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A Slacklife?

".... not for artists in this field..."

'Slacklining' is a balance art ... with a difference.  It differs from tightrope-walking in that the line is flatter and not held rigidly taut (although it is still under some tension) and instead allows a stretching and bouncing as if you were on a long and narrow trampoline. Cool eh?  And particularly cool if you're any good at it....

Tricklining, waterlining, highlining, yoga slacklining (!) and freestyle slacklining ... all impressive skills that require an imagination to first happen upon and a determination to develop.  And it you're good enough how about scrapping it out as they do at slackwars.com?

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Categories Culture Tags Sport

By Sammy on 22/9/10

Circuit Board Beauty

"Sea Turtle Searches For Deep Data"

Born in Havana Cuba in 1963 Steven Rodrig is what they call an environmentally conscious artist.  Over the course of a career fixing computers and other electronical equipment he has come to realise just how bad for the environment it is to dispose of circuit boards by ordinary means.

Today Steven reycles circuit boards by turning them into innovative creative art sculptures, or PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Mixed Media s as he calls them. He tells us "My goal is to manipulate each PCB into an organic life form where the PCB characteristics become part of the living fabric helping to shape its meaning."  Sound too much? Well check out these creations out and then you decide if they were better off as landfill.

(visit www.pcbcreations.com to see more of Steven's highly imaginative and creative work)

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Categories Art Tags Design

By Sammy on 15/9/10

Inspired By Travis?

"... but landed by Aaron."

... aka Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham to be precise.  This the world's first double backflip on a wheelchair as at August 26, 2010. Pure No Can't Do and an inspiration to us all.

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Categories Sport Tags Endeavour

By Sammy on 6/9/10