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a magazine for the independent age. art. music. fashion. profiles.
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letter from the editor IDENTITY. What a broad theme, no? Today we are so confused as to who we are. We are all under this scheme of marketing and branding ourselves, our social identity, the companies we work for, the places that we stay. We name drop and have loud opinions because that makes us feel more valued. We try to get as many “likes” as possible and we are all on that “hustle”. The best jobs nowadays are jobs that didn’t exist 13, 14 years ago. Bloggers. Vloggers. Viners. Social Media insta-stars. Reality television personalities. They all move onto product launches. With constant reminders to “fan us”, “like us”, or “follow us” aaaallll in order to reach the ideal section of social media status and a chance at “jobless” freedom. That’s the new American dream. That’s the new identity. And I’m into it. BUT, what happens when no one’s sponsoring your dream/identity? What happens when your dream is still JUST a dream? Do you keep going? The answer is yes. My dream for this magazine is still a dream. We aren’t pulling in ad sales or becoming tastemakers. We aren’t quitting our day jobs and blogging about our travels. We are still working...and working with the creative process in heart and hand and hoping it all works out. What’s great is that it’s still under our rules, our agenda, and our vision. And that’s the dream, really. NO compromises. NO selling our souls for companies willing to give us cash to talk about rando products we don’t care about or that are bad for society and the environment. We are The Manifold, a company with integrity and a hankering for real-speak, stunning images, and stories that satisfy all the nooks and crannies of our ever plunging guilty-pleasure ridden mind. I really hope you enjoy this issue in all of it’s identity.
Thanks for reading. Thanks for supporting and mostly, thanks for following along in our vision to make the world that much sweeter. If you want to join our team of weirdos please send your submissions to SUBMIT@TheManifoldMag.com
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Editor-in-Chief Graphic Design Napua Camarillo
Contributors Stowell Watters (ME) Dan Madsen (HI) Adam Funari (OAHU) Justin Michalek (OAHU) Destiny Brown (OAHU) Lila Lee (OAHU) Erin Lenchanko (OAHU) Brie Nielson (OAHU) Rachel Vezer (AUS) Kale Kaaikala (MAUI) Claudio Parentela (ITALY) Jon Sanchez (OAHU) Ricardo Graca (PORTUGAL) Mackenzie Yoshida (OAHU) Assaf Azouri (ISRAEL) Gui Alves (BRAZIL/OAHU) Al Town (PA/MAUI) Josh Fuentes (OAHU) Sergio Garcon (COLUMBIA) Wencke Chodan (GERMANY) Steph Hu (OAHU) Ricky Peters (OAHU)
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contents
Island Ninja 808 Skater and Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant turned America Ninja Warrior tells us about his bucket list. Page 36
Toot Toot Waikiki beach boy, Mr Toots tells us about his life and love of shaping Page 18
Missing Identity An afternoon soaked in light Page 26
Salty Strokes A few summer mono prints to get you in the mood for salt and sun by Adam Funari Page 22
Moke Life We interview the man behind the brand to get to know more about his skate of mind Page 46
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Never Enough More booze, less snooze. Page 50
Cuba Libre The trip of a lifetime Page 64
Cliff Kapono A surfer, a scientiest, a man making a difference. Page 58
Nazare What to see and do while you’re hunting down one of the biggest waves in the world Page 56
Identity Crisis A man on a mission throughout America with a motorcycle and a camera Page 80
Tita Titsling A life in drag: the birth of Tita the B with the magical mustache Page 70
contributors
ADAM FUNARI Honolulu, Hawaii Musician, artist, interviewer
DESTINY SHARION Oahu Poet
Destiny was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She writes poetr y about life experiences and how they’ve shaped her into the woman she is today. She uses her poetry to heal and remind herself and others to breathe.
After snagging a degree in fine art and photography life lead Funari down a road of playing drums in punk bands and a string of really bad jobs. Moving to Hawaii 11 years go by way of Japan he went back to school for New Media Arts and currently works as a Creative Service Director while also co-owning a lifestyle brand called Ditch Life. He currently plays drums for a band called THANKS, and surfs and rides skateboards as much as possible.
DAN MADSEN Hilo, HI Artist
WENCKE CHODAN Germany Illustrator
Wencke Chodan has been best friends with her travel bug since they both saw the light of day, and together they have seen many wondrous and enchanting places since. She loves to explore, learn, and find universals as well as unique characteristics in both nature and human existence, indulging in art, philosophy, and psychology. And baking.
