Traditional jumps in Mostar 2004.

 Photo: Urban Golob/www.ipak.org

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Tomaz Lavric

 Tomaz Lavric - TBC; smokes a lot, doesn’t get enough exercise and hates public appearances.

Tomaz Lavric, better known as TBC (but sometimes also as Diareja, J. Visarjonovic, Ton Ton, Lovro Matic…) was born in Ljubljana on a stormy autumn night in 1964. He went to study paintings at the Ljubljana Art Academy, but escaped the school in 1987 because he started to work on illustrations job for the weekly Mladina magazine. Ever since he’s been making a living by drawing illustrations, comics and political cartoons. The most successful contemporary Slovenian author, Lavric "the great chameleon... ...a man who draws in a thousand styles", as defined by his Slovene colleague Jakob Klemencic, links his different drawing stiles with a striking talent for cinematic composition. His drawing style has been reduced to an expressive contrast of black and white.

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Poklad of Lastovo

Poklad Carnival Event on the remote Adriatic Island of Lastovo is unique in the world. On Poklad's (Shrove) Tuesday, the Poklad puppet is sliding down the 300 meters long rope (three times), with simultaneous petards' detonations going on under his boots (this is only part of the final exhausting ceremony which will last until the morning of the following day).

The ancient traditional story says that Poklad Carnival Event is celebrated as a memory of an old historical event old more then 500 years. Catalan pirates attacked the nearby island of Korcula and sent a messenger to the island of Lastovo, with a request to surrender. Instead, Lastovo people took weapons, while their women and children went as pilgrims to Saint George church praying for help. And sure enough, the help came as a storm which destroyed the Catalan fleet on its way to Lastovo. After that, the Lastovo people took the messenger and put him on the donkey through the village to laugh at him, and then he was let down the rope and finally burnt.

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A PORTRAIT OF SLOVENIAN FAMILY

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OURAY ICE FESTIVAL

Every year in the middle of January the small town of Ouray in the heart of Rocky Mountains, Colorado, hosts the meeting of the best ice climbers in the world known as Ouray Ice Festival. This year's special guests included JC Lafaille, Ed Viesturs as well as some of the legends of alpine climbing as Jim Donini, Jack Tackle, Tomaz Humar etc. In three days there were events like slideshows and film presentations of world class alpinists, clinincs for the beginners in ice climbing, and of course the competition, which was the main event at Ouray Ice Festival. With the third place in the race, Slovenian climber Aljaz Anderle showed the audience his climbing skills and great performance and was the first competitor at the race rewarded with ovations. After the Festival Aljaz went to Vail for a couple of days, climbing the Reptail, famous overhanging mixed route which used to be the hardest mixed route in the world not so long time ago.

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AFGANISTAN WOMEN’S PRISON

Photo/text: Manca Juvan/ www.ipak.org

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 Ledno plezanje

Besedilo ima 10.000 znakov

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PREDELICA

Photo/text:Urban Golob

Plaz, ki je novembra leta 2000 unicil skoraj polovico Loga pod Mangartom in povzrocil smrt sedmih domacinov, je prihrumel po grapi Predelice in jo tako spremenil, da je ni bilo mogoce prepoznati. Namesto grape je nastal pravi kanjon, a ker nad njim caka se nekaj tisoc ton zemeljskega materiala, ki se ob lahko obilnejsih padavinah spremeni v nov plaz, se v kanjon ne upa skoraj nihce. Januarja 2002, po dolgem obdobju zelo mrzlega vremena, smo vanj podali stirje alpinisti, da od blizu pogledamo, kaksna je lahko moc narave. Po zaledenelih slapovih smo se skozi novi kanjon v pravljicno ledeni podobi tudi uspesno prebili. To je zgodba o tem raziskovalnem vzponu oziroma o posebnem obcutku, da si lahko pionirski raziskovalec sredi Evrope tudi na zacetku tretjega tisocletja.

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LUXUN PARK SHANGHAI

Shanghai is a city with highest economical growth in Asia and because of the third largest sea port in the world and the multiethnic culture is also called as the Asian New York. The economical growth is manifesting through modern urban architecture and fascinates with 460m tall TV tower called Pearl of Orient, WTC as the third tallest skyscraper in the world, fantastic Opera house, elevated highways and futuristic plans as the one to construct a 9 km long bridge over Yangtze River. Their sixteen million residents present a cheap working force that attracts foreign investors. Chinese working force is admired through out the world, but not everybody knows that behind that is more then just the quantity of workers. As all great empires also communistic party of China was concerned with psycho-physical condition of their people, so they were thinking about a physical exercise that would fight the syndrome of overpopulation. Shanghai has more 120 green parks that judging by the inner activities can not be compared to any other in the west. An example: Imagine early morning at six and you are on your way to work. You stop in the park, lay down a briefcase and with a partner dance a waltz or two in a company of hundreds of classic dance fans. The dance session usually lasts for an hour.

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THE GREAT FEAST

‘Eid al-Adha, the sacrifice feast (Bayram) is also called in Egypt "the Great Feast" in relation to the "Small feast" which is after Ramadan, the fasting month. The story on which ‘Eid al-Adha is based exists not only in the Qur’an (Sura 37:83 till 37:113) but also in the Old Testament ( I. Moses book chapter 22). It is the story of Abraham being ordered by God to give his only son Isaac (in the Qur’an story this son is called Ismail) as an offering. Abraham obeyed God’s order and took his son Isaac (Ismail) to sacrifice him to God, and at the moment after setting everything to slaughter his son, God send Abraham a ram because of his obedience.

