if you can stomach it, here. Via.
2. Trent Reznor made a song for a Fringe commercial.
3. One strategy that might help you resist eating dessert? When you see something tasty, imagine using it as a doorstop. Via.
*Previously: Fringe's Selectric 251.
*Buy NIN concert posters at eBay.
Video of hawks trained to fly next to paragliders
Next time you're in Nepal, why not go Parahawking - - paragliding alongside specially trained hawks that will land right on your arm. Via.
*Previously: Watch a Golden Eagle yank goats right off of a mountain.
*Buy A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All at Amazon.
The French Spider-Man scales a skyscraper
On October 8, 2009, Alain Robert, the French Spider-Man, free-climbed the Ariane skyscraper in Paris. That first photo is reporters waiting for him to arrive at the building. Via.
*Previously: Skyscraper Airport of Tomorrow.
*Buy mountain climbing equipment at Amazon.
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