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EDITOR’S LETTER December played to host to some of the most magical moments of 2014. Photo by Jeff Herrera
HAPPY 2015 2015 rings in with a clear clarion call for action and awareness. The holiday season has treated all to nightly phantasmagorical sunrise and sunset light shows, which serve to remind us of the exquisite beauty of the natural world around us. Malibu is a coastal community that is part of a larger global landscape and from this vantage point we will continue to monitor the health of the planet. This issue begins to discuss pressing issues facing the marine environment, and as we move into 2015 we must maintain vigilance and help foster change whenever able. Add us to your stack on Issuu.com and become a regular reader and supporter of 90265's efforts to inform and inspire global awareness and local action. Happy New Year, now let's get back to work!
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SYDNEY MC DONNELL The Biology of Happiness
By Claudia Taylor
There’s a lot being said these days about the “biology of happiness”- the critical component is having strong “intrinsic goals” which include seeking personal growth, and the desire to help others – Sydney McDonnell lives and breathes these traits. Rounding the bend and ready to celebrate 50 years young, Sydney shares her thoughts on a life well lived: “Two things you never regret in life are having a baby and jumping in the ocean,” which she says through her beaming electric smile and contagious laugh. Talking story about Sydney with Michael McDonnell, Sydney’s husband of 25 years, and her eldest son Brando, 24 , we asked for 10 words that pop into mind when you think of Sydney. Without a pause come Unpredictable; Fun loving; Special; Crazy; Exciting; Energetic; Spontaneous; Beautiful, and Michael adds with emphasis… Gorgeous wife and mother and, then two more: Impulsive and Headstrong. I might add, Generous, but then where to stop? An example of the spontaneous? Michael tells of when he first met Sydney 26 years ago. They were on a filmmaker’s yacht heading out into Santa Monica Bay . Syd suddenly gasped, having just remembered that she was starring in a play for a matinee show. Could they please turn the boat around? When he apologetically explained that it just wasn’t in the cards, as they were already under full sail off the Venice Pier, Syd just stripped off her clothes into a red bikini, dove overboard and swam to shore. She made her performance. Michael fell in love with her then and there. Romance followed, with plans for world travel, establishing careers, and getting to know each other before thinking about having children. But when Michael proposed to her under the shadow of Big Dume a year later, it seems Sydney had something else on her mind. Brando was born nine months after their wedding day.
“ TWO THINGS YOU NEVER REGRET IN LIFE ARE HAVING A BABY AND JUMPING IN THE OCEAN.”
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Three more babies later – Lorna 23, Cooper 20, and Mo 14 - Syd is very much about nurturing, children, childhood itself - and being in touch with and understanding her own rhythms as a mother. Even as her own brood grew up, she still felt the need to share her heart with even more children, including those facing critical medical challenges. Mending Kids International is the perfect organization for her to put her energy behind. MKI brings third world children with severe medical issues to the US for hospital care that they could never receive at home. Each child needs a temporary foster family. So far Sydney and family have hosted 13 MKI kids. Baby number 14 – four-yearold Xue from China – has just arrived. “Syd championed this idea 10 years ago” says Michael. “She promised I’d have a say- but I kinda didn’t,” he smiles with a wink. Another example of Sydney’s generous spirit comes each year on her birthday. She fills her home with intricate South-East Asian hand-made crafts from the Spiral Foundation and invites friends over. She asks that you don’t buy her a present, but that you buy something to benefit the craftsmen and then give it away. Sydney’s boundless energy is always finding new expression, - sewing, textiles, painting, gardening, block printing. She’s known for sumptuous beach dinners lovingly set on a table on the sand. Brando went on to beam “She was always there for me whether I needed a mom or just a great friend.” Sydney has recently found her ‘first real job ‘ calling as a Doula, caring for newborns. She has been doing it for five years now , working up to 4 nights a week, started as a birthing doula but now mostly works postpartum. According to Michael - Syd will say she has never been happier or more content than she is now. “Her spirit is exactly the same as it was when she was 22. He continues, “Anything could and probably will happen for her- and the rest of us are just stoked to be along for the ride.” Sydney’s formula for happiness seems to work - the more you give have, the more you have. Says husband Michael “ Sydney is like the sun: you want to get close, you want to bask in the warmth.”
“ SYDNEY IS LIKE THE SUN: YOU WANT TO GET CLOSE, YOU WANT TO BASK IN THE WARMTH.”
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Malibu turns out for a night of fundraising and raising awareness for Social Compassion in Legislation Photos by David Sobel “Congrats to CINDY LANDON on a much deserved acknowledgement for her outstanding work for creatures without voices.� - CHRIS CORTAZZO
KEELY AND PIERCE BROSNAN and award winning t.v. journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell hosted the event, COMPASSION ROCKS recently at the Dick Clark Estate in Malibu. It was a beautiful night under the stars for Social Compassion in Legislation, with celebrated locals such as philanthropist Cindy Landon ( who was honored at the event ), Chris Cortazzo and many more turning out to support this very important cause.
$100,000 Through the generous support of friends who attented this event, SCIL exceed their fundraising goal raising over $100, 000 which will go directly towards our vital animal welfare initiatives for 2015. MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Donate to Social Compassion In Legislation. socialcompassioninlegislation.org
From left to write: Jen Landon, Cindy Landon, Chris Cortazzo and friend.
ABOVE: Award winning T.V. journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell and President of Social Compassion for Legislation, Judie Mancuso. BELOW: Cindy Landon and editor in chief Cece Woods.
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'Twas the night before the grand opening of Taschen's expansive commercial gallery space in Los Angeles, and Jack Nicholson's Lakers beat my Spurs in overtime in San Antonio. Since Nicholson is a notorious Laker courtside attraction, imagine the irony of spending the afternoon before Taschen's opening, screening two extremely obscure Nicholson films, The Shooting and Ride In The Whirlwind, both directed by Monte Hellman. So here I am, photojournalist of LA's art scene, getting a weekend dose of Nicholson, only to see him greet Taschen's celebrated photographer, David Bailey, at the opening like two lost friends after the war. Located at the corner of Beverly and Crescent Heights in Los Angeles, near West Hollywood, Nicholson and Bailey, a legendary English fashion and portrait photographer, posed for pros and smartphones, then walked down a block together on the Crescent Heights side of the gallery for a stroll and a smoke, catching up and reminiscing, it seemed. Their camaraderie looked like a scene out of The Departed or Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, at least through my lens.
Inside the gallery, collectors, painters, and moochers saw photographs curated by Reuel Golden. The exhibit traces the remarkable history of the world's greatest and most photogenic rock 'n' roll band with its accompanying show, "IT'S JUST A SHOT AWAY: THE ROLLING STONES IN PHOTOGRAPHS." Available for sale, the prints include the work of such masters as David Bailey, Peter Beard, Anton Corbijn, Gered Mankowitz, Terry Richardson, Dominque Tarlé, and Albert Watson. The exhibition is timed with the release of the Collector's Edition book, The Rolling Stones edited by Golden.
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IS AS FAMOUS AS THE PEOPLE HE PHOTOGRAPHS Malibu local Pam Anderson ( left ), seen here with photographer David LaChapelle ( far left ) and the host, photographer David Bailey attended the start studded event. Following "It's Just a Shot Away," the Taschen gallery will exhibit shows based around its eclectic publishing program, which covers art, architecture, pop culture, social history, and sex. Just in time for the holidays, Taschen presented its historic, SUMO-sized The Rolling Stones Collector's Edition, signed by all four band members, a book that took four years of trawling through close to a million photographs of the band, was also on display and available for purchase at the new gallery space.
As I continue my foray into the LA art scene, Taschen brings new life into stellar photography exhibitions worthy of museum collections and Hollywood elite, only seen thus far at high-end brick and mortar galleries in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. - By Eric Minh Swenson
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“Taschen brings new life into stellar photography exhibitions worthy of museum collections and Hollywood elite� This article is part of an ongoing photojournalism survey of art exhibition openings titled EMS N(art)rative. Through my lens I document a photographic essay or visual "N(art)rative" that captures the happenings, personalities, collectors, gallerists, artists, and the art itself; all elements that form the richly varied and textured fabric of the SoCal art world. This reconnaissance offers a unique view for serious art world players to obtain news and information on the current pulse of what's in the now, yet capturing timeless indelible images for posterity and legacy. Here is EMS N(art) rative Fifteen. Follow Eric Minh Swenson on Twitter: www. twitter.com/f64productions
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9026FLY The Marshall Islands is a Pacific island nation located just 400 miles north of the equator in the Western Pacific. The country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia with a population of just under 70,000 people spread out over 24 low-lying coral atolls But totaling over 1000 individual islands and islets. The Marshall Islands is very low lying with an average above sea level height being only 1 meter. In 2008 extreme winds and high tides flooded the capital city of Majuro on Christmas morning, that same year the government declared a state of emergency, and in 2013 heavy winds and high tides once again breached the city walls of Majuro. On the flipside Of climate disaster in 2013 the northern atolls of the Marshall Islands experienced drought which left over 6000 people surviving on less than 1 liter of water per day. This resulted in low food crops and the spread of disease. Following 2013 emergencies, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Tony deBrum called for countries to turn the crises into an opportunity for climate leadership and large scale commitment from the international community to stave off further climate disasters from battering his country.
