Teahupo'o was included on Transworld Surf's list of the' Top 10 Deadliest Waves' and is commonly referred to as the "heaviest wave in the world".[6][1] The name 'Teahupo'o' loosely translates to English as “to sever the head” or "place of skulls"."
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posted by philip-random
on Jan 15, 2012 -
62 comments
"Where I come from, a little patience at the crosswalk usually rewards me with a stoplight-induced pause in traffic, but here things are different. One had to simply cross, stride forward into the asphalt gauntlet with no fear, just faith that two intersecting streams of traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian, would reconcile themselves. And they always did." Photographer
Rob Whitworth stitches together 10,000 images to bring you a very kinetic time-lapse video of
"Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam." [
via]
posted by bayani
on Jan 6, 2012 -
15 comments
3 part series (some subtitles): rad mashup between stop motion and drawn animation in an awesome wrap of cute fun.
Ep 1,
Ep 2,
Ep 3 .
posted by armisme
on Nov 3, 2011 -
2 comments
Tom Waits' Private Listening Party
The whole thing's gonna to have to be
rethought. [SLYT]
posted by misterG
on Aug 23, 2011 -
37 comments
Captain Awesoooome! SLVimeo; 8.12; "Captain Awesome is about to save the day once again, when an upset stomach threatens to ruin it all. A story of a superhero’s race against time to save his image or humanity before it all goes down the drain!" Tip: bonus joke at 5.51.
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posted by bwg
on Jul 15, 2011 -
2 comments
Artist
Shawn Smith uses hand-cut wooden blocks and acrylic paint to transform images of nature into three-dimensional pixelated sculptures.
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posted by bayani
on May 30, 2011 -
9 comments
"One day a little boy came up, he must have been about four and he saw me taking off my (prosthetic) legs and he started with the 'why' questions, you know, 'why haven't you got any legs', etc. And I said 'have you heard of The Little Mermaid?' and he said 'yes' and I said 'I'm a mermaid' and he got this look on his face and he said 'wow that's cool' and ran off to tell his dad.
I'll have to turn up to that beach again sometime with my tail - just in case he's there."
Weta Digital are the special effects team behind the costumes, weapons and creatures of the
Lord of the Rings movies,
Avatar and even
a sonic screwdriver prop that could be making an appearance on the next season of Doctor Who. In 2009, they
created a fully functional mermaid tail pro bono for Nadya Vessey,
an Auckland woman who is a double leg amputee. Video News Report:
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posted by zarq
on Apr 5, 2011 -
37 comments
Rarely does building a treehouse require welding, grinding, painting, riveting, bending, crimping, plumbing, brazing, laser cutting, sound design, printed circuit board fabrication, thousands of lines of C code, distributed network protocols, sewing and embroidery.
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posted by BZArcher
on Feb 22, 2011 -
51 comments
The BBC and toy company Character Options will be putting a new
Doctor Who themed series of construction toys on store shelves around the world in the next few months. Just when you thought Matt Smith and Karen Gillan couldn't get any
cuter...
posted by BZArcher
on Jan 19, 2011 -
62 comments
It's autumn, which means for some nerdy bike racers, it's
cyclocross season. Cyclocross is an off-road cycling discipline characterized by short,
hard, intense racing that requires skilled bike handling,
running through mud or sand, and quickly dismounting, carrying, and remounting your bike to
navigate obstacles. After all, sometimes,
carrying your bike is just
faster than riding it.
In Europe, cyclocross draws
huge crowds despite terrible weather, but it remains a
niche sport in the United States, though with
increasing popularity - perhaps it's because it's one of the few sports where
rank amateurs can closely mingle with (and race the same courses as)
top professionals.
With the 2013
UCI Cyclocross World Championships to be held in
Louisville, Kentucky, its popularity and domestic appeal is expected to continue rising.
Previously.
posted by entropone
on Nov 8, 2010 -
59 comments