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SEJEM V NAMCE BAZARJU

Pozno monsunsko dezevje nas je pralo, ko smo se po siroki, strmi in precej blatni poti vzpenjali proti Namce Bazarju. Krepko smo ze presegli visino tri tisoc metrov nad morjem. Redkejsi zrak in neizprosno tezki odpravarski nahrbtniki so nam pocasi jemali hitrost, v kateri smo uspeli premikati svoje noge se nekaj sto metrov nizje. Se vedno pa smo bili hitrejsi od nosacev, ki so morali svoje tovore se isti dan prinesti do Namceja. Ko sem tako dohitel zadnjega izmed njih, je iz njegovega pletenega kosa, kljub temu, da je bil cezenj poveznjen polivinil, mocno zasmradelo. ªKot crkovina´, sem pomislil in jadrno prehitel malega nosaca, ki je pod smradecim bremenom grizel kolena v breg. _e na kraj pameti mi ni prislo, da bom ta smrdeci tovor lahko ze jutri videl naprodaj na vsakotedenskem sejmu v glavnem mestu dezele Serp.

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JESUIT MISSIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA

Photo:Bojan Brecelj/www.ipak.org

 ACRO CUP 

Akrobatsko jadralno padalstvo je mlad sport, katerega zunanja podoba je za vecino opazovalcev nevarno poigravanje z zivljenjem in smrtjo. Med zraãnimi akrobati, ki krotijo podivjane kupole jadralnih padal je nekaj izredno prodornih deklet, ki postavljajo pod vprasaj moski primat v ekstremnih sportih. S svojo subtilnostjo in odsotnostjo moske potrebe po zmagovanju in dokazovanju, dekleta obvladujejo najbolj krhke letalne naprave spostljivo in s hvaleznostjo pripadnic generacije, ki ji je neprimerljivo lazje poleteti kot katerikoli pred njihovo. S Katjo Drole, Svicarko Judith Zweifel in Makedonko Silvijo Mitevsko smo se o njihovem letenju pogovarjali med Acrocupom v Bohinju. Njihova razmisljanja dajejo akrobatskemu jadralnemu padalstvu razseznosti duhovnih tehnik.

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OMAN

"Who can reach us? Who can reach us?" the driver kept repeating my answer... No, I did not say who but how can we reach the place before night. "Well, I am not used to drive on bad roads...actually, I have never driven on this road yet!" We were really going slow the three of us, the driver, the official government guide and myself in an air-conditioned Land Cruiser. I was wondering how he could not remember any more how the roads had been just a few years ago when there had been no high way and not even a single paved road in the country? I was getting dizzy not only by the road that was already for some eight hours bumpy, but because of the culture shock I had to digest in only two days of my staying in the country.... We were heading towards Ra's Al Hadd, a very special place on the coast where only on the days of the full moon in that month giant turtles from Indian Ocean are coming ashore to lay their eggs in the sand. The area was protected, and in fact they really ment it - the place is wired and there were guards on the gate. "We have been expecting you already for some hours..." I have heard this statement everywhere I went in Oman. Everything has been so organised all the time even when we went to visit the nomads...," commented the photographer about his first impressions in Oman.

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WORLD HUMAN POWER SPEED CHALLENGE

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SEPIK - THE DEEPEST RIVER

The natives, living by the river in harsh living conditions where death by malaric mosquitos or other diseases in this tropic humid heat in an everyday event, have built a very special attitude towards life that surrounds them. Animism pervades in every atom of their closest environment. They have built reciprocal relationship with the spirits.

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TRIGLAV

Photo:Urban Golob/www.ipak.org

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WINTER IN St:MORITZ

Photo: Andrej Crcek/www.ipak.org

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ZILJSKO STEHVANJE

Ziljski dolini in tudi na vsem avstrijskem Koroskem. Ziljsko stehvanje je edini naslednjik viteskih iger, ki se je ohranil na slovenskem ozemlju.

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TOPOLOVE

Na strmi cesti, ki vodi proti vasi Topolove v hribih Benecije, je troblja verjetno najpomembnejsa avtomobilska oprema. Na ostrih in nepreglednih ovinkih jo pogosto uporabljajo tudi domacini, stevilni obiskvalci, ki v juliju obiscejo umetnisko kolonijo v Topolovem, pa bi brez hupanja na ozki cesti povzrocili pravi prometni kaos. Prav neverjetno se zdi, koliko ljudi pride obiskat dogajanje v odmaknjeni, le nekaj streljajev od slovenske meje oddaljeni vasici, kjer se ze osem let zbirajo moderni umetniki razlicnih zvrsti z vsega sveta.

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DRZAVNO PRVENSTVO V STRIZENJU OVAC

Photo:Andrej Crcek/www.ipak.org

JUNGLE

Photo:Bojan Brecelj/www.ipak.org

JULIAN ALPS

LAIBACH CONCERT WAT - Ljubljana

Photo:Bojan Brecelj/www.ipak.org

BARCOLANA 03 - MAXI JENA, ALFA ROMEO

Photo:Bojan Brecelj/www.ipak.org