Browsing Category "Outdoors"
18 Feb
2012
Worlds Largest Rope Swing – Moab, Utah

Worlds Largest Rope Swing – Moab, Utah

Thank god there are people in this world who will do this kind of thing so that I don’t have to. Moab, Utah became a playground for Devin Graham when he let loose on the world’s largest rope swing. Luckily, [...]

18 Feb
2012
Gorgeous Nighttime Footage of Snowboarder Riding Through The Alps in an LED Snow Suit

Gorgeous Nighttime Footage of Snowboarder Riding Through The Alps in an LED Snow Suit

Snowboarder William Hughes shreds the gnar down the French Alps for an otherworldly late-night run, while emersed in a suit of LEDs. Sutton, who has created work for the likes of Hermès, Burberry and The New York Times, spent three [...]

27 Jan
2012
Remote Controlled Ornithopter Flight Video

Remote Controlled Ornithopter Flight Video

An ornithopter is a machine that flies by flapping its wings. It’s pretty amazing to watch this bird like object flap through the air and then glide down into the hand of the operator. The original Sean Kinkade (SK) Park [...]

26 Jan
2012
A Yurt By Any Other Name Would Keep You Warm & Dry

A Yurt By Any Other Name Would Keep You Warm & Dry

Watch a Mongolian family assemble their yurt in fast-forward video The nomadic people of Mongolia don’t stay in one place for long. That’s why they live in gers (which American’s know by the Russian name, yurt), a home that is [...]

22 Jan
2012
Record Player Modified to Play Cross Sections of Trees

Record Player Modified to Play Cross Sections of Trees

Bartholomäus Traubeck, was born in Munich, Germany in 1987 and is currently living and studying in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Linz, Austria. For his project entitled “Years”, he took a record player and modified it to analyze the various properties of [...]

31 Dec
2011
Sick Tribute To One Bad MoFo – Happy Birthday Shane, We Miss You!

Sick Tribute To One Bad MoFo – Happy Birthday Shane, We Miss You!

Shane McConkey was even more to skiing than Steve Jobs was to the home computer. Shane made skiing look so much fun, and was a badass skier and base jumper. He was a wonderful person who did what he loved [...]

30 Dec
2011
Peter Preffington’s Multi-Layered Graffiti Is Pretty Freakin Badass!!

Peter Preffington’s Multi-Layered Graffiti Is Pretty Freakin Badass!!

This multi layered graffiti style is so wild. Peter Preffington has created his own graphic language that’s generally composed of 2-4 words exploiting negative space between characters that spell words in the gaps. That’s okay if you’re having a hard [...]

28 Nov
2011
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Urban Street Skiing!

Magic happens at 2m:10s Let’s just set aside the fact that those skis are now thrashed and appreciate the level of insanity here. Rider: JP Auclair Music: LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean Via: BoingBoing edit: YouTube took the video [...]

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