This fad has to stop, “Once upon a time, Fresno was the California Dream. Own a car. Own a house. Own a pool. Everyone wanted it and the wonderful world of credit made it all possible. But now, with the foreclosure monster running wild, the dream is dry. Thousands of pools are festering in the hot Central Valley sun. For most people this is tragic. But for some, it’s an opportunity.” Via documentary.net.
Cannonball from California is a place. on Vimeo.
See Eamon, there are problems and then there are non-problems ;-)
“I wear less every day anyway so that wasn’t a problem,” Sullivan said. “It just wasn’t my thing, I had fun but there’s no way I’d ever do that as a career, it’s not me.”
Despite his chiselled physique and boy-next-door good looks, Sullivan is uncomfortable with his newfound sex symbol status.
“It’s a bit unexpected and not something that I really focus on,” he said. “Being a Perth boy it’s not something I’m used to.”
Read The West Australian.
An elderly couple out for a swim off Venice Beach Thursday evening found themselves the victims of an attack by a sea lion, reports KTLA.
Libyan rebels have stormed the Tripoli house of Colonel Gaddafi’s daughter, Aisha, swimming in her pool and lounging on her sofas. Read more here on ITN.co.uk.
A woman fishing near her home on Lake Ida in Minnesota said she reeled in a prosthetic leg three years after it was lost by a swimmer. She tries to track down the leg’s owner, who turns out to be another resident at Lake Ida who lost her leg while swimming three years ago. Leg and leg owner are now reunited. Read UPI.com.
Ha ha ha, funny intro to this article on The Guardian:
“You are going to meet Martin Strel?” a woman says to me in Ljubljana.
“You know who he is?” I ask.
“Yes, of course. He is famous in Slovenia … But a lot of people here think he is a bit weird.”
That doesn’t surprise me. I know about Martin’s epic river swims, which have included passing dead bodies in the Yangtze, and I’ve seen the film Big River Man, which charts the bouts of drinking and madness that punctuated his 66-day progress along the Amazon in 2007.
“But weird in a funny way, right?”
“No,” she says. “Just weird.
I watched the “Big River Man” documentary myself, and I too think that he is weird :-)
The Kurishio Sea Tank in the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, featuring whale sharks, mantas and the occasional diver. Beautiful, soothing, mesmerising, they still look a bit trapped, though.
Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.
While filming whales off of the Canary Islands recently, a documentary crew discovered a rare marine find – the body of an Architheuthis (giant squid) bobbing in open water. They reckon that it was an adult female about 8 metres long with intact tentacles, where the largest specimens can be about 18 to 20 metres in total length, with eyes like a handball. Nice. Antena3.com via io9.com.
Tatiana and Verda enjoying the water in and around Fiji. Yes, we are in the GoPro zone again, capturing beautiful video no matter if it is in, on or above water, or in the transition between these places.
DREAM MACHINE – FIJI WATER – 2011 from Tatiana Howard on Vimeo.