"The good ship Indies Trader I steams into port on Berann Island, Captain Daly's newest private Pacific playground.
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"Kelly had never been to the Marshall Islands he just knew that I was here” - Captain Martin Daly Indies Trader
“They basically got out of the plane, opened their board bags took their jeans off put their shorts on, walked down the beach and paddled out into some of the best surf we’ve ever seen.” - Martin Daly, Captain, Indies Trader
"Slater hops off the inter island Air Maybe flight minutes away from some fast and deep right hand barrels."
9026FLY A Milestone surf trip to paradise turns into a urgent call for action. Capt. Martin Daly and Kelly Slater come faceto-face with the harsh realitiesOf sea level rise in the Marshall Islands. ...as this big purple blob started to form off of Japan he pulled the trigger and asked if he could come over. As Kelly’s 40th birthday was fast approaching he tracked down his old friend and surf buddy newly located in the Marshalls. Having spent the past several days haunting the NOAA site and gathering buoy date it seemed that conditions were aligning making a surgical strike to the western pacific necessary. RT: So tell us about the trip Kelly and crew took down to the Marshalls.
Martin Daly has been discovering unridden surf spots since the 70's and is now a shoo in for the Maritime Explorerers Hall of Fame.
MD: Kelly’s 40th birthday was approaching and he started skyping me asking what the swell was doing. He’s very good with the forecasting, watching the buoys and the weather maps, he’s right on it. We seemed to think there could be something fairly decent happening with the swell.
He's not just the President but he's also a member of the Throwing Backside Buckets Club.
RT: And what did he know at this point about your new operation in the Marshalls?
“We moved heaven and hell to get everything coordinated. They left Hawaii in the morning and by 10:30am they were in the surf. We met them in Marjuro, flew over to the atoll, landed next to one of the surf breaks...”
MD: Not much really, he just knew that I was here. Basically he sniffed me out. He had been on google earth and looking at refractions of reefs and the like trying to figure it all out. He’s really right on about that stuff, and really his curiosity had got the best of him. And as this big purple blob started to form off of Japan he pulled the trigger and asked if he could come over. So we pulled some strings and organized the aircraft for him and Ross Williams, Mark Cunningham and Bill Hartley.
None of them had ever been down here. I’d been telling them for years that they should. And in the end it was Bill who talked Kelly into the trip. And so it was classic. We moved heaven and hell to get everything coordinated. They left Hawaii in the morning and by 10:30am they were in the surf. WE met them in Marjuro, flew over to the atoll, landed next to one of the surf breaks. They basically got out of the plane, opened their board bags took their jeans off put their shorts on, walked down the beach and paddled out into some of the best surf we’ve ever seen. RT: Since that trip you’ve been spending a lot more time down there building out your resort and exploring in more detail, explain some of the benefits to travelling to the Marshalls. MD: If you like privacy and an intact environment that is completely unaffected by man. And you love playing in the ocean in some of the clearest water in the world with some of the best fishing, diving and surfing then it’s not to be missed. RT: So the fisheries a still fairly intact down there compared to say Indonesia? MD: Well it’s a different experience. The dive off the wharf at Berann island where the lodge is being built is better than any dive I’ve done in Indonesia in 20 years. Berann is a name that means way station or a place to stop and rest when you’re on your way. In the old days there was a little island to the north of there and the king used to allow the people permission to stay there for a couple of nights to rest during long voyages to the larger settlements. Kelly and fellow legend Mark Cunningham explore untouched coastline.
9026FLY RT: So is there a certain season or is it a year round destination? MD: I think the kite boarding, windsurfing and surfing season runs from about October to about May. The rest of the year there are some south swells but it’s better that time of year for fishing and diving. Great sport fishing for yellowtail, dorado, baracuda and marlin. Right now (october 28th) we’re having an El Nino for sure. The water temps are as high as they’ve ever been, up to around 88 degrees and the trade winds have stopped for the past 2 weeks. We’re really having Indo/Mentawai conditions, slick oily glass with no winds. It’s getting so warm that a lot of the living coral reef systems are staring to bleach out. Some of the most vibrant and abundant coral reef systems I’ve ever seen are starting to go away. The world apparently is the hottest it’s ever been during recorded history today. RT: So how far are you from the Equator? MD: 7 degrees north of the Equator or 450 miles. It seems to me that because there no trade winds and because it is not blowing north east but rather south west, in other words the wind patterns have reversed, this is a classic sign of El Nino. But it’s not just here in the Pacific, the whole planet is heating up. I’ve been tracking governmental reports on the internet and there hasn’t really been anything reported, but from my observations the weather is really upside down. RT: So what is your response to climate change deniers? MD: Haven’t you noticed that things are changing? Haven’t you noticed the mass extinctions that are going on? Does someone have to hit you between the eyes with a hammer? Our Australian Prime Minister is a climate denier and he’s gone and repealed the carbon tax and reduced investment in green energy development and I’m here to say that this is the wrong way to be headed. We need to wake up and use our scientific brains to first recognize the problems and next begin to make some drastic changes to help ward off the impending calamity. You should watch the presentation that a Marshallese woman just gave to the UN Climate Change Conference. Her name is Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, she’s a 26 year old poet and spoken word artist. She was selected from over 500 entrants and ended her speech to a standing ovation. She also is the founder of a local NGO called Jo-JiKuM that focuses on empowering the youth of the Marshall Islands about issues related to environmentalism and climate change and the impact it has on their lives.
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Kelly and Martin have been exploring epic surf on the Indies Trader I together for almost 30 years. Mark Cunningham enjoys 100’ feet visibility and vibrant, healthy coral reef systems just of the beach at Berann.
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The view out the window of a jet ( below ) on approch to Majuro shows the low lying geography of the Marshall Islands ( under the plane ). The Pacific Climate Warriors, 350pacific.org A large group of Pacific Islanders ( above, left ) will gather in Brisbane Australia to protest at the G20 Summit ( under islanders ).
9026FLY INT: Why is the UN Climate Change Conference so important for you? TdB: We have attened several meeting of the UN Climate Change Panel for the last few years, we have been very vocal and tried hard to impress upon the world that we have a very current and urgent emergency with climate change in the Marshall Islands. This conference will bring in a lot of people, includening celebrities I understand that will help focus attention and the press’ attention on this critical issue. We hope to make good use of this opportunity. INT: What to you hope to accomplish? TdB: We want to be able to say to the world that the problems of climate change in the Marshalls need immediate attention and they need the focus of world leaders at this summit and they need to be addressed in such a way that we can fast track whatever assistance can be brought to the island that need it most, that are most vulnerable at this time.
Tony de Brum, Marshall Islands, Minister of Foreign Affairs recently attended the U.N. Climate Change Conference, 90265 Magazine had the opportunity to discuss the latest threats facing The Marshall Islands due to Sea Level Rise.
INT: Tell us more about the situation on the islands. TdB: Well many people think that climate change is around the corner, a few years down the line but for us it is now. We have running floods, we have droughts at the same time. In Tuvalu and Kiribati, our neighbors, they are actually evacuating people from parts of their country. We have salt inundation in our ground water hurting both food crop and cash crops. Also as we speak we have people lining up for drinking water. Also some of our graveyards have been inundated with coffins and bodies being washed out. All of these things are happening as we speak. Our airport has been closed recently due to flooding. Several thousand people had to moved from shoreline communities to higher ground during the last spring tide. We are having a crisis that we are trying to deal with within our means at the present time. INT: So what is the most important thing to be done in the days and weeks to come? TdB: The most important thing even before the important treaties are fully drafted and signed is that attention should be given to the islands that are being affected right now. And the states that have islands like ours, low lying communities need to be fortified so they don't suffer more from the hight tides and the spring tides. INT: Is there an important role that Europe or the US can play? TdB: Well currently we have enjoyed cooperation from Germany, who by the way, the Marshall Islands was a former colony of, and we still have good relations with. So they have been helpful. Currently though we are facing an uphill battle from industrialized nations whose current political administrations are controlled by climate change deniers. The Australian Government has refused to add climate change as an urgent agenda item for the G20 meeting in Brisbane in November this year. We are joining those most affected by climate change in the Pacific, and worldwide, to call on the Australian Government to show global leadership and add climate change to the G20 agenda. We need the G20 countries to commit to strong action to slow down climate change and help those who are already being impacted by its effects. We need for the people of the world to join together and bring attention and urgent action to this issue.
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CORAL BLEACHING
On a hot, flat-calm day on April 18, 2000, I dove into the sea on Fiji’s Beqa barrier reef and was immediately struck by one of the most stunning views I have ever seen in my 47 years of diving. It looked as if snow had fallen on the reef, from shallow water to as deep as I could see, everywhere the reef was pure white. A major, catastrophic coral bleaching event was underway that had begun weeks earlier and was now affecting nearly every coral on this reef. Days earlier, Dr. Alan Strong at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had issued an internet alert that a pool of unusually warm water was intensifying over the southern Fiji Islands. NOAA satellites had detected above-normal sea surface temperatures, and Strong predicted that coral bleaching was imminent.
