His nickname is “Saggyarmpit”. He is a Singapore graphic design student, the author of “Parkour Flip Book”. It is all about running, climbing, crawling, and jumping over any obstacle in a path through an urban environment, Yamasaki Style.
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3,500 runners, 100 cities, 35 countries = One Giant Leap: The world’s largest ever international parkour jam
Sandbag is a campaigning organisation focused on emissions trading by buying up and cancelling emissions permits from suitable sellers who use the money on projects to increase energy efficiency, encouraging companies who hold permits to cancel them rather than use them to emit and by campaigning for tighter caps on emissions. Acting in partnership with Parkour Generations thousands of free runners will be ducking and diving, bobbing, weaving and flying their way around at events in 100 cities tomorrow with the aim of raising awareness of climate change and calling for our politicians to agree an effective new global deal come December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Naomi Honey, a free-runner in London, told the Guardian that there were natural parallels between the sport and efforts to reduce emissions: “They’re both about efficiency. Parkour is about being efficient with your body – trying to access its full capabilities. You’re constantly trying to develop the strength and control and fluidity to enable you to move further, faster and with less effort. The drive against climate change is about the same thing. No one is suggesting that we go back to a world before electricity, just that we make sure we are using everything in the most efficient way.”
Find out more about the Sandbag campaign, sign up to the petition, become a member, or just find your local Parkour Jam for tomorrow right here!
Last month I discovered the facsinating world of parkour. What amazes me the most about parkour is to see how it has evolved throughout the past some 80 years.
1930
2008
Ah, nothing beats waking up to some fresh parkour in the morning.
Have a lovely day!
(image via flickr user dmswart)
Good Morning!
At the end of a post about a trip I’d taken to one of the new Wired stores here in NYC, I asked if there was a word or term to describe the feeling one gets when one has only experienced something digitally, (be it a product, place, or individual,) and then is lightly shocked when the item in question is physically interacted with.
We think we’re ready to test drive a new term: meet shock.
A play on the word “meat,” meet shock is used to describe “the awkwardness inherent in a real life interaction with someone or something you only know from the web.”
Here is the conversation that lead to the sparkly new term:
First,
So, one can go on an internet date and report back to ones friends:
“We totally hit it off. Light meet shock in the beginning, but we got over it.”
Or visit a store and hold a previously coveted item and remark later:
“Man, I checked out the Brunton SolarRoll. Much floppier than I’d expected. Total meet shock.”
Or you can actually turn off your computer, and like, go freerunning in the park with some cat from your Warcraft guild, and then go home and sign back into IM and be all like:
“Lulzzz! HiroSandwitch338 is like 1000 yrs old in real life. Mi5555 shizzzzzzzzz!”
You can say or do any of those things.
We totes understand if you don’t.
Ah ha ha ha!
Love!
Jackson and Team SuperForest
While watching random videos on YouTube today, I discovered parkour; a French recreational activity in which the participants (traceurs) traverse urban structures by running, jumping, etc. in the most fluid way possible.
In the past few years parkour has evolved from a recreational sport to an astonishing art form and a way of life. I mean, watch how these four gentlemen get to the bank!
Have a great weekend!
Or maybe the ghost and the material object (or person) are two separate entities. The ghost represents that idealistic vision you have of that person or thing. You can’t help it, but that ghost will always be present during that first encounter and that awkwardness is born of your comparison between the ghost and the object/person standing in front of you.
Do we want it to be a verb, adjective, or a noun? Maybe we should start there.
December 7, 2008 11:41 AM
Yeah yeah yeah!
December 7, 2008 1:16 PM
EX: My transwebward encounter with the shirt I had seen online revealed that it was far too loose fitting.
(Or)
EX: My transwebward meeting with the Superforest team surprised me greatly.
December 7, 2008 1:31 PM
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December 7, 2008 10:42 PM
Has anyone played Second Life? In SL they refer to the real world as “meat space.” Maybe something along the lines of “meat shock”?
That sounds awful.
But when something makes the leap from purely mental to physical it is definitely jarring. Mostly in a good way.
December 7, 2008 10:59 PM
And yes, I agree, hopefully all of our transwebward experiences will be full of joy and excitement! :D
December 8, 2008 1:02 AM
December 8, 2008 1:30 AM
Meet shock.
Amazing.
December 8, 2008 9:56 PM