I love DIY so I made these web badges. Download them and Spread the love!!

I love DIY badges

Several sizes along with a Black version with white Type are available. If one of the sizes doesn’t suit your website perfectly, open the photoshop master file and DIY it! Enjoy.

*I used the free King font which comes very close to the original ITC American Typewriter font.

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Mark your calendars if your are in Rio de Janeiro  next Sunday, 25th of october. It’s the first screening of LookOut – Temporada na neve, at 9th Mostra Internacional de Filmes de Montanha.

LookOut shows the day-to-day experiences of 4 friends on a season of snowboarding in USA. It was filmed and edited by Marcello Cavalcanti, which collaborated in our ecosk8 project making some awesome videos of your tests (Film 1, Film 2).

Date: 25th October 2009
Time: 19 O’clock
Place: Cine Odeon, Centro
Tickets can be bought here
LookOut Trailler
Festival Trailler
The Whole festival Program can be found here
Make sure not to loose it if you are in Rio!

What if the whole idea of innovation awards and design prizes could be turned up side down to a bottom up decision process? What if we could show our appreciation to the people that inspires us, giving them something to be proud of?

After writing about the Madmax Bike spotted in Lyon, I started thinking that it would be awesome if we would be able to give an award to everyone that inspires us.

The Inspiring Bastard Awards is born, at least as an experiment. And the first one to receive the award is the creator of the madmax bike that made me think of this award in the first place. We don’t know his or her  identity yet, but as soon as he or she gets in touch we will send an Inspiring Bastard T-shirt.

For this to be a true bottom up movement, I imagine to set up a dedicated page on the Letsevo website, with a form where anyone can suggest an Inspiring Bastard, and send them an Inspiring Bastard t-shirt. In the website, there would be a page for every inspiring bastard, their stories and an indication for the person who gave him/her the award.

Who do you think deserves to receive an Inspiring Bastard Award?

We got to love this ad from Norway.

via: designbivouac

This month was full of extremes, apart from the adventure of building a new forum for Letsevo and my new more aerodynamic hair style, I was fortunate enough to join two good friends onto another adventure, Crossing the Alps between Italy and France. Together with Jochen and Johannes, we biked 363.34 Kilometers, climbing a total of 13935 Meters during 8 days of our tour that started in Pinerolo (Italy) and ended the Mediterranean city of Ventimiglia, also in Italy.

It was the second time I rode such tour, the first time me and Jochen crossed the north east of Spain together with Basti Hess (very missed), also amazing. This time we also went freestyle (no camping tents) just sleeping back and the faith that rain wasn’t going to pour, and it almost didn’t.

We crossed the Alps everyday, switching from “Bon Giorno!” to “Bonjour”, rustled ourselves between hardcore uphills and hardcore downhills, following the paths and tips from a tour published at Mountain Bike Magazine.

Thanks to Jochen, our GPS data from the tour can be seen in Google Earth making it possible to travel back exactly through the trails we made, how awesome is that? feel like traveling to time? Make sure to turn on “Show Terrain” feature.

Download .KMZ file (google earth) from our tour, you have to have Google Earth installed in you computer to be able to navigate.

My thanks to Jochen for organizing the route and to Johannes for bringing the cooking utensils, also Mark Assies for the sleeping bag! and Timon Rutten from Hans Struik Fietsen Shop for hooking me up with some bike parts I needed for the tour.

Where should we go on the next tour??

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At Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial in Rio, 2002 - The whole Crew

Back in 2002, in Rio. EVO Skateboards was launched. I put some old school photosup. What a fun night!! =) Great times!

Made me want to start a DIY Backyard Wakeboard Park Project . Thanks to Kim for the cool “in the water” photos with her new camera.