Magic Flashlights from Mike Benson on Vimeo.
Knife Show Inc and friends uncover a strange phenomenon at Timberline Lodge at Mt Hood. Snowboarding video takes place in and out of High Cascade Summer Camp. Shot and edited by Mike Benson. Starring Brendan Hayes, Eli weiner, Scott Stevens, Chris Beresford, Matty Mo, Jesse Burtner, and Casey Wrightsman.

When it comes to snowboarding back in days I was super pumped with Robot Food’s first vidoe Lame came out because it completely added an new dimension to videos. They were fun again, they were creative, they were well directed and produced… snowboard videos were interesting again. And this is exactly what I feel Mike Benson is doing, making videos about riding with friends and just having fun.

And Yes the music is MGMT. For the other post of MGMT - Kids (This is My Empire! RMX) travel here.

MGMT - Kids

A while ago a digital version of everyones beloved mixtapes was released as Muxtape.com. Muxtape.com is a side project developed by Justin Ouellette who works for Vimeo. Muxtape and is based on the concept of old school mixtapes. I enjoy the idea so much, its great to listen to to find new music or if you don’t have a playlist of yours on hand. From a design standpoint the user interface is fantastic and its just a clean simple effective design. Onto my next point, YOU MAKE YOUR OWN MIXTAPES and store them online giving everyone access to listen to your favorite songs.

Check out my MuxTape at jshaw3.muxtape.com . It will be changing quite frequently most likely.

I recently saw that Vimeo now supports streaming HD. I believe it was Stage6 that I heard supported streaming HD but Vimeo has executed it well. A great feature is the ability to turn on and off the HD quality to allow quicker buffering times. Anyways, what better way to preview it than watch a video of one of the illustrations on their site be developed. Prints of the finished illustration can be bought here.Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo.Also there’s a video The Wind From Death Valley which may display a little better the amusingness of HD.The Wind of Death Valley - HD from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.It seems that you can only stream HD from the Vimeo site and not the embed. Huh…