Links for 31/12/22

Bastards of the Party: a ­documentary about why gangs emerged in L.A.

‘Seas are becoming landfills’: the Senegalese surfer saving a beach – and a way of life – from plastic

Mass of Microplastics Raining on Auckland Weighs as Much as 3 Million Plastic Bottles Yearly, Study Finds

Man Who Drew Bug Eyed Monsters at archive.org

John Oliver points out some problems with tech monopolies

With Love…The James Hunter Six

Travel By Air, The Golden Years: 1920s-1960s

Summertime – The Royals

Links for 12/25/22

This solar oven is an outdoorsy person’s dream

New York teens have started their own anti-smart phone Luddite movement

Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker

Dimming the Sun To Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, yet We’re Inching Toward It

Torren Martyn & needessentials bring us a Real Surf Movie

Did you know? The term “goofyfoot” sprung from Walt Disney’s character Goofy!

Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction | George Monbiot

Wayne Lynch: “And now it’s gas.”

Boardroom Interview – Matt Calvani Part 1

The Earth Is Humming—Here’s What It Means

A map of the world for fish

A Beautiful Pandemonium

There are only two US states where it’s legal to own the ocean

How Doggerland Sank Beneath The Waves (500,000-4000 BC) // Prehistoric Europe Documentary

Links for 12/23/22

Opinion: Life hacks from India on how to stay cool (without an air conditioner)

A not so gentle intro to web3

CMusic Books

RIP Kemp Aaberg – the influential surfer, writer, and gem of a human

Salba & The Strange History of Mt. Baldy Pipe!!

Arthur ‘Toots’ Anchinges – Shaper

Notox Surfboards have the Eco Answer

Max Beard Single Fin Longboarding

“The Gargantuan Rogue Wave” of the open ocean

Hi-Tide Recordings

Short King Has Mean Style

Some Native Americans Had Oceanic Ancestors

Under the Beach, the B’ernal Spheres | Lapsus Lima

Plans to sink oil rigging off Ningaloo

Toots: A cinematic portrait of Arthur Anchinges’ world.

links for 12/20/22

Rockabilly Pioneer Charlie Gracie Passes Away

The search for an AC that doesn’t destroy the planet

Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech

Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’

Cartoonist Kayfabe talks paintings by Robert Williams, founder of Juxtapoz magazine and ZAP comix artist

The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World

Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is Really a Giveaway to Big Tech

The Game Is Rigged: Rethinking The Creator Economy | What Works with Tara McMullin

John’s Beachcombing Museum is an eco-friendly attraction made from objects found on the beach

The Chimbu, a tribe in Papua New Guinea paints skeletons on themselves to strike fear in their enemies

Minimal Maintenance

Melodians Steel Band – Für Elise (1972) Rare UK Funky Instrumental Reggae

Links for 11/27/22

Trickle-Down Streaming Mechanical Royalties Will be Be Up for Discussion

Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction

Shaping Methods of Mike Davis | LittleCoveSurfboards

CSS { In Real Life } | Web Sustainability and the Ethical Dilemma

The oceans give us life. We give them plastic.

An Open Letter Against Apple’s Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

West Papuans: The Forgotten People

Does vinyl sound better? Here’s what the science says

Eames Office x Globe

Links for 10/2/22

The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance

Lost Cities and Climate Change

A not so gentle intro to web3

For skaters, will Tempe, Arizona be the American Malmo?

What increased CO2 in the air does to our wood supplies.

Mental Longboarding – Andy Nieblas Surfing Malibu

A Brief History of Classic Ska

INNOSKATE: 60 Years of Skateboard Innovation and Invention.

Past the Precipice? Projected Coral Habitability Under Global Heating

RIP Johnny Fain – one of the Four Princes of Malibu (dated already)

New Paper Warns That Environmental Collapse Will Lead To “untold Suffering”

Dorothy Ashby: Pioneering Jazz Harpist

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