Archive for April, 2011
This week’s Friday Photo winner is Jeff Bartlett, who submitted this beautiful shot. Here’s what he had to say about it:
“Abandoned transandino-railway tunnels give Jeff Bartlett the perfect place to train outside Mendoza, Argentina.”
… Read the restCongrats, Jeff, you will win an entirely re-vamped trail running wardrobe, including a pair of
Seeing a video like the one above certainly reminds us of the power of nature. It’s a bit unsettling, to say the least, to see a tornado this close, this huge and this powerful. The heavy breathing of the person filming adds a touch of reality to a seemingly unreal… Read the rest
According to the filmmakers behind Musicwood… Read the rest, “The world is running out of wood.” This statement shouldn’t come as a shock to you. With deforestation, woodlands and indigenous forests are slowly dwindling–causing species extinction and leading to higher, more dangerous levels of C02 in the atmosphere. If a statement such
This Saturday, April 30th, Julian Monroe Fisher–an anthropologist, ethnographical documentary filmmaker, explorer and writer–will begin his solo walk across the African continent. Fisher will begin on the west coast of Africa in Lobito, Angola and will eventually end on the eastern coast in Pemba, Mozambique.
To date, Fisher has made… Read the rest
Consider this one a follow-up to last week.
From Ben: (A good reason to sport a helmet…)
From Frank: (Belly flop?)
From Lynn: (Two points for the front flip.)… Read the rest
Last week we presented the above video and asked you to post this blog entry on your personal Facebook page and tag both prAna and Wend. We’re sure many of you did just that–so, thank you! Of course, there can only be one winner–and that person is Liz Thomas.
Congratulations,… Read the rest
The 5Point Film Festival opens its fourth season this weekend in Carbondale, Colorado. Organizers are sprucing up the mountain town to welcome movie buffs from across the country to share in the latest creations of aspiring filmmakers, stories and images that celebrate the active lifestyle.
The adventure media genre is… Read the rest
For the last ten years a group of adults in San Francisco with a love for what I think was my first “vehicle” have been holding an event on Easter Sunday. Bring Your Own Big Wheel, or BYOBW. Awesome.… Read the rest
Boy Without God‘s album, God Bless the Hunger… Read the rest, sounds at once classic and strikingly fresh. Behind the pseudonym, Boy Without God, is Boston native, New York-based, singer-songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum, a young man with a powerful, soothing baritone of a voice. Beneath Boy Without God’s voice is a range of
Living simply isn’t as easy as it looks, or is it? A new film by Allie Bombach and Red Reel Productions explores the transient lifestyles of people who live out on the open road actively in pursuit of their dreams. In a documentary filmed in a style true to its… Read the rest
It’s frustrating when twelve-year-olds are better at something than you ever, in your lifetime, could be. But it’s also fun to watch.
[Via: skatefairy on Vimeo]… Read the rest
It’s hard to think about reflections without getting metaphorical and sort of, for lack of a better word, gooey. And that’s because reflections are rarely just reflections. In films, when a character is shown in the same frame as his or her reflection it generally means that he or she… Read the rest
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Five or six years ago, I met renowned Portland poet, Walt Curtis at a keg party. I didn’t know who he was at the time but his presence there was impossible to ignore. Wearing a tattered, untucked flannel shirt and shouldering a mostly unzipped school-style backpack, the scraggly remnants… Read the rest
Happy Earth Day! And Happy Spring!
Wend‘s newest issue has hit newsstands, and, as you’ve probably noticed, is also available online in digital format. With that, we’re re-introducing our springtime offer: Sign up for a two-year subscription to Wend magazine now through May 6th and receive a free Wend… Read the rest
Penguins and seals and albatross, oh my… Read the rest! OK. All silliness aside, these were some of the wildlife being examined by a crew of scientists who spent seventeen months of travel for the sole purpose of documenting the effects of global climate change on the southern ocean ecosystem.
On a
