The term ninja has attained buzzword status in recent years thanks to the tech industry’s affinity for dramatic job titles. Challenge this new breed of warrior to a street fight and you’ll face a dizzying assault of interactive marketing speak. Unfortunately, that defense won’t cut it on the mean streets of Sydney. Enter the dragon… actually, enter Nylon Studios’ composer Blair Joscelyne.

Believe Media director David Hartley explains how he jumps between free-running sport Parkour and filmmaking (and back again).

Creative by profession, motor sport enthusiast by passion, 39-year-old Cramer-Krasselt senior art director Luke Partridge gives a first-person account of his adventures in autocross.

In this Extracurricular blog post, Saint@RKCR/Y&R creative Jeeves Basu explains the story behind his Impossible Lamp, a light source made of wax that works without melting.

Twenty years after he bowed out of the London pub rock scene to become a director, Danny Kleinman found his desire to perform rekindled, and then fanned into a flame, by a little plinky plonky instrument.

If you don’t eat, you’re going to die: so you might as well put something good in your mouth. RSA EP Tracie Norfleet’s matter-of-fact view on the innateness of food could be the rallying call for foodies everywhere. Norfleet is apparently quite the cook, and the go-to person whenever her crews are on-location and need suggestions for somewhere fine to dine. All that culinary knowledge is currently being put to the test as Norfleet has turned reality TV star in the first season of Bravo’s Chef Academy.

Uber-designer Stefan Sagmeister’s first year-long sabbatical expanded his reputation beyond the design community as an expert on the positive effect personal time can have on one’s professional life. For his second commercial-free excursion, he spent a year on the Indonesian island of Bali. We caught up with Sagmeister following his 2009 Boards Summit keynote address to chat about the merits of taking time off.

What some see as drug-induced hippies dancing in the desert, others can see as fertile ground to tease out rich visual metaphors. On November 13, Psyop managing director Justin Booth-Clibborn showed his skill for the latter with his first solo photography exhibit, Planet Burning Man, at Blacklist’s Lower East Side office.

For a young gay man coming of age in the nightclub world, life’s lessons are often obscured or refracted by endless halls of mirrors, Mylar and Plexiglas. The possibility for transcendental experience in that closed-off world is the focus of Love Is All Around, a short video installation by artist Marc Swanson and Outside editor Neil Gust. Boards recently caught up with Gust to talk about the work.

What would a country look like through the eyes of someone who’s never set foot on its soil? It’s a question that weighs on the mind of Jamie Kim. Though the 32-year-old Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam interactive producer has never been to the African nation of Mozambique, remedying its social ailments has captured her imagination for the better part of five years.