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  • Osaka Station fountain displays time and art in water

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    This is totally on the outskirts of swimming relevance, but my gosh this fountain is impressive, located in the South Gate Building of the Osaka Station City complex. Water counts, right ? Via cnet.com and Geeks are Sexy.

  • Good quality video of the Magnini vs dolphins swim

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    Via hollandswimming.nl, this much better quality video than in our original post. Doesn’t do him justice though, still whooped badly by the dolphins. Speed race between man and dolphin by silvan500

  • Sealander, the Amphibious Camping Trailer

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    This German-designed Sealander Amphibious Camping Trailer does double duty as both a place to rest and a lake-worthy water vessel. Ultra-light and waterproof, to be towed by almost any vehicle, and with a handy outboard motor for when on the water. The soundtrack could be a little less “The Last Samurai” me thinks, and a…

  • The Vandenberg Art Exhibition requires a scuba diving certification

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    Or serious freediving skills, an underwater art exhibit has debuted on the former Air Force missile tracking ship “Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg” sunk in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary seven miles south of Key West to become an artificial reef. In other news, the art world is weird. Via Neatorama.

  • Superpippo gets beaten badly by dolphins

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    Dolphins King (19) and Leah (9) had to swim twice as many lengths as Magnini, but still managed to overtake him in the last few yards (meters). “I never had such tough opponents,” joked the two-time world champion. But he said he “fell a bit in love with dolphin Leah” and hoped to see her…

  • ContourROAM packs a laser to help you with hands-free underwater filming

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    Behold a worthy GoPro challenger, the ContourROAM waterproof camera designed for rough, actionpacked, hands-free filming in 720p, 960p and 1080p, with a multidirectional microphone and a 170° super wide-angle lens, and a laser for better alignment and aiming. Waterproof down to 1 meter, or 60 meters if you buy the additional ContourROAM Waterproof Case. Via…

  • UK owns the World’s Largest Water Balloon Fight record

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    On August 26th, University of Kentucky’s Christian Student Fellowship went to break the world record for the World’s Largest Water Balloon Fight set in 2010 by students at Brigham Young University. 8957 people threw 175,141 water ballons in the fight, compared to a mere 3927 people in 2010. A record surely begging to be broken,…

  • Garrett Weber-Gale on “Staging” at Noma

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    A good read here on athleticfoodie.com, by Olympic gold medalist and food enthusiast Garrett Weber-Gale: On August 7th, I traveled to Copenhagen to apprentice at Noma. I had little notion of what I’d be doing, or what I’d be learning. Of course, I read up a bunch regarding their ‘Nordic Cuisine’, and some of the…

  • The Front Bottoms – “Swimming Pool”

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    From the self-titled debut album on Bar/None Records (release date September 6, 2011) The Front Bottoms “Swimming Pool” from Another Reybee Productions, Inc. on Vimeo.