Dan Madsen has been living on Big Island most his life where he enjoys skateboarding, arts and craf ts and searching for buried treasure to skate and paint. He owns and operates Oasis Skateshop and Mixed Plate Designs in the humble town of Hilo.
Eric Ricky Allen Peters Manoa, Oahu Photographer
Eric Peters is the youngest son of two post-hippie parents raised loose as a goose in suburban California. He was home-schooled throughout his youth and at the age of 16 he decided to get his G.E.D. Five colleges since, Peters claims that the practice has given him a wide understanding of various teaching forms. He received a BFA in photography from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2015.
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They call the women crazy,≠ dumb and cancerous whores. Bimbos and gold diggers who should be at home doing chores
The men are dissed and dismissed with feminine words Like pussy and bitch and others you’ve heard
Dickhole and fag. If you’re a man who does drag, you’re a homo and no one likes that kind of turd
Girls calm your feelings don’t go throwing a fit, boys only ever want girls with big tits
Boys get all pumped and show off those muscles, smart guys aren’t the kinds of guys who get nuzzled
Boys just be boys and girls just be girls. Let them tell you what’s what and who to be in the world
Or say fuck ‘em and forever be who you is, whether gay, bi, or trans it’s none of their biz
poem x Evelyn Lane
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Silly, easy, song to strum, keep it slow and country two chords and some sad words x stowell watters
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Just gimme my gun and leave me be
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Now we got Muslims pretendin’ they on our team Am
He’s gonna put em last, cuz he heard our call E
My truck says TRUMP, my truck says TRUMP And all you DEMORATS are just a speed bump My truck says TRUMP, my truck says TRUMP And all you libtardz are just a speed bump
He’s gonna mine that coal he’s gonna BUILD THAT WALL
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My truck says TRUMP, my truck says TRUMP And all you illegals are just a speed bump My truck says TRUMP, my truck says TRUMP And all you women are just a speed bump Am
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My truck says TRUMP, my truck says TRUMP with a Confederate flag, about sums me up My truck says TRUMP, my truck says TRUMP It’s a national nightmare and we can’t wake up
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TOOT TOOT
interview x adam funari photographs x justin michalek
So being known as a good surfer in Hawaii is every surfer’s dream. Climbing the ranks at your local spot is kind of what it’s all about. Making new friends in the line-up, showing the OG’s respect, these things will guarantee you more waves and better vibes, and Toots embodies all of this. Arthur “toots” Anchinges, in my opinion, is almost a living legend. He does this one crazy thing really well. Surf! Not only does he surf one of the most culturally important breaks on the planet, he surfs it incredibly well! He will be the first to deny being called an almost legend, and mention tons of other surfers out there that he respects, but trust me on this one. He is well on his way! Toots lives in Waikiki right down the street from Queens, his home break. His apartment is hidden away, quite, and really close to the beach. Imagine your favorite opium den, but really clean. It’s relaxing, cool, lowly lit with red lights, and minimally decorated. It’s a sexy place. Throw in some beautiful girls and chill vibes and you can picture it. Tonights no different except when I first got there the only one cruising was Braddah Jay, one of Queens local heavies, who I just met over a few beers. Braddah Jay had a big part in teaching Toots how to surf longboards when he first moved to Hawaii. Back then toots was 21, had just gotten married and had his daughter Savanna. He told us how Toots was a natural and learned everything he could, showed all the guys and gals plenty aloha. “He never had any problems out there.” Toots: You wanna know why I chose a square piece of gold leaf as a logo? Adam: Yes! I do! And thank you for starting this off, I’ve never been on this side of an interview! Toots: Haha, So name logos to me are an act of claiming something. If your logo is your
name, If you sign it (the surfboard) you are claiming it as some how it’s your own, but you can’t. It has all been done before. I can’t write everybody’s name on it, all the shapers that came before me... So I made it gold. It’s like all the gold from the good stuff out there. That’s my take on it. It’s all from the golden age of surfboard design. I’m just refining it for my style, not inventing it. Braddah Jay: How long does it take you to shape a board? Toots: Shit, if they let me, I can do one every day! Haha! Adam: Who’s They? Toots: I share a place on Kapahulu at my friend’s house. Adam: So how does the ordering a board process work with you? Toots: I shape it, and then introduce the customer to Alex, of (Dust and Fumes), and he takes care of the rest. He’ll pick up the shaped blank and call you. Alex loves people and he loves surfboards so it really works out good! That way I don’t really have to be involved. After the shaping, I’m out. Adam: Do you meet the customer when the boards are done or does Alex fly solo? Toots: Alex arranges the pickup, or he will bring it to you. Adam: Well that’s cool, gives them time to save some money to pay for it all, although now that I’m thinking about it, if you glassed, you would make way more money. Toots: All of this is a hobby for me, I don’t make a living off of it. With every board, I just refine my style just like every wave you catch, and like I said before about refining and taking the best from what came before us. I could get paid more, but I don’t really wanna be involved after the shaping is pau. It doesn’t matter to me. Adam: So do you have a day job if shaping boards is just a hobby? Toots: I work at a high-school and man… all the kids with the Mcdonald’s diet these days… Brah, You know the dried saimin? These kids take out the sodium pack from the saimin and poke a puka in it, and suck on it all day! These fucking kids! I shit you not brah! Then they pour kool-aid powder on the dry noodles and eat them that way!
