Rio de Janeiro Wingsuit Madness

Ludovic Woerth and Jokke Sommer are doing that whole "wingsuit" thing. The twist being that rather than ripping through the rocky wilderness above, between and below the Alps, these two hopped off a couple of ultralite gliders over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The penultimate moment in this drama is when they rocket over Rio's Cathedral and between the opposing towers of a new office development. They then pull chutes and land safely in the Praça Tiradentes.

Not only is this, in and of itself, a mind-bending act of athleticism, skill and balls, it should remind everyone out there with a GoPro that the bar for posting "cool" videos online has been set rather high.

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Daft Punk: The Return of the Robots

Insomnia seldom comes with an explanation that doesn't involve an obvious and probably chemical root cause, and even those only occur once upon a blue moon, and on the weekend. No, the weekday insomnia is generally rooted deeply in the subconscious, a vile affliction that leads to coffee breath and cross emails about things that really aren't that important. But not today. Today I know why I could not sleep: The Robots have returned. Rejoice, for there shall be a tour. Someday. Maybe. 

Anyway, they posted the image above on their facebook page along with a link to their website, which crashed within a couple minutes, such is the love for our robot overlords. As soon as tour dates are announced you can expect an ebay auction for one of my premium kidneys to follow.

Take What You Can - BlueBlazer

Seldom do I get a chance to promote the worthy creative efforts of my friends, since most of them are mindless automatons or drunken buffoons, and also because I don't have very many friends left.

Anyway, Mike Schwandt, of White Light Riot fame, has a new project called Blue Blazers, and this is their first track, Take What You Can. Listen. Enjoy. Follow.

Paperman, a Disney Animated Short

Stuff like this makes me think that Disney is still genius, they just try too hard.

December/January Kicks Post

photos via Kith and Sneaker Freaker

KAWS Boba Fett Figure

Pssshhhhhhhhreeeeeeooowwwwwwwwkchckhckchshhhh is the sound my brain made when it exploded just now, because the man, the myth, the legend, Brian Donnelly has combined his signature KAWS character with intergalactic bounty hunter and sarlacc snack Boba Fett.

On sale January 26 at the KAWSONE website. I will be in line.

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Nike Mercurial Vapor IX Spot Starring CR7

PLOT by Osko+Deichmann for Brunner

Great modular seating solution for large spaces. I like the brighter colorways above rather than the fairly drab bit the models are sitting on below.

Designed by Germans, manufactured by Germans.

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Elfandiary's Draw Diary

Unreal. What an amazing insight into the process, and what amazing work with those markers. The artist is Elfandiary from Indonesia. Aduhai.

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Stencil Portrait by C215

Another beautiful piece by French stencil writer C215 in Barcelona. This guy is fast becoming one of my favorite visual artists, period. His work gets some of its context from where he places it (the street), but it also adds so much life to his subjects.

Gotta be my artist of the year for 2012, because it's December, and that's what people do in December, they talk about the best things that happened over the course of the last year. I'm supposed to make like a big list called "THE 127 BEST ARTISTS OF 2012" according to my SEO guru, but fuck it, y'know? C215 wins.

image via C215's facebook