Awesome Leisure

BMX rider Danny Campbell bike-surfs on Wave Rock, a 47-foot-high, 350-foot-long rock shaped like an extreme quarter-pipe in Australia’s Outback. From InfityList.com and mb! by Mercedes-Benz.

Owing more than a nod to the hit Xbox Live Trials series, Urban Trial Freestyle brings side-scrolling bike mayhem to the PlayStation 3, PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS with a little help from Julien Dupont.

Designed by Simon Prades for Card Experiment, these edgy playing cards are inspired by the story of the Tower of Babel, with the cards themselves symbolizing the conflict between social classes.

The music video for Gun-Shy, from Grizzly Bear’s album Shields. If you’ve ever felt insecure and unsatisfied with yourself, you’ll be able to relate to the various images of purging in the video.

A brilliant concept chess set where a captured piece is kept underneath its captor to help players retrace their game. Made by Orr Kislev, an Industrial Design student at Holon Institute of Technology.

While we won’t have to wait too long to see Man of Steel, those who prefer graphic novels will want to check out this May 7 digital release based on the Geoff Johns/Gary Frank classic Superman: Brainiac.

Not only does Jason Forrest’s 2005 electronic-jazz-rock opus make our eardrums buzz with glee, Joel Trussell’s imaginative animation is the perfect accompaniment to the track. (Thanks Barry!)

(NSFW) What began as a glamorized take on the underground racing scene has now escalated to “vehicular warfare.” Watch bald bruisers defy the laws of physics in nice cars in Fast & Furious 6.

To celebrate the launch of God of War: Ascension, this bundle comes with a super-slim blood red PS3, a 500GB hard drive, the new game, God of War 1, 2, 3, Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta.

The trailer for the U.S. release of Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill, a movie about young romance blooming in 1960s post-war Japan. It was the top grossing film in Japan in 2011.

“What goes up, must come down.” So goes this ominous and action-packed gameplay trailer for Bioshock Infinite. Players will once again find themselves in a world both beautiful and diabolical.

The pioneers of shoegazing are back. m b v is My Bloody Valentine’s first album since 1991’s Loveless. It actually sounds like it was made 22 years ago. Stream the album on YouTube.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke reunites with the band from his Eraser tour – Joey Waronker, Mauro Refosco, Nigel Godrich and Flea – for the new album AMOK. The track here is Judge Jury & Executioner.

Patrick W. Galbraith’s fascinating look inside Otaku culture, which is best described as a combination of avid collecting, hoarding, and some sort of an OCD. Features interviews with 15 of these über-fans.

We can already hear the cries of “fake” but we’re still impressed by this clip of a guy making a full-court basketball shot – with his shirt pulled over his head. (Or his excellent VFX and editing skills.)

(Spoilers/Gore) A look at the first 30 minutes of upcoming franchise prequel God of War: Ascension. You can skip to around 4:35 in the video if you just want to see the gameplay.

Developed by Alexander Bruce, the award-winning Antichamber is a puzzle game that takes full advantage of its virtual world, challenging players’ expectations of videogames, geometry and physics.

Tony Stark loses his suits, The Iron Patriot stares him down and the Mandarin speaks in the Super Bowl trailer for Iron Man 3. But not before Robert Downey Jr. gives you a literal extended look.

A wonderful homage to classic science fiction films, C tells the story of a Lieutenant with a mysterious agenda who hijacks a fighter ship and its deadly payload. Shot without CGI, using in-camera effects.

This trailer presents the plot of the upcoming DC fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us: what if the good guys got tired of putting up with humanity’s flaws and started ruling with an iron fist?

Much larger than its predecessor, so you can play it using your fingers as well as the stylus. It has a 37 note keyboard, 2 voltage-controlled oscillators, 8 waveform LFOs and a state variable filter.

Crooked Steps is the latest single from King Animal, the first album in 16 years from Soundgarden – a band blessed with the uncanny ability to make songs about nothing and still sound great.

He’s not the Silver Skier, but Norwegian PK Hunder did launch his phone from his pocket during an X Games Big Air practice run only to have it meet back with its master owner at the bottom of the hill.