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Previously, in 1998, another warm water “El Nino” event caused widespread coral bleaching that affected reefs all the way from the west Pacific, to the Indian Ocean and even the Caribbean. Scientists estimated that 16% of all corals in the world died during that massive event. When I heard that another bleaching event was likely, I took the first available flight to Fiji and set out to document it.
From Frigate Passage on the west end to Cutter Passage in the east, the Beqa barrier reef (pronounced “mbenga”) is a continuous reef 40km (25 miles) in length (many surfers are familiar with world-class surf break near Frigate Pass). For over a decade prior to 2000, no “typical” disasters such as hurricanes, or infestations of coral-eating crown-of-thorns sea stars, had affected this area. Corals flourished here in immense numbers and diversity under pristine oceanic conditions. That all changed in early 2000 when sea surface temperatures exceeded the expected maximum for five months and peaked at 30o - 30.5oC (86o - 87oF) in March and April. BELOW: Marj Awai & Dr. Bruce Carlson topside following one of their many dives surveying reef colonies, both healthy and sick. Photo by Dr. Sylvia Earle. RIGHT:  Dr. Bruce Carlson collects data on a Fijian reef transect. Photo by Marj Awai.
What is “coral bleaching”? Reef-building corals exist in a symbiotic relationship with a type of microscopic algae that lives in coral tissue and these algae impart a pale brown color to the coral polyps. For reasons not clearly understood, when temperatures increase, this relationship breaks down and the algae are expelled resulting in corals that appear stark white, or “bleached”. The corals’ relationship with the algae is critical for the survival of the corals; if conditions do not return to normal in a short time, bleached corals will die. “It is very satisfying to know that reefs can recover from extreme events like the one that hit Fiji in 2000, but we still have cause to worry. Much of the heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases is being absorbed into the oceans resulting in steadily increasing sea surface temperatures.”
To properly document the event in Fiji, I set out four transects 8-15 km apart along the Beqa reef from Frigate Pass to Cutter Pass. Each transect covered 30m2 and within those area I identified and counted every coral colony and noted if it was normal, bleached or dead, and then made two passes with a video camera, first shooting vertically and then horizontally. The results were stunning: over 90% of the corals were completely bleached and many were dead or dying. This was truly a catastrophic event. My results were combined with those of other researchers tracking reefs in Fiji and later published in the Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium held in Bali in 2000. Over the next ten years, I returned to my transects accompanied by my wife, Marj Awai, and colleagues Tony Nahacky and Walt Smith. We easily relocated each transect and documented what took place over the subsequent years. At first, the task was depressing: the reefs were dead and gray, coral- feeding butterfly fishes were gone, and algae replaced corals as the dominant cover. But slowly new corals began to reappear on the reefs, very likely recruited from colonies in deeper water that escaped the bleaching event. After ten years the reefs were nearly fully recovered and once again filled with colorful corals and a healthy diversity of reef fishes. You can watch this remarkable recovery in a short YouTube video documentary I produced called “Resilience”. It is very satisfying to know that reefs can recover from extreme events like the one that hit Fiji in 2000, but we still have cause to worry. Much of the heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases is being absorbed into the oceans resulting in steadily increasing sea surface temperatures. We don’t know if this is the cause of the exceptionally warm water that affected reefs in 1998 and 2000, just as we don’t know if climate change is responsible for any particular storm, drought, or flood on land, but these massive coral bleaching events were unknown in the past and now seem to be occurring more frequently. As I write this at my home in Hawaii, we are experiencing one of the most significant coral bleaching events ever to occur here. Friends in Kwajalein are telling me that a similar major bleaching event is occurring there. And NOAA has issued a prediction that this warm water may spread to Fiji in 2015. We can only hope that there is time for natural selection to produce corals (and algae) that are resistant to higher water temperatures. All indications tell us that this will be the wave of the future.
Healthy reef systems are obvious because of their vibrant colors and abundant fish populations. Photo by Marj Awai.
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Scorpion Cove ( below ) was once a popular landing for the Chumash indigenous island dwellers.
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When it comes to the question of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise, whether one is a denier, a skeptic, a concerned open minded academic or a doomsday activist marching to stop man made greenhouse pollutants, there is no doubt climate is changing and sea level is rising. Climate change is not new and has been changing since the dawn of time. Sea level has been rising ever since the last ice age about 18,000 years ago. Ice ages have come and gone and sea levels have dropped and risen. Approximately 125,000 years go, sea levels were 20 feet higher than present and 400 feet lower 22,000 years ago.
THE ONLY THING THAT IS CONSTANT IS CHANGE - HERCULITIS, 535 B.C.-475 B.C.
Scientists long theorized that the first waves of nomadic hunters arrived to the Americas from Asia by following big game herds over an ice land-bridge between Siberia and Alaska some more than 13,000 years ago when sea levels were hundreds of feet lower than present. Once in North America, as the story goes, they trekked through the interior. But in recent years, a new thinking has emerged suggesting the first immigrants arrived by boat and followed a coastal route into Chumash territory. Some evidence shows that ancient mariners were much more advanced than originally thought with signs that Malibu’s Chumash had Polynesian contacts and maritime influences. Sea levels at the time of the earliest migration over the Bering Strait were 300-400 feet lower than present as the polar caps crept toward the equator from the south and the north. The four Channel Islands of Anacapa, Santa Cruz, San Miguel and Santa Rosa were all one much larger island referred to as Santa Rosae and was only 4.7 miles from Pt Hueneme and Pt. Mugu with much easier access for the Chumash to reach in Tomol canoes. There is also evidence to suggest that a now submerged island, Calafia, may have had elevations of 30 ft above sea level in the channel between Santa Rosae and the mainland near Santa Barbara. In July of 1994, the remains of the first Pygmy mammoth were found and are thought to be descendants of Columbia mammoths that swam to the Channel Islands before the arrival of man 13,000 years ago. Given that the Columbia mammoths were good swimmers, they were able to cross the short body of water and inhabit the nearby island, adapting to the new environment through evolution but may have gone extinct due to being hunted by island inhabitants.
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MALIBU, CA. 34.0300° N, 118.7500° W In 1960, several bones from a 13,000 year old skeleton were discovered and knick-named the Arlington Springs Man. As early as 11,000 years ago, a band of Chumash settled in the northern Channel Islands. The Chumash also traditionally made their home on the coastal plain between Morro Bay and Malibu. From roughly 16,000-8,000 before present, the climate warmed and rapidly melted the polar ice caps causing sea level rise and forcing coastal indigenous people to continually seek higher and higher ground. Many ancient village sites became submerged with a vast treasure trove of archaeological evidence lost below in depths to 400 ft. During the Midieval Warm Period ( 950-1300 ) it was warmer than today, as it was in the Roman times and during the Holocene Climate Optimum ( 3500-6000 years ago ).
RIGHT: Tomol Crossing from Channel Islands Harbor to Limuw ( Santa Cruz Islands. Paddlers l-r: Oscar Ortiz - Maya, Steve Villa - Chumash and Mati-Waya - Chumash. Photo by Robert Schwemmer of NOAA.
The island-dwelling Chumash were known to the mainland Chumash as the Michhumash or “the makers of shell bead money” which has been found in many ancient village sites throughout Malibu.
LEFT; Sea levels were four hundred feet lower Malibu shorelines were 1-2 miles from current mean high tidelines.
During the last major ice age ( Pleistocene ), each of the last four interglacials, going back nearly half a million years, was several degrees warmer than today. The rate of sea level rise slowed down about 8,000 years ago but still has been rising modestly with minor rates of rise and fall. Until recently, as it appears climate has fluctuated warmer and sea levels may be increasing slightly again. Was the recent warming a normal natural cycle or is man responsible? Current sea level rise is about 3mm/yr. worldwide. Previous sea level rise has been recorded at about 1.8mm/yr. according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administraion ( NOAA ), “this is a significantly larger rate than sea level rise averaged over the last several thousand years.”, seven inches in the last century and the rate may be increasing. Sea Level rises can considerably influence modern day human population in coastal and island regions. In the past, coastal populations could easily abandon a coastal cave or relocate a small village or rebuild a hut above rising sea levels but modern day man is finding fixed shore front structures and properties are not so easy to relocate a little further inland.
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THE TIP OF ANACAPA; imagine this pinnacle 400 additional feet above sea level.
