Wild and Wonderful

Lets talk about adrenaline. The rush of a feeling. The feeling of excitement, danger and sensory overload wrapped into one package. Lets talk about whitewater rafting the Gauley River in West Virginia on a 115% release day.

Just a taste of the experience:
A motley crew of adventures is assembled by Rory Heim aka the King of Fun, piled into a car and roadtripped off for a night of camping and a day of rafting in West Va. Add in a rafting guide with 10 years of experience and more redneck jokes than Larry the Cable Guy. Add in the morning sunlight peeking through the mist rising off the water, just as the leaves are starting to turn orange and yellow. Add in whitewater and jutting rocks that resemble the only water entrance to hell. Add in an amazing hot lunch right off the grill and a flask of some of the good stuff to put some hairs on your chest. Finally, add in a GoPro and John Denver and here's what you get:

Localites

Places: spaces characterized by a combination of elements that tickle our internal axis' of harmony, enveloping us in a unique phenomenological experience. Everyone's got a place, that 'spot.'

My brother and I have one too. There is a field near our parent's house in Crozet. A swath of naked rolling hills provide a corridor down which you can gander. You can see the mountains from there. There are hay bails (you can run on them), bird swoops/calls, openings and closings of the day, a vine-mantled tractor - all there. Sometimes I wish I were too.

We call it 'the spot.' I would show you a picture, but then, it wouldn't be 'the spot,' would it...

Here's another picture though. There's an old ware house down near the River. Ruins, old structures, worn, that welcome new life, open to fresh constituents to distinguish it. It's all gnarled trees and spray art. I call it the Bad Lands. A place - it is. THE spot? No. Still an axis' though.

Gareth Hermann for scope

Classic

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.

Air

The greatest snowboarding movie ever came out. Get some awesomeness in this trailer.

Brain Farm - The Art of Flight Trailer from Brain Farm on Vimeo.

I think the quote "What the fuck kind of planet are you from?" pretty much sums this all up. By the end of the film, you'll be desensitized to mythological aerial gymnastics, as Travis Rice and his posse man-handle some monumental peaks, mountains that seem to have opposable thumbs. To watch this intuitively choreographed play between natures larges indexes, spines that invoke oblivion, feels like a watching a fairy tale. Add dubstep. Ignite. Folks, your faces are blown.

Think planet earth-esque ski porn. At one thousand frames per second. For scale: they can take one second in reality and stretch it into one minute of footage. Delayed gratification never felt so good. The cusp is moving in next door, so get get neighborly and civil, were in for the long haul.