At 3pm on Saturday, decades of growth was shaved from my head in support of childhood cancer research. Thanks to everyone who supported the cause and helped me to raise well over my target of US$3,000... The total raised this year through events like this all over the world has already reached an impressive 19.3 million.
For those that haven't already, you can still show some love over at: http://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/JayFC<...Read more
Following the unlikely success of growing a Mo for Movember last year, I've now decided to shave my head bald in solidarity and support for children who have cancer. I recently read an account of one child's battle, and as a new father it made the earth turn backwards.
Through this event organised by St Baldrick's FoundationI hope to help create more awareness and raise critical funds for childhood cancer research. And in this case the money raised in Hong Kon...Read more
Check out these bad boys. The Reef Byerly IV Wakeskate Shoe. Massive thanks to my man Alfie at REEF for the advance hook up of these beauties. Our new season now officially starts at the weekend and the IVs will be on general release in a couple of months.
Man & Shark from alexhofford on Vimeo.English version: http://www.vimeo.com/7645560
Chinese version: http://www.vimeo.com/9856912
Essential viewing from Alex Hofford about Shark finning and the centre for the international trade, Hong Kong.
Introducing Team Nanshan. A couple of weeks before my second little boy, PIran, was born, I went on a traditional Mancation with a few of my closest homies - just a long weekend of unhinged mayhem before settling back down to sleepless nights and nappy changing...
Here's a few pix of the trip to Nanshan Ski Resort, just north of Beijing. The place surpassed all our expectation...Read more
Introducing - via a couple of dodgy iPhone shots - the less than one hour old addition to Team FC. Our little tiger - as yet un-named - was born last night at 2am in the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, weighing in at a respectable 3.2kg... The amazing Pui Pui FC is having a well earned rest, the little tiger is growling like a contented alien, big brother Tristan ...Read more
Fifty years ago there were an estimated 4,000 Chinese Tigers ( Panthera tigris amoyensis) in the wild but today it is the most endangered of the five remaining tiger species – with perhaps less than one hundred left in existence.
At the same time, the entire global wild tiger population is now estimated to be as low as 3,200 – almost half what it was in the last Year of the Tiger. Over the last 10 years, the size of total tiger habitat area has decreased by 45% due to human activity and today tigers occupy just 7% ...Read more
Red Wine. And the band TOOL.
On the surface there's not an obvious link betweeen the two. Red wine is not exactly rock 'n' roll... However, some years back, TOOL's enigmatic frontman Maynard James Keenan took some time out to start a winery where he made wine that he named after his Mum (also not very rock 'n' roll)... But the whole point is that when you ARE rock 'n' roll, you really don't need to TRY to be....
Anyways, the good news is that they've made a d...Read more