Future sea level rise could lead to potentially catastrophic difficulties for shore-based communities in the next centuries, many major cities such as London, New Orleans and New York already need storm-surge defenses and would need more if the sea level rose. Though they also face issues such as subsidence, The Mississipi Delta and it’s protective barrier islands are shrinking because of sediment barrier loads have been altered with flood control levees and upstream dams. Sea level rise could also displace many shore base populations: for example it is estimated that a sea-level rise of just 7-8 inches could create 740,000 homeless people in Nigeria, Maldives, Tuvalu and other low-lying countires that are among the areas that are at the highest level of risk. The U.N.’s environmaental panel has warned that, at current rates, sea level would be high enough to make the Maldives uninhabitable by 2100. Future sea-level rise, is not expected to be globally uniform. Some regions show a sea level rise substantially more than the global average ( in many cases of more than twice the average ), and other sea levels fall. However, models disagree as to the likely pattern of sea level change. Since the 1800’s many coastal builders on the east coast have gambled to build on the shifting sands and West coast developers have built structures on eroding coastal bluffs overlooking the Pacific only to have the sea claim it all. Is Malibu’s Broad Beach sand erosion problems and it’s need for an emergency rip rap boulder fortification a result of rising sea levels or a lack of beach replenishment due to watershed sediment sources being blocked from damns, flood control culverts and general urban development or both? The most sensible long term-solution, scientists say would be for development to retreat landward and allow oceanic forces to sculpt the coastline as they have for milleniums. Waves and tides gnawing at the land would turn back-beach dunes, cliffs and hillsides into beaches of the future. Yet that’s not likely to happen given the investment in beach front homes and roads built on low lying, concrete armored coastal bluffs. So, short-term solutions get approved, often as emergency measures. Concrete sea walls and barricades of boulders get thrown up to protect such structures which can exacerbate the problem even worse. Malibu’s Broad Beach residents found their beach disappeared after a series of large storms swept thousands of cubic yards of sand away, threatening homes and septic leach fields. The Home Owner’s Association were approved for an emergency permit to place boulders along the beach and have recently been approved to import forty three thousand truck loads of sand to replenish the once “broad beach”. The problem is that imported sand gets scoured away over time and the fortification of shoreline with concrete or boulders, while effective in the short term at protecting homes, often accelerates sand erosion. Sea walls act like mirrors, refracting the energy of the waves and magnifying their scouring power. Recently I was visiting friends at a home on the beach between Topanga and Big Rock. The tide was not very high and the surf was small yet the house’s wooden sea wall was getting hammered and the house shook. I looked up the coast towards Big Rock at all of the other houses built over the mean hightide line on wooden pilings and realized how vulnerable this stretch of coastline is with existing natural rate of sea-level rise compounded by the lack of natural sediment replenishing the beaches. Throw in the higher ocean levels, a dash of astronomical high tides and a heaping El Nino swell and you have a recipe for disaster. Our coast lost a house in the ocean this summer that was built on the beach in the 1960’s and surely a hefty El Nino winter will claim more victims.
But are things as bad as some scientists predicted? Yes, Climate has recently recorded historic warm temperatures but has also recorded record cold temperatures. The arctic ice had melted at alarming rates but the inconvenient truth is that Al Gore’s scary predictions that the polar summer ice cap would be completely melted by 2013 along with increased Atlantic Hurricanes has not panned out into reality. While many scientific models have predicted warming temps, rapidly melting ice caps and fast rising sea levels, there are signs leading some scientists to question the projected models and that the climate is much more complex than the information experts feed into the models. Many glaciers around the world are declining but what you do not hear too much of are facts, which makes one scratch their head and wonder “What really IS going on?”. Has the arctic ice started to reverse it’s melting trend? The last two years has seen a slow down of Arctic ice loss with increasing ice extents. Canadian and U.S. residents will not forget the last two years of the long Polar Vortex winters and record cold temperatures. Europe, India, Russia and Asia also.
UNDERSTAND THE DATA: ( previous page ) Historical graph of sea level changes over the last 22,000 years. C. ( above ) Graph shows Arctic Ice Extents reversing to averages after recent melting.
We all know the local weather is different than global climate but in 2011 while many glaciers were shrinking, a few glaciers in other parts of the world expanded. Both the Hotlum and Wintun Glaciers on Mount Shasta have nearly doubled in size since 1950, says an article on Wikipedia. The Bolam Glacier has increased by half, while The Whitney and Konwakiton Glaciers have grown by a third. Alaska, Oregon and Washington have reported similar occurences. The City of Mount Shasta, sitting at the foot of the mountain about midway between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, has broken a 108-year-old snowfall record for March 2011 with 97.9 inches, according to the National Weather Service. The old mark of 88 inches was set in 1903.
LEFT; A headline in the New York Times dated January 5, 1978.
Have some Glaciers grown as a result of global warming because of the warm water evaporation of moisture enhancement affecting many coastal glaciers? Why are the Antarctic ice extents above historic highs? Can the growing Antarctic ice fields balance out the shrinking Arctic and soften rapid increases in global seal levels? Modern man has prospered greatly during the last 8,000 years of relative sea level stability. Will the planet resume it’s 18,000 year trend with rising temps and sea levels? Will the power of the sun and the powerful mysterious forces of nature trump man’s ability to affect our future climate or will man manifest his own doom? Does mother nature have an unseen trick up her sleeve to keep things from getting too extreme for all the populating, polluting humans? Is there another ice age in our future? Will the polar ice caps completely disappear? Or will we leave shortsightedness behind and trudge to higher ground or sail to higher islands as our predecessors have done for eons.
9026FLY While the high profile, powerful residents in the Malibu Colony are protected behind the gates of oceanfront front homes, they became power-less recently with Hurricane Marie brought astronomically high tides threatening their beach front homes, ripping apart decks, stairs and underming sea walls. In the end, Mother Nature will do as she pleases and the only thing constant is change.
The once “broad beach� ( below ) is no longer being replenished with upcurrent sand sources.
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MALIBU, CA. 34.0300째 N, 118.7500째 W Whether you planning a day hike or wanting to camp on Anacapa, Santa Cruz or the outer islands, visit the Northern Channel Islands via Island Packers cruises. enjoy the ride and witness the beauty of the California coastline.
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Photo by Doug Mangum
A beautiful sunset in Waimea.
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MAUI BY STEVE WOODS
Our marriage had been born the year before along with the birth of our new magazine, a venture that chewed up virtually all of our free time. Before we knew it, it was time to take a breather and celebrate our first wedding anniversary. Being too busy plan ahead, we hectically started questioning where to go just weeks before our one week time slot. Mexico was too hot, Tahiti was too expensive on such short notice and New Zealand was too far for only a week. I thought Kauai would be great, I could show my wife all of the secret nooks and crannies that I learned about during the 5 years that I had spent working and surfing there. Cece had briefly mentioned Maui because of an invitation we had received via photographer Peter Augustin’s good friend when we started the magazine, but I had an instant past memory of Lahaina's “high rise row” with the thick smell of chlorinated pools and herds of tourists with strange sounding drawls slathering on buttery smelling suntan lotion. I am used to going to very remote, quiet peaceful backwater surfing or backpacking destinations, so I was not very enthusiastic about having a “pre packaged” Hawaiian vacation however, I was open to anything that rhymed with or reminded me of sweet smelling plumerias. Lumeria Maui it was. When I checked online, I knew right away that this gem in the cane fields would be just what the Gods were to bless us with. We lucked out with a last second cancellation and were booked into the peace and tranquility of the tradewind swept highlands overlooking the north coast and kite surfer paradise that Maui is renowned for in the summer. Enclosed by seven acres of immaculate lush gardens and lawns and a great saltwater pool and hot tub, Lumeria is more of a barefoot luxury educational retreat center than a vacation spa or resort. It’s a place to unplug and restore through classes, adventures, wellness treatments and an authentic island experience. Each room has been thoughtfully and tastefully designed to create maximum comfort and has island and ocean vistas. Built in 1910 it is considered one of the first historic classic Plantation styled wood structures on Maui built by Fred Baldwin as a memorial for his son and retired executives of the pineapple workers. Later it was converted for WWII veterans on leave for some much needed R and R and after the war years it was converted to Manu Ola Womans College. For years the buildings sat neglected but the new owner felt the Manu and Restorative spiritual energy that has been a tradition there since 1910 decided to lovingly and meticulously restore the historic beauty. The large Buddha statue is the center peace of the courtyard and honors all religious practices and meditations. An elegant lobby filled with books and healing crystals adorn the high quality wood working. With 8 crystal stones buried around the grounds, the wonderful and articulate owner Zoran and many others are convinced that the sacred ancient grounds are a vortex that merges Heaven with Earth. Maui has attracted quite a few who are on a spiritual quest and have been led to the area to train and help at the spa with yoga, restorative healing classes and massage. Detox juice cleanses, good fresh fruits and organic foods are available in the mini restaurant. The quaint old town of Paia is just a few minutes down through the cane fields on Baldwin road. Though Paia has a heavy accent with surf related businesses it has kept its historic and non commercial ambiance because citizens stood up and voted not to become what Lahaina has evolved into with its bustling, overbuilt hotel Waikiki/Vegas like Strip. Inspired by cities that have voted against cookie cutter commercial growth the residents of Malibu voted to do the same this last November and vote YES on Measure R that could prevent big developers from "R"uining Malibu's small town rural character.
