If you care about ethics in sport read 'Racing Through The Dark' by David Millar. It's termed as a 'fall and rise of...' tale, but it's a love story.
27 August 2011
25 August 2011
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple Inc, he's been on medical leave sine January, and on Wednesday handed things over to Tim Cook. Check out the man Steve Jobs telling three stories in the video below, awesome.
24 August 2011
James Blake & Bon Iver
New tune with a killer combination of James Blake's production and Justin Vernon's vocals - Fall Creek Boys Choir. James Blake has been a fan of Justin Vernon's work for a while and after meeting earlier in the year they kept in touch over email and now they've got this out. Good times.
20 August 2011
Skyliners Paris
After some crazy testing in Mont Blanc check out what these nutters got up to in Paris.
Highliners: Sebastien Brugalla, Tancrede Melet, Julien Millot, Antoine Moineviille, Rodolphe Robin.
Highliners: Sebastien Brugalla, Tancrede Melet, Julien Millot, Antoine Moineviille, Rodolphe Robin.
16 August 2011
Danny Macaskill: Industrial Revolutions
The latest video from much YouTube loved Danny Macaskill. These clips were part of Concrete Circus, a TV documentary that went out on Channel 4 last night, featuring top skateboarding, BMX and parkour.
10 August 2011
Countdown to London 2012
Snoop Dogg and Warren G joined British triple jumper Phillips Idowu to take on Great Britain in a 3 on 3 basketball match. The game took place in East London to mark the one year to go countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
07 August 2011
Benjamin Francis Leftwich
Perfect listening for this Sunday morning. Slightly slow on the scene of this young Yorkshire lad but 'Be My Sky', the short film shot during his UK tour brings you up to speed. His debut album 'Last Smoke Before The Snow Storm' can be yours for just under 8 English pounds, do it.
06 August 2011
Year Zero
Globe's new surf film 'Year Zero' looks good, and Black Mountain are in charge of the tunes so it sounds decent too.
The Happy Film
Title sequence from Stefan Sagmeister's new film documentary that will see him explore strategies psychologists recommended to improve personal well-being.
Move, Eat, Learn
Check out these short films, they'll get you thinking/booking/packing for a new trip. Have to say nice one STA Australia for paying for all this: "3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage. Move, Eat, Learn - by Rick Mereki, Andrew Lees & Tim White
05 August 2011
The Referees
New film documentary following the officials at the 2008 European Championships is set to give us an insight into the most controversial position on the pitch.
01 August 2011
The Photography of Walter Pieringer
Check out some awesome pictures on Walter Pieringer's new website just click here. He says "his slightly unhealthy fascination with the desert and unending quest for bizarre situations and strange humans keep him on the road and off the map for a good chunk of his life". I say "nice photos".
Chimpombwa - Making a football from plastic bags
The topic of plastic bags cropped up at work today, enthralling I know, anyways got me thinking of the kids in Zambia who collect plastic bags from the roadside and turn them into footballs.
How?
A couple of styles are used but the most common way is kids scrunching litter into a small plastic bag, making it into a football shape then adding more and more plastic bags making sure to tie each in a tight knot in even places around the ball. The strongest plastic bag is always kept until the end and then carefully melted to make it strong (others use string to hold the ball together), resulting in a 'chimpombwa'. The ball doesn't bounce like a normal football but it doesn't stop the kids playing for hours pretending to be Eto, Drogba, Messi or Rooney.
Two young creative Zambians; director Mosten Mutale and photographer Mark Mwanamwalye have told the story of how Fred Tembo from Garden Township in Lusaka makes his unique 'chimpombwa'. The Zambian short film 'Condomise Zambia' is this year's winner of ActionAid international film competition held in Denmark and the story has been described as "being young in a developing country" by the judges.
Plastic bags are also used to make kites and other waste is recycled to make toy cars. Large bottle tops make for good wheels, wire and the odd stranded flip flop make for a superb chassis!
How?
A couple of styles are used but the most common way is kids scrunching litter into a small plastic bag, making it into a football shape then adding more and more plastic bags making sure to tie each in a tight knot in even places around the ball. The strongest plastic bag is always kept until the end and then carefully melted to make it strong (others use string to hold the ball together), resulting in a 'chimpombwa'. The ball doesn't bounce like a normal football but it doesn't stop the kids playing for hours pretending to be Eto, Drogba, Messi or Rooney.
Two young creative Zambians; director Mosten Mutale and photographer Mark Mwanamwalye have told the story of how Fred Tembo from Garden Township in Lusaka makes his unique 'chimpombwa'. The Zambian short film 'Condomise Zambia' is this year's winner of ActionAid international film competition held in Denmark and the story has been described as "being young in a developing country" by the judges.
Plastic bags are also used to make kites and other waste is recycled to make toy cars. Large bottle tops make for good wheels, wire and the odd stranded flip flop make for a superb chassis!
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