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Break Line: Stephanie Gilmore Slicing her way through breaking waves, professional surfer Stephanie Gilmore stars in Trestles Forever, filmed on the Pacific Ocean by NOWNESS regular Todd Cole. The 24-year-old Gilmore rose to international prominence in 2007 when she seized the Women’s World Title for the first time, an award she has regained in four of the five years since. “I love working with people from outside the world of surfing,” says the New South Wales native. Location The Trestles, San Diego County. Shoot duration One day; a few hours in the morning, then off on a boat looking for clear pools of water, and then another hour of surfing at sunset. Number of waves surfed 16. Number of surf choreographers used One: Sonny Miller. Camera s Two Arri 16mm film cameras in custom-made underwater housings. Food consumed on set Bagels and cream cheese, chips, guacamole and salsa. Drink consumed on set Water, coconut water and some tequila at the end of the day. Approximate calories burned surfing 1,428. StylingKris Zero.

Virgin Galactic Doesn't Just Benefit the Rich—It's Good for Science A man watches as WhiteKnightTwo, carrying SpaceShipTwo, takes flight over Spaceport America, on October 17, 2011. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images Last week’s crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, which killed one test pilot and injured another, brought criticism that the company is merely a provider of space safaris for the rich—one that’s not worth dying for. Yes, Virgin Galactic caters to the wealthy who can afford its $250,000 parabolic joyrides, if and when they finally take flight. Virgin doesn’t offer a lot of weightless time—Katy Perry and Ashton Kutcher will get just four minutes to float around the cabin before they have to find their way back to their seats. Will Pomerantz, vice president for special projects at Virgin Galactic, is a planetary science researcher by training. Research in outer space isn’t just about making life beyond Earth more feasible: It can directly impact our gravity-ridden lives. courtesy Virgin Galactic The first is LauncherOne.

The Best Ayahuasca Animations You Can Find Online (2008-2018) | Kahpi What are ayahuasca animations? Psychedelic luminaries such as Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary and John Lilly shared a vision. They understood the psychedelic experience through the use of metaphors and symbols, or a kind of “twisted language” to use a saying from the Yaminahua native ayahuasca drinkers of the Amazon rainforest. The computer metaphor has its limitations, just like the mechanical metaphors that were popular to think with during the industrial age had their limitations. The result can be nothing short of eye-bending, mind-candy that opens a portal of the soul through the interface of your screen. Artists and animators have been attracted to the vividness, beauty and complexity of ayahuasca visions. One limitation of using computer-based metaphors to understand reality and psychedelic experience comes from the objectivist stance on reality the metaphors imply. Our previous experiences and beliefs shape our psychedelic experiences. Or maybe culture is not so important.

Demon Days: Alvin Leung Amid tentacles and open flames, the self-professed “Demon Chef” Alvin Leung reveals a wicked palate and a penchant for carnal creations in this short by filmmaker Ryan Hopkinson. Born in London and raised in Toronto, Leung rose to prominence in Hong Kong, becoming known for what he calls “X-treme Chinese” cuisine, a far-out technique that harnesses the futuristic appeal of molecular gastronomy alongside the wide reach of fusion. The incendiary results both morph traditional Chinese recipes into kinky culinary experiences, and tackle off-the-plate issues: the self-taught chef’s signature dish, Sex on the Beach, serves up an edible “condom” on a shitake beach, created to raise funds and awareness for AIDS charity. With all the different genres of cooking out there today, why choose “X-treme Cuisine”? I want to give people something more than tags like fusion, molecular or modern contemporary. What inspires your X-treme recipes? How might you adapt a classic, familiar dish?

Out Of This World: The Mysterious Mental Side Effects Of Traveling Into Space At first they thought it was asthma. The fighter squadron's 37-year-old commander suddenly started refusing to fly at high altitudes because of mysterious breathing problems. He also struggled to control feelings of wrath toward his coworkers, and that made him hyperventilate. It was only later that the commander would tell a Navy psychologist what really triggered him: That while flying at the edge of the troposphere, “a frightening feeling of detachment” set in. There, in the halo of thin silence surrounding the earth in 1956, he didn’t trust his own mind not to self-destruct. The atmosphere gets threadbare above 45,000 feet. Strange things have happened to the human mind at those heights. Not many pilots wanted to tell shrinks about break-off. A few pilots were willing to take that risk. The break-off phenomenon soon became a topic of discussion for any national power interested in hurtling their brawny young men beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Then, suddenly, break-off went away. Dr.

Sex-terapi med Joan Ørting | Sex-terapi for åbne mikrofoner Sigur Rós: Valtari The Restaurateur Makes His London Debut With a New Sex Shop Fronted Mexican Joint Chorizo, lobster and lime reveal their unexpectedly lascivious side in still life photographers Metz + Racine’s saucy homage to London’s newest hotspot, La Bodega Negra. Using a color palette and mini-sets inspired by the Mexican architect Luis Barragán, Metz + Racine enlisted ingredients from the eatery’s menu. Hidden in a Soho basement behind a sex shop entryway that nods to the neighborhood’s notoriously kinky past, the restaurant offers an unabashedly large tequila selection, plenty of dimly lit corners and Mexican staples like ceviche, tacos and tostados, in addition to grill items like lamb barbacoa. (There is a to-go option from a more casual, upstairs taqueria). What are the crucial components of an excellent Mexican meal? The heart of the cuisine is the salsa. The space has some really playful elements, but also lots of moody, dark alcoves. How does the restaurant scene here differ from New York?

Birthday Episode: 12 Life Lessons I’ve Learned This Year by On Purpose with Jay Shetty Divine Proportions Saudi Arabian basketball players and Qatari swimmers feature in Brigitte Lacombe’s striking portraits of Arab women in sport. Commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority, Brigitte and her sister, the documentary filmmaker Marian Lacombe, stayed at the pre-Olympic Arab Games in Doha for ten days last December to find their subjects. Traveling extensively around the Arab world, visiting Qatar, Morocco and Saudi Arabia, Lacombe photographed athletes who were often from economically deprived or war torn countries. “The young girls and women athletes we met were spirited and full of joy,” says Lacombe. “For them to arrive at this level of excellence requires extreme determination to overcome resistance––not only cultural, but economic and political.” Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport by Brigitte Lacombe and Marian Lacombe is running at Sotheby's London from July 25 to August 11, traveling to the Q.M.A.

10 TED Talks That Will Transform How You Think TED talks include some of the most powerful and revolutionary ideas of the 21st century. It’s the kind of information that can absolutely shatter preconceived notions and transform how you think. And I mean that literally, this isn’t hype-time. It was nearly a decade ago today when I watched my first TED talk. It’s hard to remember who the speaker was, though, because I then proceeded to binge-watch TED talks for the next two days, consuming some twenty to thirty talks on various subjects (with necessary breaks in between on some of them that required me to put my brain back together afterward). I still live by many of the ideas I’ve initially learned from the TED talks I’ve listened to over the years today. 1. The idea of taking care of our mind like we do our body sounds simple enough, and yet few of us do it. 2. One of my favorite TED talks of all time, in this talk you’ll learn one of the most powerful lessons of all: good exists within us (all of us). 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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