Basking sharks are enormous cold water dwellers that are rare to see around the surface, especially along the warm waters of the Florida panhandle. And just for reference, the kayak in this footage is 14′. That. Is. One. Big. Fish.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Fotopedia apps the National Parks
Quang-Tuan Luong is featured in this sweet photography app
Take a break from the Angry Birds marathon for a second and download more than 3,000 stunning national park images from photographer Quang-Tuan Luong. Beyond the terrain that’s been captured in each image, you get map data, national park links and image captions. I don’t know a ton about Luong, or anything really. But that doesn’t matter. I know the guy is damn good at capturing some the coolest places on earth. And that $4.99 for this many hard-to-describe-in-a-blog-post photos is worth every vista.
Surfing and skating once again mesh with mid-wave kick-flip
Just as the Z Boys used surfing to influence the creation of modern skateboarding, surfers are reaching out to their wheeled brethren for new ideas and antics in the line-up. The two sports pretty much exist in a perpetual state of mutualism, feeding off of one another for new influence and stoke. For example, Santa Cruz’s Zoltan Torkos landed what many believe to be the first kick-flip done on a surfboard. Obviously, he needed a pretty small egg shape to pull it off. But just wait, as with most “firsts” in the surfing world, it won’t be long before someone is kick-flipping a 10′ Yater.
NBC Bay Area has more information about the trick, which now may make him eligible for a $10,000 award offered by Volcom for the first person who could do it. That would buy a lot of fish tacos.