News: Santorum Quits
Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of "prayer and thought," effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney.
Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of "prayer and thought," effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney.
Australian racing organization V8 Supercars have built an oversized skateboard equipped with a V8 engine for Tony Hawk. Hawk was scheduled to ride the beast last week, but it appears no video footage has been posted yet.
Cork is welcomed home to kinsale with a warm and hearty welcome. Arriving early and well ahead of the rest of the race on this leg the Cork clipper is welcomed by more than 2,500 people arriving on short notice.
Here's another news clip on the Texas Kite Festival. Everything should be OK, right? Apparently, it was so important that police dressed in army uniforms had to force the attendees to buses. Of course we don't know how to go home, right? In addition, there was a helicopter circling overhead. What do you think is happening here? Here's my guess: indoctrination. We are being prepared mentally to accept their presence as a normal thing. What's ahead of us, I wonder.
Sorry guys, despite the headline, this one isn't an actual How To. But the process behind the creation of Portuguese brewer Sagres' chocolate crafted website is fascinating, and we would gladly welcome any lengthy step-by-step tutorial. Created in promotion of the brewery's new chocolate flavored stout, the company's ad agency—Grand Union Portugal—gave Victor Nunes, world famous chocolatier and artistic director of Óbidos International Chocolate Festival, the task of creating a site completel...
Daito Manabe is awesome. Last we heard of him, he was setting up Japanese school girls with glow-in-the-dark grills. Before that, he was playing himself like a human drum kit. And before that, he was just plain old electroshocking himself. In his most recent appearance, he takes his electro-pulsed facial twitches to the stage, with fellow artist Ei Wada, before an audience at Berlin’s Transmediale Festival.
From youtube: In December, we announced that “Life in a Day,” a documentary film directed by Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald, produced by Ridley Scott, and filmed on July 24, 2010 by thousands of YouTube users around the world, was finished—and would have its world premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on January 27.
I guess this leaked a couple days early. *edit* Looks like they just deleted the news post off the website, but I managed to save a copy (see below). Wow, such a solid lineup. You do not want to miss this! If I was only able to go to one San Francisco festival this summer and had to choose between this and Outside Lands, Treasure Island would be the easy winner. Even though The Strokes are one of my favorite bands and are headlining OL, I would choose Treasure Island because this line up is j...
On July 24th, producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald will open their inboxes to the YouTube filmmakers for their groundbreaking, or at least rule-breaking documentary "Life in a Day".
LA's Green Compassionate Music Festival World Fest is a solar powered celebration of music, the environment, animals and humanity. The event promotes things we can do to help the earth and its inhabitants.
Tiny Furniture directed by, written and starring Lena Durham. Film shot on 7D wins SxSW juried “best film” prize
‘EARTH MADE OF GLASS‘ is a documentary that follows the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and genocide survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu
Richard Valentine Pitchford, widely known as the great Cardini, was a legendary magician and former president of the Magician's Guild.
We have seen it before (previous post: Human Powered Ferris Wheel), but it never gets any less amazing. Talk about resourcefulness. No need for electricity. Use humans to power your ferris wheel (if you had one sitting around... I wish I had one). Via Make,
have the fattest members of jackass (phil and preston) race down hill in lazy boy chairs on wheels.
Ehren and Dave are placed in cozy cars.
We get 4 porta potty's we get people to poo in them and we get Bam steve-o dunn and wee man. we put them in the porta potty and we get 4 guys to push them if they fall the poo falls on them
Ive done this myself in the past with a couple of friends and it yielded interesting results. Go to the store and get some popsicles ( I'm fucking positive I'm spelling that wrong but fuck it) big meaty bastards like the old school bomb pops you then take x number of people and have them shove the popsicles up their asses the first person to fully melt the popsicle wins you can also do a long jump version where they have to shoot it out their ass and the person with the longest distance wins ...
Every year in Ontario they have a festival to showcase and appreciative steam-based vehicles, called Steam-Era. Not a very original name but at least it's descriptive.
British artist Richard Wilson's "Turning The Place Over" holds affinities to Gordon Matta-Clark's site specific "building cuts" from the seventies. Wilson created a rotating cut facade, which reveals the building's interior with each turn.
