Links for 10/3/11

Arctic Shell Game: No Spill Plan, No Problem — Feds Say Just Drill

Ceremonial Dress of the Kwakiutl and Nootka Tribes of British Columbia, 1914 | HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT

BBC News – Vast shark sanctuary created in Pacific

Hidden video camera captures life in an Indonesian jungle — Lost At E Minor: For creative people

THE SURF FILM CONTEST – AMSTEL SURFILMFESTIBAL 9 – Amstel Surfilmfestibal 10. June – July 2012.

CATT – Chicago Area Tiki Tour – September 30 to October 2, 2011

Music of 1963

Save Menhaden, the Most Important Fish in the Sea – The Petition Site

Vintage Surfboard Collectors: “Roadshow” Style Appraisals at Sacred Craft | Sacred Craft

Links for 8/5/11

UN confirms massive oil pollution in Niger Delta

Dusted Reviews: V/A – To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora 1916-1929

Pacific Islands Band Together on a Shark Sanctuary

What are rogue waves? | Earth | EarthSky

wood surf board plans for instant download. Get a real board!

Skate Study House – God Father Lounge Chair

STORIES FROM THE GULF: Living with the Oil Disaster? – YouTube

Tour de Tiki 2011 – Let’s get this party started!

Links for 8/4/11

Jan & Dean’s original 15-album Liberty catalog digitally available

Studio Quercus features tiki art and culture – Oakland North

Gordie Duane obituary: Surfboard maker dies at 80

Longboard Complete Skateboards by Barfoot » Surf Legends Series

MIT Study Shows Giant Oceangoing Rafts Spurred Growth of Pre-European Americas

August 2, 2011 our beaches are stinky and just terrible :(

Burning Settlers Cabin» Blog Archive » Huki-huki-huki-huki-huki-hukilau

California Surf History? – YouTube

Michihiro Matsuda’s Experimental Ukulele

Ryan-Polynesian Archaeology

The History Of Skateboarding In Less Than 1700 Words

Stainless Steel Reusable Straws

When Tiki Meets Surfboard

Some of these look good to me, of course they’re impracticle as surfboards, more like ritual paddles, spears and guaras.

*HUA Sculptured Surfboards
WHAT ARE THEY?

HUA (Polynesian Soul) SCULPTURES are the work of Aaron Kereopa – a young Maori surfer and artist.
Aaron designs and then carves these characters into stripped back, old – dis-used surfboards. Each of them represents a part of a Maori warrior tree.
Aaron’s works are now only available by commission.

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