Fakie News
A rambling collection of things that stoke us
Snow Beach
Do you get recognized on the street a lot now?
I'm rarely on the street. I did catch a "hey, you're the 'smoke weed every day' guy" pumping gas yesterday, which was a refreshing change of pace from the usual "hey, you're the guy who got stuck in a toilet at Bonnaroo."
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Stale tweaked
Friend of PowderJet, Jacques Beriau Featured on Terasu
Photo: Sean Martin
Jacques Beriau has found balance at the intersection of the seasons and the land and the sea that meets it. He is a farmer, a surfer, and a science teacher, but all three depend on the others to make it through the year.
If you ask any seasoned photographer who has long since gone through the process of establishing their own personal guidelines, they will likely tell you that in the long run not only is the exposure economy a necessary evil… it is also a system that can be made to work in the photographers favor. IE, it never pays to give something for nothing <<< and this, is really the point of it all …
Sheed
Ethan Morgan
Radioactive boars are a pain in the ass
This has certainly been the case for wild boars around Fukushima, which have multiplied so rapidly, they’ve become a problem for neighboring towns.
...This isn’t the first time the world has battled with radioactive boars. In 2014, The Telegraph reported that one in three boars (297 of 752 tested animals) found near the German state of Saxony contained levels of radiation so high, they were unfit for human consumption. This was believed to be a result of the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred 28 years prior and 700 miles from Saxony.
The origin of Ice Cube's name
“My brother, he’s about nine years older than me, he used to have all kind of women calling the house and I would try to get at them,” the man known to the IRS as O’Shea Jackson says in this Google Autocomplete interview. “He got mad at that and said he was going to slam me in the freezer one day, and turn me into an ice cube. I said, ‘You know what? That’s a badge of honor.'
Be the weekend warrior you wish to see in the world PT9
Screw the lawn, there is still snow out there.
Jake Phelps
This punk vision of skate culture occludes an uncomfortable fact about skateboarding: It has so successfully resisted becoming a sport that it is now only a business — a business that loathes business and businesspeople. Phelps is invaluable in this ecosystem because he insists over and over that skateboarding is hideous, irredeemable, and, above all, outside the logic of the rest of the orderly, sanitized world. As he put it to me, staring out at the bay: “I don’t like when people candy-coat skateboarding or make fun and games out of it. It’s sacred to me.”
BORIS MOUTON
Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change
What’s the worst-case scenario?
There are many.
That is actually hard to say, which is one reason scientists are urging that emissions be cut; they want to limit the possibility of any worst-case scenario coming to pass. Perhaps the greatest fear is a collapse of food production, accompanied by escalating prices and mass starvation. Even with runaway emissions growth, it is unclear how likely this would be, as farmers are able to adjust their crops and farming techniques, to a degree, to adapt to climatic changes. Another possibility would be a disintegration of the polar ice sheets, leading to fast-rising seas that would force people to abandon many of the world’s great cities and would lead to the loss of trillions of dollars worth of property and other assets. Scientists also worry about other wild-card scenarios like the predictable cycles of Asian monsoons’ becoming less reliable. Billions of people depend on monsoons to provide water for crops, so any disruptions could be catastrophic.
There are a few books that really every snowboarder should have and this is one. Not just because Shem Roose has a bunch of photos in there (including this classic Glebelands shot), but because no single book comes close to detailing the most important years (86-96) in snowboarding's history. And if you get bored, you can always count all the Sorels that show up in the 80s shots.
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