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Lumeria was a great base to explore the rest of the island with day trip adventures out to to Hana, Ke'e, Hooikipa, Wailea Honolua Bay, Maalaea harbor, Haleakula Crater and yes the beautiful secluded beaches on either side of Lahaina. Thanks to Lumeria for hosting us. We had a much needed retreat that restored and rejuiced our mojo meeting so many great Maui locals and rejoiced in too many great sunsets and swims to remember.
MAHALOholo FROM LEFT to RIGHT: 1. Next stop PAIA, our destination and home of LUMERIA MAUI. 2. Plantation style bungalows were restored to more than their original beauty, the porch overlooked the meditation lawn and spiritual sounds played throughout the compound. 3. Buddha at morning light ready for prayer. 4. The saltwater pools at Lumeria Maui. 5. Ols school surfers Steve Woods, Michael Marcellino and Jeffrey Lackey unite on Maui. 6. A day trip to hang out with the Marcellinos in Lahaina with a perfect view of the island of Molokai from their balcony. 6. Beautiful antiques in the Lumeria Maui Gardens.
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MAUI FROM LEFT to RIGHT: 1. The road to Hana. 2. Morning coffee on Lumeria’s meditation lawn. 3. Old surfboards get new life as a decorative - and sometimes functional fence. 4. The Bamboo Forest - simply spectacular. 5. A welcoming fruit stand run on the honor system. 6. Maui’s incrasing sea turtle population 7.The pristine view while dining at the legendary Kimo’s in Lahaina.
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ROBINSON JEFFERS SPIRIT STILL LIVES IN THE BIG SOUTH
BY DANIEL BRALVER “...and had the picture in our minds of magnificent regions of space and mountain not seen before... whence you down behine the great shouldering pyramid of Pico Blanco through eagle gulfs of air to a forest basin where two-hundred-foot redwoods look like the pile on Turkish carpet.” -Robinson Jeffers When I was asked to write this piece on Big Sur, I was really excited at first, then a bit troubled. This magical place is so big in my heart and so much a part of me that it seemed inapproachable. Fifty years of old trucks, damp and fragrant redwood groves, wild strawberries and thimbleberries, countless clear swimming holes in the deep river valleys, or bathing in a sunny granite cup of crystal water perched just above the thunder of the surf. Abandoned homesteads deep in, with sweet fuit orchards still providing, bathed in afternoon light: actually seeing the curve of the oceans horizon from high up on the ridge. I’ve surfed the biggest, most perfectly majestic waves that I’ve seen in California at a hidden cove, or been the only out in the waves with a group of twenty porpoises, all riding waves with me and leaping over the water to get back out and ride one another. Even in my most desperate hours, when in that particular light and shadow that is only Big Sur, I am always in love. I wanted to name my two children Luke and Laurel, for the Santa Lucia Mountains that form the granite spine of Big Sur, and for the deep green sweet fragrance of Bay laurels. I did come close giving my son the middle name Lucas, and my daughter’s middle name Rose like the wild rose growing on the southern slopes above the creeks. They both love Big Sur. Looking across the canyons from the open south-facing slopes, the redwood maples, laurels, madrones, tanbark oaks, and higher up the Santa Lucia Firs are a deep, dark green mystery with a slight motion of the branches in the breeze evoking a hypnotic, captive dream. There is no sense of time in such a moment, only both a warmth and a chill. Even writing about it I can feel. The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers can be purchased on Amazon.com
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LEFT: Perfect pastoral purity. ABOVE: Where delicacy meets a tranquil sea.
LEFT: The Big Sur coastline inhales clarity and exhales mist. RIGHT: Tide pools breathe in and breathe out the forces of life between two worlds.
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I left for Zion because the pressure of civilization and an organized life was beginning to erode my free spirit. The wilderness was indeed calling. I left for Zion because I wanted to lose myself in the coursing Narrows and in the heat of the jagged sandstone cliffs of Angels Landing. I left for Zion because, with desert majesty to rival Yosemite, it was a place where I could find myself amid the towering peaks. Nature is neutral, it simply is. It is a place where we can delve into the soul, unencumbered by the endless ripples of modern life. When I arrived at Zion from the east, I was immediately smitten by the formations, eroded by millions of years of water coursing through arteries of the heart of an ancient monolith. The first step into the Virgin River was met with a stiff chill, water cooled by endless miles of shaded canyon, continuing to erode into the rock and form the vast cliffs I were to later climb. Those cliffs, trekked via the trail to Angel’s Landing; 1400 feet below, lay the river that formed the paradise that is now Zion.
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Hoodoos are “Legend People” who were turned into stone by the god Coyote – Paiute.
“...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” Christopher McCandless
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Saves Nature She was born on Planet Earth. If you were an elephant, you would want to work for her. By Randy Olson Warning, this article is being written by a sycophantic admirer of Asher Jay. I've been working in and around conservation and environmentalism for decades. I've never met anyone who is able to combine so well artistic talent with a knowledge of serious conservation issues. And on top of that, her work has as much edge as those antismoking commercials on TV that you hate. The only difference is her work is beautiful and you want to stare at it, despite the pain it conveys. Consider all that and you start to understand my admiration.
DATE THIS WOMAN AND FIND OUT HOW MANY ELEPHANTS DIED DURING YOUR DATE She tells me she can't help but think of the plight of elephants -- round the clock. When she goes on a date, by the end of the evening she can't avoid the math that five elephants died since the start of dinner. She is haunted by the destruction of wildlife. Look at the blood that drips off the horn of the rhino in her posters. No, seriously -- take a close look at it -- the horn is made up of all the high powered rifles and axes and hand grenades and everything else imaginable that poachers use to destroy the last of the world's rhino populations. Everything in an Asher Jay creation has meaning. My acting teacher used to sing to us, "Every little moment has a meaning all it's own." I would sing the same thing for her works -- every little detail has a meaning all it's own.
AS WILD AS THEY COME "I was raised feral," Asher tells me. It's what her mother told her as she grew up -- referring to being born in India but then moving throughout Asia and Europe before finally locating a storage site for her belongings somewhere in New York City as she continues to travel the planet, focusing her immense art skills on saving nature. Like so many people who actually understand mass human behavior, she got her professional start in the fashion industry. I'm serious when I say this. I work with scientists -- they tend to be as mystified by humanity as Spock always was on Star Trek. The fashion industry is the opposite end of the universe from science. She did design work, but it didn't come close to holding her unbridled interests. When BP decided to enrich the ocean life of the Gulf of Mexico by uncorking 210 million gallons of oil into the wild it was more than she could take. She began focusing her art skills on the horrible way humans continue to degrade nature, and now she just can't stop.
"SOME DAYS I JUST LAY ON A YOGA MAT, UNABLE TO THINK OF WHAT TO DO" In her powerful recent talk for National Geographic she tells of how even when she goes to the loo in the middle of the night she can't help but notice the patterns in the floor tiles and realize they are made from the rings of trees that someone chopped down to furnish her bathroom. "Some days I just lay on a yoga mat, unable to think of what to do." Such is the burden of one who cares so deeply about nature.
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“ONLY A RHINO CAN BE A RHINO” But her efforts do pay off. She teamed up with WildAid for a series of stunning posters and imagery that has been turned into tattoos calling attention to the plight of elephants and rhinos. She's only been at this save nature stuff since 2010 but her portfolio, as you can see, is already eye popping. For the near future she's focused on a campaign to combat the lies around "rhino virility" -- there's no such thing. Some cultures think if they ingest the powdered horn of a rhino they are absorbing the spirit of the beast. Her answer, "Only a rhino can be a rhino." She has another campaign to get people to "Take Aim With A Camera (Not a Gun)." Hard to believe in this age we're still fighting the destruction of wildlife for sport, but we are. And she has a final, loud message to everyone who owns ivory made from elephant tusks and dismisses what they are doing by believing the lie that tusks are just like teeth -- discarded from time to time, no big deal. That's wrong. Tusks have to be sawed off of an elephant, and that usually only happens after they have been slaughtered. If you're wearing elephant ivory, you're supporting the slaughter. So cut it out.
ELEPHANT TUSKS ARE NOT TEETH! "Using crushed ivory to raise public awareness is as ill-informed as whaling for research and offers as much educational output as Orcas in tanks at Sea World." - Asher Jay, in response to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Crushed Ivory Design Challenge
ASHER JAY is a designer, artist, writer and activist who is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Her conservation artwork stirs the souls of the masses from China to Kenya to downtown New York City.
Follow Asher Jay: @earthheiress
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““Charcoal is killing cheetahs. In Tanzania, 400,000 acres a year are deforested leaving rhinos, elephants, big cats - alll mega fauna - with dwindling habitat. I created this piece with charcoal to call attention to the charcoal trade.
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“Hope without understanding seldom evokes action, or enables a solution. We cannot simply hope for a better way forward, we cannot simply hope we will change. We need to apply ourselves, we need to assume responsibility, find a better way forward today, and enact change, now. So here's to now, to the past that brought us here, and to the future that will see us evolve.� Asher Jay, Creative Conservationist.
