Chertsey August 2010 from IMG TV on Vimeo.

Flow!

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Props 77

Shot the images for the Front and back cover of props issue 77
Tom Dugan- Parker cement park
Shane Weston- Denver crank arm action

In the book The Republic, Plato tells the story of prisoners of war that were held captive in a cave for such a long period of time, they could not remember their lives before their captivity. These men were forced to face the back of the cave wall for decades, while a fire burned behind them for illumination. The only objects that the prisoners could ever see were the cave wall, their own shadows and the shadows of the beasts guarding them. This was both terrifying and paralyzing for the men.

One day, one of the men found the courage to look back at the fire and the beast guarding them. What he found were ordinary men guarding over them. The guards had cut-outs of monsters and projected the shadows to the back of the cave where the prisoners were held. This was the easiest and most effective way for the guards to control the prisoners.

The knowing prisoner found an opportunity to escape the cave and did so as soon as he could. When the free man stepped out the cave, he could not believe his eyes. The sun, that he now remembered, was much brighter than the cave fire. He smelled the flowers, remembering their scent from his youth. The free man watched as people went about their daily lives, remembering his life before captivity.

The free man was overwhelmed with the joy of remembering his former life, his real life. The free man wanted to free his fellow prisoners as soon as he could and planned his quest. The next day at an opportune time the free man made his way back to the cave. When he found the guards away from their posts, the free man sprang into action. Running to his fellow prisoners and telling them of everything he discovered to be real, both inside and outside the cave. He told his friends of the cut-out monsters that terrified them. About the sun outside the cave that was much brighter than the fire that illuminated the cave. The free man told his friends about all the wonderful things he had discovered again in his new found freedom.

After hearing everything the free man had to say, the prisoners showed disbelief, mockery, and hatred toward the free man. They thought, how could this man know better than they did? How dare the man pretend to know more than they did.

The free man left the prisoners in the cave and walked back out into his freedom.

In today's world, we are allowed to walk anywhere we want to inside the cave, its encouraged. The cut-out monsters are projected on every wall, floor and ceiling as well. Our scary shadows come from the same place that lights our cave. TV, Radio, Internet, Newspaper etc.. Once we free ourselves from the Maya (Illusion) we can walk back outside the cave and remember who we truly are, again. The first step for the free man was to recognize the Maya. The second step was to understand who he was not. The third step was to understand who he was, to "Know Thyself."

As far as us going back into the cave to save our fellow prisoners...the Illusion is slowly fading away. Many will cling onto, "the good old days." Cling onto the projections of shadows that were on their cave walls. Others will finally leave the cave and find a sun brighter than the cave fire and a SELF greater than they could have imagined

Prefontaine

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Project making it happen! @ the tigers game tonight

Pull your socks up and you might catch a homer!

common sense

a : having the legal and political rights of a citizen b : enjoying civil and political liberty <free citizens> c : enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination d : enjoying personal freedom : not subject to the control or domination of anothera : not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being : choosing or capable of choosing for itself b : determined by the choice of the actor or performer <free actions> c : made, done, or given voluntarily or spontaneouslya : relieved from or lacking something and especially something unpleasant or burdensome <free from pain> free of political rhetoric> —often used in combination -free> b : not bound, confined, or detained by forcea : having no trade restrictions b : not subject to government regulation c of foreign exchange : not subject to restriction or official control

Chuck Ragan

Wake up now we’ve got to go

Somewhere higher’s all I know

Leave behind the walking dead

Leave the mess don’t make the bed

And roll right on like a wave

Rolling never hesitate

Build momentum and create

Something to sing, something to say

Oh let it go

Cut loose and roll

Rock steady soul

Get up stand up. Throw your hands up

And oh let it go

Cut loose and roll

Rock steady soul

Get up stand up until you’re done and done

Bantayan, Cebu 2010

Out there

 

endless connections 

Ride Waves

  


    Berms are underrated
This soul carver stands @ about 9,000 feet above sea level
Made possible via a demolished deck of wood and a few days of
shovels...
Recycle *reuse* everything

Time Will Tell

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 Elliot, Thanks for making great videos!

"Extreme 96" "Yellow" "Fire in the hole" "The day is over" "Time will Tell"

BMX is where you make it!

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 Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; 

without rain, there would be no life. ~   John Updike

Solstice Trails. In business and heavy hittin'.

September Equinox Trail Jam. Be There...

Cale C. floatin' the Sidewinder 5.

College education

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Michigan has a lot of talent... fact

Get Motivated

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go” “Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours”

French FLow

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Life (cf. biota) is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes (biology) from those that do not,[1][2] either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate.[3]

In biology, the science of living organisms, life is the condition which distinguishes activeorganisms from inorganic matter.[4] Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintainhomeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations. More complex living organisms can communicate through various means.[1][5] A diverse array of living organisms (life forms) can be found in the biosphere on Earth, and the properties common to these organisms—plants,animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria—are a carbon- and water-based cellular form with complex organization and heritable genetic information.

In philosophy and religion, the conception of life and its nature varies. Both offer interpretations as to how life relates to existence and consciousness, and both touch on many related issues, including life stance, purpose, conception of a god or gods, a soul or an afterlife.

