Hiking With A Fire Ant

Red hot like a fire ant.  That's what MacKenzie Campbell is when she's hiking.  Check out these lovely snaps from Malibu...

Fire Ant Malibu

MacKenzie Campbell Hiking

MacKenzie Campbell Hiking

MacKenzie Campbell Hiking

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Surfing With The Moon

Surfing With The Moon

Horse Armor At Les Invalides, Paris

The last installment of my photos of 'ancient' armor from Les Invalides in Paris.  Most impressive, I think, is the armor of the horse.  The armor weighs hundreds of pounds, and the horn makes the horse dangerous to both enemies and the rider.  Of course, wearing the cone head armor of pictured below, one might wish to be impaled.

Horse Armor Les Invalides

Cone head armor Les Invalides

Breastplate Armor Les Invalides

Ancient Shield Les Invalides

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Eli Kallison, Model, Actor, Blogger Extraordinaire

Despite being [relatively] douchey, I found these extra photos from my photography class at MPC.  Good old Mo took these photos of me.  No judgement... and stay calm ladies...

Eli Kallison Portrait

Eli Kallison Portrait

Eli Kallison Portrait

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Surfboard Storage in a Studio Apartment

One thing that's a struggle about living in 400 square feet is the lack of storage- especially with 2 surfboards and a bike to keep around.  I was reading Fast Company, and came across an interesting article about sectional studio apartments that they're building in New York to save space.  These pre-made apartments are hauled up by a crane and stacked on top of one another.  

Overcrowded? Yes.  A huge building chalk full of <400 square foot studios means a lot of people in a little space.  However, the genius of these is in the storage.  Check out that awesome surfboard storage area (images from Fast Company)...

Surfboard Storage in a Studio Apartment

Surfboard Storage in a Studio Apartment

To see some tips and tricks on how to store your surfboard in your studio apartment, see my blog post here: http://offshorewinds.blogspot.com/2014/02/surfboard-storage-in-studio-apartment.html.

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Basic Flight Maneuvers

An especially funny Facebook post by my buddy Deeter, a friend from LMU who is now training as a Navy Pilot.  I'll concede that I'm quite jealous of what he gets to do!  Congrats, bro.  The BFM that he's referencing stands for Basic Fighter Maneuvers. To take a quote from Wikipedia...

BFMs are tactical movements performed by fighter aircraft during air combat maneuvering (also called ACM, or dogfighting), in order to gain a positional advantage over the opponent. BFM combines the fundamentals of aerodynamic flight and the geometry of pursuit with the physics of managing the aircraft's energy-to-weight ratio, called its specific energy. Maneuvers are used to gain a better angular position in relation to the opponent. They can be offensive, to help an attacker get behind an enemy, or defensive, to help the defender evade an attacker's weapons. They can also be neutral, where both opponents strive for an offensive position, or disengagement maneuvers, to help facilitate an escape.

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WikiCells Edible Food Membrane

We may not have machines like HAL, or the Star Trek food synthesizers with an automated gourmet chef hiding inside, but we are seeing some pretty cool modernizations in the food industry.  From my experiences in college lab settings, food and science aren't supposed to mix.  Don't try dipping a biscuit into a sulfate mixture.  Thankfully, we've got some rule breaks who developed WikiCells (though I'm still clueless as to the purpose of the 'Wiki' prefix).  Here's what design taxi has to say:

WikiCells are food and drink enclosed inside edible soft skins, that are made of food particles and held together by nutritive ions, so that users can eat the entire packaging (like grapes)—as an effort to reduce pollution accumulated from packaging of food. 

The self-contained shell is made from vegetal elements with a taste specifically paired to match the enclosed snack or beverage. The product has no limits in terms of contents, with the ability to hold anything from yogurts to mousses to ice cream suspended in a hard chocolate shell. Indeed, Edwards even introduced a WikiCocktail: Cointreau in a skin made of orange zest.

Imagine your morning bowl of cereal in one edible rice crispy Wiki-wrapper, milk and all.  Here are some photos from WikiCells:

WikiCells Variety, you can see some spinach and bagel/cream cheese combinations

WikiCell ice cream and chocolate balls

WikiCells yogurt and fruit

WikiCells milk and cereal

WikiCells alcoholic lemon drink

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GoPro Survives Liquid Nitrogen

GoPro survives dunking in liquid nitrogen... I guess I don't have to worry about taking mine into the ocean.  Enjoy this live demonstration from CES...

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When someone tries to snake me on a wave

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When you run into a pro in the lineup

KELLY SLATER??

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What It's Like Catching a Mushy Wave After a Set

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Hunting Lessons, Lions

A fascinating look at how a Lion pride hunts a warthog, narrated by the ever-delicate and informative David Attenborough.

Awesome Family Playing Xylophones in Santa Fe

I don't know if I posted this before, but I found this awesome throwback to when I was in Santa Fe with my dad.  We were on the way back from picking up my car in Texas and driving back to California.  We stumbled across this awesome family playing xylophones.

How.  Awesome.

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Eli Kallison Surfing Carmel and El Porto

Though not the most exciting footage, I felt the need to make/upload a video of me surfing a shitty day at Carmel and a shitty day at El Porto.  Enjoy the music?

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What I See When Someone Stand-up Paddleboards

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Getting Rolled After a Sick Barrell

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Surfing The Wedge with Jamie O'Brien

Jamie O'brien is quite the character.  I love the way he talks about the Wedge.

Wild Animals in Central Park

Believe it or not, New York is host to a number of wild animals.  Besides the tigers living in studio apartments in Brooklyn, we found a couple animals in Central Park.

Bird in Central Park 

Turtle in Central Park

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Afrobats Putting On A Show

Not only can the Afrobats dance, they can put on a show.  Just make sure when they point, you run or give them a little donation...

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