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King Of The Fancy Dress

"Halloween is coming..."

 ... and that means it's time to get creative with your costumes. It's no longer just about witches, ghosts and goblins ... these days it seems anything goes!  Tranformer rigs are all the rage...

And we have to say, if this guy turned up on the doorstep 'trick or treating' with a witches bag in hand, we'd be suitably impressed to the tune of one giant bag of marshmallows!
 

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Categories Fun Tags Art Design Fashion

By Juan on 28/10/09

Pulling The Plug

"Creativity inspiring creativity"

We're not sure how long this will survive on line before Disney bring in their legal minions and they pull the plug... but for now let's enjoy how the historical brilliance of Pixar's creative department, led by the genius of John Lassiter, render the Pixar name the muse of creatives everywhere.  The end scene on the 90 second piece below just cracks me up. 

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By Juan on 19/10/09

Balance = Power

Changing 'I can't' for 'I can' opened up a world of possibility for the UK's leading lady of endurance. 

"Sport has a tremendous power – and can be a force for considerable change. I feel very strongly that as a professional triathlete my impact and message should be wider than my performance on the race course, and last longer than my athletic career." Chrissie Wellington, 3 x World Ironman Champion

Four years ago Chrissie Wellington was asked whether she would ever do an Ironman. Her response? ‘No way, you must be completely mad to do something like that!’

But then in her own words, she changed ‘I can’t’ to ‘I can’.  Then with support and mentoring from coaches, friends and family she found a new innner belief, she dared to push herself harder than ever before and in doing so she made her new dreams a reality.

In the early hours of Saturday morning UK time, Chrissie Wellington claimed her third straight Ironman title in a record time at the World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.  Her final time of 8:54:02 for the 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile marathon was nearly 20 minutes faster than second placed Australia’s Mirinda Carfrae and broke Paula Newby-Fraser’s mark of 8:55:28 set in 1992 (herself a legend having won this event 8 times).  To further put Chrissie's performance into context, on a near windless day where the heat radiated off the pavement and the ink black, sun-baked lava fields, she finished 23rd overall out of 164 pros and a further 1800 competitors from 58 countries, 'chicking' (as is the expression in this brutal sport) a large number of professional male athletes on the day!  

The thing is, for Chrissie her will to win is not just born of a competitive spirit.  For her there is a higher agenda, a higher purpose to it all. A balance that she needs to reach and maintain in her life if she is to continue to tap into her inner power and go on scaling the sporting heights in this the toughest of them all.

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Categories Sport Tags Sport Drama

By Juan on 12/10/09

A 'refreshing' Alternative

Ever watched a film and thought ... 'What kind of an ending was that?!?" ...

Well these guys certainly have, and more than just rant about it, they've decided to tell us just how it should have been.  Check out this for a mad man's rampant imagination.

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Categories Film Tags culture suso Design Fun

By Juan on 7/10/09

The Salute

"What does it mean to truly stand out from the crowd? To stop the world with a single gesture?"

As the anticipation builds here in the UK ahead of London 2012, and on the back of last week's announcement that the games are heading to Rio in 2016 our thoughts again turn to the inspiring stories born out of the Olympic games.  One of the better known, this tale is always worthy of reflection.

It is the Mexico Olympics, 1968. The height of the Vietnam War. The year the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. 14 days after hundreds of Mexican students were slaughtered in Tlatelolco for peacefully protesting against government brutality and repression.

With their famous ‘Black Power Salute’ as they stood on the 200m winners’ podium, Tommy Smith and Jon Carlos struck a blow for human rights that shook the globe. For a moment they were the most talked about people alive. They inspired millions. But in doing so they put their lives at risk; together they were to receive more hate mail than Henry Aaron and Muhammed Ali put together. But these days no-one ever asks: who’s the white dude?

OK, it’s obvious he’s the guy that finished second. What is less known is that Peter Norman, a white Australian, donned a badge on the podium in support of the two Americans’ cause, the Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR). On the way out to the medal ceremony, Norman saw the badge being worn by Paul Hoffman, a white member of the US Rowing Team, and asked him if he could wear it. It was also Norman who suggested that Smith and Carlos share the black gloves used in their salute, after Carlos left his gloves in the Olympic Village. This is the reason Tommie Smith raised his right fist, while John Carlos raised his left. Asked about his support of Smith and Carlos by the world's press, Norman said he opposed his country's government's White Australia policy. Blacked out of record books and civil rights stories, here was an example of a white man who gave more than moral support and a cheque in the mail.

They were the three fastest men alive; but then Smith and Carlos were thrown out of the US Olympic team; Norman was reprimanded and ostracised by the Australian media. But in a time when mankind’s savage nature threatened to destroy it’s very future, they did something worth far more than winning an Olympic medal. They won a medal for the human race.

Winner of Best Australian Documentary, with a 10 minute standing ovation at last year’s Sydney Film Festival, and Best Documentary this year at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, Matt Norman’s film “salute” was 6 years in the making and pays tribute to the story he promised his uncle he would one day tell the world. See the story told in full here.

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Categories Sport Tags Drama Endeavour Politics General

By Juan on 6/10/09