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Wushu at the beach!
Wushu at the beach!
Shot and Edited by Zach Goldstein
Incredible. There's a type of sand (found only on the small Okinawan island of Iriomote) in which each grain resembles a tiny star. And I never would have known, if it hadn't been for blogger Jason Kottke's pal Mouser. Mouser collects sand from all around the world, and then documents each sample with a macro lens:
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Hollywood's hottest mixologist, Giovanni The Margarita King, has come up with an exotic Asian spin on the classic margarita called the Lychee Margarita. Taste how good it can get when East meets West. Make a lychee margarita.
The Flowergod designs an elegant iris arrangement with an Asian feel to it. The arrangement includes iris, bamboo, good luck bamboo, and bear grass. Make an elegant Iris design.
Yankee Magazine Food Editor Annie B. Copps starts this refreshing summer beverage with her own Beach Rose & Ginger Vodka infusion. Then she uses cranberry lemonade which gives Annie's beverage a dreamy pink hue. This is what how2heroes wants to drink on a hot summer's day! Make a Summer Wind Cocktail.
Kelly Slater discusses the perfect fin setup for making the most out of your surfboard and waves. Slater just won his 9th World Title. Kelly Slater goes over the FCS fin setup that uses the ideal area, flex and shape for his beach, point or reef break surfing. Get Kelly Slater's perfect FCS fin setup for surfing.
As WonderHowTo staff, I'm disqualified from winning... so I'm pulling a Cory ;) and posting a few images. These were taken over the summer during my trip to Bali. The culture and landscape were so beautiful, almost every shot I got had beautiful color.
As with +Kimberly Lau, I also had the chance to meet up with all of the Googles and Googlers for the Photowalk in Venice beach on September 1st. I'm still getting used to the idea of another social network, but hanging out with a large group of pro and amateur photographers helped me to jump right into Google+, where I made an album of all the pics I took that day. Even though I had my DSLR on me, I was a little intimidated by the others just as much as Kim with her Samsung Infuse smartphone,...
Surfing Magazine staff photographer Nathan Lawrence and Balaram Stack, Oliver Kurtz and Michael Dunphy descend upon Bocas Del Toro and Red Frog Bungalows for a surf trip of a lifetime. Nathan Lawrence is one of the best surf photographers in the world and he summed up the conditions over the week as ,"the best beach breaks I have ever seen in my life". This is saying a lot for someone who is payed to travel the world and snap photos of the best professional surfers in the world. look for the ...
Heal the Bay does an excellent job at reporting and monitoring water quality in California. This interactive map will show you live information from their test sites down to the exact beach.
In a nutshell Bocas del Toro is an arcipelago on the Carribean coast of Panama. It's located about 20 mi south of the Costa Rican border and you can get there from both San Jose and Panama City. The main islands are Colon, Bastimentos, and Carenero, but there are over 100 islands you can explore by boat.
Fitness trainer Sonny Wang shows you how to lift a heavy cooler properly so you don't hurt your back. Then, he gives a couple of exercises you can do at the beach or park to strengthen your back and abs. One of the exercises uses the cooler. Sonny is a fitness trainer and guest host of "Fitness on the Beach" which is produced by Santa Barbara Internet TV. Lift a heavy cooler without hurting your back.
Scooby is endearing, albeit frighteningly toned. He's who we look for on the weekends at Muscle Beach.
To dominate the game in beach volleyball, you'll need to master the forearm pass. This pass gets the offense started and allows your team to move the ball to the "setter" in the target area. Forearm pass a volleyball.
From the beaches of Florida to the mountains of California, learn how wind, water, ice and gravity can erode big rocks into smaller rocks, and eventually into soil.In this video you will learn how small rocks mix with organic material and become soil. There are a number of other ways shown that breakdown rocks. This video was made by Robert Krampf! Understand erosion of rocks.
A smooth, stylish and simple to make tequila-based cocktail! Beach and poolside are acceptable locations for this great drink! Make a simple daiquiri cocktail.
Accurate Search for International ESL/EFL Teaching Jobs. Covers Dave's ESL Cafe, Craigslist (edu jobs in Asian capitals), dozens of major ESL job sites, and in total indexes 3 million+ pages.
Last night's Simpsons opening was a sardonic take on the usual gag, directed and storyboarded by the legendary Banksy, the famed renegade British graffiti artist whose real identity is hidden to the public. Below, laborers in Asian countries manufacture Simpsons merch in a dark underworld sweatshop, as an imprisoned dying unicorn impales Simpsons DVDs.
New England theme - Limited Edition items! Update 8/5
Periwinkle are one of the most overlooked and underrated members of the seafood family. Try this Portuguese and Asian treat you can find on the rocks near salt water. Watch this how to video to learn how to prepare this escargot with garlic powder, pepper and a little seaweed. Prepare and eat Portuguese style periwinkle snails.
A delicate Asian style canapé: the perfect start to a dinner party. Enjoy our tuna salad and cucumber canapé recipe. Make tuna salad and cucumber canape.
In this video you will learn how to fold your napkins into fans. Great idea for those Asian themed dinner parties. Fold a napkin like a fan (Pliage en eventail).
Delicious rice cakes with an exotic Asian flavor which can be served as canapés. They also go well with grilled fish or seafood. Make ginger and herb rice cake canapes.
This awesome seed of survival island (Oliver Anderson) Found by A8OrAnGeJuIcE on Minecraft forums. The seed spawns you on this awesome survival mountain with a pool at highest altitude, a waterfall, a cave, a beach, and 3 trees and a great biome to work in.
Manipulated with Big Lens for iPhone, which I ultimately like the best out of all the apps reviewed here.
im just an amateur photographer using a nikon camera at night on my way home from the beach, i hope this is good enough....too much noise, i had little light that time and the flash would make it look ugly
Sashimi at a recent visit to Izaka-Ya, near the Manhattan Beach pier.
This guy has a lot of great videos. He likes to promote his audio recorder windscreen products a bunch, but if you don't pay attention to that... He's got over 20 short videos of footage from his Canon 5D Mark II, which is sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes boring, but overall a decent place to see what kind of video the Mark II can capture.
This was taken at Bombay Beach in California, alongside the Salton Sea, where all of the half-submerged buildings are.
I can't win the photo challenge, but just for the heck of it, I thought I'd share one of my one of my own photos from Venice Beach, taken with an iPhone 4 using HDR mode.
This photo was taken in Bandon, Oregon. Wonderful display there right on the Beach!! Even the boats on the water blew them off!
The island of Samos is an island very green, with dense forests, with many sources and many criquent which earned him a very rich history at the crossroads of ancient civilizations. The island of Samos, today, offers a peaceful place to live, to cultivate olives, grapes and vegetables Muscat. The island of Samos is also a vacation spot where you can mix, enjoy the beach and lounging with the original discovery of a landscape
This week Farmville is revisiting some old themes for 24 hours each. Tuesday
From Cape Town to Hobie Beach to Pretoria Host country of the 2010 World Cup has more to offer this summer than just soccer!
Save San Onofre and Trestles Beach and the gorgeous waves we surf. Stop the 241 Toll Road extension that proposes to build a toll road through the middle of the 5th most visited state park in California.
Aside from the bizarre fascination with being able to see celebrity homes in Malibu (see the Streisand Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect), the CCRP is a great place to check out local surf spots up and down the Coast:
Check out this cinematography tutorial video that provides a basic introduction on how to build a vibrating 35mm depth of field adapter. You will need only 8 parts for the basic version of the vibrating DoF adapter: