Source: San Diego Surf Film Festival 2016 | Hoots and Shakas | May 18-28, 2016
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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?
A battle over access to a prime piece of California coast has brought unwanted attention to one of the most prominent venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.
Source: Billionaire V.C. under fire in beach dispute – Reuters.TV
An oil sheen of 2 miles by 13 miles could be seen off the Louisiana coast.
Source: Shell Oil Spill Dumps Thousands Of Barrels Of Crude Into Gulf Of Mexico
Best of Break Free Global Action
Berta Cáceres, the environmental advocate shot dead in her home in March, told friends of a hitman boasting about his plans as she ‘worked frantically’
Source: ‘Time was running out’: Honduran activist’s last days marked by threats
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Air quality in sun-baked California area has been identified as the worst in the US. Residents are concerned, but low wages mean long hours in the thick of it
Byron Bay Malibu Classic – Good Vibes, Fantastic Waves
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
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California’s kelp forests are disappearing from the north coast. These formerly lush, dense jungles of sea weed provided shelter, food, and in many cases home, for many, many marine creatures…
Source: As Northern California’s kelp forests collapse, so goes the coastal ecosystem
Your Water Heater Can Become a High-power Home Battery
No need to rely on the Tesla Powerwall
Source: Popular Science
In 1952, French physician Alain Bombard set out to cross the Atlantic on an inflatable raft to prove his theory that a shipwreck victim can stay alive on a diet of seawater, fish, and plankton. In …
Source: Can a castaway survive on fish, plankton, and seawater?
‘Songs of Consolation,’ performed at Pembroke College Chapel in Cambridge last month, was the first airing in a 1000 years of a medieval tune the way it would have been. …reconstr…
Source: Medieval music recreated and performed for the first time in 1000 years / Boing Boing
Star Wars tiki mugs from Mos Eisley Kon-Tiki Bar
Bye Bye plastic bags: Sisters’ remarkable fight to rid Bali of rubbish
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Nicholas Ray’s 1954 gem, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is an extraordinary psychological drama
Source: Johnny Guitar review – unforgettably strange, brilliant western
The Specialist: Tom Furse Dreams of Exotica
Global Warming is Starving West Coast Waters of Oxygen
Downstairs in Biarritz
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
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
Video: Last Week in Namibia
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
I just checked if this video works with a random track of mine (I picked Magic Fly), and if you start the music the moment he first gets barrelled it’s quite on cue throughout. There’s overhang at the end, but that’s nice, too.
Enter surfing’s secret garden and get ready for the ride of your life
Introducing the Bahne Bamboo Tiki Longboard. This is a top of the line 44″ (111.76cm) classic longboard cruiser featuring a multi-ply hard wood maple & beautiful artisan Bamboo deck, rugged aluminum trucks & durable 70mm PU wheels.
Source: Bahne – Bamboo Tiki 44″ Longboard – Bahne Skateboards
Authorities are investigating whether pollution is to blame for a spate of mysterious mass fish deaths along the country’s central coast
Source: Vietnam investigates mass fish deaths
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Big Spring Beach Clean 2016
Source: Big Spring Beach Clean 2016 | Surfers Against Sewage