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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2009

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

I've just come back from Porto Cervo, Sardinia and the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2009. It's my third edition and Carlo Borlenghi has seen at least ten. We agree that this has been probably the best one: strong winds and big waves, for the whole week, have never ceased to put to the test the fleet. That's why the gallery this time is a bit larger than usual. Enjoy:

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

For more info and pictures check REGATTANEWS.COM

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Perini Navi Cup 2009

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

Last week I've been in Porto Cervo for the Perini Navi Cup 2009. The biggest and most luxurious yachts of the world gathered to compete in one of the best sailing venue you could ever imagine. The Maltese Falcon, the largest privately-owned sailing yacht in the world at 88 m (290 ft) and the other giants have been perfectly depicted in Carlo Borlenghi's pictures:

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

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Tapped

"Tapped" is a new documentary about the bottled water industry from director Stephanie Soechtig and the producers of "Who Killed the Electric Car ?" and "I.O.U.S.A.".
I really suggest you to see it if you can (as far as I know it is hosted in just a few theaters in USA but I hope it will arrive in Europe sooner or later).
I was already aware, thanks to the efforts of Piero Angela, a famous italian science journalist, of how useless, stupid and harmful for our planet is bottled water but this movie has perfectly clarified the mechanisms that have enabled what is probably the biggest and most succesful marketing campaign of all history (together with tobacco).
First of all bottled water is a clear waste of resources; Can you imagine how much oil is wasted for the plastic bottles and how much to transport them? I've seen bottles from a very famous italian brand on sale in the USA, does it make sense? Do you think that italian water is different from the american one? It's always h2o!
Furthermore the ecological impact is terrible: only 20 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States are recycled, and far too many of the rest probably end up in the Pacific Garbage Patch (I've written a post about it here).
It’s an incredible waste of money for consumers, who pay more than the price of gasoline for water that’s marketed as “pure,” but in reality is largely unregulated, full of harmful toxins like BPA, and far less safe for drinking than free tap water. (In fact, 40 percent of the time, bottled water is nothing but municipal tap water, freed from the government oversight that keeps it safe.)

Take a look at the movie trailer and reflect about the senselessness of bottled water!

"Tapped" has a film’s official website and there’s also a Facebook page

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1.2 million snow geese!

©Mike Hollingshead - www.extremeinstability.com

Could you imagine 1.2 million geese together?
I've never been so lucky to see so many animals all together, at most I've seen some thousands mosquitos attacking me in a ricefield... but that was not a nice experience!
However, photographer and storm chaser Mike Hollingshead had the chance to film and photograph one of nature's most amazing displays: 1.2 million snow geese all together.
He was in the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City Missouri between February 17 and March 14, 2009. In that period of the year the snow geese spring migration takes place through the Central Flyway and hundreds of thousands (this year, more than a million) pass through the refuge.

©Mike Hollingshead - www.extremeinstability.com

Curiously at the beginning of the 20th century the Snow Geese were in decline but the population had increased of more than 300 percent since the mid-1970s and keeps increasing at a rate of more than 5 percent per year. Population indices are the highest they have been since population records have been kept, and evidence suggests that large breeding populations are spreading to previously untouched sections of the Hudson Bay coastline. They have increased to the point that the tundra breeding areas in the Arctic and the saltmarsh wintering grounds are both becoming severely degraded, and this affects other species using the same habitat.

©Mike Hollingshead - www.extremeinstability.com

Apart ecological concerns this is indeed an astonishing show.
In the following video Mike Hollingshead give us a better idea of what I'm talking about because sometimes pictures does not justice to something so huge, dynamic and loud!

©Mike Hollingshead - www.extremeinstability.com

Check Mike Hollingshead's website www.extremeinstability.com at the snow geese page to see many other of his shots from this mind-blowing migration and don't forget to take a look to his storm pictures too!

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Oh no.. I'm stuck!

This is indeed the cutest bath plug I've ever seen in my life!
The little red fish stuck in the plughole is really nice and makes pulling out the plug easier. You can buy it for 7.95£ here

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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2009

Perini Navi Cup 2009

Tapped

1.2 million snow geese!

Oh no.. I'm stuck!

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