Recently, my favourite place to spend time on the internets has been the Rapha Films channel on Vimeo. These high quality short films are not only inspiring and enthusing, but beautifully shot, edited and scored too.
It all started with their Rapha & Paul Smith promo video:
Which was followed up by ‘City Riding’ (both featuring the can’t-help-but-want-to-imitate Cole Maness):
Then there is Rapha California, which if you ignore the anti-helmet sentiment, is brimming with atmosphere:
All three directed by Ben Ingham, with brilliant sound design by Soundfly.
I could go on, embedding just about every video they’ve uploaded, but instead, I’ll mention 3 more. Two Broad Arrows a short film inspired by the life of Sean Kelly, Rapha Rides Monti Pallidi and the Tour of California series, starting here. If you’re a cyclist then you’ll no doubt already be aware of these films, but worth highlighting for anyone who hasn’t.
The Vimeo app for Boxee is currently crashing on me a lot, so I’ve been watching these on Apple TV via Couchsurfer (yes you can Airplay from iOS too). It would be great if Apple could open up apps for Apple TV and get the same slick experience that YouTube videos and Podcasts get.
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