SUSO

Food Fight !!!

'..or US history since WWII?... or both?..."

This creative stop motion masterpeice by Stefan Nadelman has clearly been out there for a while (... but we only came across it when surfing the web looking for some lunch time inspiration!)

An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.   Check out the burgers, pretzels, sausages, sushi, skewers, matza, dumplings, and a whole lot of goulash taking each other on to rule the world. Unsurprisingly the the Germans are invading everywhere, with Pearl Harbour, Hiroshima, the Cold War, the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, September 11th, and the war in Iraq all to the fore.

The creator assures us that  "The food in this film was consumed either by myself or my dog after shooting. None of the cast went to waste.  It took  3 months to do."

At least he had the odd snack to keep him going.

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By Juan 4 days, 16 hours ago

Mastery Is Mastery

"... and it is always to be respected."

And here was me thinking this gig was for the mini groms in the school playground... Not at all.  

When these fellas turn it on at the skate park, it is clearly about as NO CAN'T DO as it gets.

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By Juan 1 week, 6 days ago

A Brief History ...

... Of Everything."

Congratulations to 17 year-old called Jamie Bell for his highly creative piece of work published on his YouTube channel 'Displeased Eskimo'... (and now registering over 1.3m viewings!)

According to Jamie "This is the final piece for my AS art course, a flipbook made entirely out of biro pens. It's something like 2100 pages long, and about 50 jotter books. I'd say I worked on and off it for roughly 3 weeks."

... that determination and the imagination therein makes this pretty NO CAN'T DO in our book.

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By Juan 3 weeks ago

Shadow Master Indeed

"We've all grown up trying to do this but mastery has to be earned."

Shadow Master Raymond Crowe takes shadow puppetry to a whole new level. 26 years of honing his skills have made him simply the best in this most exclusive of the arts. 

To call his lyrical, touching routines simply shadow puppetry doesn't really do them justice. Images depicting a singing Louis Armstrong morphing into a horse, a preening swan, a hopping rabbit, a baby's hand clutching an adult's finger and an elderly man are illustrative of a creative genuis at work.

These days Crowe regularly receives standing ovations for his performances but is quick to highlight that it has not always been thus - "I did do a show in Port Lincoln once and when the rabbit came out they yelled out 'Shoot it! Shoot it!"'

If you haven't seen this clip before prepare to be amazed. The perfect demonstration of imagination, creativity and determination.

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By Juan 3 weeks, 2 days ago

One Inch Ping Pong

"If not Bruce then who?"

"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me, that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision.  It is all these combined.  My brain becomes magnetised with this dominating force which I hold in my hand."  Bruce Lee (...as we remember him)

"Take your paddle, let me choose my weapon ...

... and let's play."

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Categories Fun Tags Sport

By Juan 1 month ago

Can You Kick It?

"... yes you can!"

According to a recent report from the UN, over 1.5 billion people—one quarter of the world’s population - live in areas with no access to electricity.

Introducing sOccket, the soccer ball that turns energy from a kick into electricity. This the product of the imagination and creativity of a group of Harvard students who have found a way to harness energy from the world's favourite sport and pastime.

"This portable energy-harvesting device captures the impact energy normally dissipated when the ball is kicked, storing it to charge lights, cell phones and batteries. It works with inductive coil technology, similar to that found in flashlights that power up when shaken. For each 15 minutes of play, it can store enough energy to power a small LED light for three hours."

Simply brilliant!

Currently in its prototyping stages, sOccket has been successfully piloted in Durban, South Africa, and the development team has plans to market a commercial version of the sOccket in Western countries as a high-end tech toy, possibly using a "buy one-give one" model, to subsidize the cost of distributing sOccket in developing nations. If ever you needed an excuse for a lunchtime kick around this is it!

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By Juan on 6/2/10

The Martial 'art'

"... an aesthetic blend of flips, kicks, and twists."

Take the backflip from gymnastics, a 540 kick from Taekwondo, a butterfly twist from Wushu and  a double leg from Capoeira and you get close to the highly artistic world of tricking (or martial arts tricking as it is more formally known).

Tricking has only recently come into its own as a recognized activity although its origins are placed in the early 60s when martial artists working the competitive circuits began incorporating more advanced techniques into their forms. Unsurprisingly it was the emergence of the internet that launched Tricking to a wider audience and by the end of 2003, the online tricking community was well-developed, bringing 'trickers' (or tricksters) from across the globe together. 

Unlike many established sports, tricking has no formal rules or regulations, and there are no governing bodies that regulate the sport. Specialized coached training is practically non-existent leaving it almost entirely down to the imagination and creativity of the individual.  Mats, plyometric flooring, trampoline or jumping jamporees are the tools of a tricksters trade and it goes without saying that a special dedication and determination is required to first learn and then hone the required skills.  Strictly speaking, participants are free to perform any kind of dramatic maneuver and call it a 'trick' - though there are certain moves which are generally accepted as tricking moves. One thing is for certain this gentleman, Sean Ellis, aka Sesshoumaru, has one big bag of tricks...

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Categories Art Tags Sport culture

By Juan on 4/2/10

Tim Sure Does Sexy

"But the depth of construction in his photography makes it so much more." 

Tim Bret-Day is not your average point and shoot photographer.  In fact he couldn't be further from one while still holding a camera in his hand. 

Tim's area of speciality is two fold - on the one hand he is one of the worlds premier fashion photographers working with the likes of Agent Provocateur, Harvey Nichols, Marie Claire, L'Oreal, Adidas, David Beckham, Kylie Minogue (and so many more) - and on the other he is the master of the visual overload, a celebrated creator of fantasy and desire that so appeals to the high end fashion world. 

He specialises in hugely elaborate images - decadent banquets, kinky semi-orgiastic feasts, celestial picnics - often awash with beautiful scantily clad women - therein marrying the ultra modern with the historically symbolic.  It is the imaginative, creative depth of construction in his photography, and the resulting glamour and gloss, that quite clearly sets him apart in his field. 

To some the guiding idea behind much of his work is relatively simple - that women can be both sex object and dominatrix all rolled into one.  Check out some of his amazing work below and see what you think...

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Categories Art Tags Design Fashion

By Juan on 2/2/10

Magic Fingers

"Flippin' heaven ..."

As we have recently been reminded, a fingerboard (or Finger-Skateboard) is a miniature version of a skateboard complete with moving wheels, graphics and trucks.  Measuring an average 96 millimeters long and 26 to 28mm wide, fingerboards can be employed by those gifted few to deliver the same breadth of board tricks that the better known skater pros deliver through their feet.  Only in this case the tricks are delivered through magic (highly determined) fingers...

And such nimble digits in (or should I say 'on') the hands of a talented cameraman makes for highly imaginative and creative cinema....

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Categories General Tags Sport Film Design

By Juan on 30/1/10

What No Web?

"But Spidey capabilities nonetheless..."

Meet real-life Spiderman Jyothi Raj.  The 22 year old former construction worker from South India dicovered his superhero ability just over four years ago when facing the daily challenge of scaling the bamboo scaffolding widely used across his country.  Recognising his innate ability to place his hands and feet with the precision to deliver the most efficient and rapid of climbs he thereafter applied himself in an effort to turn his talent into an art.

In this part of the world there are no harnesses, there is no net so these rapid 300 ft climbs up the fort wall in Chitradurga represent art in its most creative and determined form.

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Categories Endeavour Tags Sport culture

By Juan on 25/1/10