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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 3/20/18

Pollution, illness, threats and murder: is this Amazon factory the link?


 

How Did Private Property Start?


 

Goodyear’s Moss-Filled Tires Are Here to Save the Environment


 

Dan Nocera: Deadhead bringing power to the people


 

calstreets


 

A new theory claims Homo sapiens beat out Neanderthals because of art


 

Wherein three national corporations control nearly all of San Francisco’s live music.

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: anthropology, art, brazil, california, pollution, skating, wildlife

Links for 2/13/18

Displacement of low-income families in San Francisco


 

Skateboarding, not surfing, should be California’s official state sport


 

Nokie Edwards, the Ventures’ influential lead guitarist, dies at 82


 

Sonny & Cher go to The Haunted House Nightclub in Hollywood


 

Asia-Pacific Survey: A third of coral reefs entangled with plastic


 

Rare photo of a young Marilyn Monroe at a surfer party in Malibu, circa 1947—the stuff The Beach Boys were singing about in their early years.

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, california, malibu, Marilyn Monroe, Nokia Edwards, ocean, pollution, skating, surfing, The Ventures, wildlife

Links for 3/11/18

Yma Sumac Miracles 1972


 

Chantays/The Ventures-Pipeline Gayageum ver. by Luna


 

How Much Trash Is on the Moon?


 

The Secret History Of The Paper Lantern Lamp


 

Ty Page Old School Vintage 1970s Skateboarding California


 

Living Near Forests has an Unexpected Benefit

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: california, design, exotica, japan, pollution, skating, surf music

Links for 2/10/18

Misirlou (Pulp Fiction Theme)-Jean Pierre Danel-Japanese Cover-Kokyu-NHK Blends


 

8 dreamlike abandoned settings being reclaimed by nature


 

Disneyland to add ‘The Tropical Hideway’ to Adventureland


 

Tech billionaire, ordered to reopen public beach, appeals to supreme court


 

Commercial landlords are stealing San Francisco’s soul


 

Is Your Fleece Jacket Polluting The Oceans?


 

11 Billion Pieces of Plastic Are Riddling Corals With Disease

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: beach, california, exotica, ocean, pollution, wildlife

Links for 2/24/18

Maya civilization was much vaster than known, thousands of newly discovered structures reveal


 

Young Skater, 1960s


 

Should we give up half of the Earth to wildlife?


 

Cloudy Day


 

11th Annual Surf Guitar 101 Convention August 3-5, in So. Cal.


 

Revenge of the vinyl record album


 

The Space-Jazz Guru’s Astounding ‘Batman and Robin’ Lp


 

Downhill Marathon


 

LA’s snow days

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1960s, anthropology, california, skating, surf music, wildlife

Links for 2/18/18

How Big a Disaster Can Climate Change Be?


 

Seed Freedom and the Future of Farming


 

A Turkish Man Discovered a Whole City in His Basement


 

Malibu surfing area added to the US “Register of Historic Places”


 

Bionic Chandelier


 

Sun Ra’s Limbo Album: ‘How Low Can You Go?’


 

Record digger shares a great story about the discovery of a ‘Holy Grail’ album


 

After years of toxic oil spills, indigenous Peruvians use tech to fight back


 

East Battery: 1900

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: archaeology, california, climate change, food, oil, peru, pollution, surfing, turkey

Links for 2/16/18

Laser scanning reveals ‘lost’ ancient Mexican city had as many buildings as Manhattan


 

Mechanized and Shimmering Vision


 

Watch projection-mapped lights bring Vegas neon signs back to life


 

Ghanaian Manufactures Pavement Blocks With Plastic Waste


 

California’s Climate Emergency


 

What If I Told You That The Economy Was Done Growing? Like, Forever.

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: africa, anthropology, california, climate change, design, mexico, mid century

Andy Nieblas Hot Dogging SanO

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posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Moving Pictures
post tags: tags: california, longboard, surfing

Links for 1/19/18

From prudish Victorians to arrows in the eye – 10 things from history everyone gets wrong


 

Mexico’s Most Celebrated Pachuco: Tin Tan


 

VanessaBarragao


 

link to vimeo


 

How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago


 

The plastic tide is a symptom of a sickness in society: Surfers Agains – Gather Outdoors

posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Asides
post tags: tags: 1940s, anthropology, california, design, longboard, mexico, pollution, surfing

Surfing Riders of the California Surf 1947 Hermosa Beach

Randy Nauert of The Challengers uploaded this footage from the 40s.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrx8wGFuOFY
posted by: Berlin Surfguitar
post categories: Moving Pictures
post tags: tags: 1940s, california, Randy Nauert, surfing
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