Salt Stained Eyes is the brainchild of Jack Brull, a surfer from Long Island who chronicles his life at the great beaches of New England through the lenses of multiple analog cameras. He's usually surfing at Long Beach, and his photographs perfectly capture the ghostly feel of the empty New York ocean during the early morning hours.
You can buy the whole National Geographic archive , all the way back to 1888, on a 160 GB hard drive for $200. The hard drive is only 60 GB full, leaving 100 GB for your personal files. The archive includes all of the magazines' advertisements, which are sometimes just as interesting as the stories themselves. Sounds like a pretty fabulous thing to have at your fingertips, although something about it seems a little off to me. What about the fold outs? The posters? Goodbye forever, print. (via GJ [...]
Arizona Highways is a monthly magazine published by the Arizona Department of Transportation since 1925. It began as an engineering journal dedicated to the state's road construction and maintenance, but was eventually taken over by Arizona travel tales, stories and photos. The covers of these magazines are some of the best I've ever seen, so start looking for them if you haven't already. American Highways is still around and has a damn good website full of scenic [...]
You'd like to think you could never get lost while hiking. And chances are you probably won't if you're prepared with a compass and a map. People do get lost in the woods though and Hiker Hell documents those mishaps for our reading enjoyment. From spiritual quests in North Dakota to illegal hiking in China, it's a great resource to learn from other people's mistakes. Read: How To Use A Compass
I've linked to it on many occasions - twice in the post below - but I'm not sure I've ever officially mentioned Wildnerness.net on Cold Splinters before. It's the definitive internet source for America's wilderness areas and has some of the best pictures you can find on the web. Both shots above are from their Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness archive. It's also the "only officially-recognized, national, comprehensive, inter-agency database of information about all Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service and National Park Service [...]
As I'm sure you know, each Sunday Closet Of Curiosities posts the audio of an environmental tape from yesteryear. This week was the Sounds Of The Everglades . Righteous.
A Continuous Lean went on up to British Columbia and took a tour of the Arc'teryx factory. Go take a look at his photos: It was remarkable to see the amount of research and development that goes into the manufacture of the Arc'teryx goods. Not only does the company develop many of its own materials and components, it also engineers the tools and machines that physically make the gear. It was also interesting to see how highly involved GORE-TEX is in [...]
The First Ascent team has been blogging their way up to the top of Mount Everest for the past few weeks and today at 8 a.m. Nepal time, they reached the 29, 029 foot high summit. Check out the video here Check out First Ascent's photo Gallery here (via Backpacker ) MP3: Etta James - Take It To The Limit
Y'all, I'm sure you don't need a reminder, but just in case you've been busy, don't forget about Steep and Cheap . It could be one of the best websites around. They have HIGHLY discounted camping and outdoor gear, one item at a time. You can even download an application that sits in the bottom right hand corner of Firefox and tells you what's on sale, how discounted it is, and how much it'll cost you. Ain't nothing wrong with that. ( EMS has a 20% off sale [...]
Check out the wonderful world of Daniel Arnold's photography at When To Say Nothing . He just got started posting, but if the purple skies and flowing blonde hippie hair dressed in lace is any indication of the hoedown that's gonna come, we'll be hanging outside those doors all the time.
BACKPACKER won three National Magazine Awards last week: General Excellence Online, Personal Service Online for their Maps Project, and Best Essay for Tracy Ross's "The Source of All Things." BACKPACKER tied with Wired, The New Yorker, and Esquire for most wins. Read more at the Daily Dirt Blog
Late last year, Todd Carmichael became the fastest person to reach the South Pole on foot. He also had pieces of his frostbitten lungs in his spit by the time he got there. Read the Men's Journal interview with Carmichael here . (thx Adventure Blog )
Mother Earth News' Daily Archive features a DIY "gravity powered" go-cart from 1985. Yeah, that seems like a good idea. Mother Earth News Daily Archive
Y'all, it's spring, garlic, cats, and marjoram over at one of Cold Splinters' favorite blogs, Future House Farm . Go check it out. Listen: Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 8: Harpur College, Binghampton, NY, 5/2/1970
The sun has been-a-shinin' lately, so when you're out doing that hiking and camping thing that y'all love to do, the likelihood of passing some wildflowers on the trail is getting higher. If you're out on a prairie in the Land Of Lincoln this summer and you're not sure if you're staring at a Cliff Onion or a Sawtooth Sunflower , you can take a picture and mosey on over to this amazing wildflower resource to figure out what it was you were [...]
Download the Country Thunderstorm MP3 at Closet Of Curiosities: This superbly realistic colossus of a thunderstorm places you out on the front porch of a rural farm house. The storm begins with ominous distant rumblings. Thunderclaps soon build to foundation-shaking intensity. Water will seem to drip from your speakers as you experience the awesome power of nature. Leave it on for a while and you'll find you miss it when it ends.
One of the best blogs on the Internets. Hard to believe it actually exists it's so good. Get lost for hours here . MP3: The Sunsum Band - Mensee Madwen
National Geographic has some crazy pictures (or are they drawings?) of a Pacific barreleye fish off the central coast of California. In case you can't tell from the picture above, IT'S HEAD IS SEE THROUGH. I'm calling bullshit on this one. Give that thing some Prozac. It's the saddest fish I ever saw. HERE Psychedelica
The American Museum Of Natural History is just about everyone's favorite place in New York so it's no surprise that their website has one of the best archival photo collections on the Internets. Here
MP3: Grasshopper Warbler MP3: Goldcrest (left) MP3: Firecrest (right) MP3: Whitethroat Thank You Closet Of Curiosities
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St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
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