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“With every board I just refine my style just like every wave you catch”
Adam: That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard...You blew my mind! Braddah Jay: You ever surf queens Adam? Adam: I used to live on Liliuokalani Street so yeah, but I didn’t surf there too often, sometimes I would paddle out after work if it looked good, but at the time I only had a hi-performance short board, so it never really worked out too well for me. Every once in a while I will paddle out with Toots on my Mini-Simmons, it’s a great wave, but the crowd is mental. I just wait for Toots to block for me and he lets me scoop the wave and he pops out the back. Braddah Jay: I do that too! Haha nah nah jk, I ride SUP these days, busted my shoulder surfing and it’s the only way I can catch waves now.
no matter what type of surfing, that’s where it’s at! That’s true style! Adam: So Toots, How long have you been surfing? Toots: Fuck, how long have we known each other? Braddah Jay helped me learn to longboard when we first met, and Pinder, helped me get started with all this really, let me mess up his room, let me shape, now it’s all coming full circle. Adam: Any one person teach you to shape?
Toots: Yeah Jay rips too! You should see him.
Toots: No, I just went for it… well, Kalua. I asked him all kinds of questions. He told me answers, not sure if it’s always the right answer! Nah but he is really an open book when it comes to shaping. He shares his knowledge. Really great friend.
Adam: I think I saw him last time out there 2 weeks ago! Riping!
Adam: What was the first board you shaped?
Adam: So Toots, board of choice? And what board did you learn on?
Toots: It was a 9.4. Longboard. I shaped it for my daughter. Here is a photo of her with it. (He grabs a photo off the refrigerator.) First board I shaped and helped glass.
Toots: Single fins.
Adam: Mentors, who are they and how have they shaped you?
Adam: Why single fins? Toots: Because it’s all you need. I like it clean and simple. This guy Mark, he has this Simmons out there, but he runs it as a single fin instead of the twins on the tail. It’s perfect for him. But lately, I have been riding everything. All the retro shapes. I just want to try and make everything and ride them all. It’s important to try everything, you never know what you are going to like and what’s going to fit your style. Adam: Speaking of boards and logos, we have an art show coming up with you and Ditch Life. Toots: Yeah, at Lana Lane, it’s going to be fun! We going to be busy until July! Adam: I just don’t want to see any white surfboards in this art show, I feel like all the boards should be covered in paint. Well, maybe just one, a majestic unicorn or something! Toots: I leave it up to you, you are the art director, but there is something beautiful about a white board, with a really dark fat stringer! Adam: With a gold logo! Toots: White boards and dark stringers look really good. There is just something really stylish about them. Adam: In your opinion who’s got the most style out at Queens? Toots: My favorite surfers out there are the kids, and well pretty much everybody, they are all so good and they have their own distinct styles. I prefer the clean classic look. For the people who ride their own craft, they way the board is designed, and they ride it properly,
Toots: Kalua, Pinder, Chris Christenson, Carl Olsen and Nick Welzie of Two Crows, Makoto Obayashi, Actually this one time Makoto let me shape in a room that was too small for the actual board to fit inside. It was this 2 room place he lived in. We even glassed in there. Adam: How’d that board ride? I’m going to make a taco while you answer that. (Toots is a really good cook as well… He made tacos!) Toots: The board actually rode pretty good. Single fin that’s why! Chris from Christenson Surfboards used to flow me boards to ride, and it blows my mind how clean and beautiful his approach on his board designs are. He really opened my eyes on surfboard design! The 2 Crows guys have been huge in helping me out. I used to ride for them too. Carl, the shaper, still gives me tips on shaping. I still ask his advice, and he gives me his opinion freely. Nick is the artist and glasser, and his art and lifestyle are inspiring! He brings the party! Also Toru from Surf Garage. He is cool! I’ve known him for a long time. I met him back when I was 21. When I first moved here. I knew him before there was a Surf Garage. When he opened his shop, I would cruise there looking at boards and talking story for hours. He knows a lot! I look up to him. Adam: Without exposing any secret spots, give me your 3 favorite fully blown out super crowded places to surf. Toots: Queens, Jesus Point (PHL), Malibu (CA). Adam: Who do you ride for these days? Toots: I ride for Surf Garage, Birdwell Britches, Salvage Public, and Ditch Life! Adam: Any closing thoughts? Toots: You got pretty much the story about gold.You can’t claim surfboard design. I’ve
