Thursday, December 10, 2009

Rainforests and you

Posted by Mickey Z on 12/10 at 06:59 PM
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  1. hello all

    i think on this one (although not on all the others you put on planet green) i can claim to be up to speed.

    A strange thing about deforestation is that sometimes i get emails about the exit stage right thing asking me to encourage their “eco-tourism” to the amazon or wherever.

    That is bad enough but i also get ones from people not even pretending to be ecotourism companies telling me to advertise their “go and see the animals holidays”

    some people just don’t get it.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  12/11  at  08:39 AM

  2. I love Parkour and I’m a big fan of David Belle and also the Yamakasi team, but that’s mainly from the movie work.

    David started this very interesting debate in the early days. People started to do a lot of ‘tricking’ and complex kung fu like moves. But David, an ex gymnast who is capable of doing any ‘move’ you might imagine, said that Parkour was about doing the most economical movement to overcome the obstacle.

    It was about freedom, free running, where you use the art to be able to run and run without breaking the momentum.

    You still have to be in good shape to do it but I think it’s strongest points are the philosophy and, as Mickey sez in the article, it’s simplicity ; you and and your immediate environment, no PCs, cars, Tvs etc.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  12/11  at  09:11 AM

  3. Hello Expednables...from chilly Astoria.

    Michael: I agree. “Eco-tourism” is one of the best/worst examples of greenwashing.

    Andy: I had a feeling you (and maybe a few others here) would be into parkour.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/11  at  09:50 AM

  4. So weird the synchronicity of this.  I was talking about parkour this very week on my food forum.  Check out this guy Damien Walters on youtube.  Unreal.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4hxxoru7CM

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  12/11  at  12:20 PM

  5. I like watching parkour but i think i would do myself a serious injury.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  12/11  at  12:26 PM

  6. charles, that guy’s aerobic ability is absurtd but a lot of it is done in the gym.

    For the danger factor and for doing it outside i think this guy in russia has to take the biscuit…

    there is a little introduction and then the video starts proper at abotu 2 minutes…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxv8SS1XU_8

    big question about parkour… is it sport or art?

    i go for art

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  12/11  at  12:34 PM

  7. I would argue that sport is an art.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  12/11  at  12:35 PM

  8. Charles… you might like this then....

    “An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room.
    I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.”

    Eric Cantona, former football (soccer) player.ù

    The goal he was talking about was this....
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HrjevD2vhk

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  12/11  at  12:40 PM

  9. Hey Charles and Michael. I also had a feeling Charles would be into parkour. No offense, Michael, but I think of you more as a mountains and hiking guy.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/11  at  01:17 PM

  10. no offense taken. It is nice to watch but i would have broken knees, legs everything in minutes if i tried parkour.

    Used to play football (soccer) to a pretty good standard though.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  12/11  at  01:21 PM

  11. When I was a teen, I lived in a very industrial area so my friends and I used to skip school and go “roof climbing” from factory to factory. I’m too protective of my older body to try it now but parkour would’ve fit my skill set back in the day.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/11  at  01:25 PM

  12. Hello again.

    FYI: A new post is up. I decided to finally say something about our (sic) president.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  12/11  at  09:25 PM

  13. Mickey, I like your site and you have some good things to say. I plan to be at the Bowery Poetry Club on the 27th. Have a Merry Christmas.

    Posted by Sal from Bronx  on  12/16  at  12:11 PM

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