Tag: Film
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Friday Fugazi: Instrument
Click or not: Friday Fugazi: InstrumentIf you are sitting around on a Friday night trying to find something to watch and end up with just more cat videos, then plug into this and get jolted out of your digitally induced stupor. Analogue and scratchy, loud, kinetic, energetic. Real instruments, of music and mind. …
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Malachi Pedals Beyond
Click or not: Malachi Pedals Beyond Pretty sure I met this cat at the SSWC in Castlemaine, Victoria in 2003. I met a lot of tattooed cats that weekend so I could be well mistaken, but either way I know Malachi’s name well from decades of (he and I) living the two wheel life. Just one of those guys who… …
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The Service
Click or not: The ServiceNYC. Lockup. The mean streets are empty, desolate, probably safer than they’ve ever been. A lone cyclist cruises through the spartan pedestrians and random taxis, who are they picking up, where are they taking them? His payload, bags of probably-not-medicinal but possibly essential ganja. His customers are happy to see him. This is an essential… …
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Built To Last: A Journey Through The Cateran Ecomuseum
Click or not: Built To Last: A Journey Through The Cateran EcomuseumOur mad ex-Welly mate Markus ‘Magnus’ Stitz has been setting the bar high for long rides and adventures––that most would deem crazy––for a long while now. He’s also stepped up his film-making and storytelling game in a big way, and combines the two to bring his big world and the many interesting characters he meets… …
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Problem?
Click or not: Problem?“What’s that? Problem? Na mate, no problem with the site, it’s YOU, you’re the fuckin problem!” No, not you, my good and faithful reader, it’s me. I just couldn’t get off my lazy arse and jot down a few words a day, or week, or even month. But some of you either kept coming back,… …
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Drovers
Click or not: DroversFilmed on the ‘Drovers Trail’, a new 331 km-long gravel bikepacking route spanning almost the entirety of Highland Perthshire, ‘Drovers‘ tells the story of the ancient drove roads, an important part of Scottish history, which inspired Scotland’s greatest writers like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The new video from round the world singlespeed cyclist… …
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Just Leaving This Here
Click or not: Just Leaving This HereThe prophecies of Howard Beale, the only newscaster we should ever have listened to, yet sadly ignored for the last 40 years. A brilliant, poignant scene from Network, 1976, with Peter Finch on form. …
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Sonic Truth at the Sugar Cane 200
Click or not: Sonic Truth at the Sugar Cane 200A beautifully shot video that makes you want to get up at the crack of dawn and ride your bike a really long way on gravel. Until the second half’s soundtrack kicks in and you want to gouge your own ears out. I find playing this over the vid helps… …