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Salty Strokes
monoprints x adam funari poem x destiny brown
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Child of the stars, Daughter of the moon Believe the greatness in you and it is bound to bloom.
Energy radiates to create the perfect storm so please don’t be afraid, Deviate from the norm.
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I hope you know the truth you hold is more than just a gift. So lift your head, breathe in deep and don’t forget to live.
mistaken identity photography x lila lee styled x erin lenchanko modeled x brie nielson
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Plenty Of Fish In The Sea
Rachel Vezer, a transplanted mouthy Aussie girl and seasoned dater asked her friends from across the country and the world to tell us their most WTF dating stories in an attempt to entertain y’all. Here are the most interesting accounts for your bite sized enjoyment. After we had sex, she told a story about her marine biology internship and about a pack of manatees they once found in the water off Key West. She really loved manatees, and eventually, she jumped from her boat into the water and landed on a manatee. But the manatee was actually dead, and the body ended up falling apart and she was covered in dead manatee slime and someone had to fish her out and clean her up. After some words of consolation from me about how fucked up that experience must have been, she told me she made it up, and every other story she had told me that night because she likes making up stories. It was an amazing WTF moment and I never talked to her again. • I got walked out on a date that seemed like it was going fairly well because I said I didn’t like french fries. I am still baffled by it. • The date where the self-identified “artist” revealed her day job was working as a prison guard, and she spent much of our afternoon on a mumbled, paranoid rant about an anonymous “them” who were on the verge of their incipient takeover of everything we hold dear. She wore mirrored wrap-around sunglasses. She ordered $75 worth of lunch, which she wouldn’t touch because she was sure it was contaminated. • My date ‘encouraged’ me to share the $100 steak for two. It was delicious, but he proceeded to pick out every single piece of fat from his mouth and made a pile of it on the side of his plate. I was so grossed out I couldn’t bring myself to ask what the problem was. By the end of dinner, it looked like he’d spit out more than he’d ate • I went back to the person’s place after a concert and unwittingly served as passive-aggressive muscle for a drug deal. It was perilously close to that scene from Boogie Nights. • My worst case dating scenario… was actually not all that bad. But when the conversation turned to “future plans” the guy could not tell me much beyond how many dogs he wanted to own at some
future time. He wanted to own thirty dogs. He had their names and breeds picked out already. At the time he owned no dogs at all. • I went out with a guy in his 30s who told me within the first hour of the date that: he didn’t have a bank account, had never filed taxes, worked on a drug farm, and paid with his “green card” aka pot for goods and services in the neighborhood. • Nowhere on her profile did it say anything about her being an acid casualty and ketamine dealer. • He spent one-third of the time telling me about the musical he was writing about raccoons, one-third of the time talking about C++, and one-third of the time demonstrating the plot of Othello using the salt and pepper shakers. • The seemingly bohemian alt industrial-music DJ was still enough of a “nice Jewish girl” that she insisted our first meeting be a dinner with her mother at an Italian chain restaurant in the Valley. • I am pretty good at not going out on dates unless I am fairly certain that I have picked someone I am at least a little compatible with, but at one point, I ended up going out with a girl to a cafe, where she had secretly invited her friends, who, it turns out, were mostly just AA buddies, and the next thing I knew, I was at an AA meeting. I don’t really drink much, and I don’t really have a problem with it, and I didn’t really know the girl very well, and I didn’t want to be there. While I am sure it was great for her, it was just not where I expected to be on a first date. • I can’t even begin to rehash the details, but the guy drove a Cougar as if it were a Ferrari, had a facial twitch that I’m pretty sure can be seen from space, had favorite hobbies along the lines of watching History channel documentaries, and disapproved of my eating of croutons in my salad. Because of carbs.
