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The unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself.
– Gregory Bateson

Links for 8/9/15

Venice West Cafe: A Lost Beat Landmark that Helped Shape Modern-Day Venice

The Kingsley Collection

Who Owns the Air?

Nestlé wants to take even more water from drought-stricken California.

Type Confusion & Color Aggression: Victor Moscoso 3-5-15 Cooper Union auf Vimeo

Video: Offshore 1965 Hoshi Reef

Jay Adams, 1961-2014 on Vimeo

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1950s, 1960s, beatnik, california, graphic design, san francisco, skating, surfing

The Thrill is Gone Documentary about Will Viharo

I just watched this. It’s really interesting. Trust me.

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posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
external link: link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YntDjPFj6aE
post categories: Moving Pictures, Online Sources
post tags: tags: 1950s, 1960s, cocktails, hollywood, mid century, movie, tiki

Links for 8/3/15

Trans Pacific Partnership

In the Red

Prisma Guitars

Who are the mystery 1950s girls in the surf?

1960 Mosrite Prototype Guitar

The Science of Coastal Geology- Part 1

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1950s, asia, australia, climate change, design, earth, guitar, pacific, skateboard, vintage

Links for 7/19/15

Irish Navy to Begin Commercializing Fuel Saving Kite Technology

Windansea 1957 on Vimeo

A Compendium of Vintage Postcards from the Great American Road Trip

1960s French People Totally Got the Strangeness of LA

The madness of drinking bottled water shipped halfway round the world

Environmental groups call for regulation as world dives into deep sea mining

Alaska’s on Fire and It May Make Climate Change Even Worse

 

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1950s, 1960s, alaska, california, earth, longboard, ocean, surfing

Links for 7/12/15

Watch: DeSotos in space!

New NASA imagery reveals extent of tar on Santa Barbara beaches left by Refugio oil spill

Cocktail Hour

Chevy’s 200-mile electric car will be $5k less than Tesla Model 3

Donald Trump is even more of a monster than you think: Why his golf courses are environmental disasters

Tentacle shoes support your foot with eight other feet

 

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1950s, beach, california, cars, cocktails, fashion, keynes era, oil, spill

Links for 7/6/15

Barbecue is an American tradition – of enslaved Africans and Native Americans

Mike Tabeling on Vimeo

Dale Velzy: “The Hawk” opened the world’s first surfing store in Manhattan Beach

Brazil’s gamble on deep water oil

Atlantic City beach, July 2, 1939

What’s Really Warming the World?

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1930s, 1950s, beach, california, climate change, drilling, food, longboard, ocean, oil, surfing

Links for 4/17/15

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True

Triple X

35 Stunning Black and White Photographs of Daily Life in Coney Island, ca. 1940s-50s

From birds to whales, here’s how the BP oil disaster has impacted wildlife

The Socotra Islands: These Isolated Islands Have Been Around For Over 500 Million Years

The Plan to Turn Toxic Algal Blooms into Energy

Australia has turned Nauru into a living hell for would-be immigrants

Uke-in’

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1940s, 1950s, arabia, australia, drilling, islands, keynes era, melanesia, movie, new york, ocean, oil, surfing, ukulele, wildlife

Links for 3/8/15

Pacific Ocean Park Santa Monica, CA. 1950s

A Complete Guide to Researching Any House in Los Angeles

Skateboarding in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, Paris 1976

After 400 Million Years, Coelacanth at Risk of Extinction

Save Boilers Morocco

Dynamic Range Day 2015 – Friday March 27th

My annual vacation to Plastic Island

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1950s, africa, california, france, islands, ocean, pollution, Recording, skateboard, surfing

Links for 2/26/15

Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher

What is the oldest city in the world?

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Beautiful Beach Fashions in the 1950s

6 haunting songs sung by whales

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1950s, beach, climate change, fashion, surfing, wildlife

Links for 1/29/15

40 Interesting Vintage Photos Showing Everyday Life of Atlantic City from the 1900s

Supermarket spaceships from the 1950s

This drone’s-eye video of Ireland’s western coast is lovely.

Drone captures pod of dolphins surfing in unison

The Ride After the Ride

Freddie Mercury on his fourth birthday in Zanzibar, 1950

 

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1950s, africa, beach, ireland, keynes era, mid century, surf music, surfing, wildlife
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