Touring artists are using their unique influence to help festival organizers move away from single-use plastic
Source: The Music Industry’s Battle Against Plastic Junk
Surfing in New York – in pictures
Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: Na Hulu Ali‘i | LACMA
Scientists don’t know how much flooding Antarctic melting will cause — but it may wipe out cities.
Source: Fate of World’s Coastlines Rests on Melting Antarctic Ice
From 1820 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. The interactive map below visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. The brightness of a country corresponds to its total migration to the U.S. at the given time. Use the controls at the bottom to stop / […]
Source: Here’s Everyone Who’s Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820 – Metrocosm
Surfing in Palestine: pleasure-seekers of the occupied territories
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Avalon 1964, With Midget Farrelly and Bobby Brown
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Australia’s world heritage site is the largest living thing on Earth. But warm water driven by El Niño is bleaching the reef, and a recent report calls for it to be listed as in danger
Source: Great Barrier Reef: the scale of bleaching has the most sober scientists worried
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Aztec style is big news this summer – here’s our pick of the best pieces
Source: The 10 best Aztec looks for your home – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian
LA declares Ritchie Valens Day on 75th anniversary of his birth
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers formally rules that 8,500-year-old Kennewick Man, a.k.a. the Ancient One, belonged to a Native American tribe.
Rabbit Kekai, the Last of the Waikiki Beachboys, Dies At 95
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor
Drowned worlds: Egypt’s lost cities
The Marxophone is a 1912 toy instrument that combines a zither with a keyboard linked to flexible hammers that repeatedly strike the strings. The resulting sound, over the years, has earned a stran…
Source: The Marxophone, spooky carnival instrument / Boing Boing
Where are surfing’s most creative subcultures today?
Oldest known axe discovered in Australia, claim researchers
We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry
Amidst lingering smoke from the morning’s ceremony, Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda opened up the space with a welcoming. “We celebrate that you are here with us today to build something real. We don’t want our Sister Berta to become an empty word. We don’t want her name to become just another slogan.”
Significant portions of the habitats for loggerhead turtles, right whales, and many other species would be impacted if the Obama administration approves permits for seismic testing.
Source: Loggerhead, Right Whale Breeding Grounds Are Entirely Covered By Atlantic Blasting Area | ThinkProgress
Water is at risk in the United States and around the world. Its quality and availability is in peril. Today, nearly one in eight people lack access to adequate supplies of safe drinking water. Globally, water-borne diseases kill more people than tuberculosis or malaria, and five times as many children die of diarrhea than of HIV/AIDS.
Source: Watching Out for Our Water | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
If the idea of a cross-country road trip to five Tiki bars in five different states seems daunting, The Hukilau will make it easy for you during the 15th annual gathering of Polynesian Pop enthusia…
Source: The Hukilau guests to take a Tiki Road Trip; new Shag merchandise in the works
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Archaeologists say the mummified remains, found near one of the oldest cities in the Americas, probably belong to a noblewoman aged 40 to 50
Source: Discovery of 4,500-year-old female mummy sheds light on ancient Peru
Home – Take Down / Stay Down
Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disast…
Source: Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Source: O.C. History Roundup: Polynesians were first to settle Orange County
Analysis shows that the diminutive Homo floresiensis, died out at least 50,000 years ago, making competition with modern humans a likely cause
Source: ‘Hobbit-like’ hominins died out sooner than thought. Were humans to blame? | Science | The Guardian
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the prestigious John Hinde Studio, based in Dublin, produced a series of elaborately staged photographs that were made into popular postcards – sold at Butlins holiday camps throughout the UK. In those days more than a million Britons had a holiday at Butlins every year. Three photographers, two German (Elmar Ludwig and …
Source: Seventeen Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards c.1970 – Flashbak
The more egalitarian a society, the smaller the chance its citizens being ritually burned, bludgeoned or crushed to death under a new canoe, research shows
Source: Study shows human sacrifice was less likely in more equal societies | Science | The Guardian
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Dirty Old Wedge is a 62 minute documentary about Southern California’s own bodysurfing magnet wave. We sat down with Director/Producer, Tim Burnham to learn more about his film and his proces…
Source: Dirty Old Wedge with Tim Burnham | Swell Lines
Here Today! The Songs Of Brian Wilson by Various Artists (Songwriter Series) on Ace Records
Source: Various Artists (Songwriter Series) – Here Today! The Songs Of Brian Wilson – Ace Records
Thirty-eight seasons in Indo with the surfer, skipper, and explorer
Source: Interview: Jim Banks | The Surfers Journal
Divesting from fossil fuels required breaking a family tradition.
Source: My Oily Heirloom
Edward Curtis’ epic portraits of North American indians are a joy. And so too are his pictures of North America’s indigenous peoples dressed in ceremonial masks.
Source: Fantastic Photographs Of North American Indians In Ceremonial Masks (1905-1915) – Flashbak
10 track album
Source: Freakout | Trabants
Our weekly look at a favorite new typeface. Share yours with us on Twitter and Instagram @AIGAdesign with #TypeTuesday. Name: Phoreus Cherokee Designer: Mark Jamra Foundry: Type Culture Release Date: 2014; version 2.0 in October 2015 Back story: In the summer of 2011, two representatives from
Source: A Typeface Designed to Revive the Endangered Cherokee LanguageEye on Design | Eye on Design
Fatboy’s $250 “picnic lounge” is a 9’x 7?, weather-resistant, picnic/beach blanket with a built-in pocket (inside the Fatboy logo-tag). (via Geekologie)
Source: Picnic/beach blanket that looks like a knotted rug / Boing Boing
Prof Antonella Sorace says children should be encouraged to learn less common languages to prevent them from dying out
Source: Preserve rare languages to spread benefits of multilingualism, says expert | Science | The Guardian
It started with an email from a source at Interpol. The subject line of the email said: “Brace yourself.” Attached to the email was a video that showed four men at sea, swimming frantic…
Source: A Murder at Sea. Caught on Camera. Will Anyone Investigate?
Though remains of 19 bodies were found at dump, investigators said no physical evidence supports attorney general’s claim that students were incinerated there
