Girls Camping trip Mokuleia film

Auction Block film

Early morning adventure with dad. We've been wanting to go to the auction block for a while. It was early, someone pulled me aside to shoot the farm dust off my boots. Dad got a mahi to print (gyotaku). Pretty awesome experience, great guys, learned a lot about fish... Shot with Olympus OM-1 and Canon 50D but I ended up really liking the film pictures. Maybe I'll post the digital ones later...

Lady in White

Fairystories adventure day with the girlies

DEMRR 2012

Peleton up Kunia

Quick recovery for Jason Smith from major cycling accident a few months ago, Ray Brust

Eric Lau talking story before the madness begins. " So what, beer after dude? Btw Eric, where'd you hide your good luck Koala?

Mike Zagorski and Penn Henderson in the lead ready to lead the breakaway group with Kevin Kawainui right behind 

"The guy from Chicago" Dave Moyer- Cat 1 leading the breakaway

Breakaway group: Penn, Moyer, Zagorski

Peleton with Nguyen Le leading the way 

Kahana Bay

Volunteers at Temple Valley. Love the water bottles this year

Self portrait+driver (Milton)=awesome team

Bikesx2 nearing the end

Baby Makapuu: Eric Lau, Eric Kollai, Ray Brust?

Final Drop

2x Champ: Eric Lau

From left: Ray Brust, Eric Lau, Nguyen Le, Eric Kollai, Kevin Kawainui

So I tried to narrow down the pictures from this weekend's epic race, the Dick Evan's Memorial Road Race, but honestly 112 miles of action and over 1000 epic pictures is hard to narrow down. Although I'm slow to commit and it took a lot of effort for the race organizer (Nguyen Le) to get me to shoot, I don't regret one moment of it, not even when it poured as we were going 40 miles an hour. It was amazing sitting on the back of the motorcycle for such an event and having front row seats to watch what I imagine the Tour de France to be like: I got to see the accidents, attacks and endurance of these amazing racers. Better yet, I knew at least half of them personally, which made it exciting. The only thing better than racing is definitely sitting on the back of a motor powered bike taking pictures of people killing themselves. Ok actually I probably enjoyed my job more. Plus it was a killer core and leg workout trying to hang on for dear life. Thank God my driver Milton was an awesome driver and helped me stay on! Fun times yelling at him to speed up so the breakaway group wouldn't draft. I would have done the same thing, if only I were that fast! Anyway, spectacular day, amazing job riders and volunteers! A hui hou!

Waikiki Surf Adventure Old-school Film Style

Surf adventure with a Reef Master automatic camera, 400TX film, surfboards, snorkel and mask. Fun to re-create some vintage black and white surf memories done by our predecessors. Stoked how the prints came out! Thanks to Christian Cook for developing and scanning the film! A hui hou!

Beach Day with the Cousins

Beach day with the little ones. Things that make me nostalgic: vintage station wagons (65 Chevy II...), The Beatles, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Shark week, Boiled peanuts and places I used to go with my grandpa including this one. So my cousins still get to experience my grandpa one way or another.

Puzzle Pieces and Closed Doors pt. 1

So I came up with a new project last night after a talk with a co-worker about exes and art after dark's body of art this coming friday. I decided to set out on a project I would call puzzle pieces and closed doors. I love projects, I may live for them honestly. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this one, maybe make a zine, maybe make prints, blog, or just leave it to journaling and soul searching. Who knows. But for now here's a shot from last nights self portraits I took "lo bueno, lo malo." Lo bueno por la izquierda (the left) y lo malo por la derecha (the right). A creative way to look at the why's and why not's and express it through art. Here's to taking a step forward.

Motorcycle Diaries

Yup, I got shot too :)