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One of the features of our Travel issue Tokyo to Osaka the movie chronicles a bicycle journey through Japan. Come down to Nextdoor and check out the Hawaii premiere.  Surprise, Surprise Mutherfuckers! Presented by Aloha Fixed.

This Saturday from 8am - 4pm is The Peter Miller Foundation Annual Shorebreak Classic at Kalama Beach in Kailua. This FREE contest is put on by Mike Miller, with the help of many sponsors, in memory of his twin brother Peter Miller and good friends Jason Bogle and David Aluli. All three were Kailua natives and very talented surfers, that were unfortunately taken before their time. This event is livecated to them and is all about the groms! Tons of product giveaways, free lunch and ice cream for all contestants and hopefully some surf! To read more about the foundation, go to the foundation website here. Or if you have our Goin’ Places issue, you can read our piece with Mike Miller for more insight.

I remember as a grom seeing The Miller Brothers, and what looked like a Mini-Miller Brother (Bogle), owning and shredding Pyramid Rock. Getting the best waves and the biggest barrels. And one kona wind evening, I remember seeing Aluli do the scariest floater at North Beach. These dudes dominated!!

The annual Red Bull Rivals surf team contest will be held on Sept. 4 at Sandy Beach with the South Shore team defending their title. It will be the perfect way to get ready for B90X Pool Party which will be raging the day after. Not too mention, that the Crooks & Castles grand opening is the night before Red Bull Rivals. Holy crap! My liver is already starting to hurt. Labor Day weekend is going to be mental.

Last year's victors: Town. Image by Zak Noyle courtesy of Red Bull

The following is the recently announced rosters of the team:

Town (South Shore):

Captain: Carissa Moore

Makana Ciotti, Kekoa Cazimero, Joel Centeio, Dustin Cuizon, Charlie Carroll, Randall Paulson, Jun Jo, Ezekiel Lau, Keanu Asing and Kelia Moniz

Country (North Shore)

Captain: Coco Ho

Jamie O’Brien, Kalani Robb, Flynn Novak, Makuakai Rothman, Pancho Sullivan, Mason Ho, Sean Moody, John Florence, Kalani David and Alessa Quizon

Here’s another photo I took on my Blackbird Fly TLR camera several weeks ago on the North Shore. Film: Agfa CT Precisa 100 35mm color slide film; cross processed. Don’t you just love horses? I do…

Happy Tuesday… two days down, three more to go…

Yeah, he dresses like the 4th Beastie Boy, uses Hova’s out-of-breath-flow too much and looks like Mike Posner’s less retarded 4 foot tall twin, but he’s witty, confident and claims to shoe shop with Darrelle Revis. Plus he uses one of my all time favorite Nas lines. Download Mac Miller’s new mixtape K.I.D.S. (based on the Larry Clark movie of the same title) here. He linked with indie Director Ian Wolfson to shoot a three part video (obviously inspired by Clark’s K.I.D.S. & John Hughes Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) for the release of the mixtape. Thumbs UP!

One of the great bands playing at 80 proof will be Shoppinglist. Check out this video of them recording at the studio. You can go over to Contrast Tv and see them playing a live set from the Contrast Office. Go right meow.

It was a nice long weekend, but unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Today is back to work and back to school for me. Hope I’m able to juggle both work and two studio classes this semester. It’s not going to be easy… wish me luck… I’m going to need it.

This photo was taken several weeks ago on my new Polaroid 250 Land Camera with Fuji fp-100c instant film. Have a great week!

I was trying to get my fix of Black Star music because they will be performing at Aloha Tower Market Place on Friday night, and I came across these two videos. The first is of young, Aussie Craig Anderson shredding to Talib Kweli’s Get By. It was a submission for Innersection.tv and the video is making me want to surf so very badly. The second video is a commercial for the Air Jordan XVI and features Mos Def’s Umi Says. You may think that this video would make me want to play basketball, but it actually just makes we want to be taller. I think 6′6″ would be a perfect height for me that way I could look MJ straight in his eye.