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In 1993, artist and photojournalist Dan Eldon was covering the famine and unrest in Somalia for Reuters News Agency when UN forces bombed the residence of warlord Aidid. Enraged loyalist supporters violently retaliated, murdering Eldon and three other western journalists.Although his life was short, Eldon lived his years with voracious passion, leading an aid mission across Africa, working as a graphic designer for Mademoiselle Magazine, publishing a book, directing a short film and creating 17 extraordinarily powerful volumes of art work, all before the age of 22. The ingenuous, raw paintings and multi-layered sub textual arrangements could be said to evoke the spirit of Basquiat and contextual complexity of Rauschenberg. But Eldon’s own Caulfieldesque disdain for affected pretense countermands any such canonical comparisons.While the aesthetic beauty and sophisticated lexicon of the journal pages elevate the works to a reverential artistic level, the artist’s eye never strays from its place of unrelenting sincerity, reminding the viewer of Eldon’s uncanny ability to capture the present moment.
"Untitled (Swahili Hands)" - Variations of this whimsical pattern appear in several of Dan Eldon’s journals.
9026FLY In the journal pages, Eldon reveals imagistic insight into his extraordinary perspective on the world. Filled with snapshots of his life growing up as a young expatriate in Kenya, explosive images taken in war-torn Somalia and detailed drawings of the world around him, the journal works blend the photographic reality with the transient ephemera of his everyday to create a vivid blueprint of Eldon’s imagination. The works’ multi-layered complexity recalls the photo collages of early 20th century artists such as Hannah Höch and John Heartfield. While both tell of worlds submerged in chaos, Eldon’s works seek to find equilibrium within the madness. From page to page, Eldon’s style and rhythm shift and evolve, reflecting his exploration of the world and his place within it.
Above: "Untitled (Dan with Somali Children)" - Yannis Behrakis shot this iconic photo of Dan in 1991 in Baidoa, Somalia.
Above: (Journal Pages) "Untitled (Gaugin in Africa)" Created during an epic safari led by Dan who took fifteen teenagers across Africa to deliver aid to a refugee camp in Malawi. Left :“Untitled (The Face of Famine)”, 1991 - Dan’s images of starving Somalis helped trigger Operation Rescue Hope, a global aid initiative. Dan Eldon’s legacy continues to grow through his words and images, inspiring others to realize their dreams through his spirit of “creative activism.” His artwork has been featured in countless newspapers and magazines around the world, including a NY Times feature in 2007, and exhibited in prestigious collections and in major institutions.Alicia Dougherty is the collection’s curator.For further inquiries, please contact alicia.dougherty@creativevisions.org.Art from The Dan Eldon Collection can be purchased online at: www.daneldoncollection.com
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To call Kathy Eldon an indomitable spirit risks severe understatement.“I decided not to let myself be defined by my loss,”says the spry, age defying journalist, film producer, prolific author, yet first and foremost, a mother. She has endured the unfathomable- the brutal murder of her brilliant and talented son, a Reuters photojournalist, killed in action at the age of 22. Twenty two years have passed since his death and each new day finds Kathy beaming inspiring energy from the helm of the foundation founded to honor Dan’s spirit and passion for truth, justice and creativity. Her current memoir, IN THE HEART OF LIFE, published by Harper, chronicles in exquisite detail her journey and the choices she has made through the challenges of marriage and raising her two children; leaving the known comforts of her home in England for an uncharted future in exotic Kenya. And while Africa infused the family’s emotional, creative and spiritual lives, it also was fraught with uncertainty and danger.
Dan Eldon’s death at the hands of an angry Somali mob became a catalyst for action for Kathy and her daughter Amy. Their journey forward from the tragedy will inspire all who read this compelling and honest account of what it means to survive, to fearlessly self examine, to celebrate the memory of loved ones, and to dedicate ones life to furthering the causes of all those who choose to be creative activists. CT: Reading your book, one of the things that continuously impressed me was the quality of your recollection. It was like going through a sense memory experience with you. I’d love to know what that process was like for you to conjure up such vivid detail in your memoirs. KE: Number one is that I always kept journals – so I could go back to journals from when I was 16 years old in South Africa and read the stilted, very formal language of a 16 yr old Iowan. And I wrote letters every single week of my life to my parents (well, until there was e-mail) and my mother kept all those blue airmail letters in shoeboxes, so I had access to them. Thirdly, from 1977 on, I wrote about everything that I experienced, so I had copious articles. After I left Kenya, I wrote,“In Search of Kathy”which was a collection of very deep and emotionally revealing articles about the quest that I was on.
9026FLY The other thing, is that it took 16 years to write the book. So that the memories and intensity of feelings from when Dan was killed, or leaving the lover- actually didn’t happen that much earlier, so that really wasn’t that far removed from the experience. I used to bring Dan back journals from my trips to LA that you’d buy at art shops - black binding with white paper. 4-5 at time. Interestingly, I had no idea that he had filled so many of them.
“I decided not to let myself be defined by my loss” You’d see 2, possibly 3–but after his death, we found 19 journals large and small. He was also quite a good writer and again - I was a creative writer, I was never a historical writer. But I got to write because I was in Kenya- I never would have gotten the opportunities to write if I was in the States, because you would have had to have gone to journalism school. You have to be trained. But when you go to a place like Kenya, you can develop all your potential, without having so many constrictions and restraints. CT: Either that or you can write for 90265. (laughs) You seemed comfortable in the rhythm of the book reflecting back and then jumping forward from the timeline. It works beautifully and it’s a literal page-turner. How is it doing?
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KE: It’s really hard right now. I do think it’s appropriate to share the challenges that authors face right now in publishing. I’ve done 18 books in my life. CT: In thinking about your process- it must have been a real meditation, a real therapy dealing with the very real trauma that's happened in you life. You've turned your experience into something so powerful that the trauma is contained and doesn't rule you any longer. When I heard your TED talk, it seems you could do a whole treatise on that. KE: That's very interesting. I'm trying to figure out what's next. I created this vision you read about in the book. I woke up with it clearly in my mind. I knew what the logo was, I knew what the name of the organization was, I knew what we were supposed to do. And we've done everything that I envisioned. Now I have this incredible team, and now it's 'What am I supposed to do next?” CT: What about just relax? (lol) KE: No no!!!! That would be so boring! CT: Relax and continue to create! I don't think you'd ever not be a creative being. You're a global citizen- and that's another question I have for you: With so many hotspots in the world that are so troubling now- what's your take on our prospects for peace? KE: Maybe it's that things have to get so very bad that there's no place to go but up! That's a horrible thought! I always thought that we may need an alien invasion or a climate crisis …. Is it going to take a crisis of such magnitude for us to realize that we are a global tribe?
