Links for 8/18/18

Wealthy investors are buying Long Beach’s old low-rent buildings and evicting everyone, making them homeless


 

Deep in the LHI tape archive hid a mysterious tape marked “Woodchucks.” The tape held a “lost” instrumental surf album recorded by Lee Hazlewood in the early 1960s. Some of the songs have been recorded by The Astronauts, Jack Nitzsche, Dick Dale and His Del-Tones, Takeshi Terauchi, The Ventures, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), The Trashmen, The Challengers and The Surfaris. Lee’s original recordings have never been released. Bask in the reverb drenched twang of Lee Hazlewood’s original versions for the first time ever!

Lee Hazlewood – Cruisin’ for Surf Bunnies


 

Being near a body of water makes us calmer and healthier, science shows


 

Earth is becoming ‘Planet Plastic’

Links for 2/4/16

Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the great cities of the world

Source: San Francisco, then and now


 

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The apartments at 310, 320, and 330 Esplanade in Pacifica, California are literally hanging over the edge of a cliff. Rain, storms, and rising ocean levels are steadily eroding the sandy bluffs on …

Source: Video: cliffside apartment buildings near San Francisco are about to fall / Boing Boing


 

Source: Thrillville: Introducing THRILLVILLE PRESS!


 

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Back in ’77 when shorts were short, socks were long and hair was big, professional photographer Nick De Wolf took these excellent shots of young skateboarders or as they were called in the early days Sidewalk Surfers showing off their skillz. These shots were taken in Aspen, Colorado about the time when freestyle skating was [&hellip

Source: Sidewalk Surfers of Seventy Seven – Voices of East Anglia


 

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Links for 12/31/15

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The gigantic sand dunes in Cronulla, Sydney – close to the so-called birthplace of modern Australia – date back to mesolithic times. But over the past century they have been steadily encroached upon by human activity

Source: Cronulla sand dunes: the 15,000-year-old landscape that greed destroyed – in pictures | Australia news | The Guardian


 

As sea levels rise and streets begin to flood, South Florida confronts a bleak future.

Source: Miami is Flooding – The New Yorker


 

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Links for 12/19/14

Beach Resorts Are Destroying the World’s Beaches

Eat The Enemy: As Jellyfish Bloom, So Do Appetites Overseas

Climate Change Takes A VillageAs The Planet Warms, A Remote Alaskan Town Shows Just How Unprepared We Are

Micro Wind Turbines: Another Big Headache For Big Oil

Five ways to stop mass extinction

Palm Springs’ Bootlegger Tikifies Palm Canyon Drive

The Reason You Love “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

Why is Arctic ice melting so fast?

Inside Beijing’s airpocalypse – a city made “almost uninhabitable” by pollution