35 • I went on a date with an otherwise cute girl who wore a “Trogdor the Burninator” shirt and said at least one 4chan meme to me, unprompted, out loud. • I once went out with someone who, within an hour of meeting me, told me that his ultimate fantasy was to date a replicant. • Went on two dates. Girl followed me on twitter. Girl randomly started replying and cursing at my tweets. • This guy commutes to the city from Connecticut, which I never really get (why not just live in New York?). I suggested that he must really treasure his vegetable garden or something in order to put up with 2.5 hours/day on Metro- North. He told me that when he bought his house, he hired a landscaper to tear everything out and replace it with gravel. “Like a prison yard?” I asked. He called me a hippie for growing my own vegetables. • My dates “catch phrase” was a quote from Seinfeld. I love TV, so I thought that was a good sign. When we meet, I start to talk about Seinfeld and he tells me he doesn’t watch tv and doesn’t even own one. • A young woman and I got along pretty well in the bar where we’d agreed to meet, but things went downhill when we decided to get dinner at a nearby restaurant. Our server brought us a bread basket that my date grabbed three of four rolls from and then started playing weird games with. Like, she would scoop dough out of a roll, pound it into a little ball, and then put it back in the basket! She would then fill the little remaining crust-boat with olive oil, take a bite from it, and refill it. Eating is cool. Playdough, less so. Did you ever see that movie ‘Conspirators of Pleasure,’ with the woman who fetishizes bread and snorts dough balls? It reminded me of that, which might say more about me as lousy digital dater than her. • We agreed to meet at a bar even though he didn’t drink (when I asked if he went to meetings instead, he was silent). On the phone it had come up that he was a Redsox fan — I am a diehard Yankees fan. But I thought a little rivalry could be fun — I have a lot of Yankee fan friends who have married Redsox fans and they both have a sense of humor about it! When I met him at the bar he proceeded to tell me that 1) If we became a couple I would only be allowed to wear my Yankees hats/shirts when I was home visiting my family; never around him; 2)I should not expect him to talk to me while he was watching Redsox games on TV; and 3) we could not get married in October because he needed to keep the post-season available for any potential Redsox trips to the World Series. • My online date was eight-and-a-half months pregnant. She never
mentioned that prior to our meeting. True, I swear. My first words on our date were: ‘Pardon me, but are you pregnant?’ A gay friend of hers, it turns out, had inseminated her with a turkey baster, or so she said. When I asked what she was doing on a blind date when she was going to give birth in two weeks she said: ‘The baby has me; I want someone.’ • A poet offered to pick me up for dinner and a movie. I accepted, and that’s where everything went wrong. For dinner, we went to Ikea for a $5 platter of Swedish meatballs. NO I’M TOTALLY SERIOUS. And the movie? The movie was one of those free movies-inthe-park, and it just so happened to be Spongebob Squarepants and the park was full of children. I hate Spongebob Squarepants. On top of that, he only packed a very small blanket and asked why I hadn’t brought a blanket for myself (um, because I thought we were going to a theater?). • A guy said how great it was that I was a “mommy,” and when I explained that I was more a mom than a mommy, and a bit about my parenting philosophy about trying to make my then-young son more independent, he corrected me. “You’ll always be a mommy,” he told me. “That’s the gift you got when you had your son.” Not only was he totally infantilizing me with his gross Ronny Reagan virgin-mother bullshit, and presuming to explain for me my place in the world (without having met me) but he wasn’t fucking listening. I explained, nicely, why it bugged me, and he said he was glad he found out early how ugly I was on the inside. • I met a guy for coffee. As we were sitting outside of the coffee shop enjoying some nice conversation he told me how he was working on writing some music. He then proceeded to sing, very loudly, his current endeavor in songwriting. It was about killing unicorns (and no he was not being ironic). I kept making, “oh that’s nice,” “okay,” sort of comments and he just kept singing louder and louder. The Super-Speed Dater • We were supposed to meet at a coffee shop at 3 pm. He was ten minutes late, which in and of itself wouldn’t have been a problem. In line, we ran into an old coworker of his, they chatted. We ordered coffee and decided to drink our coffees while strolling through the farmer’s market next door. We walked the length of the farmer’s market, and when we reached the end, he asked if I wanted to talk more. I said yes. He said “great, well, nice to meet you. Bye!” And then he walked away. I looked at my watch — 3:30 pm. I was completely stunned! When I got home, I had an e-mail from him saying that we didn’t have any “chemistry.” Chemistry, really? After twenty minutes? Asshole.
