Links for 11/5/17

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Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago

Source: Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago


 

Source: Harry Belafonte tells crowd at likely last public appearance: ‘We shall overcome’ | US news | The Guardian


 

Source: The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it | Clive Hamilton | Environment | The Guardian


 

Source: Mapping 15 of Los Angeles’s Most Glorious Remaining Googies


 

Source: the unbelievable story of transgender soul singer jackie shane – i-D

Links for 10/23/17

Source: Waiting for the tide to turn: Kiribati’s fight for survival | World news | The Guardian


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We keep discovering talents from Brazil. Patricia Rodrigues is a Downhill Skateboarder from São Paulo who just dropped a freeride run down Timburi. LGC

Source: LGC Brasil’s Patricia Rodrigues – Timburi Run » Blog Archive » Longboard Girls Crew


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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


Indigenous Education Foundation (IEF) Watch a Film, Save a Culture – #wafsac campaign

Source: #WAFSAC


(2017). Criminalizing Environmental Activism. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 49, Prisons, Punishment, and Policing in the Americas. Across the region, violence continues to spiral. What can be done?, pp. 315-322. doi: 10.1080/10714839.2017.1373958

Source: NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol 49, No 3


Source: Disappointment and delight mark the death of Energy East pipeline | National Observer


Source: Crazy-cool vintage Aloha shirt: Tikis wearing Shriner fezzes / Boing Boing


Source: Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices – after 1,800 years, Teotihuacan reveals its treasures | Art and design | The Guardian


Source: Adsausage – vintage advertising library.


Source: In a Summer of Wildfires and Hurricanes, My Son Asks “Why Is Everything Going Wrong?”


Circa 1910. ‘Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway — Gasoline motor car running from San Diego to La Jolla, California.’ A McKeen Motor Car at the Hotel Cabrillo in La Jolla. 5×7 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.

Source: La Jolla Line: 1910 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos


Source: Moondog: the Man on the Street : Free Streaming : Internet Archive

Links for 10/21/17

Source: ‘This is a really big deal’: Canada natural gas emissions far worse than feared | World news | The Guardian


 

Distant volcanic eruptions disrupted climate, a new study suggests, causing life-giving rains along the Nile to fail.

Source: How Volcanoes Caused Violent Uprisings in Cleopatra’s Egypt


 

The Pacific Southwest Exposition embodied the spirit of 1920s Hollywood: spectacle for its own sake, cheerful vulgarity, and commercial hard sell.

Source: Flappers and Indians in the Dream City: The Jazz Age Ends in Long Beach


 

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Source: Caliber Truck Co. – Microcosm – SKATE[SLATE]


 

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Source: Lace Music Products – The Teliki – Custom Electric guitar from Lace.


 

Source: When Wall Street Owns Main Street — Literally | naked capitalism


 

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Source: Moondog: the Man on the Street : Free Streaming : Internet Archive


 

Source: One of world’s largest marine parks created off coast of Easter Island | Environment | The Guardian


 

Source: Elektroauto Jaguar E-type Zero: “Das schönste Elektroauto der Welt” | heise online


 

Source: Soul & Mod – Mod Subculture Directory & Soul Events Advertising – Mods

Links for 10/16/17

Source: Could these flip-flops save the earth?


 

Johhe rules the dancefloor at the Jam Jam club in Kobe. He spins, shuffles and launches a series of high kicks: his baggy trousers billowing as he syncs his moves to the steady tempo of singer Luther Ingram’s 1967 non-hit If It’s All the Same to You Babe.

Source: Inside Japan’s northern soul movement: Where UK’s retro music rules below the streets of Kobe | The Independent


 

Nestlé continues to pump millions of gallons of public water from public land, claiming it’s their right. But can they prove it? Sign the petition now!

Source: Tell Nestlé to Prove Its Water Right! | Story of Stuff


 

Source: Oil and Plastic Are Choking Planet Earth: We Have to Stop Pretending This Isn’t a Problem | Alternet


 

Source: Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing – The New York Times


 

The story of how I discovered the Morro Bay Skateboarding Museum may be one of the most odd coincidences I’ve experienced in my skateboarding career, so far.Pi

Source: Morro Bay Skateboard Museum | Concrete Wave Magazine


 

Source: Why is it Every Time We Turn Over a Pirate Rock White Nationalists, Nazi’s and Bigots Scurry Out? | The Trichordist


 

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Source: If you have $50k, you might be able to buy this iconic 1969 dune buggy / Boing Boing


 

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Links for 9/30/17

Built in 1883 by the eccentric Boston millionaire Franklin W. Smith as his winter home, Villa Zorayda was inspired by the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. (Wikipedia)Circa 1904. “Zorayda Club, King Street, St. Augustine, Florida.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Source: Villa Zorayda: 1904 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos


 

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Tribes people from around the world are shown BBC news footage of Morris dancing.

