Links for 7/3/22

High Tide Lefts – Tosh Tudor

A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling

These 36 World Cities Will Be Underwater First

Hawaii: The Stolen Paradise (Full Documentary)

Dreaming Big on the Open Web – The History of the Web

Crate Diggers Australia | Keb Darge

A Brief History of Classic Ska

Partying At Fresno State College – 1963

The problem with the internet that no one is talking about

From Wendy Harmer: As Australia battles wild weather and coastal erosion, we should learn from our mistakes

Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last for ever

What too much artificial light steals from our night skies

ImillaSkate: an indigenous Bolivian skateboard collective – photo essay

Recording, ’50s Style

Beyond The Reef – Kerri Shannon Trio

Music For Airplanes – A collection of instrumental showpieces and scores for Egyptian films and TV-series (1973-1980)

Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills

Jackson Palmer @ummjackson on Crypto Currencies

Links for 5/29/21

Hinter den Masken (1962)


 

The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech


 

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories


 

How product placements may soon be added to classic films


 

Have you watched “Seaspiracy?


 

South Africa’s Stunning West Coast Faces Serious Mining Threat


 

Who are the Indigenous People That Columbus Met?


 

A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children


 

Is this the end of forests as we’ve known them?


 

The Historic Gold Star Recording Studio and the Audio Legacy of Producer Phil Spector

Links for 3/23/21

California to consider buying back private beachfront properties


 

The unexpected benefits of surfing


 

Beaver believers: Native Americans promote resurgence of ‘nature’s engineers’


 

Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade


 

Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech


 

Changes in Atlantic currents may have dire climate implications for the next century


 

6 Echo Chambers That Shaped the Sound of Pop Music


 

China is scaling up its weather modification programme – here’s why we should be worried


 

Music historian delves into LA’s rich jazz scene and how clubs were an ‘oasis from racism’


 

L.A.’s coast was once a DDT dumping ground.

Links for 2/20/21

Honolulu 1954


 

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future


 

Surf Film Filmography


 

While Hollywood Had the Sunset Strip, East L.A. Had the ‘Latin Strip’


 

Stan Ross Larry Levine Interview 1988


 

Meet the Melanasians: Black People with Naturally Blonde Hair


 

Was Music City L.A.’s Greatest Record Store?


 

Music Of The Magindanao In The Philippines


 

GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality


 

Red Rover: 1957


 

Duke’s Ulcers: How Surfing’s Most Popular Icon Dealt with White Supremacy

Links for 2/1/19

Pipeline battle puts focus on Canada’s disputed right to use indigenous land


 

The Cocktail Guru, Jonathan Pogash, shares a winter tiki drink recipe


 

Skull microphone


 

“Walking Through Summer” with 14-year-old Kiwi, Natt Fitt


 

Makaha Skateboard Team 1965


 

The climate emergency plan


 

Russell King in Mexico Beach Florida


 

Sixties Antipodean Pulp Fiction


 

Retro Rocket Decanters by Jonathan Adler


 

Portuguese People Score Massive Victory in Protecting Alentejo Coast from Oil Drilling

Links for 5/6/17

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This guy makes good covers of Beach Boys songs

Source: This guy makes good covers of Beach Boys songs / Boing Boing


 

This Is How We Fight Back | NRDC


 

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For an artist whose legend is built around being a studio genius, Brian Wilson is surprisingly excited to perform Pet Sounds live once again.

Source: Brian Wilson on How It Feels to Retire Performing ‘Pet Sounds’ | | Observer


 

Pioneers of Sound: Watch our documentary on the story of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – The Vinyl Factory


 

The Italian design firm Stefano Boeri Architetti is planning a “forest city” for China, modeled after the firm’s completed green towers in Milan.

Source: Stefano Boeri Architetti builds tree-covered skyscrapers in China


 

‘Hobbit’ species did not evolve from ancestor of modern humans, research finds | Science | The Guardian