The Story of Stuff

If you have seen or heard about the Cradle-2-Cradle concept the Story of Stuff will be very recognisable. I got the link from a friend of mine friend in New Zealand (thanx Niels !) and although most of the subjects debated weren't new for me, many things gave me a deja-vu-feeling. What happens before you buy a product? How many energy (literately and figuratively) has been put in it? and even more important: what happens with it after it turns useless?

Many things do have a similarity with the C2C-way of thinking but in this case is emphasises more on the dark side of the consumers. A BIG difference with C2C who actually wants us to consume more, because in their eyes waste equals food.

The Story of Stuff gives you a little insight in the madness of consuming and the effects it has on a global scale .

Sinterklaas Humor

Van de hand van de fotostripmaker Ype Driessen twee melige fotostrips over activiteiten rond S'niklaas. Klik de de foto's voor een directe link naar de twee strips.

Andreas Bindhammer repeats Big Hammer 9A

The brother of Christian Bindhammer now has a redpoint ascent of the until now unrepeated hard-crux route in the Pinswang, Austria. After that he also repeated the 9A/9A+ rated PunktX in Gorges du Loup, which was repeated after that by the route-consumer Adam Ondra.
Check this link for a video of Andreas climbing Hotel Supramonte.
(source: planetmountain.com & christian-bindhammer.de)

Banyan Treehouse

Although this towering concrete treehouse isn’t really green, (no matter what grows on top of it), you must be awestruck by its sheer craziness. I thought it worth a post, just for the picture. The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan is a life-size rendition of a banyan tree, also known as gajumaru. The aptly-named Banyan Town shopping center near the entrance of Onoyama Park features a twenty foot tall tree with a pan-Asian restaurant nestled amid its branches. Accessible by a spiral staircase around back and an in-trunk elevator, the restaurant specializes in locally grown and organic harvested foods fresh from the farm.

(source: inhabitat.com)

Dave Graham - The Island V15

Dave Graham in Fontainebleau is a guarantee for beautiful boulders. And this V15 one. It almost looks like he is climbing in slow-motion. Such a controlled moves and precise and deliberate dead points. I wish I had the ape-factor he has.... (Click the pic for movie).
(source:youtube)

Sinter(klim-clausule)klaas

ahum, locale humor, maar toch.
(bron:gespot.at5.nl - foto door Claudia Klein)

Not my Fault - Mountain Cartoon

(source:cartoonstock.com)