Grant McCartney sort of disappeared off the Oahu skate scene a few years back and I thought nothing of it. He’d landed a position as a flight attendant for Hawaiian Airlines and I just figured he was globe trotting and life living. And upon closer inspection that seems to be an understatement. From running with the bulls in Spain to dunk sessions in Alaska, Grant McCartney is ticking off bucket list items like a ninja.
and I was, “Yeah.” I went back to Tennessee, graduated, and then left right after graduating Tennessee. Moved back here, and then skate for 808. And, then I’m here. Napua:
How long had you been skating before that?
Grant:
Long time.
Napua:
Okay. So, you grew up skating?
McCartney meets me in Kaka’ako’s Salt plaza just before his run on American Ninja Warrior for the 4th time. He’s bubbly and excited and pretty dern ripped (muscle wise). He’s just shaved off his beard which I’m told experts* makes you more aerodynamic. McCartney comes with a small entourage of people, homie, and former Manifold model, Kyle Smith and McCartney’s “brother from another mother” and fellow flight attendant oh, and manager, Kelly. I let McCartney unload about life, his JLo crush and what’s to come.
Grant: Yeah. I’ve been sponsored and stuff for a hot minute. Something I’ve always kinda liked. I guess ten plus years.
Napua: tion?
Napua:
So you’re from Tennesee, right? What’s your Hawaii connec-
Grant: I was born and raised there most of my life. Went to college there. Dad played football for the University of Tennessee. I went to the University of Tennessee grade school. Did an exchange program with Hawaii for a year, national student exchange. I wanted to kinda get out somewhere. I was gonna there ... here or Puerto Rico. I wanted to surf and ended up working in Hawaii. Then came here. Spend a year of school here, kept extending it. It was supposed to just be a semester, then a year, and then 2009, I won the Association of Skateboard in Hawaii Contest Series, ASH Contest Series.
Napua:
Are you still, kind of?
Grant: I still. I mean, 808’s given me so much good things. I will always be supportive of 808 and everything They are really supportive of me even doing the Ninja stuff, which has been a weird transition. I know, right?
Grant: I’ve literally been this skateboarder all the way up ‘til I started out. I was like, “I’ll go do this.” Then all of a sudden to really compete ... This will be my third year competing on American Ninja Warrior. It’ll be ... I’ve done two years of Team Ninja Warrior, as well, the Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge Show and I’m inNapua:
That’s a great photo, by the way.
Grant:
Yeah, it’s pretty rad. Yeah?
Napua:
Oh, ASH. Okay.
Napua: It encompasses, like, your face is just, everyone’s walking on you. It’s so great.
Grant:
Then 808 was like, “You should come ride for us, and blah blah,”
Grant:
So stoked in that moment.
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Island ninja
Napua:
Yeah?
Grant: Someone just kicked me in the balls like five minutes before, so I’m holding my hand. Napua:
Is that what that face is?
Grant: It was before I realized. I told people to run up and step, step here, step here. I thought I was gonna do this, but I was tired, so I did this (puts his hands down and makes a step) Then they went, and I was just like. This is the last obstacle. I remember them taking a photo. I remember seeing the camera crew and thinking like oooh. Once I started doing all this, 808 was very supportive. Josh, he’s just always been super psyched on it and real supportive of that. Napua: Do you think some of the skateboarding skills have like ... I know that last one that worked well. Grant:
Yeah.
Napua:
You’re like, boom, that’s the easiest one.
Grant:
Yeah.
Napua: Are you just training random places wherever you can, just scaling walls and shit? Grant: Yeah, whatever. Literally this right here, (points to a pillar in Kaka’ako’s Salt plaza) this frame, I climbed up it to the top up here, like I-Beam, finished the side and then walked up the I-Beam up to the roof here, and then held on there, ‘cause it’s like the Cliffhanger. Napua:
Did they give you kind of like a set of like maybe things to practice?
