Artist Chris Jordan’s new work gyre recreates Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’. The piece usesh 2.4 million pieces of plastic, which is the amount of plastic that enters the worlds oceans every hour. It’s fitting way to visualize the massive amount of plastic we are leeching into the sea. via Inhabitat

If you’ve never been on a surf trip in Baja, these Pano VRs give you a sense of what it’s like, minus the tacos and the dust. I like this one this one of the old Baja Road south of El Rosario.

Blue Fin Tuna could be wiped out by 2012 if current quotas are maintained. One crux of the problem, fishing is allowed during the tuna’s breeding season in the Mediterranean.

“This is about power. It’s about telling the financial sector it does not run this country.” – Simon Johnson (author of “The Quiet Coup” in the May issue of The Atlantic Monthly), 18minutes into this interview on NPR. Click listen at the top. It’s a must hear.

You know how that whole Chris Ward Jacuzzi Bootie incident was all confusing and hard to follow? It gets a little clearer (or is that cloudier?) with this gossip rag’s interpretation of the evening’s festivities.

Tom Kennedy, art car maker, prankster and activist drown surfing Ocean Beach SF recently. The world is poorer for it.

This aerial quicktime vr of jaws is insane. Too bad it’s not on a bigger day. In fact, raise your hands if you knew jaws was ride able at this size. Via my bro ED at qualitypeoples.com. Update: It’s not Jaws.

More Kopps. This time it’s a short length of film from what appears to be a focus group who have just seen either Physco with surfing scenes spliced in, or displacement with surfing scenes spliced in. Thanks JP.

Weird, Alex Kopps is in this Surfline photo essay of some thruster semi groms, but only in the non surfing shots. You can’t tell me he didn’t get a few drainers on that space race sled of his, so what gives?

The Surf Screen shows indie surf films in the UK. Seamouse, they’ll be showing The Present, just for you! (Thanks Jules)