I was traversing the interweb the other day when I ran into the personal promotional website for a 6-year-old snowboarder called Bailey Duran. Bearing in mind that most professional snowboarders (and we're talking the level of the of Travis Rice and Terje Haakonsen here) don't have their own websites, what's a 6-year-old kid doing with one?...

Still struggling to find things to do in the off-season? Why not try building a collapsible bow from an old set of skis...

Saunsee Signs a sign maker in Spring Lake, Michigan had a little sideline in producing snowboards, surfboards and skateboards when they started out in the 80s. They produced wooden snurf boards under the Mountain Slave brand and a range of fibreglass snowboards with some jazzy graphics...

This poster from UK based illustrator Adi Gilbert caught my eye. It's reminiscent of the sort of thing Adam Haynes produces. Under the profile 99SECONDS he churns out mostly motorbike and BMX inspired work and there's a few more examples after the break...

Jim Carrey's first movie was a 58 minute long promotional movie for (the now closed) Club Med village in Copper Mountain. It has a rating of just 2.1 on IMDB. Just 100 more votes and it will take it's place on the 100 worst movies of all time. Want to know what that looks like? Here's the trailer...

Back in the day when smoking was good for you, but did strangely seem to coincide with chesty coughs, the makers of Kool decided the best solution was not quitting, but adding menthol cigarettes into the mix. They introduced the brand in the 30s complete with dubious medical advice and a jaunty penguin mascot, who was given the name Willie after WWII. Kool were all over sports marketing like the Red Bull of it's day...

Julia Pickering, the well-known British snowboard mountaineer who I've never heard of, has managed to make every other snowboarders jealous by wrangle herself the ultimate sponsorship deal, an alcohol sponsor...

If you're on the hunt for a new vehicle to pootle about your local ski resort next season then this bossed-up Fiat Panda be the answer...