Fakie News
A rambling collection of things that stoke us
MC's Photo Comp Short List
‘WEEKEND IN BUTTE, MT’ BY VINCENT BREDEMUS @VINNIEBREDEMUS
Do yourself a favor and check out the short list for Monster Children's action - link link
And with it goes not just a business model, but a way of thinking about surfing born out of the driven youth surf cultures of the 1970s and 80s, a tangled and dangerous explosion of young energy that, for all its heedlessness, had the great advantage of pushing its adherents to try shit nobody had done before. As far as they knew, anyway.
Next Level
The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized
We’ve known about zombie ants for quite some time, but scientists have struggled to understand how the parasitic fungus, O. unilateralis (pronounced yu-ni-lat-er-al-iss), performs its puppeteering duties. This fungus is often referred to as a “brain parasite,” but new research published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the brains of these zombie ants are left intact by the parasite, and that O. unilateralis is able to control the actions of its host by infiltrating and surrounding muscle fibers throughout the ant’s body. In effect, it’s converting an infected ant into an externalized version of itself. Zombie ants thus become part insect, part fungus. Awful, right?
Buttery
Full vid - Absinthe X LAAX MiniMovie 2017
The Eternal Beauty of Snowboarding
An amazing behind-the-scenes look at life as a pro rider
Mons
Blood Brothers
Andre and Jacques Beriau share a season's worth of shredding the Northeast with some of their best homies. Filmed on Super 8 film. Some blood, much brotherhood, and tons of stoke!
WILD IN THE STREETS
this is why you need expensive bearings. you never know when Daggers might be lurking...
Shredding North Korea
National Geographic produced this cool piece about Jamie Barrow at the DPRK's luxury ski area
Because of Math, I guess
Here's a snappy little clip about the class we did at Ragged Mt, NH recently
80's were pretty cool
Here's a GQ story about The Search for Animal Chin, arguably the most pivotal skateboard flick of all time
Mullen
dizzying, and I can kinda smell the Vogue perfume ads, but rad footage.
Life is a pain - put on some headphones, close your eyes, tune out to this.