This Blog is officially archived. A new Effort.tv is up.

If I may please have the attention of my two readers. This blog has officially been archived. Since early this Spring Effort.tv has been all but nonexistent and I have been meaning to rebuild it. Alas, a new Effort.tv has been erected on wordpress at http://effortinc.wordpress.com/ The http://Effort.tv address will be forwarded to that same URL soon. From now on all my blog posts will occur on the front page of the new site. Use this old blog to stroll down memory lane.

Bye for now,

Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc

Rapid Transit Video #13 - Vancouver, Whistler, BC local creeks

Rapid Transit Video Producer, Daniel Windham, has produced a really cool short film on some local creeks around the Vancouver and Whistler area of BC.

It's a really handsome video and I recommend subscribing to the podcast. Daniel's editing is mad stupid wack junk dat you gots to seez! He likes to get all crazy and carry two cameras in his kayak at once so he can film some actual film and then film some actual HD. One thing I wonder is if we are all incorrect saying that we are "filmmakers" and that we are "filming" when we are using digital cameras with these tiny tapes. I guess there is film in those tapes but isn't a film camera one that holds film, like an 8mm or 16mm camera? Well, that's what I think, and usually try not to say that I'm filming or that I'm a filmmaker because I don't use "film" the traditional way. Unless film accidentally slips out I usually just say that I am videoing, which isn't really a grammatically correct word, but that's just how I am... I guess.

See Daniel's rocket sauce inspiring video in Flash on the main Rapid Transit page at http://rapidtransitvideo.com/ and see what Daniel wrote about producing the video in his blog post http://www.rapidtransitvideo.com/blog/?p=63 where you can also view the video in Quicktime format or subscribe to the Rapid Transit Podcast.

Good day,

Spencer Cooke, Effort.tv (Not to be confused with Effort TV, which I don't know what is. My site is Effort.(dot)tv, not Effort TV. This is the internet, not TV. Maybe I'll get a new site called Effort.internet to keep everyone from misnaming my web site.)

Free IR Drysuit anyone? Just grow a Mustache.

There is a season just beyond the horizon where the talents of kayakers and lip hair farmers join forces to become one big idiotic mess all over the internet. This season is known as the Curt Davis Invitational Mustache Growing Contest of Paddlesports. This year IR has title sponsored the event to bring you The Mustache King 2008. As title sponsor IR will be providing their top-of-the-line DoubleD drysuit to 1st place as the grand prize. Yip, you read correctly. All you gotta do is grow a stache and you will be styling it up dry as a bone in a brand new drysuit. Check out the video for a little motivation.
http://themustacheking.com/vid/mustacheking2008.mov

Remember, only a mustache demands respect and is truly rewarded.


Enter while there's still time. Visit TheMustacheKing.com

A special gift to mankind.

I think we all know that this had to be done. Is it embarrassing? Yes. Am I completely humiliated? Not really. Was I proud to have documented such an occasion? Yes. After all, it's just nature doing what nature does. Please send thank you cards, snacks and money donations to the below address.

With love,
Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc

Rapid Transit Video #11 - Morocco Surf Kayaking Adventure

Today is May Turd and as an ode to my former "News on the Turds" I give you the Morocco Surf Experience.

Click HERE to see the video, download the podcast, read the journal and live the experience... so to speak.

Our silly crew of surfing chalkies on the beach at Tafadna, Morocco

Joey and I experiencing life in Morocco.

This was incredible kayaking trip for me. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Later,

Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc.

Two new Rapid Transit Videos

Two new Rapid Transit videos have been posted in the past couple weeks.

1) Cooper Lambla's second video journal installment from New Zealand. This time, the South Island.
Click to view the video at Cooper's Rapid Transit Library
Cooper drops into a huge rapid at Nevis Bluff


2) I did indeed attend the 4th annual NAWF at Short Creek and the Locust Fork in Alabama, followed by an incredible trip down the Little River Canyon. The video event coverage is a little late but it's here nonetheless, featuring tons of happy paddlers.
Click to view NAWF/LRC video
Here I was NAWF morning, cooking breakfast in the snow. Twas freezin' ase cold. (photo Adam Motes)


As always you can subscribe to the Rapid Transit Video podcast via iTunes or at the Podcast page on the RT site. Enjoy and see you next time.

PS. The Magnum 80 and Thunder 76 by Riot are out now. These two new big boy creek/river boats are incredible additions to the lineup. If you're a biggy then give a try, you likey. You float high, go fast, boof drop, punch hole. You like.

Later,

Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc.

Visit the Rapid Transit Library...

Dear bloggitizers or boatertalkitizers,

Some folks have made mention of "only three videos up on Rapid Transit." Au contraire, mon frère! If one were to visit the Library one would find oneself finding lots of other videos for one to watch. Recently added/archived in the Library are the Effort.tv 2007 Mion videos. Twelve videos to be exact, all waiting there to be watchitized by your eyezizz. Peruse the site and you might find warm lovely things that make you happy. So, please visit and please please enjoy.

Soon more videos come to Rapid Transit:
Cooper Lambla New Zealand S Island
Daniel Windham BC'faganza
Effort Inc/Deadman Morocco Surf Trip
Alabama Love Fest

... and more and more and more. Takes little bit of time to edit. We trying our hardest.

Love,

Spencer Cooke, Effort, Inc, looking my smoothest.