arcade fire: the wilderness downtown

Much like everything else The Arcade Fire touch... This is just magic.

Watch and marvel at what's possible with HTML5 and an uncaged imagination.

The Wilderness Downtown

separated at birth: kermit & christian bale

I normally hate these memes that set out to create some lame connection between random elements of celebrity in order to score a few extra subscriptions... But it's Kermit and CHRISTIAN BALE. How can that not be hilarious!?

One is arguably one of the greatest actors of our time, using an intense combination of method acting while drawing on a wide array of deeply personal experiences to bring out each of his troubled characters... The other is Christian Bale. (sorry, that joke sucked but the guy acts like such a douche sometimes, the dad joke material writes itself)

Anyway... enjoy the hours of work some weirdo has put into finding these pics.

via Uncoached

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stunning portraits

Thor Fridriksson - film maker

Minister of Transportation of Armenia

Al Jarreau - jazz singer

Work by Suren Manvelyan

via Behance

greens ad from #YWC

heavily pixellated

created by Harder Studios

via The Cool Hunter

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skate and create 2010

The followup event to the hugely successful 2009 concept by Transworld Skate Mag in the US, four teams were given a warehouse and 9 days to Skate and Create a mini video part.

Shoewear brands Adidas, Fallen, Lakai and Etnies competed under the following criteria:

• The four teams are made up of a total of six skaters—four pros and two ams.
• Each team is given nine days in a warehouse with the same set of obstacles.
• Each team is allowed one art director on site.
• Each team is assigned one TWS photographer to shoot a feature article for the magazine.
• Each team is allowed a film crew to produce a video for skateboarding.com.
• The final photo and video product is judged by the TWS edit staff (minus S&C coordinators Skin Phillips and Josh Brooks) on the level of skating, creativity, the use of obstacles, and overall image and video quality.
• The winner gets the cover of the magazine and will have a spot reserved in Skate & Create 2011.

They each produced rad videos which you can scope out here but in my opinion, one stands head and shoulders above the rest.

I give you: LAKAIROMANIA

<p>Lakai from Chris Ray on Vimeo.</p>

style wars epic set up

I only have two stickers on my beloved macbook pro... One that says "i love because" from my previous life as the founder of a clothing company.

The other says STYLEWARS - Because attending the first few of these annual snowboard contests at Falls Creek in Australia is STILL one of the greatest experiences of my life.

Let me explain why: They just keep stepping up the crazy.

Here is the insane course setup they've implemented for this year's competition which kicked off last night.

more details from our good friends at snowlife here