Links for 12/23/22

Opinion: Life hacks from India on how to stay cool (without an air conditioner)

A not so gentle intro to web3

CMusic Books

RIP Kemp Aaberg – the influential surfer, writer, and gem of a human

Salba & The Strange History of Mt. Baldy Pipe!!

Arthur ‘Toots’ Anchinges – Shaper

Notox Surfboards have the Eco Answer

Max Beard Single Fin Longboarding

“The Gargantuan Rogue Wave” of the open ocean

Hi-Tide Recordings

Short King Has Mean Style

Some Native Americans Had Oceanic Ancestors

Under the Beach, the B’ernal Spheres | Lapsus Lima

Plans to sink oil rigging off Ningaloo

Toots: A cinematic portrait of Arthur Anchinges’ world.

Links for 11/17/22

The inconvenient truth of global warming in the 21st century

A journey through Morocco’s vanishing oases

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels

Take a trip through the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s

Why Capitalism Can’t Handle Climate Change

Ignoring climate change will yield ‘untold suffering,’ panel of 14,000 scientists warns

The Case for Hawaii Having Its Own Olympic Surf Team

Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History

Links for 7/3/22

High Tide Lefts – Tosh Tudor

A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling

These 36 World Cities Will Be Underwater First

Hawaii: The Stolen Paradise (Full Documentary)

Dreaming Big on the Open Web – The History of the Web

Crate Diggers Australia | Keb Darge

A Brief History of Classic Ska

Partying At Fresno State College – 1963

The problem with the internet that no one is talking about

From Wendy Harmer: As Australia battles wild weather and coastal erosion, we should learn from our mistakes

Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last for ever

What too much artificial light steals from our night skies

ImillaSkate: an indigenous Bolivian skateboard collective – photo essay

Recording, ’50s Style

Beyond The Reef – Kerri Shannon Trio

Music For Airplanes – A collection of instrumental showpieces and scores for Egyptian films and TV-series (1973-1980)

Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills

Jackson Palmer @ummjackson on Crypto Currencies

Links for 3/6/22

The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality

Hawaiian leis and aloha at Martin Luther King Jr. march on “Bloody Sunday” in the Deep South, 1965

Inside L.A.’s Lowrider Car Clubs

The sad story of Astrud Gilberto, the face of bossa nova

The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach

In 1962, Chubby Checker’s sold-out Twist Party was quite the show

Little Pattie – He’s My Blonde-Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy [Sing, Sing, Sing 1963]

Ceibita en Verano

The Dick Dale Virtual Museum

The wave pool backlash

A proud Aboriginal man and his son, from near the Kimberley Coast in North Western Australia, 1890-1910. They both carry boomerangs and the man has a woomera spear strapped to his back.

When did scientists first warn humanity about climate change?

California 1940’s, Newport Beach in color

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, RIP

Links for 11/7/21

Kon-Tiki


 

A Brief History Of LA’s Indigenous Tongva People


 

Plastic pollution on course to double by 2030


 

These facts about dunes will blow you away


 

The Death of the Bering Strait Theory


 

The Facebook whistleblower says its algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why.


 

Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse


 

Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn


 

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven


 

‘Shark calling’: locals claim ancient custom threatened by seabed mining


 

WTF Happened In 1971?


 

Temperature change across the planet from 1880 to 2020. The acceleration of global warming in the 21st century is “impressive”


 

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia’s lost surf films


 

55 Bel Air in Honolulu 1967

Links for 7/26/21

The Map Of Native American Tribes You’ve Never Seen Before


 

Al Santos – a Pioneer In Hawaiian Bag Surfing


 

The Sandals The Endless Summer LP (re-issue)


 

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months


 

McDonald’s introduced an “impossible” meatless burger in 1962 but it was pineapple


 

Fender 1959 catalog


 

Stealing Children To Steal the Land


 

Apple Is Not Your Friend


 

Tech vs. Journalism


 

The 1963 dam break that flooded parts of Los Angeles


 

Doughnut Economics