By using geographic profiling, scientists might now have unmasked the real identity of graffiti artist Bansky.

British academics have used a combinations of maths, criminology and geographic profiling to back up a theory over the identity of mysterious street artist Banksy.

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London said the pattern of how Banksy's artworks were distributed suggested he was artist Robin Gunningham.

Gunningham was first named as Banksy by the Daily Mail newspaper in 2008.

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The research, published in the Journal of Spatial Science, analysed a series of locations of Banksy’s artworks in London and Bristol and mapped them against "anchor points" such as the homes of people suspected of being Banksy to draw conclusions about possible identity.

In this short presented by Intel, we follow along the man with the camera, Scott Schuman, who founded the popular fashion blog The Sartorialist in 2005.

In the first episode in Huck Magazine's four-part documentary series "Journey from the Source" presented by Finlandia Vodka and the organization One Percent for the Planet, professional surfer and filmmaker Mikey DeTemple meets the Finnish champion freediver Antero Joki.

Outside the water, Antero doesn't really look like your average world-class athlete. Almost half a century, he's a little older than most champions. He's got asthma (he smoked for ten years), he's about 235 pounds and, despite the fact he's about to demonstrate for us one of the most intense sports in the world, there are no minders or agents or physios anywhere to be seen. Antero has just his fin bag, his dive buddy Johanna Nordblad (a record-breaker in her own right), and his trusty motorboat (which doesn't start when he pulls the choke). But in the water, Antero is otherworldly, gliding effortlessly through the icy water and disappearing into the deep. "It's incredible, this feeling of weightlessness," he tells me later, adding with a grin, "especially for a man of my size."

In the following mashup, we learn more about the 64 songs, 348 rockstars, 84 guitarists and 44 drummers that have contributed to and shaped rock and roll.

However, someone pointed out in the comments section that the video lacked black and female influentials:

[…] Here's a few woman you missed: Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Stevie Nicks, Patti Smith, Suzi Quatro, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Tina Turner, Debbie Harry, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, Shirley Manson, Courtney Love, Karen O for starters. Oh and then there's Santana, Rodriguez, BB King, Osibisa, Prince, Little Richard, Living Colour, Lenny Kravitz, Bo Diddly. […]

You find the complete tracklist here.

Some people dream about being a proud owner to one DeLorean sports car while others like Chicago-based Rich Weissensel owns several. After having met John DeLorean, founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, at a car show in 2000, Weissensel came away from the meeting inspired and began to build custom DeLoreans.

A man who collects DeLorean cars has transformed the classic Back To The Future vehicles into a monster truck, a limousine, a hovercraft, a convertible and a Time Machine Replica. Rich Weissensel, a software engineer, is fanatic about the two-door sports car and owns five custom creations – including a stretched DeLorean Limousine - and three stock DeLoreans. The 50-year-old has re-modeled the stainless-steel shape of the iconic cars into bizarre and brilliant automotive creations in an ongoing, 14-year series of projects. The projects started after Rich met the car's founder John DeLorean at the Cleveland DeLorean Car Show in 2000 and showed him some of his ideas and sketches. Rich from Chicago, Illinois, built a custom hovercraft using the stainless steel panels of the DeLorean and a hovercraft cushion which allows the DeLorean to float over any surface.

Mark Westguard's footage of the North East of Scotland from above will make you want to pack your bags right away and visit.

By observing and emulating the climbing technique of monkeys, Indian rock climber Jyothi Raj is able to do some daring climbs.

It started as a suicide attempt. Abandoned at a temple as a young child, Jyoti Raj was being abused by the man who had taken him in—and he felt as though he couldn’t go on. So one day he climbed up a steep rock with the intention of jumping to his death. But as he reached the top, he realized that a crowd had gathered, unaware of his intentions, and was actually cheering for him as he climbed. That’s when he decided to use his talent for climbing to make a name for himself. By watching monkeys and imitating their movements, he became one of the world’s best climbers, and soon people began calling him Monkey King. A local celebrity, he now easily draws crowds whenever he performs and has even started teaching young students who want to learn his climbing skills.

In Motherboard, an article written by Damien Echols about how meditation and magic kept him sane and healthy while being falsely imprisoned for 18 years, of which nine of them were spent in solitary confinement 24 hours a day in a super maximum security unit prison.

My name is Damien Echols, and in 1993 I was arrested for three counts of capital murder in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. Nine months later I was sentenced to death, and spent almost 19 years on death row before being released in 2011 when new evidence came to light.

Prison is a dark and stagnant place. It's filled with the most cold, horrendous energy you can imagine. It feels like a kind of psychic filth that penetrates into your very soul.

Much of magick is about is learning to change states of consciousness at will. I learned to use meditation and ritual as shields. They prevented the hellish energy of prison from changing me and making me more like the people all around me—people who had given up on even trying to be human.

This is a story about how I kept my sanity.

Featured image: Damien Echols at Tucker Max prison in 1996. Photography by Grove Pashley in the New York Post.

It's always fascinating for me to see large choreographic shows being performed perfectly such as Olympic shows. With footage from a hidden camera, we get the opportunity to watch the work done by the performers during the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony at close range.

Via Holy Kaw.

Swedish vitamin drink brand Vitamin Well has Swedish footballer Zlatan as one of their ambassadors. In a recent prank, Vitamin Well let Zlatan act the role as an interviewer during a job interview with a hopeful applicant.