The Science of Tropical Cyclones
Istanbul In The Swinging 60s
New Surf Museum For Florida
The economic output by the world’s oceans is worth $2.5 trillion a year
Midcentury-style Coco outdoor chairs
The Amazon rainforest stores carbon and gives us oxygen in return
Buen Vivir to the Commons
Wooden Surfboard Day Gets Set
Pacific Longboarder
Yesterday I had the idea to create a twitter account posting links that document life (mostly images) under Keynesian Economics.
I had realized it’s not so much the artist, designer or architect that decides the style of an era, but the conditions, the societies that these creatives are working in.
Some person may be a natural born architect. But what the buildings actually look like is much more dictated by the times than by the individual. The same guy working under Louis XIV would build different things than, say, in the mid-century-modern era – which I call the Keynes-Era.
Style is of course just one aspect of life. But it’s the first thing you realize that is changing between eras. And we see much more than skirt lengths in fashion photos. We see if women wore veils or burkas in the mid-east in 1958.
Photos transport moods, especially in everyday, real life scenes – by professional photographers as well as hobbyists. And the attention which hobbies themselves do get in the media, does also say something about a culture.
A picture says more than a thousand words. Many of these words are about the life, the people, the conditions, few about the creators. The director who understands that, like Jean-Luc Godard, has a greater chance to shape an era than the one with a more individualistic theme, say, Woody Allen.
Albers in Command Saturday 31st Jan 2015
Aloha Got Soul | Rare and relatively unknown Hawaiian funk, soul, and beyond
The Ride to the Beach is Half the Gig, Right
The Amazon oil spills overlooked by environmental leaders in Lima
Martins Beach: Khosla accused of defying judge’s order, keeping gate to beach locked
Surfrider Foundation Northeast Coastal Recreation Study
Island Nations Are Now Screaming It: Climate Change Will Sink Us
Blocked public beach access remains an issue in California
Tell EPA: Our Ocean’s Not a Dump
Meet the Real Victims of Climate Change
New satellite maps show polar ice caps melting at ‘unprecedented rate’
Retro Unique Sunglasses from 1960s
United Nations predicts climate hell in 2050 with imagined weather forecasts
The Retro Cocktail Hour #660
More Is More: The Evolution of Tiki Garnish
Mid Century rocking chair project
New satellite maps show polar ice caps melting at ‘unprecedented rate’
Greenhouse gas fear over increased levels of meat eating
1950s Hong Kong Captured In Street Photography By Fan Ho
From the archives of Playboy: Frank Sinatra
Lotus Land: The curious legacy of jazz exotica