Links for 6/9/16

A Tiny Spock Leaning on a 1964 Buick Riviera Is the Best Hot Wheels Car Ever


Australia’s natural wonder is in mortal danger. Bleaching caused by climate change has killed almost a quarter of its coral this year and many scientists believe it could be too late for the rest. Using exclusive photographs and new data, a Guardian special report investigates how the reef has been devastated – and what can be done to save it

Source: The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare | Environment | The Guardian


 

World’s first grid-connected tidal array almost complete


 

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Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: N? Hulu Ali‘i | LACMA


 

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Links for 5/8/16

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Met Office says warm spell should last most of the week as temperatures in much of UK hit 27C on Sunday

Source: Britain hotter than Ibiza during ‘exceptional’ May heatwave


 

Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas.

Source: Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat by Nicola Jones: Yale Environment 360


 

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A Single Picture Explains Why the NMPA/HFA/Spotify Settlement is Deeply Flawed


 

Ecocapsule: A Tiny Solar-and-Wind-Powered Mobile Home


 

Source: Retro To Go: New Dansette reissue: Crosley CR6234A Dansette Junior portable record player


 

Single-fin surfing, black wetsuits, and elevator music from filmmaker/photographer Tatsuo Takei

Source: Authentic Wave | The Surfers Journal

Links for 4/4/16

For $20 I really like this new Matone dual USB battery pack! I haven’t found anything better at this price. The Matone battery is a great combo. I’ve tried water and damage resistant ba…

Source: $20 Water resistant, solar charging, 10000mAh power bank / Boing Boing


 

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I have an open fire and spend my evenings tanning animal and fish skins, and carving wood

Source: Experience: I am 16 and live alone in the wilderness | Life and style | The Guardian


 


 

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Found an abandoned garage during a hot July session and decided to film a mellow one in the shade to make you smile…boss setup: Bastl Boards “Walzer”/ Cloudride “Ozones”music by Barefoot Basement (www.barefootbasement.at)thanks to the Linz crew and the “blind” security guards to make this happen.Riding: Rene SchmidFilming: Rene Nocker, Andy Marva

Source: Garage Siesta › GoShredTV


 

Back in the ‘70s, a skateboarder from Northern California was blazing new ground.  His name was Rick Blackhart, and he skated with reckless abandon and pure aggression. Tunnel’s Rick Blackhart didn’t ride any old decks.  He would design skateboards with his fellow Tunnel Team member Kevin “KT” Thatcher.  They would take solid alder, router […]

Source: Tunnel Blackhart Model – LongBoardLarry


 

Captured by pirates or stranded at sea for years, all these people are a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

Source: These Real-Life Castaways Survived The Harsh Conditions Of The Sea Against All Odds

Links for 5/2/16

The “Legal Literacy Test” Imposed On Artists By Lenz Decision Benefits Google, Violates Human Rights

Source: The “Legal Literacy Test” Imposed On Artists By Lenz Decision Benefits Google, Violates Human Rights | The Trichordist


 

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BBC Global Dimming Documentary About Geoengineering & Global Warming


 

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Are you looking for a way to get back to the good old days in one way or another? This classic hippy van is a way to do it without compromising your values

Source: Volkswagen Re-Releasing Classic Hippy Van As New Electric Version


 

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Links for 4/27/16

Tom the Dancing Bug, in which Nate the Right Pundit bravely asserts that the Science just isn’t settled yet, on such pressing issues as global warming and his acute appendicitis.

Source: Tom the Dancing Bug: Nate, in “Skeptic Shock”


 

When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?

Source: Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the ‘great American streetcar scandal’ | Cities | The Guardian


 

For their March 1958 issue, Family Circle magazine invited eight “authorities,” including Charles Eames, to offer advice on home decoration.

Source: Love and Discipline in the Age of Choices | Eames Office


 

+2 C everywhere and all of the time.

Analysis of difference between 1.5C and 2C of warming finds extra 0.5C would mean longer heatwaves, greater droughts and threats to crops and coral reefs

Source: Study reveals greater climate impacts of 2C temperature rise


 

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Jake Phelps has run Thrasher Magazine for two decades. It may be killing him.

Source: Thrashed — The California Sunday Magazine

 

Links for 4/13/16

Photographs show insight into a dying 1,000-year-old tradition. Sailing peacefully across the river Li in Guilin, men fish without the aid of a rod, hook or bait, instead using a method which was first practised in 960AD

Source: Dying art of Chinese cormorant fishing – in pictures


 

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A new study published in Nature suggests that the key to fighting climate change could be under our feet.

Source: Treating Soil A Little Differently Could Help It Store A Huge Amount Of Carbon | ThinkProgress


 

A new solar cell prototype developed by a team of scientists in Qingdao, China may change the way we use solar panels in the not so distant future. Solar panel technology has changed the way many people bring energy into their homes, but this type of technology has always posed one concern: panels cannot output […]

Source: Future Solar Panels Will Generate Energy From Raindrops –


 

The 1960s-style Berlinetta is an all-new sports car

Source: Retro To Go: The 1960s-style Berlinetta is an all-new sports car


 

Last month was the hottest March on record. The Arctic was literally was off-the-charts warm as its been all winter, which led to a record for the lowest maximum sea ice extent ever observed.

Source: Last Month Was The Hottest March In The Global Satellite Record, And The Arctic Is Still Sizzling


 

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to give Nestle a five-year permit for bottled water operations in the San Bernardino Mountains.But the permit won’t be issued until a National Environmental Policy Act study is completed and the Fores

Source: New permit proposed for Nestle water extraction in San Bernardino mountains


 

This “olden style” rendition of the New Order classic Blue Monday uses only instruments available in the 1930s. Performed by Orkestra Obsolete, it features a theremin, a musical saw, a …

Source: Blue Monday performed with obsolete instruments

Links for 3/18/16

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


 

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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