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Timelapse of the moon and clouds

I'm pretty sure if you watch this video you turn into a werewolf.



Via Giles

Slow motion surfing on big ass waves

This is Chris Bryan's latest video. This, more than other slow motion surfing videos shot on a Phantom, scared the shit out of me. There's something so menacing about waves so big moving so slowly. Good use of M83 on the soundtrack.





This day at Teahupoo- Aug 27th 2011 during the Billabong Pro waiting period is what many are calling the biggest and gnarliest Teahupoo ever ridden. Chris Bryan was fortunate enough to be there working for Billabong on a day that will go down in the history of big wave surfing. The French Navy labeled this day a double code red prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone that entered the water.
Kelly Slater described the day by saying "witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people's lives all day long, it's life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life."



Via John

Mountain biking in the snow

This is kind of nutso and reminds me of the 'Craziest possible mountain biking video Kottke posted a couple a couple weeks ago...except this is in the SNOW. There's only a few of the harrowing cliffs, but still.



Filmed at the end of November 2010 somewhere in Bavaria. Riders are Max Schumann and Maxi Dickerhoff. Snow cover was about 50 or 60cm. With hikers trampling down the snow and making a trail then some good riding is still possible. Took us 2hrs of pushing and carrying to get to the trail head but, once again, the up hill grunt was well worth it. Considering these guys were running with normal downhill tyres (without spikes) then this is some of the fastest mountain trail snow riding I have seen. Some sections of the trail are pretty exposed too, kiss your ass good bye if you fuck up.

Basejumping in Norway

Well, this video is totally insane.



Via Stellar

Phantom cocktails

In case you needed to make cocktails more interesting.



Via Stellar

Pretty Fiji

You might want to watch this one in full screen.



Via Stellar

So many skaters

I sure like this a lot.







Via Stellar


How to make scones (sexy)

I've never liked scones, the muffin's bastard brother. Steve's video about scones, however, I love.



His coffee video isn't bad either.

New way to see surfing

I've been posting a lot of surfing videos lately, considering I don't like going in the ocean. But this is cool. The crazies at Rip Curl and Time Slice Films built an array of 52 DSLR cameras on a scaffolding in a wave pool in Malaysia.



And then when they wanted more, they built a rig of 30 Go Pro cameras so that someone could hold it on the back of a jet ski.



Via @aarn_

The Knife Maker

Here's Made By Hand's 2nd video, The Knife Maker.



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