My favourite outdoor film festival returns to British soil from this weekend. It’s the biggest adventure you can have without actually going anywhere.
Banff Film Festival 2015
January 23, 2015 § 5 Replies
Category Archives: video
Video: Adidas #openallwinter
November 6, 2014 § Leave a reply
Get inspired for a winter of adventure with the awesome new Adidas #openallwinter trailer, featuring skiing, cold-weather trail running, ice climbing and the very brave Hayley Ashburn slacklining 3,000 metres up a Dolomites peak in Italy. Adidas are also launching their new insulated Climaheat winter range, designed to keep you warm in extreme conditions. Watch out for my review, coming soon.
What to pack for technical scrambling
October 30, 2014 § Leave a reply
A great little video from the British Mountaineering Council on the right kit to pack for technical scrambling and climbing on the go.
How to: Cycle in a skirt without flashing everyone!
July 13, 2014 § Leave a reply
Do you like to ride your bike? Are you a lady (or indeed a man) who enjoys wearing skirts? This video is about to change things forever. The best life hack ever, and all you need is a penny. Check out the awesome lasses behind the revolution at Penny In Yo Pants.
Video: Scare away the dark, Passenger
June 11, 2014 § Leave a reply
So much love for this video by my favourite wandering minstral, Mike Rosenberg. If you’re spending too much time in front of a computer and not enough in the summer sunshine, this is for you. Now please excuse me whilst I go and run around a field in my pants.
Sponsored Video: Longer days with The North Face
April 14, 2014 § Leave a reply
If the clocks going forward has filled you with as much unmitigated joy as it has me, you’ll love this great new campaign from The North Face. Watch this super-inspiring video and then share your experiences and win shiny prizes with their new Explorer app. Longer days are here – go out and grab them!
Video: Cooler Magazine chats to Aimee Fuller
February 18, 2014 § Leave a reply
Fun, talented and a tiny bit outrageous – Cooler Magazine chats to Brit snowboarder Aimee Fuller, whose coverage of Jenny Jones’ performance on the BBC earned her a lot of love, a handful of complaints and a twitter fan account for her hair.
Video: A kiteracer from the North
Ethereal Canadian lakes? Check. Stunning Mexican scenery? Check. An awesome outdoors girl showing off her talent? Massive check. Videomaker François Guinaudeau presents ‘A kiteracer from the North’, following Québécoise Catherine Dufour‘s training process around the world.
How to: survive in the urban jungle, a video guide
The hilarious bunch at Bloomsbury books have made a very informative video on how to live through all kinds of urban peril to promote brilliant new book The Survival Manual by Rich Johnson.
Watch out for the bananas, now.
Outdoor music video bliss
Huge outdoorsy love for Sigur Ros’s Hoppipolla video. Everyone should be like this when they get older.
Review: the GoPro HD Hero camera
Snowboarder Simon Andrews waxes lyrical over his favourite bit of kit, the GoPro Hero camera.
A video full of outdoor love
Pure unadulterated fresh air based bliss in one little music video: Keep your head up, by Ben Howard. Possibly the best waterslide in the world. I suggest watching it when you feel a little bit sad.
Interview with pro surfer Mitch Corbett on the Endless Winter
Having to surf in the biting cold is pretty much inevitable for riders in the UK, where freezing green waves, menacing grey skies and frostbitten fingers are more of the surf scene than tropical sands and hibiscus flowers.
Yeo Valley’s fit farmers return
The lovely Yeo Valley boys are BACK, this time with a whole song and some cuddly baby cows. If only real farmers looked this attractive in wellies and waxed jackets *sigh*.
Watch the first advert (there’s a really cute owl).
Look mum, no hands! 50 no handed bike moves
It’s a warm and sunny Indian summer afternoon in Soho and I am sitting in an air conditioned office. This is not ideal. Instead I will fantasise about practising these absolutely amazing bike moves courtesy of film director Ninian Doff. I am particularly enjoying the Royal Wave, the MGM Lion and the Cup of Tea. Lovely.
Top 10 songs about being outdoors
One of my favourite things in the whole world: cycling along a canal to a field full of clover, lying down and watching the clouds drift, sharing an MP3 player with someone else and listening to any of these. If you have Spotify you can listen.
Brecon Beacons: The movie. An epic drama
This is what happens when you take three mates (one of whom has IMovie and a great desire to avoid doing revision) and go on this walk to the waterfalls at Ystradfellte in the Brecon Beacons national park.
An epic tale of drama, hope, love and wilderness.
How to: survive in the wilderness
You know the deal: the apocalypse has been and gone, the population has been decimated and now you must survive off grubs and the occasional squirrel in the woods. This is when hours watching Ray Mears and endless episodes of Lost pays off big time.
One of my favourite writers, the hilarious Tanya Gold, would not do well left to forage for herself – Bear Grylls she ain’t. Watch this video for The Guardian as a guide on how not to attempt to live off the land (although there is a half-decent explanation of how to skin a pheasant) and also because it is funny in a car crash kind of way.
How to: make an eco bird feeder
Snow is brilliant, I think you will agree, when you are on a country walk that you know will end with a glass of mulled wine by a fire in a cosy country pub. If, however, you are a small bird, then snow is confusing white stuff that hides all your food, freezes your feet to your favourite branch and generally is to be avoided. Help out our feathered friends by making an eco-friendly birdfeeder using bits and pieces you’ll have in the house – it’s also a fantastic way to use up mushy or old apples.
Video edited by my fantastic housemate Florence Brockway, future documentary star and David Attenborough lookalike.
Yeo Valley’s incredible countryside rap
It’s not all fat old men in muddy wellies, as this amazing advertisment from the creative types at Yeo Valley attests. Watch for tips on how to wear your Barbour. Oh, and the pure hilarity of tractor hydraulics.
How to: make an eco-friendly sky lantern
How to assemble an eco-friendly biodegradable paper sky lantern, an alternative to wire models which can be harmful to livestock. Video created by me and my lovely housemates.