Surf Film Maker Bruce Brown Dead at 80

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So we lost John Severson and Bruce Brown in the same year …

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I watched his films many times – maybe because I couldn’t be in the water nearly as much as I would have appreciated. His iconic The Endless Summer was my first exposure to both Brown’s work as well as to mid century surf films as a genre.

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Hidden Beat-era Enclave Could Get National Historic Status


 

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Is This The Solution To Plastic Waste Pollution?


 

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How to Etch Aluminum / Etched Guitar Pedals


 

The article that changed my view … of humanity’s impact on the planet


 

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Fmr FBI Agent Turned Surf Guitarist Using Her Voice To Advocate For The LGBTQ Community. She released her ‘Love Is’ compilation in October

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The Jetsons is actually a bone-chilling dystopia – The Verge

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Rich Roat, House Industries founder, dies


 

The news on “The Reef Beneath” – from the largest living structure on earth


 

Buckminster Fuller’s Map of the World: The Innovation that Revolutionized Map Design (1943)


 

Weird Waves: The Gudauskas bros, Gerry Lopez, Dylan Graves and Hannah Scott “surfing” 200 miles from the coast


 

Trump Is No Teddy Roosevelt to America’s Outdoorsmen | NRDC


 

Yup, the World’s Still Warming and Humans are to Blame | NRDC


 

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‘As close as the US gets to Egypt’s pyramids’: how Chaco Canyon is endangered by drilling


 

Source: Tom Goldtooth: Carbon Trading is “Fraudulent” Scheme to Privatize Air & Forests to Permit Pollution | Democracy Now!


 

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Source: Will You ‘Promise to Protect’? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL | Common Dreams


 

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EV West, a car shop in California, built the world’s first electric Ferrari.

Source: Meet the DIY Mechanics Retrofitting Classic Cars With Electric Motors

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Aloha Oe, South London Pacific. After over 15 years of tiki merriment and mirth we’re moving on. Re-opening as the tikitastic Cock Tavern shortly

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An algae-powered wooden motorcycle? The concept isn’t too far out, considering algae has been used to create everything from eco-friendly sneakers to living lamps that absorb CO2. There’s even…

Source: Dutch designer creates a wooden motorcycle powered by algae

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High school physics teacher shows his awesome home made marble tracks

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The giant build-up was captured by underwater photographer Caroline Power.

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Geneva, Switzerland (PRWEB) October 09, 2017 Mr. Queen, the former drummer for Oscar Peterson, whose career includes memorable collaborations with a veritable who’s who of music royalty, includin

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Source: Australian Lawmakers Propose Outlawing Parody, Having A Sense Of Humor | Techdirt


 

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Can it be true? A working ‘Dick Tracy Wrist Watch’

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Languages of the US before European Colonisation


 

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Tiki drinking first bloomed after Prohibition, and now—after a protracted decline—it has returned, integrated into the larger classic cocktail canon.

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There is more than enough wind energy to power our future. But our model of paying for it is stuck in the past.

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Source: There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization, scientists say – The Washington Post


 

Seth Andrews and The Thinking Atheist’s Matt Dillahunty recently took a little field trip to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter — the giant creationist theme park designed to teach children that the bible is literally true and the earth is around 6,000 years old.

Source: Atheists give a tour of Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter: ‘It’s a $100,000,000 paperweight’ – DeadState


 

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Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago

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