Friday Inspiration

A 2-minute short about a gift from a stranger (video): Chaz Hutton draws “Mascots for the Rest of Us” (ex. The Mascot for People…

A New York Times look behind the scenes of the shooting of Free Solo (video): 25 reasons to keep creating stuff “in this era…

Some helpful information on how to buy a mountain bike (video): A visual history of every Air Jordan The Pudding visualizes the world’s population…

“A much more accurate depiction of an algorithm is that it’s an opinion embedded in math.” —mathematician Cathy O’Neill (video) Consider this when writing…

Three minutes of Swiss scenery, but in miniature: (video) Behold Otis, the champion of Katmai National Park’s 2018 Fat Bear Week. Four life lessons…

Three minutes on how expectations affect your life (video): A young woman’s journey of self-discovery … to discover that she hates traveling in big…

This animation just feels good (video) 24 photos of sinkholes “He never forgot that it was entirely possible that people wouldn’t appreciate your work…

Here’s 3 minutes of incredible scenery in Scotland to brighten your day (video) Do you have “slowness rage”? Prepare your Holy-Shit-o-Meter for this Twitter…

“The rules of our running group is that if I collapse, you make sure I’m dead before you call 911.” (video) A fascinating use…

You might have a suspicion that this film is not exactly what it seems, and you might be able to confirm that around the…

Where do hallucinations come from? (video) A collection of classic New York Times essays about surfing. “Unlikely Hikers is an antidote: a climber perched…

I’m not saying you don’t love mountain biking—but do you love it enough to weld your own bike out of scrap metal? (video) “The…

Billy Yang takes a look at the Born To Run Ultra Marathons (video): My friend Jeff Thrope writes about his move from L.A. to…

Meet Maxine the Fluffy Corgi (warning, this has an f-word in it):(video) Al Humphreys gives us a look behind the scenes of self-shot adventure…