Month: January 2013
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Behold Floating Lights, an interactive display made of illuminated pool floats
“Floating Lights†is a 65 foot wide interactive display in which illuminated pool floats act as colorful pixels. Viewers can create designs on the display by turning individual floats on and off. Read Laughing Squid Floating Lights in Fête des Lumières from Travesías de luz on Vimeo.
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2012 Polar Bear Swim Charles Mill Lake
Annual January 1st Polar Bear Swim at Charles Mill Lake near Mansfield, Ohio. First time for my wife and son.
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Seal spotted swimming in flooded British field 50 miles inland
In an amateur video viewed on YouTube more than 12,000 times, a seal is spotted clambering over flood defences at Fen Drayton lakes in Cambridgeshire. The reserve is more that 50 miles from the coast at Kings Lynn in Norfolk, where the seal is thought to have entered the river Great Ouse. read The Guardian
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Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia – Lonely Planet travel video
One can always dream :-) http://youtu.be/uIFtlKCZ-dk
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Polar Bear Plunge Coney Island
Hundreds of hardy swimmers rang in 2013 with a plunge into the icy sea off Brooklyn’s Coney Island, an area struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy.
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Skanda Vale Hospice Christmas Sea Swim Training
“On Boxing Day, 26th December, not one, but TEN members of Skanda Vale Community will be swimming in the icy waters of the IRISH SEA, to help raise money for a new in-care patient unit at Skanda Vale Hospice.” Also, awesome Schnappi soundtrack :-) Skanda Vale Hospice Christmas Sea Swim Training from Skanda Vale on…
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Club Swim Indiegogo Promo
An interesting fundraiser here on Indiegogo, to support Club Swim, a mockumentary miniseries about an undervalued assistant swim coach and his team of misfit swimmers, the Flounders. They’ve already reached $1,235 of their $999, but probably don’t mind a bit more. See clubswim.com Club Swim Indiegogo Promo from Club Swim on Vimeo.
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Thousands Of Swimmers Mark 2013 With New Year Plunge
Tens of thousands of brave swimmers have been celebrating the start of 2013 with a new year plunge into near freezing waters across Europe.