Just had my phone for a camera today so the photos are pretty low quality, but man was the snow good! We had to work for it with a hike to get high above the clouds but it was well worth it.
Heading to Munich winter ISPO tommorow… 

Dope new animated movie with Music by the RZA.

http://www.afrosamurai.com

Last weekend was one of the first of the season I didnt go riding as I was working on going live with the new www.store.minus273.biz but my bro Luke went riding in St. Anton and sent me some photos he took, showing me what I missed. Daaam, looking at these pics I can almost taste that fresh snow!

The superior man fosters his character by thoroughness in all that he does. A spring succeeds in flowing on and escapes stagnation by filling up all the hollow places in its path. In the same way character is developed by thoroughness that skips nothing but, like water, gradually and steadily fills up all gaps and so flows onward. Perseverance furthers.

-273 = absolute zero.
You can only go up from there.

www.store.minus273.biz 

Robbie Maddison sequence

So I was brushing my teeth last night and was wearing this t-shirt with a dogs head on a human body, which concept wise is the same idea as in the pictures I posted below from the shop window and I got to thinking if the designer had been to Spain (where I bought it) and seen the same t-shirt. However, I then realised I had seen the same Idea many years earlier in Sumerian (around 5000bc) and Egyptian depictions of their gods.

As a designer you are always striving to do something new, but I think it was Sun Ra (who probabally took the saying from somewhere else) who said there is nothing new under the sun. I guess the best you can strive for are fresh reinterpretations, or reintroductions.

And for something a little less serious, saw this in a shop window in Salzburg

Yea, things are a mess right now with rising unemployment everywhere and riots and protests last week in Greece, latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland, but perhaps nowhere has it so bad as Palestine. If you want to know the truth behind what is really going on in this chapter of the saga, Chomsky has a solid piece here. For a more personal look, my sister Clara bought me a fantastic Illustrated documentary book called Palestine by Joe Sacco which gives you an insight into the mindset of the Palestinian people and why imprisoning the whole country, bombing the remains of it’s infrastructure and hospitals, stealing its land, trying to destroy it’s democratically elected governement, Killing thousands (mostly civilians, women and children) and maiming tens of thousands etc, etc, etc, will not change anything.

Peace.

This was my first try over the jump and I was surprised how smooth the landing and take off were.  Since I saw it a year ago I have been fiending to hit it, but I was recovering from a fractured Vertebrae last season so was under orders to take it easy. It has taken from then until now to get up the balls to hit it. Had a major bee in my bonnet about it so I am relieved to have finally done it.  After the first time over I was ready to hit it again.

As long as you have a lot of speed you are fine.

Thanks for the photos Benny.

Benny.

So after being in German speaking parts of the world for over 3 years, in an effort to learn some more vocab I am going to write the post titles in English AND Deutsche.

In the winter when the water level of the river gets really low, Salzburg gets a beach of sorts. I wasnt there at the time (Luckily!) but last winter some friends swam across the river in the early morning after a night out. brrrrrr.

Always nice to see your work published.. I did this for KTM a while back and it was in this months Racer X as part of a pullout suplement.

…you know when you really want to do something, but you need to think about it first, but then the more you think about it, the harder it gets? That’s kind of where I am at right now with this jump… I am determined to hit it eventually… just taking more time than it used to.

Patrick..

Inside/Outside courtyard at the new Kiska building..

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Thanks Diets!

Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap

JANUARY 6–In a bizarre incident a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning.

Kiska started the new year in our new offices today. A massive, pretty amazing custom built, fully kitted out modern office about 20m from our old building. New website is coming soon too. Pretty excited to show you that when it is ready as we have been working on it for a while. The first photo top left is the view from my desk. Or rather was, as it is now covered with clouds.

Craaazy! The jump back down is even more amazing than going up!