Sorry for the lack of round-up last weekend, it was a busy one and I hadn’t read anything I felt excited by wholeheartedly. Not today though! This week for paid subscribers there will be two posts, a Quick Dive and another Rookie’s Guide so if you’re not signed up you’ll miss them.
Standing On The Ocean Horizon
If you needed any further proof that some guys have all the luck, then google Tetiaroa the island paradise bought by Marlon Brando and cultivated into luxury resort but perhaps more importantly, to Brando as well, an ecological research facility. Hampton Sides (yeah that is his real name) had the enviable task of visiting Tetiaroa before the 2020 travel restrictions in order to write about the work that’s being done there to reverse the environment to a time before man for Outside Magazine. Some guys have have all the luck.
Selling Your Sole
I remember reading a story a few years ago that detailed the underground black market of reselling Supreme products, the limited nature of which dictated above retail prices on the secondary market. The sneaker market makes that market look like a charity bake sale in comparison, fuelled by savvy Gen-Z-ers who are aware of the value and scarcity of products, with the gutsiness to build business reselling them. Bloomberg Businessweek has an insight into this industry and the teens conquering it.
The Women Who Covered Wars
I’m a huge Don McCullin fan, I read his autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour in about a week. A fascinating look at wars through a lens in the trenches, in the blood and in the shrapnel. This piece from The Atlantic looks at a group of women who broke the mould, in many ways, when it came to reporting during Vietnam and later Iraq and how they’re lack of permission gave them the opportunity to cover stories that the men weren’t covering - or in most cases couldn’t cover.
See ya
-M