Grant: You just show up, and then whatever’s there, you get one go at it. They tell you the rules. Napua:
Jeez.
Grant:
And then, your go is on national television. It’s one and done.
Napua: Yikes. So, not just American Ninja Warrior, you’ve done a few other similar things. Right?
Grant: It’s exactly the same.Yeah, it’s literally skating. I literally would drop in on it. Yeah. I think two things are really good when skating. One being the work off course and the obstacles and jumping around, but also the confidence factor of like rolling up to a big stair set and knowing you’re about to huck your body lifelessly down it and hope that you catch it right so that you roll away. I don’t have any qualms about diving at something to try to grab and hold on, or whatever. Throw really far, like lachey is where you throw the bar behind you and jump forward like that. There’s no reason not to. Ya know?
Grant:
Yeah.
Napua:
That are kinda along the same lines?
Napua:
It’s like almost second nature now at that step.
Grant:
It’s water beneath me versus concrete.
Napua:
Right.
Grant:
It’s nothing. I’ll slam in water all the time.
Napua: I watched all of your videos on youtube and my body was clenched the whole time.
Grant: Yeah. I like to run and stuff, but I never thought, “Oh I’ll keep doing more television.” That was never part of the plan. But then, we filmed American Ninja Warrior and then they asked me about doing Team Ninja Warrior, then Spartan. All in like three months, I went from doing no television and filming three television shows. I was picked for the All-Star team the first year. So, it was actually four different shows in like three months. I was like, “Wow, this is not what I really planned.” Ya know? It was really cool, but it was a lot. And again, this year was more ‘cause we did the same shows, except for we did a skills challenge and the All-Star, so very great. It’s cool.
Grant:
Napua:
Yeah, me too.
Grant: Yeah, the Spartan Ultimate Team Challenge was another show I got asked to do, which was sweet. Napua:
Oh you got asked to do it?
Yeah, it’s a lot.
Napua: Yeah, obviously. Especially that one where you’re just hanging. That was like a magical moment. That was like a He-Man one. Good for you.
Grant: You’re not paid to do these, so it’s just a lot of time. That’s kinda why I had to figure a new way.
Grant: Yeah, that was ... I’m afraid I had some divine assistance on that one as I did this, angels are just holding me up.
Napua:
Are you paid for your dance moves, though?
Grant:
Well, under the table.
Napua:
Those are great by the way, I feel like it really gives a sense of your per-
Napua:
Jeez, you were down and then lifted yourself up. That was insane.
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ready taken. It’s just rogue. Then, since then I’ve just gained followers, of course. I was Tweeting the other day about it like, “got a W2 from her”, and thought, “what a cool experience”. Grant: view.
Went on the Ellen show, danced with her, got to play a game, did an inter-
Napua:
So, what’s next?
Grant: People are startin’ to make more serious things. I also have a meeting with Hawaii Five-O next week, and we’ll talk about maybe doing some stuff on there.
sonality, too. Grant: To be honest, I really do use it to calm down. I’ve played rugby. I remember kick-offs were the scariest moment because the ball is coming, I have to focus, catch it, take off running, and I got 250 pounds, someone’s running at me, and you’re thinking they’re just about to de-cleat you. So, you have to focus all the way, catch, and if you make a good first move that first guy will miss you. But, if you fumble it or get nervous, he’ll level you. The same thing Ninja, you step up on the course, you have to calm down and relax, and slow your heart rate so you’re not using as much oxygen, not over-gripping everything, save your grip strength. So, dancing, goofing off does two things. One it relaxes me, and two it reminds me that no matter what happens, American Ninja Warrior is for fun. It’s a fun and good thing. It’s not a bad thing. If I fall in the water that’s okay. It’s not ... I don’t have to win. I don’t have to set those expectations because I don’t want to be bummed if I screw up. That’s part of life. I just don’t wanna make that a bad thing, when there’s enough bad things already.
Napua:
Like stunt work, or ...
Grant:
I’ll try to appear as myself.
Napua:
Oh, okay.
Grant: Yeah. I don’t know what it’ll look like. I’m just gonna meet one of the guys next week. Napua:
Right on. Exciting. So, tell me about this igloo stuff, too.
