Links 1/5/18

‘If there’s an ocean, maybe there’s surf’: Bruce Brown on making The Endless Summer


 

Ensuring Climate Data Remains Public


 

Lance, Miki and Bruce Brown’s brilliant voice-over – the set-up of The Endless Summer


 

Declaración sobre la Visita a EE. UU., por el Profesor Philip Alston, Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza extrema y los derechos humanos*


 

Why Glitter Must Be Banned | Alternet


 

Cheapest electricity on the planet is Mexican solar power at 1.77¢/kWh – record 1¢/kWh coming in 2019, sooner | Electrek

Links for 1/2/18

Pachucos and Teddy Boys: How Generations of Youth in the U.S. and U.K. Borrowed From Each Other


 

 


 

Benjamin Munday the Sheer Joy of Moondog


 

Sad 7-Foot Tall Clown Sings “Pinball Wizard” in the Style of Johnny Cash, and Other Hits by Roy Orbison, Cheap Trick & More


 

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Help Beat Arctic Oil In Court!


 

A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.

Source: Nasa forecast: Which cities will flood as ice melts? – BBC News

Links for 12/31/17

Photos: Malick Sidibe Shows Mali’s Youth With A Groovy ‘Twist’


 

Wan Chai: Sex, Dives and Bar Cards From 1970s Hong Kong


 

Seaside Casino: 1905


 

How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine


 

New lab-bred super corals could help avert global reef wipeout


 

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Sustainable Package Design is a Must to Tackle Pollution Crisis


 

Barracuda and surfer dude… 1964 Plymouth press release photo


 

New evacuations ordered as California Thomas wildfire rages


 

After You Finish Your Drink, You Can Eat This New Edible Straw


 

The Downtown LA that just won’t quit


 

The Fight Against The Tiny Plastic Pellets Choking Our Oceans


 

Ice Apocalypse | Grist


 

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Links for 12/26/17

Living in a parking lot amid Santa Barbara’s wealth is a kind of middle-class homelessness


 

Pachucos: Not Just Mexican-American Males or Juvenile Delinquents


 

A Beautiful Pandemonium


 

Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem


 

This Seaweed-Based Edible Packaging Could Help Save Our Seas


 

The never before seen images were taken by photographer Hugh Holland, and are being run in a Hollywood gallery as part of an exhibition called Silver. Skate. Seventies.

Source: California skateboarding revolution captured in photos | Daily Mail Online


 

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Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet – Motherboard

Links for 12/23/17

Roots vs the Future


 

Stanley Black Sophisticat in Cuba 1958


 

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The New People (1969 Promo)


 

Mapuche Leader Moira Millán: “We Mapuche people don’t fight for land ownership but for a way of living on the land”


 

California wildfires: 120,000 forced to flee as blazes tear through south of state


 

Are You Ready to Consider that Capitalism is the Real Problem?


 

How 5 African-American Women Are Shaking Up Atlanta’s Cocktail Scene


 

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Nelson and Ashley Ahina, Laniakea 15 Nov 2017


 

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DownHill SkateBoarding Freeride Lacets Montvernier


 

This British gent lives life like it’s the 1940s / Boing Boing

Links for 12/19/12

Checkmate: how do climate science deniers’ predictions stack up?


 

This skate company is turning guns into skateboards


 

Climate change has created massive blooms of ecologically disruptive jellyfish, but luckily they’re delicious


 

Bartend Against: Helping Communities Across the Globe


 

“Pacific Vibrations” 1970 “Brave Ulysses”, Ashish & Randy’s Music


 

Bros go to LA city council to speak for house parties


 

The problem with nuclear waste


 

Source: House Preparing to Sacrifice Right Whales for Big Oil


 

MCS joins 150 organisations backing call to ban oxo-degradable plastic packaging | Marine Conservation Society

Surf Film Maker Bruce Brown Dead at 80

On Any Sunday poster image

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.

Winter Tiki Wonderland 12

Parking Lot Sale and Art Show!!!

December 3rd, 2pm

featuring
High Tide Preforming The Ventures x-mas album in its entirety
Durangos Tacos
DJ Big Tiki Dude (outside)

Source: North Hollywood Events

Links for 11/24/17

‘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!


 

Source: Study finds different types of alcohol may affect our emotions differently / Boing Boing


 

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


 

Source: Who Owns the Internet? | The New Yorker


 

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