Latitude 66/33, a.k.a. the North Pole, a.k.a. the new best kept secret surf spot. This past spring, surf photographer and filmmaker Yassine Ouhilal, plus four other surfers, went to the arctic to surf. They began their expedition in Norway, and ended up surfing in beautiful midnight snow showers, riding waves under the incredible Northern Lights.
Carnival is upon us. Pre-Lenten festivals are being celebrated across the globe. From New Orleans to Brazil, the parties share many similarities: float parades, extravagant dance, bead tossing and of course, the consumption of spirits.
R/C car manufacturer Losi just recently released the LOSI 1/10 TEN-T TRUGGY RTR, which is apparently the world's most advanced radio controlled car.
MACHZOR 73 points (23 points without the bingo) Definition: mahzor; a Jewish prayer book [n]
Sputnik, Apollo and the Space Race. If you watched the State of the Union address last night, you probably heard President Barack Obama mention those three things.
A November release week in May It used to be that games marked to be blockbusters (expected to sell more than a million in their first month) would always be released during the holiday September to December season. November was always the month companies chose to release their best game. This release model worked fine until the last few years, when too many games were being released in November and companies started to see diminishing returns on their titles because of the release rush.
Our Thrillbilly-Tricycle-Flip hero is back, and never fails to astound. Travis Pastrana is both an X-Games gold medalist and star of MTV show Nitro Circus. The daredevil kicks ass at supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, base jumping and rally racing.
I thought lawnmower racing was purely a redneck sport, but apparently not. With the world record speed currently at 80 mph, the UK's Project Runningblade aims to squash it at 100 mph.
Below, the latest from Cyriak Harris. This one's called Baaa, and it's just as mystifyingly odd as Cyriak's past work. Lamb conveyor belt? Multiplying ovine spewing from a gaping, undefined sheep orifice? You will never look at the ovine race the same way.
Bringing the bike he won his first Ironman with in 1980, Dave Scott was inducted into the USAT Hall of Fame on Saturday. Inducted with him were Susan Bradley-Cox (arguably the world’s most decorated age group triathlete) and Boston Marathon race director Dave McGilivray.
Here's footage from the 2010 Hawaii Ironman triathlon world championships. The annual event in Kailua-Kona is the culmination of a series of Ironman triathlon qualification races held worldwide, and is generally regarded as an honored and prestigious event among triathlon athletes.
Secretariat is ok I guess but I can think of another horse-racing movie that starts with 'S' that really inspires...
Do you think that this controversy surrounding GOP nominie Meg Whitman's illegal immigrant housekeeper goingo to affect her votes in her political campaign?
GO-Kart paint ball.....you race 3 laps or a sub-mission ( meaning last man standing wins ) this requirements : 2 people, paintball gun, paintballs , go-karts, and MEN
This prank seems kinda road runner/ wiley coyote-ish. You get someone to ride a bike or motorcycle perhaps during night-time, possibly in a race.
RATINGS RAT RACE: It's World Cup Fever With ESPN & Univision Viewing Records
Have you got the olympic balls!!!! Nuts this is going to hurt!!!! The Jackass Olympics is a test not only of athleticism but also what every true sportsman or in some case women should have balls of steel!!I foresee the event to be a close contest, with the winner being awarded what all winners should receive in this event fuck all but pain and a laugh!The Jackas Olympics wil consist of an opening & closing cermony with 3 main sporting events with a sick twist!Opening Cermony, the olympic ana...
Crane You need a giant crane with a magnet.
Travis Pastrana is an extreme sports nut, competing (and winning) X Games events such as motocross, freestyle motocross, supercross, and rally racing. In this Thrillbillies clip, Pastrana flips a big wheel at incredible speed over a 50-foot stretch (while donning a pinstripe suit). What an insane dude!
Mitt Romney has been on a winning streak recently, with small breaks by Rick Santorum. Ron Paul is slowly coming in third, but it's hard to say he's making a dent in those who support the top two contenders. Newt Gingrich has gone down, down to the bottom. He's still fighting to make another break in the race.