Early theories about life

Materialism

Plant life

Herds of zebra and impala gathering on the Masai Mara plain

An aerial photo of microbial mats around the Grand Prismatic Spring of Yellowstone National Park.

Some of the earliest theories of life were materialist, holding that all that exists is matter, and that all life is merely a complex form or arrangement of matter. Empedocles (430 B.C.) argued that every thing in the universe is made up of a combination of four eternal 'elements' or 'roots of all': earth, water, air, and fire. All change is explained by the arrangement and rearrangement of these four elements. The various forms of life are caused by an appropriate mixture of elements. For example, growth in plants is explained by the natural downward movement of earth and the natural upward movement of fire.[6]

Democritus (460 B.C.), the disciple of Leucippus, thought that the essential characteristic of life is having a soul (psychê). In common with other ancient writers, he used the term to mean the principle of living things that causes them to function as a living thing. He thought the soul was composed of fire atoms, because of the apparent connection between life and heat, and because fire moves.[7] He also suggested that humans originally lived like animals, gradually developing communities to help one another, originating language, and developing crafts and agriculture.[8]

In the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, mechanistic ideas were revived by philosophers like Descartes.

Hylomorphism

Hylomorphism is the theory (originating with Aristotle (322 BC)) that all things are a combination of matter and form. Aristotle was one of the first ancient writers to approach the subject of life in a scientific way. Biology was one of his main interests, and there is extensive biological material in his extant writings. According to him, all things in the material universe have both matter and form. The form of a living thing is its soul (Greek 'psyche', Latin 'anima'). There are three kinds of souls: the 'vegetative soul' of plants, which causes them to grow and decay and nourish themselves, but does not cause motion and sensation; the 'animal soul' which causes animals to move and feel; and the rational soul which is the source of consciousness and reasoning which (Aristotle believed) is found only in man.[9] Each higher soul has all the attributes of the lower one. Aristotle believed that while matter can exist without form, form cannot exist without matter, and therefore the soul cannot exist without the body.[10]

Consistent with this account is a teleological explanation of life. A teleological explanation accounts for phenomena in terms of their purpose or goal-directedness. Thus, the whiteness of the polar bear's coat is explained by its purpose of camouflage. The direction of causality is the other way round from materialistic science, which explains the consequence in terms of a prior cause. Modern biologists now reject this functional view in terms of a material and causal one: biological features are to be explained not by looking forward to future optimal results, but by looking backwards to the past evolutionary history of a species, which led to the natural selection of the features in question.

Vitalism

Vitalism is the belief that the life-principle is essentially immaterial. This originated with Stahl(17th century), and held sway until the middle of the nineteenth century. It appealed to philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, anatomists like Bichat, and chemists like Liebig.

Vitalism underpinned the idea of a fundamental separation of organic and inorganic material, and the belief that organic material can only be derived from living things. This was disproved in 1828 when Wöhler prepared urea from inorganic materials. This so-called Wöhler synthesis is considered the starting point of modern organic chemistry. It is of great historical significance because for the first time an organic compound was produced from inorganic reactants.

Later, Helmholtz, anticipated by Mayer, demonstrated that no energy is lost in muscle movement, suggesting that there were no vital forces necessary to move a muscle. These empirical results led to the abandonment of scientific interest in vitalistic theories, although the belief lingered on in non-scientific theories such as homeopathy, which interprets diseases and sickness as caused by disturbances in a hypothetical vital force or life force.

Stoked on Life?

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Hanging out, being Awesome!

Adam Baker ripping it up in the pines of Evergreen, CO

shredder

Mike Meister Solid Bikes Edit from Dustin Arp on Vimeo.

Sasquatch Summer Brew

Sasquatch Summer Brew from jackson allen on Vimeo.

Remove chilled pint glass from freezer. Slice wedges of lemon or orange. Pair with a salty snack, empty schedule and comfortable chair. Enjoy.

Be the Rain

Modern shamanism has devolved into a ritualized religion due to the strict adherence to formal rituals and practices without a clear understanding of how and why they are used. The term "core shamanism", as coined by Michael Harner in his book "The Way Of the Shaman", identifies a form of shamanism which contains the "core" shamanic techniques stripped of cultural, tribal, and ritualistic connections. This original and more accurate interpretation of shamanism flows from a deep intuitive knowing and connection to the Divine essence of all that exists. It is not dependant on any particular form or set of practices. An individual who achieves this knowing through earth vibrations and energies is called an "Earth Shaman".

The Earth Shaman is one who possesses an innate ability tocommunicate with Earth consciousness; spirits of the land, animals, plants, stones, elements, earth bound beings, and multi-dimensional beings residing on the Earth plane. There are no rituals, only communication and interaction which may appear to be ritual-like, yet each process responds uniquely to the energies present at any given moment. When this ability achieves its full potential, you know the frequencies of herbs, stones, water, wind, land, earth and elemental spirits, and you can communicate with animals, merge your energy with them, and more. You can acquire wisdom and summon the Earth elements.

The journey is to retrieve your innate Earth Shaman ability. This includes stimulating the right brain activity and pineal gland function, improving extra sensory awareness, and synchronizing whole brain activity. You are encouraged to learn from other shamans, teachers and healing modalities to broaden your knowledge base and shaman’s perspectives. Ultimately, your innate connection to Earth consciousness will be the final guiding source for what becomes part of your personal practices.