friday inspiration

As far as all-time bachelor/bachelorette parties go, this one has to be pretty high up on the list (video):   “Boredom is highly underrated….

I’m just going to bet that this short documentary on Bob Ross will make you happy, just like Bob Ross may have done over…

Forest Woodward and the folks from Gnarly Bay made a film about human connections across cultures, but also about outrigger canoe racing, and you…

A visually stunning video of icebreaker ships crossing the Barents Sea (video): Researchers dropped off more than 17,000 “lost” wallets in 40 countries over…

I was happy to take a little crappy cell phone video of the eclipse in 2017—Phil Hart had seven cameras running, and made this…

Here’s a part-fun, part-white-knuckle, not new but new-to-me short film about a bike commuter in Johannesburg (video): Floyd Martin retired after 35 years as…

We all (hopefully) have our thing, and Kenny Unser’s thing is doing laps around Manhattan by kayak—more than 70 of them so far. (video)…

Ryan Van Duzer really captures RAGBRAI—“a rolling county fair” (video) Run 6.55 miles, eat a half-smoke sausage and chips, then run the other 6.55…

Kilian Jornet: 104 miles, 72,000 feet of elevation gain, 56 hours, 6 liters of water (video): An idea to help insomnia: Stop worrying about…

Watch Brody Leven and Josh Jespersen ski the Notch Couloir on Longs Peak, maybe the definition of “no-fall” territory (video) The Kickstarter for Chart…

A super-fun, short, hand-drawn skiing animation (video) “The thing that makes us happiest in life is other people. And yet other people are often…

“This is your social security dollars at work, basically.”—Carl “The Omelette Guy” Spring, who feeds more than 1400 Appalachian Trail hikers each year (video)…

Alex Honnold breaks down iconic rock climbing movie scenes (video)(Thanks, Torrey) Rose Torphy just became a junior ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, at…