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In 1998, my daughter Amy and I launched Creative Visions Foundation to support ‘creative activists’ like Dan In the pages that fill the bulging journals, Eldon reveals imagistic insight into his extraordinary perspective on the world. Filled with snapshots of his life growing up as a young expatriate in Kenya, explosive images taken in war-torn Somalia and detailed drawings of the world around him, the journal works blend the photographic reality with the transient ephemera of his everyday to create a vivid blueprint of Eldon’s imagination. - Creative Visions Foundation
CT: Tell us about your organization CREATIVE VISIONS : KE: In 1998, my daughter Amy and I launched Creative Visions Foundation to support ‘creative activists’ like Dan, who use media and the arts to catalyze change. It’s a global organization now, offering a home for more than 200 projects and productions that create awareness and ignite action. We are an incubator of projects and productions; an agency for them. We will bring on everything from lawyers to accountants to help find them right people to work with. We are also an Academy- teaching: we have lots and lots of resources and mentors; top notch people, famous names, experts in their field to work with. We provide a community for like-minded people who are creative, active, courageous, solution based individuals who want to try to help the world around them. Not the whole world, but the world around them. We focus on people who are using arts and media for social impact to create awareness and ignite change. I believe that everyone has a creative spark within, that we can use not only for ourselves but for others. I personally believe in the power of the media and the arts to ignite reactions. Now, I think there’s a tremendous sense of urgency that we all feel that the world is heading to hell in a hand-basket, or maybe it’s halfway there (she laughs) Can we do something? We have to do something! Really- what we are at Creative Visions is a community. Under the Creative Visions tent is the CREATIVE ACTIVIST PRGRAM- 80 documentary film projects are in stages of developments now telling divergent stories but linked by subject criteria as human rights, the environment, health and well being, gender equality and youth and education. The filmmakers all believe that the stories they tell can be catalyst for change. Over the past fourteen years, Malibu based Creative Visions Foundation has incubated more than 200 projects and productions on 5 continents, by providing fiscal sponsorship, mentorship, inspiration, fundraising, connectivity, and step-by-step toolkits for launching projects. To date, the creative activists under the CVF umbrella have touched more than 90 million people and raised more than $11.2 million to fund their projects. See the links here for more details on 5 of their top films: FOOD CHAINS (upcoming release this Fall) HAPPY (was #1 on iTunes) ONE DAY ON EARTH GIVE UP TOMORROW ABDUCTION For more information: www.creativevisions.org
Roy Orbison, Mystery Girl photo shoot
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ROY ORBISON MALIBU: THE SUNSET YEARS By Matt Diamond
With enviable success and having achieved legendary status, Roy Orbison went into 1985 with a particular grace which was his uniqueness; his style. On a hot Spring day, by the pool in Hendersonville Tennessee at his lake side house next door to his neighbor and long time family friend Johnny Cash, Roy was visited by his friend from England Jeff Lynn. Roy had been continuously writing on and off but had not written an album for 7 years. Jeff had come to the house to convince Roy to come to California to work on some new material and create something amazing.A few months passed and in the summer of 1985 Roy and his wife Barbara visited the well known song writer Jerry Williams at his Malibu home on Encinal Bluffs.After a week in Malibu, walking the beaches, hanging at The Colony Coffee Shop and experiencing classic Malibu, they like many who visit, fell in love with Malibu and impulsively bought a place at the Latigo Villas, which is now Tivolli Cove. During this time Roy Jr, Wesley and Alex, their three sons who were enjoying their Tennessee Summer, got a call from Roy and Barbara asking if they would like to come try living in Malibu. Without hesitation Roy Jr and Alex jumped at the opportunity while Wesley, the oldest, now 20, decided to stay behind.Alex, aka Orbi, recalls that by the second day in Malibu, Debra the clerk at Hughes market, now Ralphs, greeted the Orbison’s, took a look at Alex then Roy, and said “oh you must be Alex’s dad”. Roy had a chuckle while walking to the car repeating “Alex’s dad, I can get used to this”. Next stop over to cross creek to give Old Malibu Joe some oranges. An avuncular fixture, Joe took the real estate tenet “the cheapest house in the best neighborhood” to heart. Perfected it as he assembled a series of cardboard appliance boxes in the brush adjacent to the Cross Creek parking lot and called it home. Joe had his own fan base which now included the Orbison’s who were fast becoming locals. Now that the boys were here they needed a bigger place and where else than The Colony. So they rented the Elkins/Stoker house, enrolled the the boys in school and it was official. With the Class of 1955 being produced by Dick Clark at Sun Studios in Memphis getting under way, Roy went back South. In a way it was a step backwards as Roy had just gotten a new publicist and was letting Hollywood and everyone else know he was in LA to collect songs and work on a new album. Roy wrapped up the Class of 55 project an ended the year by releasing a greatest hits album.For Roy, the year of 86 was about collecting songs and working with writers like Bill Dees who Roy had written Pretty Woman with as well as getting the chance to enjoy Malibu. In Tennessee Roy and Johnny Cash were the big dogs and being that it was still a small town they stuck out like...Big Dogs.
Roy in front of Rumbo studios in the valley with his 1967 tri-power big block Corvette. His other Corvette (the '66) would burn in the 1993 Malibu fire at Las Flores.
The Traveling Wilburys, minus Bob Dylan who was on tour, recording on top of Mullholland near Hollywood.
9026FLY The beauty of Malibu was that celebrity was not uncommon and people would let you do your thing unencumbered. On a typical day Roy could be seen diving on The PCH in his 66 big block red on black Corvette. For Roy, moving to Malibu was important because of the creative circle which included Jerry Williams, Bill Dees, Will Jennings as well as Jeff Lynn who had been flying in periodically. And Tivoli Villas had been kept as a writing pad for the guys. Coming into 87 things started picking up and those in the creative world knew Roy was in town and working on an album. It didn’t hurt that Roy had just been inducted into the Rock n Roll hall of fame. Soon after, Jeff Lynn moved to LA to start work on Roy’s album. Jeff brought Tom Petty into the mix and they began collaborating on songs at Ocean Way Studios, Rumbo studios, as well as Mike Cambell’s house in The Valley.
The boys laying down vocals in the house on Mullholland circa 1988. Lt-Rt: George, Jeff, Tom, Roy, and Bob.
Now that Roy was in LA he began mixing with the Hollywood scene which was great pre promotion for his forthcoming album. Roy also worked on the sound track for David Lynch’s film Less Than Zero with music producer Rick Rubin and Roy even sang the national anthem for Wayne Gretzky’s first game with The LA Kings. These were gigs that Roy definitely would not have gotten if he were still living in Tennessee. Roy understood the value of showing up at Hollywood functions and took full advantage of all opportunities as he was on a mission to create an amazing album and promote himself in a light that could propel him and the album successfully. Adding to his cache”, Roy shot Roy Orbison and Friends a Black and White Night at the Coconut Grove” in vintage film noir style. Musical arrangements were provided by T Bone Burnett which featured the best of Roy’s hits with Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, KD Lang and Bonnie Raitt, all admirers, all who had become friendsK
The Orbison Family Christmas photo session 1987 at the Adamson House. Lt-Rt: Alex ( Orbi), Roy Jr., Roy, and Barbara.
In 88 the Jeff Lynn sessions went into full effect in Mike Cambell’s garage which became a home away from home for the guys to work on Mystery Girl,Roys final California inspired masterpiece. While tracking the song You Got It and California Blue, in the middle of the recording. In need of a single for his own album he convinced them to head over to Point Dume the next day to work on a song at Bob Dylan’s house. Thus the song Handle With Care was created which gave birth to the newly formed project The Traveling Wilburys. Granted the idea for this all star band had been previously discussed by George and Jeff in London at George’s over a few Coronas prior to the start of Mystery Girl yet the two of them were waiting for the right moment for it to happen organically. This was Malibu in the 80’s and this was how songs were written and bands were formed. Just another day in the neighborhood.
Roy Orbison, Mystery Girl photo shoot
9026FLY Roy’s album, Mystery Girl, was put on hold that summer to jump into writing and recording the magical, spontaneously formed Wilburys that featured Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynn, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. Talk about a super group! George then talked everyone into going back to England to his estate Friar Park to finish the album.
Roy's Hollywood Star ceremony 2011 ( his star is on Vine in front of Capitol Records Building.) Lt-Rt: Wesley, Alex ( Orbi), Barbara, and Roy Jr.
At this time they were all simultaneously working on their own projects: Roy’s, Mystery Girl, Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever and The Traveling Wilburys. Not to mention they were all recording on each others albums as well as each continuing on their own tours. This was truly an amazingly creative time for all. Within three months they released the video for Handel With Care. From here it was all about strategically trying to figure how to space the release of all these Jeff Lynn produced albums. Touring for The Wilburys was discussed but Roy and the others thought it would be best to let it pass as they had multiple releases to promote including George’s Cloud 9, followed by The Wilburys, Roys Mystery Girl and Tom’s Full Moon Fever.While Roy was in London he visited Bono at a U2 show and asked Bono if he had any songs for The Mystery Girl project and Bono showed Roy She’s a Mystery which became one of the last songs to make the album.When Roy returned to the states he grabbed Mike Gambell and went into Rumbo Studios to record Windsurfer written by Bill Dees and Carless Heart with Albert Hammond and Diane Warren. Next they recorded In The Real World with Will Jennings and Richard Kerr which also included Barbara and Roy Jr singing backups. Roy’s oldest son Wesley landed one of his own songs on the Album, The Only One.
This was Malibu in the 80’s and this was how songs were written and bands were formed. Just another day in the neighborhood.
The Mystery Girl Deluxe CD/DVD with a track featuring Roy's sons playing behind the Latigo Villas demo of " The Way is Love" co-written with Bill Dees. The DVD contains music videos and a documentary directed by Alex Orbi Orbison.
Bono came back to LA to produce She’s A Mystery To Me Which became the last track to be recorded. Up until this time Roy’s project had been called the New Album yet from that point on it became Mystery Girl. Roy would never see the release of the album as he passed away on December 6th of 88.Malibu was where Roy was destined to carry on the last leg of his life, work, love, family and friends. Malibu changed his life, inspired him and opened his eyes, heart and mind to the collaborative energy of the place and the people that called it home. It was in the stars, metaphorically, and perhaps in actuality. This was where he was meant to end up and what he was meant to do for the last chapter of his life. Roy Orbison not only was gifted with a supernally angelic voice but was considered by many as the most embraceable in the pantheon of music’s beloved artists. Malibu loved you, Roy; still does: was honored by your inclusion; still is. Your music touched us as you touched us. You will never be forgotten.
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HELENE HENDERSON’S LONG AWAITED MALIBU FARM COOKBOOK IS RELEASED About two years ago Helene Henderson received an email from a fellow Swede, Martin Löf, asking if he could come and photograph her next backyard farm dinner. She decided to give the stranger a chance and allowed him to hang out and shoot away at her next event. Martin returned to Sweden and but had already fallen in love with Malibu and the new food movement Helene was birthing from her back yard. He pitched an idea for a book, Helene accepted, and soon Martin was back in Malibu. Over the course of just two days, Martin shot all the images found in the Malibu Farm Cookbook. None of the dishes were prepped and stylized as “food photography.” All the dishes photographed were made by Helene for catering jobs, private chef commitments, or for Malibu Farm dinners…. real dishes that somebody ate. Just two weeks ago the first batch of Malibu Farm Cookbooks made in to the end of the pier at the restaurant run by Helene. Within hours of it being announced online, sales had already taken off. The first batch of 200 copies sold out by the end of the day and I was lucky enough to get my hands a copy for myself and a few Malibu Farm loving friends.
