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During a summer bike trip down the West coast of North America some years ago, we passed a broken down clown car and couldn’t help but offer assistance to the unfortunate performers in peril. In true clown transportation tradition, we managed to fit eight clowns on our bike in various precarious ways, which we’re pretty [...]

It’s Monday morning and we presumably all feel a little weary of the week that’s beginning. (Oh, to live in Canada and have the day off for Thanksgiving!) But fear not, for it could always be worse. At least you aren’t (we sincerely hope) one of the poor people in pain featured in Manofest’s epic [...]

That epic get-together of the craziest and most daring athletes/stuntmen/daredevils, the X Games, is currently going down in Los Angeles (or, to be more accurate, is currently flying over LA while doing no-hands 520s). At any rate, if you don’t know what to expect from the event – because, really, isn’t it all about achieving [...]

We’d love to ride around town stuntin’ on our blinged-out bike (we’ll refrain from using the term “pimped” because we find it offensive), but honestly, the more inconspicuous your bike can be, the better. It won’t get stolen, it won’t matter when you fall (as we did, very drunkenly, on Friday) and it gets banged [...]

At the rather oversized North American college we attended, an initiation rite still performed every year by the entire male rugby team involved the players running through the dorms naked, with each young man holding onto the penis of the player in front of him. It was juvenile, certainly, but the overall effect was something [...]

The other morning, during an especially zippy bike ride to work, we wondered how fast we were going; surely a bicycle speedometer can’t be that expensive. This go us to thinking that perhaps it would be more interesting to gauge our morning commute using some other unit of measurement – cars overtaken, red lights ignored, [...]

Bicycles are totally 20th century, tricycles are at least two years old depending on who you ask, and now all the cool kids on the block are pulling wheelies on their quadracycles – a feat all the more impressive because it involves getting two front wheels off the ground rather than one. Get with the [...]

Saturday was Albert Einstein’s birthday. Were he still alive there’d have been a big blow-out bash at the local W Hotel for his big 1-3-0. In his absence, though, we’ve rounded up some strange images that we rarely remember him by – after all, he did much more than invent the theory of relativity and [...]

Though we’ve often prized TV and web commercials for their audacious uses of parody, satire and slapstick humor, it’s important to remember that TV’s impact – contrary to what Marshall McLuhan taught us – can be shockingly hard. Strap on your thick skin, then, before watching the brutal and brilliant ads we’ve rounded up for [...]

In our ongoing effort to keep up with all the nifty videos that come our way, we’re devoting this edition of our weekly round-up of moving image art, Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, to a trio of nifty shorts that turn cityscapes into a visual and virtual playing field. We hope you enjoy Listicles’ 3 Beautiful [...]