Amazing videos day

Usually when posting here I try to provide some insight with my writing. Today it's not about that, it is just about posting incredibly amazing videos. It's one of those days. There you go, first ever bs 1620 ( via the Helgasons blog).

And now this.. Skier in Alaska gets buried by an Avalanche, only to get rescued a few minutes later, amazing video, Hollywood could never beat that.

R.I.P. Bodhi

I've been posting here for a while, but probably most of you guys that read this know nothing about me. I'm 25 years old, I like all kinds of cheese and the first surf film I ever watched was Point Break.



I know very well that is not meant to be just about surf. Of course it wasn't, it was a Hollywood movie with Keanu Reeves and Hollywood does not make surf movies.
However for me it was a movie about Bodhi, his surfing, his coolness, his layback tube ride when he is first being introduced to the film, his escape in maxing "Bells Beach".



Damn, even writing those lines gives me goosebumps. I bet there's many people out there thinking exactly the same.



Thank you for the all this Patrick, RIP.

KISS Mr Pototo Heads...where can i get me one of them apples?

WAL-MART to promote KISS CD with ‘KISS Korners’
4 Sep 2009
Wal-Mart will promote the new KISS CD/DVD, SONIC BOOM with ‘KISS Korners’ in electronics departments and Halloween aisles in October. Stores will offer KISS T-shirts, wigs, make-up, limited edition KISS M&M candies and KISS Mr Potato Head spuds of all four band members through Halloween. "To complement this highly-anticipated music release, we are excited to bring a unique store experience with KISS merchandise at an unbeatable value for fans of all ages," said Greg Hall, Vice President of Media Services, Walmart US. "It has been both fun and an honour to work with the band and celebrate with fans the new music release and album tour."

That's not a regular title but my god this is in plain WTF territory.

Whatever happens please keep you children away from the screen. For if the maintain visual contact with it they might become infected and then things won't go down that smooth. This spectacle is even worse than 2 Girls 1 Cup I swear. Are they gone now? Cool.
Without any further adoo allow me to present you the Heelys' National Championships!! I know what you must be thinking:Is this world coming to an end?
Elaborate and discuss.




Via Pierre Wikberg's blog and then some more props to James for sharing it with me.

Eco Marketing this!

Being eco-friendly apparently is the new big thing these days when it comes to surf brands marketing. Well maybe I am just exaggerating, we all know that having onboard surfers that rip hard is kinda more important, however this is not the point of this post.
So yeah, digg that, Billabong released a press release a few days ago, Dave "Rasta" Rastovich is meeting up with all passionate, anti climate change pioneer, ex vice US president Al Gore in order to be trained by, then discuss and promote policies to stop climate change.
Speaking of Rasta, here's a little update on him. He is not on tour, he rips as hard as ever, although I do not think he would agree with the term rip - rather surf forcefully but gently as you can see on the video below.

That was obviously crazy stylish. Rasta is also married to a mermaid, well human mermaid-model kind of thing. He is the founder of surfers for cetaceans- that's dolphins whales and sea turtles. Surfers for cetaceans released a video lately as well "El Mar, Mi Alma".
Not your typical surf video.

Rasta is obviously having the time of his life doing all that. Although critics would say that flying around the globe every time a swell pops up does not really help the environment, I think it would be fair to give Rasta a pass and not hate, because he is obviously a person deeply concerned with the future of the planet.

Coming back to Billabong they are obviously pushing an enviromentalist profile. Of course they are not alone on that, yesterday I stumbled upon this Reef Brazil Redemption series. Anyway, back to Billabong now. The Rasta story, Design for Humanity, they are all initiatives for a good cause. (Design for Humanity profits go to Water Charity.)
I am not dismissing this kind of initiatives as irrelevant and of course anything that helps and pushes things towards a more sustainable direction needs to be applaused.

However I seem to be missing something as strangely enough, looking at those initiatives I still can only think of waves. And cetaceans. And if you think that by cetaceans I mean the stunning blonde pictured below, well, you guessed right.