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If you’ve seen any of Nike 6.0’s branding, you’ve seen Adam Haynes’s artwork. The skate brand built much of its early identity around Haynes’s detailed, extravagantly imagined scenes. Well, Fuel TV saw the brilliance in his illustrations and commissioned him to put his line-drawn world into motion as a short promo for the channel.>>>
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Everybody knows what parkour is, right? The street sport that combines urban gymnastics with the forward motion of a drug dealer being chased by the cops? Well, here’s parkour like you’ve never seen it. Serene Teh is a graphic design student in Singapore who put this clever animation together for a class assignment. It took her four weeks to complete–two weeks of planning, two weeks of execution. If she doesn’t get an A, we’re gonna have to track down the professor…>>>
CONTINUE>A couple months ago, I came across the video of Small Black’s “Despicable Dogs”. It revolves around a late 40s, 50-something surfer named Matt, the uncle of band member Josh Kolenik, and I can’t get it out of my head. Or I should say, I can’t get him out of my head.>>>
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Copenhagen Cyling Chic seduces with documentary street pictures of stylishly dressed peeps (mostly women) riding equally stylish bikes, and at first glance seems deep as a piece of velum paper. Beautiful and translucent. But beneath CCC is a revolutionary concept…
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Despite programs like the National Endowment for the Arts, Uncle Sam is woefully monochromatic when it comes to federal graphic design. In other countries, paper currency is a work of national treasure, and topographical maps are often so beautiful they could hang in a museum. In the good ol’ USA, though, it took more than two centuries before we put more than a smidge of color on the money and even then it was so desaturated Pantone would barely recognize it. USGS topo maps have all the lyricism of something you’d find on the bottom of your shoe. What wonderful surprise, then…CONTINUE>
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Once again, a brilliant idea that’s sweeping Japan and, once again, I didn’t think of it…CONTINUE>
CONTINUE>However you celebrate this holiday season, here’s hoping it’s a healthy, happy, and snowy one…CONTINUE>
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Every boy has a firewood story. Some girls, too. A hand axe was the first dangerous tool my dad trusted me with, and a chainsaw was the first that could do real damage. We’d cut up the deadfall on our two and a half acres in the mountains of Pennsylvania and haul it back to Virginia, where the heap of logs in the side yard would soon give way to a neatly stacked wall of fuel…CONTINUE>
CONTINUE>The end of the year is a good time for pondering the big questions in life, like where did I come from and why am I here and when is Santa going to bring a massive dump of 5% powder? In that spirit, here’s a wonderful video from the American Museum of Natural History that takes you on a tour of the known universe. Talk about an adventure. And never thought an animated video could make you homesick, but by the time you’re on the edge of the universal boundary, you’re ready to get back to the tiny blue marble we call earth, stat. When it comes into view again, you’re stoked–and marveling at the almost incomprehensible scale in which we live…CONTINUE>
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If you’re burned out on internet contests and giveaways, no one would blame you. But here’s one you’re going to like: The Adventure Life, along with Wagner Custom Skis and Telluride Ski Resort, is giving away a 3 day, 4 night ski trip for two to Telluride, Colorado, along with a pair of custom Wagner sticks built just for you. And all you have to do to win is tell us how stoked you are on skiing…CONTINUE>
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Steven Bumgardner has what by all appearances is a dream job: His produces Yosemite National Park’s video podcasts, which means he spends his day making short films about one of the most treasured places on earth. Recently he put together a time lapse piece centered around the visitors to the park. Very much worth watching.
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Every once in a while, like once or twice a year, you stumble across a website that’s so idiosyncratic it’s like entering another universe. Such is the case with Cold Splinters, a blog that feels like the 1968 love-child of national park ranger and a tree-dancing hippie chick. I mean this in the best of ways…CONTINUE>
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“When I decided I wanted to make art using a gun, I was not sure what direction I would have to take. I knew I did not want to use it simply as an accent to work I was doing, but as the focus. My main goal was to take the destructive power away from the gun. To manipulate the gun into a tool of creation and use it in a way that removed it from its original purpose. To deweaponize it.”
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Swiss snowboard clothing company Zimtstern has produced a short film that is nothing less than charming, whimsical, and just plain rad. Shot in the woods of Saas-Fee with a production crew of 25, it brings to life what most of us have dreamed–shredding even when there’s no snow. Now, here’s the thing that will blow you away when you watch: No computer effects or post-production trickery was involved. What you see is what they shot…CONTINUE>
CONTINUE>I don’t care if I’m the last person on the planet to discover this. It’s too good not to share.
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