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Over the past year, we’ve gathered our own little collection of incredible time-lapse videos. In time-lapse style, we’ve showed you the Milky Way, the Northern Lights, a serious snow storm and even the growth of a beard in one year’s time.
The newest time-lapse vid we’ve come across shows off… Read the rest

Sure, you’ve walked by a dreadlocked man balancing atop a slackline wrapped taut around two tree trunks in the park. But we’re not what’s being done in this video even qualifies as the same thing. This is acrobatics, balance and strength at its best. This is serious slacklining–and, perhaps, a… Read the rest

Sure, Jake Gyllenhaal’s pretty–but does he have the balls to climb a mountain or shimmy along a rope across a deep ravine? Actually, he makes the latter look pretty easy.
In this clip, he’s initially oh-so-scared; “This is one of those moments,” Gyllenhaal says, “Face your fear.” But once he’s… Read the rest

If you live in Portland, you’ve either ridden in or heard about the World Naked Bike Ride. That’s because our city has a way of embracing it.
If you haven’t a clue what we’re referring to or if you missed this year’s event, check out the above video and you’ll… Read the rest

We came across this fantastic British countryside touring video from 1995 thanks to Treehugger, and we’re thrilled that we did. The film–just 15 minutes long–does the job of explaining how cyclists in the London area can easily get out of the city for a “countryside tour” by simply taking a… Read the rest

First, it was the timeless Performance vid that covered the ever significant hipster vs. “other” cyclist debate. Then, we got Dirty with MC SpandX, a.k.a. Robin Moore, who poked hilarious fun at the mountain biking scene. And now, we’re happy to see, Moore’s covering the Euro cycling genre in Le… Read the rest

 
How would you feel if a shark jumped over you… Read the rest while you were surfing?
[Via: Huffington Post]

This weekend, Catalan trail runner Kilian Jornet ran to the top of Mount Olympus in just over five hours, setting a world record for the fastest climb of the mountain. The trek took him up 45 kilometers (about 28 miles) over 3,500 miles of elevation gain over rough terrain.… Read the rest

Filmmaker Loïc Wirth has created a surf film–Intentio… Read the rest–that colors outside the frame for the traditional flick about wave-riding. The 90 second trailer presents a film that appears whimsical, both in its camera style and its narration, though it’s hard to tell exactly what the film will be “about.”

Sure, you’ve seen photos from space. You’ve seen Earth’s prominent landscapes from a satellite image–and thought, “cool.” But if you haven’t seen this HD video taken from the digital cameras of NASA astronauts, you haven’t seen anything.
In addition to spanning across the planet–showing outstanding geographical spots such as the… Read the rest

We like to follow people’s inspirations for taking on the outdoors pursuits they do. And we like bad-ass women, of course. Check out the above video of Heather Robinson, who loves to embrace “the art of projecting difficult routes.” Maybe this video–or Heather herself–will inspire you to get out and… Read the rest

Long after a natural disaster fades from the headlines, the human tragedy continues. To most, the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami of 2004 is a distant memory. But a young photographer from Wyoming wants the world to keep in mind the thousands who died… and hundreds of thousands more who survived… Read the rest

This May, a soon-to-be-demolished pool in East London, England was turned into a world-class BMX bike park in a matter of just six days of construction. The entire project was spearheaded by Nike, who chose to launch the park, aptly named ‘The Pool‘, by inviting 40 world-class riders for a… Read the rest

If you feel like riding but can’t get out of the office today, this video will either satisfy your singletrack craving or make you want to get out that much more. We hope it does the former, but either way, you should give it a glance.
This four-and-a-half-minute video was… Read the rest

Forget toy soldiers; toy boarders are where it’s at. From the website of the company, The Original AJ’s Toy Boarders, who makes the small, green skateboarding figures:
Toy Soldiers have been around for years – why promote war when we can let kids have positive toys that promote action sports … Read the rest