Gear Patrol

World surfing champions Mick Fanning and Steph Gilmore filmed by Timeslice (the team behind the Matrix bullet time) for Rip Curl at Sunway Lagoon Wavepool in Malaysia. Achieved using 52 Canon DSLR’s, 3 waterlogged Mac’s, and a dozen destroyed hard drives. Your Monday morning video-caffeine.

It’s hard to go far in a conversation about axes (you do have conversation about axes, right?) and not hear the name Best Made Company dropped a few times. Well, everyone’s favorite axe company has a new series of short films coming this Fall entitled CHOP. Succinctly described as “celebrating the collision between a Best…

Slideshows are great and all, but when you’ve got 600 photos why not share all the love and put them into a time-lapse video, right? As tweeted, here is Fashion Night Out at Ralph Lauren’s Soho store… in 60 seconds. Watch it and you’ll catch more than a few glimpses of models, Jessica Alba, and…

Nestled comfortably between the world of $6 cheap cuts and two-hour salon marathons stands a session at Baxter Finley Barber & Shop. A veritable beacon in the ever-changing and oft confusing world of men’s haircuts (especially here in LA), the men at Baxter Finley Barber & Shop aren’t hair stylists per se, but barbers. Barbers…

As you know, our gear reviews typically publish after we get hands-on time. But alas, we are men and appropriately flawed, particularly in the department of patience. Recently, the itch became a bit insatiable with a few gear arrivals – particularly the Canon 7D, a couple of new lenses, and oh… a rip-snorting 481 horsepower…

Check out more of Bradley’s Gear Patrol car reviews on our YouTube channel or on site. For more transportation technology you can also see Bradley on Translogic at AOL Autos.

Commemorating Wolverine’s 125+ years of history and the original reference number of the 1000 Mile boot, Wolverine has commissioned a series of films by Sean Sullivan to document the process of boot making in advance of the 721LTD Boot release. The resulting work is a beguiling glance at the meaning of true American craftsmanship and,…

As an amateur/avid photographer, action sports follower, and all-around gear junkie I can tell you that watching this video will not only elevate your appreciation for work that goes into high production action photography (and photography studios in general), but also take you from six to midnight with digital gear envy. Renowned photographer Chase Jarvis,…

Check out more of Bradley’s Gear Patrol auto reviews on our YouTube channel. For more transportation technology you can also see Bradley on Translogic at AOL Autos. More images after the jump.

There are few places more worthy of high-definition video than the underwater world. Sure, photos are great. But SCUBA diving is such a dynamic, otherworldly experience that still photography has always seemed a bit two-dimensional as a means to convey the experience to landlubbers or to re-live adventures back home. Coral reefs teem with thousands…

Your Friday afternoon parting shot video. Captured on a Canon 7D ($1,799).

This is not Google. This is not Chess. These are not just answers. Code-named “Watson” after IBM’s founder Thomas J. Watson, the Deep Blue QA based supercomputing technology is IBM’s high-engineering attempt to understand and answer complex questions. Not just any ol’ Q&A system, IBM feels so confident in Watson’s capabilities that they are putting…

Or, if you’d rather see what a movie with Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Terry Crews looks like, hit the jump. Two words: title irony.

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Sam Martin, the Editor-in-Chief of Design Mind discusses the instinctive, visceral need of men for their own space. In his speech at 2009′s TED Conference (the thinkers of our time), Martin shares his research and findings of “man spaces”. His insights are not far from what I’ve seen permeate modern-day men’s culture both mass (Into…

Seeing the boorish captures of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland, Sean Stiegmeier decided to take things into his own hands. Using a Canon 5D Mark II which we, Stiegmeier braved the flight and weather chaos to get a half day’s worth of footage. The video above is the result and it’s stunning.

We don’t cover a lot of German wallpaper products here at Gear Patrol, as a matter of fact I can’t think of one, but this film about Hohenberger Wallcoverings makes us think otherwise. You may not necessarily be interested in their wares (as good as they are), but this film, shot by Sebastian Wiegärtner may…

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo. [via our twitter feed, Daring Fireball, and Spacecraft Films]

It’s no secret that the country that brought us Heidi Klum, Christoph Waltz, and an odd obsession with David Hasselhoff has given the world it’s fair share of great automobiles. Much like Kenya’s ability to produce great long-distance runners, Germany produces cars that are meant to be driven, not just ridden. A great quandary and…

We know what you’re thinking. Mazda MX-5 Miata. Ummm? This is Gear Patrol, right? Since when do they review cars my sister would want? Where are the chainsaws, soft shells, and golf clubs? Well, we like the unexpected and we’re certainly not going to deny a chance to test out the best selling two seat…

You might remember our teaser about this feature early last week. You know, that photo of yours truly leaping out of an airplane to his death? Okay okay, some call it skydiving, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t nervous as hell. Well, it’s finally time that we divulged the whole story, in Gear Patrol fashion….

A couple of weeks ago, Toyota invited a couple of the Gear Patrol crewmen, Ben and Bradley, to check out the new 2010 Toyota 4Runner. Ultimate destination: Las Vegas. We suggested departing from Bradley’s Los Angeles base to get some on-road impressions on Highway 91 in combination with Toyota’s planned craggy off-road adventures in Nevada…

As a gear and car nut, one learns to appreciate the details in life. It’s not about the shirt; it’s about the stitching. It’s not about the song; it’s the crescendo of the quartet. And for me, it’s not just about the car; it’s about how it fits you. The attitude, the experience, and the…

When the engine-ears at Nissan heard they were charged with refocusing the highly successful and storied Z-line, they did something remarkable, they listened. The launch of the new 370Z in January along with the NISMO and roadster versions in June and September, respectively, sees a number of small tweaks from the great, but sometimes flawed,…

During my formative years, getting a haircut was an annoyance and was treated as such. It was just something that had to happen every month or so, thus my early “styles” were typically limited to one of two choices: short and shorter. In college, when decisions were made between getting a nice haircut and buying…

Hybrid, organic, sustainable, renewable, etc… ever since Al Gore asserted that perhaps the truth was, indeed inconvenient, it has become popular, hip, trendy (to a fault?), and downright obligatory to reduce our footprint of carbon and, with your powers combined, save this planet. Go, planet. Don’t read my glib sarcasm as anything more than a…