Via @MarkWeaver.

Via @stop.

Here are a few of my favourite things: Old buildings, repurposing existing spaces, sports events, extreme sports videos and advertising done really well.

Nike’s 6.0 arm did a fantastic job converting these old council swimming baths in Dagenham, London into a “popup” sports arena and pulled off both a great bit of marketing, some lovely design work and a top-notch BMX competition.

The best bit for me? All those crazy tricks that worked in the original diving board. In the parlance of the baseball-hatted comptitors themselves, in a word: Sick.

Via @NsyDcntGrphcs.

Episode 5 of Put This On’s series about “dressing like a grownup” addresses tradition using the same trademark mix of humour and faultless know-how that made episodes 1 – 4 a must-watch for any man interested in fashion.

Notre Jour Viendra. Directed by Romain Gavras and starring Vincent Cassel & Olivier Barthelemy.

Checklist of awesomeness in this video:

• They Might Be Giants: ✓
• Relentlessly catchy song: ✓
• Tremendously educational: ✓
• Beautiful typography: ✓
• Fantastic illustration: ✓
• Adorable little element characters: ✓
• Elephants: ✓

Utterly unbelievable how snowboarding keeps progressing and the moves just keep getting bigger and bigger every season. Anyone who has ever strapped into a snowboard will have an idea of just how unimaginable pulling something like this off is.

Interesting talk for the Academy of Art in SF by Scott Hansen (aka Tycho) of ISO50 about his design process, inspiration and personal style. Really nicely shot by Alex Cornell on a Canon 5D MkII. Read the full blog post by Alex over at ISO50.

Hugely impressive bit of XC / trials riding from Chris Akrigg on his Mongoose Teocali (via @polarben).