Cliff Jump

Beware of the drown out.

ess | 23 mai 2010 | 3:35
This is the nail in the coffin for marine life! The ocean world is one big food chain. Marine creatures have symbiotic (mutually beneficial) relationships. The bottom of that chain are the filter feeders. The filter feeders (also known as suspension feeders) are animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure. Some animals that use this method of feeding are corals, clams, krill, sponges, some fish and sharks, and baleen whales. If a sponge becomes heavily covered with sand, it will be unable to feed and therefore die. Some might think the world could live without sponges and the likes, but this is just ONE link in the food chain. When the least of the marine life starts to die, EVERYTHING starts to die. The chain is broken.

BP's continued use of toxic dispersants to "sink" the oil from the surface is MARINE GENOCIDE! The ONLY way the oil can be REMOVED...not just "hidden out of sight"...will be to keep it on the surface. Eventually Mother Earth will break down all the oil on the Gulf of Mexico sea bed...even your grandchildren will not live long enough to witness it. This is an ENVIORNMENTAL DISASTER of the NTH DEGREE. When are people going to catch on to this?

Since sponges pass large amounts of water and tend to take in lots of particles, filter feeders are often used as environmental monitors - if something in the water goes bad, often the filter feeders are the first to show the effects.

Time will tell. And the time will be soon.

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An Outside Perspective

Haley McNabb shot this sequence of Kurtis and I floating our third double, its interesting to see bmx through the lens of a friend who has very limited exposure to it. Unfortunately, the trails have been out of commission since this day in mid-May, but I suppose this is why the NW is so green. If you're in Portland this summer and want to ride some jumps, look me up.
Peace.

French Connection Round 2

Ted VO

BM

Have a good time with the French Connection

Marc Dioni

San Juan Gold Mine

Ron Pence has fixed and sold bikes from this 

town side home in Silverton, CO for the last thirty years.

In this photo he is holding the bike he sold me.

Pouches

www.WhatWouldDrewDo

Jackson

Attack of the Scraps-Quatch from jackson allen on Vimeo.

Feet in Cold water

French Connection

When you are traveling in the South of France, these are some of the people that you hope to meet. These friends are some of the most hospitable people I have ever met. A simple e-mail is all that was needed to make the French connection happen. Here we have Marc (thumbs up), the Godfather Eric (surfs up), and the Banos Trails. WHAT!!

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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste.  ~Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (Thanks, Bekah)

Age is Art

So it is in everything where power moves

You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

-Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man

1863-1950

Many forming ONE

The Aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) forms large stands of genetically identical trees (technically, stems) connected by a single undergroundroot system. These trees form through root sprouts coming off an original parent tree, though the root system may not remain a single unit in all specimens. The largest known fully-connected Aspen is a grove in Utah nicknamed Pando, and some experts call it the largest organism in the world,^[1] by mass or volume.^[2] It covers 0.43 km² (106 acres) and is estimated to weigh 6,600 short tons (6,000 t).^[3]

Scary

One of my favorite parts

style cats was one of the first BMX videos I purchased
Bobby made me want to get POP!