So we lost John Severson and Bruce Brown in the same year …
I watched his films many times – maybe because I couldn’t be in the water nearly as much as I would have appreciated. His iconic The Endless Summer was my first exposure to both Brown’s work as well as to mid century surf films as a genre.
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
Skateboarding’s ascent to the Summer Olympic Games in 2020 may have finally established it as a legitimate sport, but it’s had a plentiful share of trials of tribulations.
Sounds Of The Unexpected by Various Artists (Fun Time) on Ace Records
Source: Various Artists (Fun Time) – Sounds Of The Unexpected – Ace Records
Monika Pon-Su-San passed away on the 14th June from natural causes in Johannesburg. She was 86. In 1952 she met the Russian artist, Vladimir Tretchikoff, while she was working at her …
Source: Tretchikoff’s “Chinese Lady” Monika Pon-Su-San has passed – The South African Art Times
Source: Immerse yourself in the very strange world of wonderfully weird (and rare) records | Dangerous Minds
What its like to be a marine conservationist – The i newspaper online iNews
Update on the Sacred Headwaters Project so Far in 2017 | Pachamama Alliance
Source: Environmentally Friendly Can Collar – Ambalaj
How to Throw a Tiki Party | Tasting Table
Video: Friday Morning – Toots, One Session
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic | Informed Comment
Peruvian songstress Yma Sumac, a pioneer of exotic, was a legend. That legend was built in Los Angeles.
“We’re being overwhelmed by our waste.”
Source: How The Oceans Became Choked With Plastic
The Archivist: Wild At Heart | The Surfers Journal
Self-Sustainable Lifestyles are Becoming Illegal | Homestead Guru
Tiki bar site Critiki has named Portland’s Hale Pale as the third best tiki bar in the entire world—for the second year in the row.
Source: Portland Bar Named the Number 3 Tiki Bar in the World – Willamette Week
André Staltz – An off-grid social network
Il compositore, direttore d’orchestra e arrangiatore Alessandro Alessandroni è morto a Roma. Aveva da poco compiuto 92 anni. Celebre il suo
Dublin’s Science Gallery hosted an evening of talks by Sea for Society featuring people whose lives revolve around the ocean.
Source: Sea for Society: Surfers Against Sewage and the Science of Ireland’s Water – HeadStuff
American Whoa: The American Pro Jazzmaster’s Peculiar Pickups | Mike & Mikes Guitar Bar
American jazz guitarists,” Ray admits of only one rival—Parisian gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, whom Emmett worships, obviously patterns himself after, and can’t stand to see in person without fainting dead away.
In ‘Sweet Little Sixteen,’ ‘You Can’t Catch Me’ and other songs, Mr. Berry invented rock as a music of teenage wishes fulfilled and good times (even with cops in pursuit). In ‘Promised Land,’ ‘Too Much Monkey Business’ and ‘Brown Eyed Handsome Man,’ he celebrated and satirized America’s opportunities and class tensions. His rock ’n’ roll was a music of joyful lusts, laughed-off tensions and gleefully shattered icons.
Source: Chuck Berry Dies at 90; Helped Define Rock ’n’ Roll – The New York Times
Nik Stain, Andrew Wilson, Hjalte Halberg, Roman Gonzales and more make the most of blue skies and beer fuelled night sessions.
Source: Jesse Alba and Polar in Puerto Rico – Sidewalk Skate…
On the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit. Why was the lawsuit brought? Who is the lawsuit against? Find out.
Source: FAQ: Standing Rock Litigation | Earthjustice
Dear family, friends, fellow skaters and supporters..I write this message for all those who love the internet and for all those who hate it and those of you wh
Source: Why Longboarding for Peace? | Concrete Wave Magazine
Holy Barbarians: Beat Culture on the West Coast
Source: Turning America into a Global Climate Outcast | NRDC
Bioluminescent beaches
Source: Bioluminescent beaches / Boing Boing
The Jersey Shore circa 1901. “The Beach at Asbury Park.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Source: 42,000 Days Ago …
The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?
Source: Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place
The other day, we made a caramelized pineapple syrup by cooking chunks of pineapple on the stovetop with a little bit of sugar, then combining that with more sugar and water to make it into a usabl…
Source: After the Luau