Helene Henderson at Malibu Farm on the pier holding her long awaited cookbook on the night of her book signing party held on winter solstice with a spectacular sunset provided by Mother Nature
The Malibu Farm Cookbook is full of amazing recipes that are simple to prepare but full of flavor and healthy at the same time. More than just a cookbook, there are many pages dedicated to the local food artisans that grow or produce ingredients found in the book. The book contains mostly vegetarian recopies with a few pages dedicated to meat and several more to seafood dishes. You’ll find the directions easy to follow and the recipes forgiving if you make a little mistake. These are the type of recipes that anyone can make and have a finished dish that will have guests asking how you made it! The next batch of books should be in the restaurant in the next week or two. I was honored to be asked to contribute to the book and I’ll leave it as a surprise as to what recipe of mine made it in to the book. Don’t miss out on this book that really captures what Malibu eating is all about. Mike Gardner is a local real estate agent and his 5 year old already knows how to knead bread dough and ferment cabbage.
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LYON FARRELL By Rob Taylor
How is the snow this early in the season and where have you been riding? I rode at Mammoth for opening day and there was only one chair open...It was a blast but there wasn’t much coverage and it was barely cold enough to blow snow. Now I am in Breckenridge and there’s a lot of snow with more coming. This year though, Breck didn’t open with the 3 jump line. It’s tons of fun riding with my friends after being off snow for a few months. What are your favorite 3 tricks and are you landing them consistently? 1. Off-the-Toes Front Three2. Back Side 540 Shifty3. Back 7 MelonThese are my favorite tricks. I land back double 10’s consistently but they aren’t my favorite trick What are the hardest tricks you are starting to nail and are you training them on a tramp and/or foam pit? The hardest trick I’ve been doing is a back double 10. The hardest tricks I’ve been trying are a front double 10 and off the heels backside. I train at red Bull on the tramp with Matt Christensen which helps me with air awareness. Do you have any new sponsors you want to talk about and who are you training with? I have new sponsorship with Red Bull and Electric and continued support from Volcom. I train with the US snowboard team and hanging out with Red Gerard, Brock Crouch and Toby Miller. Do you have any new projects you want to talk about, films or photo shoots? I’m working with my friends this winter on shooting a documentary film called “Melt”. It’s basically a road trip movie through the winter where we will actually be discussing the problems global warming is having on weather patterns and how that affects snow and winter. I love snow and winter time and want to make sure we have plenty in the years to come. We will also show snowboarding action and off the hill shenanigans while telling the story of protecting our winters
“Off the hill I train with Matt Christensen ( below ), the Red Bull aerial coach to improve my aerial awareness. We do a lot of tramp work and this is me in the middle of a back flip while Matt is spotting me with a crash pad.”
“Red Bull training camp in Aspen ( above ) is really great. Since I recently signed with them they’ve been helping me train on and off the hill. This is me poking a backside 720 melon. A melon means I’m grabbing on my heel edge between my feet. This is one of my favorite tricks because I like the late cork (off axis rotation) on the last 360.”
“I also spend a lot of time skateboarding and surfing. This is me ( right ) at the Aspen skatepark doing a backside tuck knee indy.”
“This is me doing a backside double cork 1080 ( left ). A cork means the rotations are off axis, kind of like a corkscrew. I’m grabbing toe side with my front hand, which is called a Mute grab or Slob, it’s the safest when you’re pulling multiple rotations because it helps pull you around.”
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Our hearts are heavy at 90265 magazine. We lost a creative collaborator and wonderful friend, Carol Sue Stoddard. Carol Sue sustained devastating injuries in a car accident on Dec. 22 on Malibu Canyon near Pepperdine and never recovered. She passed away on Dec. 26 at 55 years young. Carol Sue Stoddard, an award winning photographer and videographer. She was given her first camera at the age of 10 and was hooked ever since. After graduating from UCSD, she started her own Production Company to make her own short films and documentaries, many of which have aired on local television.
Viewers will never forget her personal documentary as her house was burning to the ground in the Malibu Fire of 2008 which aired all over the world. Her photos have been published in the NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, National Geographic, 90265 Life and Style and many others. She has exhibited at various art galleries, museums and at the Directors Guild in Hollywood, CA.
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Carol Sue was a constant traveler in every sense of the word. At ease travelling the world or in her travel van, she was forever looking for the next perfect “shot” and new experience. As her personal mantra, was “Focusing on what makes her heart sing”, her life included, firstly, Being of Service in addition to trips to unknown towns and National Parks, being in nature, riding her horse, Rocky, as well as watching endless movies and immersing herself in novels. Her love of animals filled the universe which was obvious to anyone watching her with her constant companion, Ginger or seeing the endless photos in her portfolio. There isn’t anyone (human or otherwise) who spent time in her presence that hasn’t fallen in love with her in some way. She epitomized and taught us all unconditional love for which we all strive to experience. She taught forgiveness, perseverance, and compassion. She taught us how to never give up on a dream. As her close friend, Kelly Pessis-Breese, stated so tellingly, “When she had a goal, she accomplished it. She didn’t go around the mountain, she demolished it!” As she wrote in her own words, “failures are just successful experiences, therefore, a successful experience is not a failure.” Carol Sue’s endless love for her family and friends will live on in our memories of her as it comforts us now in this sudden, terrible loss. She is survived by her father and step mother, Richard and Marilyn Stoddard, brother Steve Stoddard (almost wife, Nadia Dobrina), brother Craig Stoddard (wife Dana), step sister, Cathy Kort and nephew, Ryan Kort, step brother Steve Morris, nephew Sean Stoddard , nieces Christina Czaykowski and Carissa Stoddard, ….. grand nephew, Dylan…. and hundreds of loving friends here in Malibu and around the world. Carol will always be the brightest star of the night.. shining into our hearts.
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CONTRIBUTORS Steve Woods devotion to
the ocean and the mountains was originally inspired by his grandparents fishing and backpacking stories of their honeymoon in Malibu back in 1922. Woods learned to surf in the late 60’s, and after traveling the globe, he made Malibu his base camp where he raised his two sons, Taylor and Levi. Woods interest in environmental issues started when a group of local surfers protested water pollution practices at Surfrider Point which led to the birth of the Surfrider Foundation. He and his wife, editor in Chief Cece Woods started 90265 Magazine in 2013 and most recently added Malibu’s latest publication, The Local. They live in Corral Canyon.
Rob Taylor
is a writer, film maker, photographer and television editor who spends his time mainly traveling in search of action, adventure and excitement. Recent works include the award winning documentary film “Sea of Darkness” and Emmy nominated live television broadcasts of “Monster Energy Supercross”. Taylor’s focus has since expanded to the publishing world with his frequent contributions to 90265, The Local and MTK magazines which include character profiles and environmental writing. Taylor lives on Point Dume with his wife Claudia and daughters Ella and Hannah. Follow Rob Taylor: @rt2000 on instagram
CLAUDIA TAYLOR a life long Malibu local grew up riding
horses on Topanga Beach in the 60's and was imbued with a deep appreciation for the natural beauty. From an early age Claudia was drawn to a love of the arts, culture and literature and worked as Arts and Entertainment Editor for Santa Monica News. A self taught chef and food enthusiast, Claudia owned and operated a number of successful catering and event coordination companies. Besides her activities for 90265Magazine, she owns Surfmonk, an eco-clothing company inspired by surfers for beach, lounge and spa. Her motivations come from a lifelong quest for Truth, Justice and the Malibu Way. Together she and Rob Taylor have raised their two children in Malibu on the bluff overlooking Paradise Cove. Daily paddles, beach runs with their dogs, and mountain hikes are part of the lifestyle they cherish. Follow Claudia Taylor: @surfmonk on instagram
RANDY OLSON
is an 8 year resident of Malibu who splits his time between surfing County Line and consulting to NASA, CDC, NIH, Surfrider Foundation, NRDC and countless other science and environmental organizations on their mass communications. His newest book, "Houston, We Have A Narrative: Why Science Needs Story" will be published by University of Chicago Press in September.
ADDISON ALTENDORF is a German-American
who calls both Malibu and Santa Barbara his home. At once a writer for The Current, Malibu High’s own letter, he is now a contributor and central staff member of 90265 and The Local. Addison is multifaceted and truly remarkable. Both a society man and an avid outdoorsman, he comments on an extensive variety of topics. Follow Addison Altendorf : @addisonaltendorf on instagram
MIKE GARDNER
Gardner is also the author of The Malibu Real Estate Blog where he gives “The low down on the high end.” The site is one of the most popular sources for information about Malibu homes for sale, best buys, and an insider’s look at the local real estate scene. The site attracts over 10,000 visitors per month and is often linked to from major media sites like The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and LACurbed.com.
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