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Los Angeles based Crooks & Castles is jumping the pond over to Hawaii (can you blame them) and opening their Hawaii retail store at 641 Keeaumoku Street, hostess bar central, and right around the corner from Kicks Hawaii. Free Ace of Spades champagne to celebrate, since I can’t afford that I plan on aku birding.  Crooks has been a staple here in Hawaii for the past couple years, so it only makes sense to open up shop here. Check out some of the limited edition Hawaii themed shirts available for the opening here on their blog. Doors officially open at 11am.

Took this photo of Chinaman’s Hat several weeks ago with my holga. Film: Kodak EPP 120 format; cross processed.

I’m so glad it’s Friday… it’s been a tough week and it’s only going to get worse from here on… hope the weekend makes up for it.

Have a great weekend!

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!!

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…

Please come to Manifest this Saturday for the opening of the Analog Sunshine Recorders photo exhibit! My friends have been working really hard the past few days putting up over 200+ photos from 12 different artists while I’m a prisoner here at my work cubicle. All photos were shot on film in various speeds and sizes. Everyone has some really amazing pieces of work… makes me quite intimidated to be honest, but that’s ok… consider my photos an element of total randomness in the bunch! Haha! It’ll be a lot of fun, so please drop by… it’s the last weekend to get nuts before school is back in session! Don’t be square… be there!

With pieces about Mike Giant, Willy Branlund, Joe Pa’ahana, Matisyahu, Kool Herc, Lucky Olelo, Chris Lundy, Clones of The Queen, Painted Highways, The Deadbeats, 12th Planet, Shaun Castro and many more.

Pick it up for FREE at these locations:

Aloha Army
226 Lewers St
Honolulu, HI 96815

A’ala Park Boardshop (APB)
185 N King St
Honolulu, HI 96817

Crooks & Castles (opening soon)
641 Keeaumoku Street Suite One
Honolulu, HI 96814

FITTED
1438 Kona St
Honolulu, HI 96814

In4mation - Ward Warehouse
1050 Ala Moana Blvd
Honolulu, HI 96814

In4mation - Pearlridge
98-1005 Moanalua Rd Space 823
Aiea, HI 96701

Stussy - Honolulu
1288 Ala Moana Blvd
Honolulu, HI 96814

Volcom - Waikiki
2134 Kalakaua Ave
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815

Volcom - Haleiwa
62-620 Kamehameha Hwy
Haleiwa, HI 96712

US West Coast, NYC & Japan distribution coming in the next couple weeks.

… Friday the 13th, but still a Friday, nonetheless; and that works for me. Have a great weekend!

Please stop by the Manifest for ‘The Analog Sunshine Recorders’ opening reception on Saturday, August 21, 2010, 8:00 p.m.

“Join us as we showcase a heterogeneous mixture of our many sensitive emulsions, i.e. an explosion of all our shit on the wall.”

Opening reception:
Saturday, August 21, 8:00PM
Manifest (32 North Hotel Street, Honolulu, HI 96817)
21+

Exhibition through September 13.

The Analog Sunshine Recorders:
A Hodgepodge of Photographic Wonderment
August 21 - September 13 at the Manifest

FEATURING WORKS OLD AND NEW FROM:
Ikaika Akana
Meagan Bent
John Hook
Natalie Nakasone
Sandra Ng
Justin Ornellas
Chris Rohrer
Gary Saito
Bronson Shimabukuro
Cassy Song
Keisuke Takahashi
LeAnn Yamamoto

A few very random photos from this past weekend…

Took this photo with my Diana+ at Lighthouse last weekend. So glad today is Friday and another weekend lies ahead… I wish weekends consisted of 5 days and the work week consisted of only 2 days instead… that’d be nice.

Have a great weekend!