Jul 30, 2012

The Evolution of Drums with Gino Fabbri [and me]


Gino Fabbri, South African comedian and drummer, I dig this! Remember the Evolution of Dance? It's approaching 200 million views. The Evolution of Drums brings back good memories for me... Insanely cool compilation, recorded by smartphones, apparently, with a song selection of note, nicely done! All the classic 80's tunes, even some Johnny Clegg, Nirvana and Shakira's WakaWaka. I'm not just saying this, but it is rad, right to the end. Don't know how he remembers the order or feels the timing!

The good memories? 'Did You Know'... throughout school and studies, drums were a huge part of my life. Always liked them, always will, just not playing nearly as often these days. In grade 5, I started saving for a drum kit, the income was much smaller back then, so things took a while longer for a purchase of this size. Had to be a quality drum kit from the start, to avoid wanting a better one at a later stage, musical instruments are like that. In grade 7, I bought my drum kit, Pearl Export series and it has been with me ever since. I was in a band with two of my mates, Charl and Tim, we were the punk rockers of our world :) having a GOOD laugh right now going down memory lane, good times, some things change, playing music always rocks. I managed to find some pics:

Rocking... or was I? That t-shirt definitely was!

Jul 22, 2012

Ducati Motorcycle Showreel 2012



Ducati, a nice video featuring the 2012 motorcycle product range and some racing highlights.




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Jul 17, 2012

Nissan Leaf's Cheap Twitter Taxi



Nissan Leaf ran a free taxi service to demonstrate cheap travel (big turn on). Their electric powered engine is said to be 6 times cheaper than petrol. Passengers tweeted their destination & #6XCheaper.

Jul 15, 2012

Lego Plays Star Wars Theme Song



20 thousand Lego pieces used to play the Star Wars theme song. The huge organ with four Star Wars worlds, traveled to the launch of Star Wars 3D, where people could play it. The experience was fully integrated for the digital audience, who could order Lego pieces from mobile and micro sites, brilliant. Enjoy the Star Wars feat. Lego remix.






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Jul 11, 2012

Ken Block and DC Shoes Present Gymkhana 5



Ken Block's playground in San Francisco, driving his 2012 Ford Fiesta with 650 horsepower, which does 0 to 100km/h in 1.8 seconds. Video seen over 8.5 million views in just two days, what a legend!






Travis Pastrana makes an appearance



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Ken Block's Facebook and Twitter.

Jul 9, 2012

NAB Rewards Honest Shoppers With Fame.



National Australian Bank (NAB) turn honest people into mall celebrities. True ending, but a great job, even though it's difficult to have the words honesty and bank make sense in the same sentence.

Jul 3, 2012

Salta Rugbeer Vending Machine



Salta Province, northwest Argentina, the New Zealand of Argentina! 'Chicken' meter indicates tackle strength, when the green light is reached, purchased beer drops out, because it's, "better to tackle for a beer". 332 tackles in one night and a 25% increase in sales across pubs is very well done.

Jun 28, 2012

Jun 25, 2012

My Mountain Bike Story [UPDATED]


Since my early school days, I went through skateboarding, rollerblading, bodyboarding and BMX'ing stages, with wakeboarding and skiing, have been down the Orange River four times, completed the Argus three times and was brought up with camping and the outdoors since age 4 (learnt to ride a bicycle on a camping trip). From age 16, I was driving a scooter and age 17 a motorbike. All the extreme stuff excited me. Grade 7, BMX days, we went as far as leaving a pick and shovel on Signal Hill and went everyday after school to build dirt jumps, ended being an epic little figure-of-8 track.


One of my goals for this year was to be more active, i.e. get back into doing an adrenaline seeking sport. June last year, I got back into bodyboarding and am loving it, but the drive to go surf started weakening with winter. At the beginning of the year, while sitting around a fire with some mates, we decided, mountain biking would be it! I got looking for a bike as soon as we were back in town.



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