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Category Archives: Videos
Living the Adventurous Life: The Coke Zero and Mentos Rocket Car
How can you not love those zany YouTube videos showing off the combustible mayhem when Coke Zero and Mentos come into crazy contact? The experiments are becoming ever more elaborate. The video here shows a “rocket car” that traveled 209 … Continue reading
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Tickling the Plastic Ivories: Beethoven for Elephants in Thailand
Almost like a scene from the movie “Fitzcarraldo,” classical pianist Paul Barton lugged an old piano up into the highlands of the mountainous region of Kanchanaburi, Thailand, to play for old and injured elephants at a protected nature reserve. *Elephant-lovers … Continue reading
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Snowfall Time-Lapse Video
Judging by the number of YouTube videos on time-lapse recording of snowfalls, most are shot close to home, like in one’s backyard or patio. So when the next blizzard strikes, and you have time on your hand, grab your Nikon … Continue reading
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Great Outdoor TV Ad from the Past
This 2000 U.K. ad for John West canned salmon was made for the British market. It’s bear vs. man. It still draws a hearty chuckle.
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Extreme Skiier is Killed in Avalanche in Utah
To extreme skiing aficionados worldwide, the name Jamie Pierre is a familiar one. In the video here, Pierre set a world-record jump in 2006 by jumping off the backside of Wyoming’s Grand Targhee Resort. It’s as if he jumped off … Continue reading
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Set Your Desktop Odometer: Let’s Take a 12,225-Mile Road Trip in Five Minutes
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Surfing the “Wedge” in Southern California
Here’s a cool video (see url at end) of wipeouts at a hot surfin’ locale in Southern California known as the Wedge. Situated at the east end of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, south swells during summer and fall … Continue reading
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Extreme Sailing Comes to Boston
Hi, it’s me, John D with an invitation to see some great sailing action. My sister is producing an Extreme Sailing event in conjunction with Boston Common Magazine that is going to be insanely fun to watch and attend. Yes, … Continue reading
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“The Last Mountain”– Official Film Trailer
The new, powerful eco-documentary, “The Last Mountain,” focuses on the widespread harmful effects of the mining technique called mountaintop removal on West Virginia’s Coal River Valley. Simply put, the mining company dynamites the entire top of a mountain to extract … Continue reading
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Animation Shows Quake-Triggered Tsunami’s Relentless Path Across the Pacific Ocean
This video, which was created by the U.S. government, is an animation of the massive path of the Honshu tsunami triggered by the 8.9 earthquake on Thursday night. Less than 12 hours after the devastating quake struck just off the … Continue reading
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“Green Tunnel”: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail — 2,175 Miles and Six Months in Five-Minutes of Stop-Action Photography
Green Tunnel from Kevin Gallagher on Vimeo. Be patient and you will be justly rewarded: “Green Tunnel” video starts around the 15-second mark. And what a video! Kevin Gallagher, a Richmond, Virginia-based filmmaker, took footage from his six-month trek along … Continue reading
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World’s Craziest Fishing Hole
On one day of the year the Dogon people of Mali in Africa can fish in the sacred water of Lake Antogo. It’s every fisherman for himself as the muddy lake is drained in minutes. This amazing footage was shot … Continue reading
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Backyard Solar-Death Ray
Eric Jacqmain, a clever 19-year old from Indiana, built his own backyard solar death-ray with the intensity of 5,000 suns (at least he claims this), by adhering over 5,000 small mirrors to a satellite dish. This do-it-yourself project cost him … Continue reading
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“The Chase”– A Two-Minute Action Adventure Video
To build excitement around the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor, Intel launched an action-adventure video titled “The Chase.” Move over Bourne, you got competition–albeit all on a desktop!
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Mishka, the Singing Husky
If you ever wondered why this 48-second You Tube video has been watched by over 30,000,000 dog lovers, the answer rests with Mishka’s “American Idol” vocals. We wonder how she’d fared in the great outdoors or on “Dual Survivor.”
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There’s the Fast Food Drive-In, and Then There’s the Bushman’s Eight-Hour Chase for Dinner
Persistence hunting, as many of us learned by reading Christopher McDougall’s account of the Kalahari Bushmen in the national bestseller, Born To Run, involves an age-old yet now practically extinct form of tracking in which hunters, equipped with spears or … Continue reading
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How to Clean a Pelican Drenched in Oil
The pelican is a large comical-looking water bird with its steam-shovel throat pouch used to scoop up water and small fish. But what’s been happening to the Flintstoneque bird due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is no laughing … Continue reading
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