A fight in the water no matter right or wrong, always kills your session.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Dawn Patrol Haiku Poems and Hayden's First Painting.
Waiting in moonlight.
Stars begin to disappear.
Time to paddle out.
Eight-o-six. Pau surf.
Time drive wife to work.
Spend time with the kid.
Hayden's First Painting
Stars begin to disappear.
Time to paddle out.
Eight-o-six. Pau surf.
Time drive wife to work.
Spend time with the kid.
Hayden's First Painting
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Scrappers
Great Friend, Father, Artist with a sense of humor, Award winning Art Director of the Portand Mercury, skater, surfer, curator, and a man that can control his beer drinkin'.
Before we met, we coincidentally drew almost identical works of art...in subject matter and composition. I would tell you about how, but once I heard that "People need to remember your message in terms that are important to them." (http://www.mlrogersagency.com/.)
the color one is his, the black-n-white one is I did.
clips off his site.
Before we met, we coincidentally drew almost identical works of art...in subject matter and composition. I would tell you about how, but once I heard that "People need to remember your message in terms that are important to them." (http://www.mlrogersagency.com/.)
the color one is his, the black-n-white one is I did.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Vers Hawaii.
Today goes out to Radical Brother, Matt Ortiz from Vers Hawaii. Vershawaii.com. I like this drawing.Here's an idea, the next group of posts, I will introduce you to my favorite artists.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Charlie Butters
I was just thinking about my brother Charlie B.
When we used to do Hand Plant Sessions in parking lots, when you and a bunch of other skaters stand in a circle while one skater goes into the middle and does a Hand Plant. The ulitmate hand plant was the "Ho Ho" Its when you do a hand plant and go into a hand stand and walk around with you board. You can then do all kind of tweaks.
Usually in a Hand Plant Session, you are trying to show your homies what you got right...
always trying to one up the other dude, like a break dance circle. Anyway.
Charlie used to do all kinds of Ho Ho's. One of them was when he went into a Ho Ho, tweaked it a couple of times, then walked out of the circle on his hands, with the board tweaked in some way and walk out of the parking lot around the building until you couldn't see him anymore then skate back.
It was so rad.
He used to ride a Shut Board or Sam Cunningham.
He was one of the first Shut Riders until for some reason he didn't ride for them anymore, so he started his own company with friend Ian McCarthy called Nimbus Skates.
Him and Ian would soon hand pick the best skaters in the New York City vicinity.
and have one of the best skate teams on the East Coast. Most of the riders became the first riders for Zoo York. Some of them include: Jeff Pang, Peter Bici, Peter Huynh, Bob Puleo, James Lynch, Justin Pierce, Rich Arbitelle, Qulon Douglas, Brian Loki, Ryan Hickey.
It's a little bit of a long story which I would like to write a book about, possibly called East Coast Skate Stories
When we used to do Hand Plant Sessions in parking lots, when you and a bunch of other skaters stand in a circle while one skater goes into the middle and does a Hand Plant. The ulitmate hand plant was the "Ho Ho" Its when you do a hand plant and go into a hand stand and walk around with you board. You can then do all kind of tweaks.
Usually in a Hand Plant Session, you are trying to show your homies what you got right...
always trying to one up the other dude, like a break dance circle. Anyway.
Charlie used to do all kinds of Ho Ho's. One of them was when he went into a Ho Ho, tweaked it a couple of times, then walked out of the circle on his hands, with the board tweaked in some way and walk out of the parking lot around the building until you couldn't see him anymore then skate back.
It was so rad.
He used to ride a Shut Board or Sam Cunningham.
He was one of the first Shut Riders until for some reason he didn't ride for them anymore, so he started his own company with friend Ian McCarthy called Nimbus Skates.
Him and Ian would soon hand pick the best skaters in the New York City vicinity.
and have one of the best skate teams on the East Coast. Most of the riders became the first riders for Zoo York. Some of them include: Jeff Pang, Peter Bici, Peter Huynh, Bob Puleo, James Lynch, Justin Pierce, Rich Arbitelle, Qulon Douglas, Brian Loki, Ryan Hickey.
It's a little bit of a long story which I would like to write a book about, possibly called East Coast Skate Stories
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
New Blog
Some titles that reveal what this blog will be about:
Tales of a Honolulu Homeboy
Surf Skate Create
Living Dreams
Surf Life.
OK Let's begin.
Here are two haikus I wrote at Alex's Haiku House in Pupukea, North Shore Oahu.
Drop into the wave.
Tuck into the barrel stoked.
Paddle out for more.
My name is Alex
I love to surf Waimea
I often break guns.
But then the next day, I went to Haleiwa with wife Marisa and baby Hayden to
go for a little swim and surf and walked my foot into a sharp jagged lava rock
sticking out of the sand and fell down in the slowest motion digging the
nose of my surfboard into the sand.
Marisa thought I was being dramatic until she saw my tore bleeding foot.
It hurt and prevented me from surfing the perfect mini waves that I was staring at when I tripped.
Moral of the story:
Be in the moment even when you are looking further ahead,
or else you might trip on what's immediately in front of you
postponing your movement further ahead.
First Post
-Manny Aloha
Tales of a Honolulu Homeboy
Surf Skate Create
Living Dreams
Surf Life.
OK Let's begin.
Here are two haikus I wrote at Alex's Haiku House in Pupukea, North Shore Oahu.
Drop into the wave.
Tuck into the barrel stoked.
Paddle out for more.
My name is Alex
I love to surf Waimea
I often break guns.
But then the next day, I went to Haleiwa with wife Marisa and baby Hayden to
go for a little swim and surf and walked my foot into a sharp jagged lava rock
sticking out of the sand and fell down in the slowest motion digging the
nose of my surfboard into the sand.
Marisa thought I was being dramatic until she saw my tore bleeding foot.
It hurt and prevented me from surfing the perfect mini waves that I was staring at when I tripped.
Moral of the story:
Be in the moment even when you are looking further ahead,
or else you might trip on what's immediately in front of you
postponing your movement further ahead.
First Post
-Manny Aloha
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