Links for 5/16/21

Getting Shacked on a Surf Mat


 

4 Tips for Improving Your Noseriding


 

Discourses of Climate Delay


 

Racism 101 Asked And Answered: Mugs, Cocktails And Statues — Is Tiki A Form Of Cultural Appropriation?


 

The Pink Lady was a short-lived painting by Lynne Seemayer on a rock face near Malibu, California in 1966


 

Surfing In The Sixties – Mona Boys


 

Samurais Pop Group (1968)


 

Truckin’ with the crowd – Jeff Belzer at Malibu


 

The Morality of Manipulation


 

Tour Santa Monica’s once-vibrant Black neighborhoods, nearly erased by racism and ‘progress’


 

Video: This Wind-Powered Gigantic Cargo Ship Will Carry 7,000 Cars Across the Atlantic


 

The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean


 

SOMA Bioworks – Biosporin


 

Cold Water Therapy Trailer


 

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood


 

These Sea Creatures Are Actually Made of Glass

Links for 3/23/21

California to consider buying back private beachfront properties


 

The unexpected benefits of surfing


 

Beaver believers: Native Americans promote resurgence of ‘nature’s engineers’


 

Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade


 

Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech


 

Changes in Atlantic currents may have dire climate implications for the next century


 

6 Echo Chambers That Shaped the Sound of Pop Music


 

China is scaling up its weather modification programme – here’s why we should be worried


 

Music historian delves into LA’s rich jazz scene and how clubs were an ‘oasis from racism’


 

L.A.’s coast was once a DDT dumping ground.

Links for 3/21/21

John Muir in Native America


 

The Anti-Colonial Revolution


 

The Real-Life Gidget Looks Back From 80: “I Lived It All”


 

The History of Female Surfing: a Legacy of Hawaiian Medicine Women, Royalty, Goddesses and More


 

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future


 

You Can Now Stay in a Floating Tiki House Off the Florida Keys


 

Sincron 8 Minute De Vis


 

Deluged by floods, America’s ‘oldest city’ struggles to save landmarks from climate crisis


 

This Man Has Spent Quarantine Making Ridiculously Meticulous Miniatures of L.A. Landmarks

Links for 2/20/21

Honolulu 1954


 

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future


 

Surf Film Filmography


 

While Hollywood Had the Sunset Strip, East L.A. Had the ‘Latin Strip’


 

Stan Ross Larry Levine Interview 1988


 

Meet the Melanasians: Black People with Naturally Blonde Hair


 

Was Music City L.A.’s Greatest Record Store?


 

Music Of The Magindanao In The Philippines


 

GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality


 

Red Rover: 1957


 

Duke’s Ulcers: How Surfing’s Most Popular Icon Dealt with White Supremacy

Links for 1/10/21

The Not-So-Chill History of Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt


 

A Walk Along The Gaudy, Bawdy Pike


 

The Squires
Neil Young (middle) with his band the Squires and the Pontiac hearse he bought to tour. He named it Mortimer Hearseburg. (1964)


 

Artist Ed Ruscha’s Photos Showcased in New Getty Online Exhibit


 

Rare footage of Victoria’s first surfers in 1920 – “Surfing Hawaiian Redwood Boards at Lorne”


 

Where The Action Is 1965 – Pilot Episode

Supremes, 4 Seasons, Jan & Dean, Chad & Jeremy, Raiders


 

A dombra performance by a 23-year-old Kazakh musician in Lake Köbeituz, a salt lake in Kazakhstan that turns pink every several years.


 

How to Survive Encounters with Dangerous Animals