Incredible faux yoga by French breakdancer Arthur Cadre
by I would like to categorically disagree with anyone who says that yoga is reserved solely for the wheatgrass binging, chakra cleansing and crystal gazing. In fact, it’s possible that it has just found a new niche audience – Breakdancers.
After watching this video, the correlation seems explicitly logical and obvious. French breakdancer Arthur Cadre took his loose long limbs to an abandoned space and was filmed by director Alex Yde doing a standard rehearsal complete with seamlessly blended yoga-esque contortions and freezes. The montage titled Break ton Neck (Break your Neck in French) has him twisting, tumbling and pivoting to the tune of Sail by American group Awolnation and has created quite the stir.
There’s no confirmation that Cadre is into yoga at all but his choreography has raised the question more than once on comment boards across the web. Yes, folks, it’s the dawning of a new age where beats meet Bikram and only time will tell if we can expect to see an influx of B-boys arriving at Ashrams all over the world.
Tagged: Alex Yde, Arthur Cadre, Awolnation
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The Art of Pho: a new interactive motion comic
It’s a pity technology has yet to allow us to transcend the scent and taste barriers over the web. A brand new interactive motion comic has just hit the web and it’s a super delectable, quirky initiative, based on the debut graphic novel by British illustrator, Julian Hanshaw. Read more
Aqueous Fluoreau photo series by Mark Mawson
If Puff the Magic Dragon actually existed, I’m sure his lair would be filled with hypercoloured fumes like these. Inspired by graffiti, vibrant colours, and watching milk being poured into coffee, British photographer Mark Mawson has created a punky mystical ambience where fluid formations of colour have their own breath of life. His Aqueous Fluoreau series was shot in the South of France using coloured paints, a water tank and strobe lighting.
Just when you thought a particular social network couldn’t dominate your life any further than it already has, think again. It’s now set to invade more than just your headspace as it moves from pixels to reality. Interior geek chic just went 2.0 with the invention of the Facebook Shower Curtain. While it’s definitely not Martha Stewart endorsed, we’re looking forward to a possible full range of soft furnishings to boot. Perhaps a Foursquare bedspread announcing that we’re the new Mayor of Nookieville? The Facebook Shower curtain is available from February.
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We love LEGO. And why not? It’s colourful, it’s fun, and it’s applied to a thousand and one different things these days, including this: Blokz Birthday Candles. Fit for the cakes of all grown kids.
This is a fully functional Rubiks Cube designed by Jason Freeny in the form of a brain. I really really want one.
History is the story of the winners, and western dominated culture recounts few triumphs from the east. Mongol is an effort to correct this balance, and the eastern influence is evident in much more than just the storyline. It is more like a fairy tale or legend handed down through generations, than based on fact, with mythical elements playing a major part, and the character’s motivations remaining simple. Read more
Of all the weird places the world has to offer, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia has to be one of the coolest. Literally. At 3,700m above sea level, it’s the biggest and highest salt flat in the world, where after dark, temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees celsius. The best way to explore the salt flat is to hire a 4WD and driver from the Uyuni township. En route, you can even stay at a Salt Hotel, where everything is, quite literally, made from salt: the chairs, beds, tables and even the walls. There’s no heating and the beds aren’t exactly ‘plush’, but it’s worth every salty second. Read more
Bringing statistics to life is not particularly easy, but this website does so with a creative brilliance. Using interactive animation and videos, you can look at a wide ranging set of sustainable global development data as the numbers change across space and and time. It promotes a statistically-founded world view, and somehow makes that fun.
Austin band The Low Lows are one of my most prized finds of the year so far. It’s introspective music — staggered harmonies delivered by a distant, agonised voice that filters through a wall of tranquil guitar distortion and measured drumming. Every instrument carries a powerful emotion, sometimes keeping their distance from one another, floating up and around the airwaves, and other times colliding and crashing back to earth.
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The fashion brand Jack Spade created a new concept in winter fashion: the moustache gloves. Available in red, blue, grey and yellow, they are recommended for putting right below your nose. Enjoy! Read more
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How ’bout this Jose Manuel Hortelano-Pi guy, huh? Quite the illustrator, yessiree Bob. From Spain, too. Spain is great! Read more
Here are a couple awesome pieces by Matt Leines that were recently on display in the Doubting Thomases exhibit at Nudashank gallery in Baltimore. Gives me ideas for Halloween. Read more
Baltimore Mural by Josh Van Horne
My friend Josh Van Horne, a local Baltimore artist, did this amazing mural in our neighborhood that depicts the history of this warehouse-laden area.
It’s refreshing to see artists like Joe Kievitt who are contented to explore the beauty in simple forms and asymmetrical patterns. Read more
Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more
Our friends at Aussie stationary shop Notemaker have given us 10 Moleskine Lego Notebooks to give away: an assorted mix of 5 large and 5 pocket ones with mixed covers. To enter, tell us the first thing you’d write in your new notebook, along with the city you live in. Read more
Inspired by the unique digital clock apps created by the designer, Sean Zoega, the i-toc watch is a colorful physical manifestation of digital ideas featuring bespoke two-disc Japan quartz movement. The outer gradient displays the minutes while the inner gradient shows the hours. The rings interact, creating an ever-changing pattern of design and colour. We have them for sale in our online store. Read more
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Amy said | 4 January, 2012
I wish my yoga worked that well.