Words About Things

A round up of interesting stuff from the internet this week.

1. Erik Elstran is a bmx rider who’s style is unique and more importantly good fun. I can’t really explain any of the moves but trust me, this video is worth watching. Skip past the first 30 seconds though because it starts out with a parody of bad Youtube bmx videos.

2. A Beluga Whale saves (?) a diver in distress in China. The diver was taking part in a Free-diving competition when she found herself unable to use her legs to swim back to the surface, luckily she was diving in a Whale tank at the time.

3. The World’s Most Bizarre Sports.

4.  Look out rubbish faux-punk bands, Buddyhead Records has relaunched it’s infamous Gossip Page (not for the easily offended).

5. The roads are packed full of caravans at this time of year but none of them are this cool. This one doesn’t need a car and manages to reach a decent speed all by itself…

1. Spin Doctors perform their best hit Two Princes live on Sesame street.

2. Campaign launched to save the Essex accent. Why bother?

3. Channel 4 to put entire TV archive online for free?

4. MP Blunkett recovering from cow attack. This is out of order, I’m having steak for dinner to protest.

5. The 5 best Volkswagen models. suprisingly the Doka isn’t listed.

A selection of links to interesting things I’ve seen online this week, better late than never!

1. Paul Smith mixes fashion with conceptual art.

2. The World’s Smallest Car is built from a Quad Bike and a Postman Pat ride. [video]

3. The Cultural Significance of Flowers and the Ascent of Man.

4. Amazing entrants to the Online Beatbox Battle. Is this real? Amazing.

5. The average woman ‘spends £9,000 on her hair in her lifetime’.