This video shows why an extra floater strap is a good idea. Uploaded by YouTube user BackyardJim, it’s the last video on the memory card of a camera found at the bottom of a plunge pool near Woodstock, NY. He is looking for the owner, see PetaPixel
16 different species filmed by the Georgia Institute of Technology, shaking off water in slow motion, in the name of science. See Buzzfeed
Via the17thman
Michael Phelps’ new Louis Vuitton ads may land him in some hot water, due to IOC’s regulations about promoting non-Olympic sponsors. Photos of Phelps taken by Annie Leibovitz were leaked online August 13, violating the International Olympic Committee’s controversial Rule 40 that bars athletes from promoting non-Olympic sponsors from July 18 through August 15. Punishments range from fines to a stripping of medals, but it is highly doubtful that Phelps will loose his record-breaking medal haul, as the campaign was supposed to begin in compliance with the rule on August 16, and as it is unclear who leaked the photos. Read The Hollywood Gossip.
Behold the brave 7 that dared to endure the 2012 edition of “Nólsoyarsvimjingin”, the 15th annual swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy in the Faroe Islands, about 5K from the rocks they are standing on to the island in the background. They all made it across, Erlendur Simonsen to the right the only one to have completed all 15 swims, and Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal to the left the winner of this year’s edition.
‘Just keep it fun’ – I like that ! :-)
The “Water Light Graffiti” is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Sweet. Via Google Creative Sandbox on Google+
Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in the Digitalarti Artlab from Digitalarti on Vimeo.
Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen tells Chinese station CCTV of her disappointment about suggestions that she relied on performance-enhancing drugs to break the 400m individual medley world record. Via The Guardian
Posing as the official New York City synchronized swimming team, 16 “Olympic hopefuls” display their dedication by performing an energetic routine in some shallow, grimy water. See What’s Trending
