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When you hail from a place called Ulladulla and form a band, it might be inevitable that your music has a bright, lilting, and rolling summer breeze to it. Hot Spa is very much under the radar–the five-member group from New South Wales, Australia doesn’t have a contract or a record and hasn’t played a [...]
Body surfing is the first sport we learn. Our first 40 weeks are spent surrounded by elemental warm wetness, sloshing and sliding when our moms go about their lives. Whatever we hear is muffled by the fluid in our ears, and the predominant sensation, at least as I imagine it, is one of floating. How [...]
Typically, the view you see of Tahiti’s Teahupoo is from surfer’s left of the wave, looking down the barrel to get the full impact of the heaving slab that passes for a lip, but this shot of Andy Irons was taken in the hottest part of the battle zone, just a few feet above the [...]
And you thought surfing was being ridden hard by marketers today. Well, they don’t make commercials like they did back in the 1960s–and that might not be such a bad thing. Check out this Americanized James Bond who only has eyes for a nice can–a nice can of Colt 45, that is, delivered by a [...]
It isn’t what you expect, I’ll just say that. This project video from Salazar starts out as an idyllic musing on summer at the lake. You’re thinking about young love and a cabin in the woods, rope swings and trout on the grill. And then you get a heaping helping of, um, exactly where is [...]
There is a strong element of pilgrimage in this short film as the unnamed surfer moves through New York City en route to a solo session. Surfing has always been about hydrotherapy, and the more you pass through the more you have to wash off. The grit of city life that accumulates is best rinsed [...]
Falling snow add a visual soundtrack to life. As you walk through it, drive in it, or lie on your back and let it cover you, the flakes soften and beautify the world, adding an extra dimension and making the mundane glorious. Geoff Charters would seem to agree–he bookends this lovely little video of Flims, [...]
It all starts with “what if?”. What if you could grind on that? What if you could slide over this? When you’re Shaun White, you don’t have to wonder–you just have the computer elves whip you and entire urban wave form. White’s video game comes out this fall, but the teaser just [...]
BiĊĦevo Island off the coast of Croatia is riddle with caves, none more beautiful than the aptly named Blue Cave, which had been known by fisherman for eternity but was made more accessible in 1884 when an entrance was blasted with dynamite. The best time to visit is midday, when high-angle sunlight bounces off the [...]
Adventure isn’t just lived on the Hillary Step or slingshotting into Teahupoo. The ragged edge of human existence can be found right in your own backyard–or better yet, someone else’s. Pool Jumpers, powerful new documentary from the director of Dogtown, won best documentary at Sundance for its gripping narrative of young men who chased adrenaline [...]
Although it seems like a polychrome x-ray, you’re looking at a photograph of a fish whose flesh has been rendered see-through and its skeleton dyed magenta. Japanese researchers have figured out how to turn the proteins (flesh and muscle) clear, while staining the bones a variety of neon colors. The process can take up to [...]
In 1870, the world’s largest known jellyfish washed ashore in Massachusetts, an ectoplasmic beast eight feet across, with tentacles 120 feet long, and a scale-tipping weight of 330 pounds. (That would fill a lot of Smucker’s jars.) Surprisingly, despite its upper end bulk, the jellyfish hasn’t come to play the same kind of predatory specter [...]
Rodrigo Baleia, who shoots for National Geographic’s Brazilian edition, has spent much of the last 10 years documenting the deforestation of the Amazon, often from the air. Seeing the rich, verdant forest destroyed to make room for cows and farms was heartbreaking. “It caused me much anguish and sadness,” he says, “because I never got [...]
It’s been five years since the first hurricane of the season formed in June, but that’s what the National Hurricane Center predicted and that’s precisely what showed up in the form of Alex, who you can see here bumping against Mexico. NHC foresees an especially active season for storms, partly because of exceptionally high water [...]
Surrounded by environmental, er, challenges, one of the toughest things is wrapping your head around the magnitude of the problems enough to break through your inertia and take action. Greenpeace Switzerland put together this striking video on just how fast the planet is being deforested–every two seconds, another soccer field’s worth of trees is gone [...]
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