Source: BBC Two – Tribes, Predators & Me, Web exclusive: Tribes react to Morris dancing


 

Source: Trash Isles: Could the Great Pacific Garbage Patch become an official nation? — Quartz


 

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Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events


 

Source: ‘Non-drinkers deserve a great adult cocktail’: how alcohol-free spirits became a stealth hit | Life and style | The Guardian


 

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A longtime South Bay resident barrels through the wave of early-‘60s surf bands and clubs that once gave our Beach Cities a summer soundtrack.

Source: The South Bay Bands that Created the 60’s Surf Music Sound – Southbay Magazine

Links for 9/24/17

Source: Glossing Over a Genocide | East Bay Express


 

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According to University of Texas at Austin professor Raj Patel, an expert in ecology and food systems, our demand for meat is driving the sixth mass extinction. Patel is one of many leading academics who contemplate declaring a new age on Earth, called the Anthropocene, since “the fossils of soon-to-be extinct animals will form a line in the rocks of the future.”

Source: How Factory Farming Is Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction (Video) | Alternet


 

Source: Cutting Room: The Caretaker of Intangible Ingredients | The Surfers Journal


 

Source: Climate change will likely wreck their livelihoods – but they still dont buy the science | US news | The Guardian


 

Source: Top 4 Easy Ways For Your Band To Go Green  – MTT – Music Think Tank


 

It happened – an old dj fav of mine in a skate video.

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Source: Maker Update #46: Make an Rapa Nui 3D printed bobblehead / Boing Boing


 

Links for 9/17/17

Source: Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life


 

With her buttoned-up style, work with the UN, and name like a plucky character in a certain English wizard series, Delia Derbyshire may not seem a likely pioneer of experimental electronic music.

Source: Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music | Open Culture


 

Source: Tidal Power – A Growing, Significant Source Of Renewable Energy | Seeking Alpha


 


 

Source: California Locales Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Rising Seas – Scientific American

Links for 9/16/17

Health Canada has advised the band council of Potlotek First Nation in Cape Breton to issue a water advisory after recent water tests showed high levels of iron and manganese. Meanwhile, the band is trying to get its new water treatment facility up and running.

Source: Potlotek First Nation advised its water unfit for drinking or washing – Nova Scotia – CBC News


 

Source: Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers


 

For centuries, journalists, academics, and even politicians have been obsessed with the idea of the untouched tribe.

Source: The Dangerous Myth of Utopian Societies


 

The Jersey Shore resort town of Asbury Park circa 1900, channeled through vintage high-resolution glass negatives and set to music, produced by the illustrious Ken B. Click Play, then the “Full Screen” icon for the full effect.

Source: Vintage Video: Asbury Park | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos


 

Source: Why We Must Stop the Flow of Tar Sands Oil | NRDC


 

Rapa Nui have written a new chapter in their history based upon their cultural values of guardianship, responsibility and accountability for the natural environment

Source: The Rapa Nui have shown us that conservation can protect …


 

Source: Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals | Environment | The Guardian


 

Diogenes’ Lantern, near the Brockton Arcade, also boasted imported teas, Italian soft drinks and folk singers

Source: Back in the Day: Riverside joined the Beat generation with 1950s coffeehouse – Press Enterprise

Links for 9/3/17

Hear the sublime isolated vocals for the Beach Boys Wouldnt it Be Nice / Boing Boing


 

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Vergesst Tutus und Operetten – Longboard Dancer tanzen fahrend. Und die kleinste Bühne der Welt tragen sie immer mit sich: ihr Board.

Source: Tanz das Brett! | Arte Tracks


 

Robert Drasnin Voodoo III LP, CD, Digital officially released Towards the end of Robert Drasnin‘s life – he set out to work on the third, and final, volume of Voodoo which he left unfinishe…

Source: Robert Drasnin Voodoo III LP, CD, Digital Officially Released! –


 

Own a decommissioned lighthouse with bids starting at $10K / Boing Boing


 

Court orders venture capital billionaire to restore access to public beach / Boing Boing


 

The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip