No, You’re Not Tripping On Peyote, Plastic Made From Cactus Exists
Neil Fujita: The Man Behind the Look and Feel of Jazz
The Locations of Jim Rockford’s House Trailer & Office on the Rockford Files TV Show
and The Beach Boys debut album shot at Paradise Cover
Lib Tech Surfboards: Eco-friendly and Never Trendy
Living in a parking lot amid Santa Barbara’s wealth is a kind of middle-class homelessness
Pachucos: Not Just Mexican-American Males or Juvenile Delinquents
Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem
This Seaweed-Based Edible Packaging Could Help Save Our Seas
The never before seen images were taken by photographer Hugh Holland, and are being run in a Hollywood gallery as part of an exhibition called Silver. Skate. Seventies.
Source: California skateboarding revolution captured in photos | Daily Mail Online
Source: Honda’s new classic Super Cub motorscooter looks as good today as it did 60 years ago / Boing Boing
There’s a new Sims documentary coming out soon and we had a chance to chat with Scott Clum who has been working on it for some time. For more info on Tom, see
Source: New Tom Sims Documentary – Pure Juice | Concrete Wave Magazine
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Video: Sea of Joy – Wayne, Nat, Ted & Crew
Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events
Source: Charles Phoenix: Addicted to Americana – Book Launch Party
Source: Rare Surf Tees – Vintage classic retro surf t-shirts, singlets and hoodies
Source: How Alexander Girard’s Folk Art Obsession Changed The Course Of Modernism
Pumptrack Challenge in Deutschland und der Schweiz wird es auch in diesem Jahr wieder geben. Das Erfolgsrzept setzt sich durch.
Source: Pumptrack Events in der Schweiz – 40inch Longboardmagazin
The Jersey Shore circa 1900. “The beach at Long Branch.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Source: A Distant Shore: 1900 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos
Trump exposes National Parks to oil company drilling
Source: Germans are funky? These bootylicious ‘funk fever’ compilations prove it! | Dangerous Minds
Steve McQueen’s long missing ‘Bullitt’ Mustang found / Boing Boing
I pledge to stand in resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on America’s clean air, clean water, climate, wildlife, civil rights, reproductive rights, gender and racial equality, and freedom of speech and religion.
Source: Pledge of Resistance to Donald Trump’s Assault on America’s Environment, Democracy and Civil Rights
Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon
Defend California from Federal and Civil Rights Rollbacks | NRDC
Why the Dakota Access Pipeline Doesn’t Make Economic Sense | naked capitalism
Source: For The Love Of Garage Music | The Huffington Post
Stuart Wilson, 37, describes his discovery of the lost city of Trellech after spending his life savings of £32,000 on buying a field in South Wales
Source: Mark Zuckerberg sues over 100 Hawaiians to force them to sell them their ancestral land
The neuroscience of changing your mind
The worst could happen if Colorado River flows fall as low as they were from 2000 to 2005.
Source: Lake Powell could dry up in as little as six years, study says | Local news | tucson.com
It was the apogee of ‘yacht rock,’ the ineluctable, smooth sound then dominant in southern California. Slick production, highly melodic music, and clean vocals were the hallmarks of the genre. Thematic concerns ranged from personal ads to margaritas.
Maps lie: countries that fit inside other countries
Source: Maps lie: countries that fit inside other countries
Die Forscherin Sylvia Earle warnt vor einer historischen Krise der Ozeane. 90 Prozent der großen Fische und die Hälfte aller Korallen sind bereits verschwunden. Ist der Ozean noch zu retten?
Source: Bedrohter Ozean: „Das Paradies geht verloren“
With the Summer Olympics upon us, we are reminded of the highest levels of human athleticism. Swimming is an event closely related to all bodysurfers. At an Olympic level, swimming is an incredible…
Source: Competitive Swimming and Bodysurfing | Swell Lines
This Crazy Vintage Ceramic Guitar Is a Mystery No More—Here’s Who Made It
Source: What’s inside a girl: An interview with former Cramps member Fur Dixon
Source: Premiere: Trippy cinematic surf music reissues from 1960s-70s Australia / Boing Boing
Skyscraper city: how New York was built – in pictures
Gidget Retro Teardrop Camper – Australian designed and owned 1950s retro style camper
Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disast…
Source: Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Source: O.C. History Roundup: Polynesians were first to settle Orange County
Analysis shows that the diminutive Homo floresiensis, died out at least 50,000 years ago, making competition with modern humans a likely cause
Source: ‘Hobbit-like’ hominins died out sooner than thought. Were humans to blame? | Science | The Guardian
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the prestigious John Hinde Studio, based in Dublin, produced a series of elaborately staged photographs that were made into popular postcards – sold at Butlins holiday camps throughout the UK. In those days more than a million Britons had a holiday at Butlins every year. Three photographers, two German (Elmar Ludwig and …
Source: Seventeen Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards c.1970 – Flashbak
