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

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.

Litmus 20th Anniversary Screening

Litmus helped shake the surfing world awake to the fact that stylish, flowing surfing didn’t fade out with the advent of the tri-finned shortboard, and that the act of surfing itself is far richer than a set of saleable cliches.

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Freezing

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Freezing – a cold water surf trip. from Two Eyes Film on Vimeo