Grant: So, I’ve always wanted to build an igloo. When my mom and grandmother passed away in a real short period of time, I just kinda realized life is short and I kinda wanted start doing things before I either got sick or injured or if I got cancer. I don’t know what would happen, I just was like, “I’m gonna go do these things”. The first thing on the list was to go do the running with bulls in Spain.
to
Napua: Oh, yeah. I saw a little bit of that. That looked pretty crazy.
Napua:
Definitely.
Grant: ment.
I dance and goof off, and try to have fun. Even in a real stressful environ-
Grant: Yeah, so we mobbed it out there. I, of course, didn’t post that video ‘cause it’s illegal, but I got selfies if you want that.
Napua:
And then, you get on the Ellen show, too.
Napua:
Grant:
Then, you go to the Ellen show.
Napua:
Dude.
Grant:
Shout out to Ellen.
Napua:
That was really cool.
Grant: Yeah, you’re not supposed to video it. But, I got some pretty sick selfies I can show ya. Did that, really dumb. Wouldn’t recommend it to anybody, ever. I don’t think it’s really ever worth doing. It’s very gnarly. Not smart, at all. But, it was what it was. There’s literally a moment- you are at the whim of whatever. It’s not ... the bull is like gnarly, but the people are what are gonna kill you. The people mobbing will totally kill you right before the bull would. If you get near the bull, of course, it’s gonna kill you, too.
Grant: Yeah, it was funny. I just got a tweet from her the other day. My sister had to tell me, “Hey, Ellen is Tweeting at you.” Since then, I’ve started using it more. I just checked on there, @grantmccartney_ ‘cause Grant McCartney was al-
Napua:
It’s illegal?
What’s with what they wear? Is it like just traditional?
41 Grant: It’s just traditional. Yeah. I think it’s ... I don’t know. So you see the blood stains better. Who knows. So, we did that. The next thing on the list was American Ninja Warrior, went and did that, of course. Still doing that. It’s awesome. Then, I have some random stuff that ... no one really knows my list. Some of it’s cool stuff that people like to hear like I wanted to build an igloo that I could sit in. So, we went to Alaska, built an igloo. I always wanted to cut into ice and get in the water, so we went to Alaska, went to a remote village.
job at Hawaiian and I hit him back up a couple years later and was like, “Dude, I build ramps. I’ll go to India. Let’s build a ramp in India.” Big deal, right? Not as easy as I thought. India is so gnarly, and Kelly, I brought Kelly with me. He and I went out for a trip, spend about a week and a half, kinda realized how deep it was, like how extensive it was gonna be to build.
Napua:
Oh, so this was just on your bucket list kinda thing?
Grant:
Yeah.
Grant: Getting everything. You wouldn’t believe. You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff.
Napua: This wasn’t like ... I wasn’t sure if someone was filming you or if this was for like some kinda likeGrant: No, this is just my life, how I always wanted. Just stuff I always wanted to do. We cut three feet down in the ice, got in the water. I just wanted to know how cold it was. I want some stuff that’s gonna happen that I can’t manufacture. So, we’ll see. I always wanted to be on the Ellen show. I went and did that. Napua:
What else is on your list?
Grant:
Oh, I wanna be on WWF.
Napua:
Whoa.
Grant: I want to hit someone with a chair, steel chair. And, I wanna be called out just to like ... you know, Stone Cold’s like ... I don’t know who’s in it now, but you know what I mean. They’re like, “Oh, look out. The Island Ninja is gonna come out.” And, I come out the stands and I hit someone with a chair, and I’m like “Whew!” Then I bail. That’s all I wanna do. Napua: India.
I saw something about you building a skate ramp in
Grant: Oh, yeah. This guy was ... a friend of mine in this Bible study we had called Surf, Skate, Surrender, we just kinda meet. We surf, skate, we’re hangin’ out, and then we kinda read the Bible and talk and pray together and sing, or whatever. He was like, “Hey, my dad wants to build a skate park”. I was like, “Cool”. You know? I’ve built ramps. Me and Kyle have built a bunch of ramps together. I was like “Sure, I can help you guys”. Then, he was like, “Oh, he lives in India”, and I was like, “Hmm, I don’t know about that”. Then I got the
Napua: Just in terms of getting the wood and like the tools, like bringing it somewhere? That kind of a thing?
Napua: Stuff that you don’t think of, like just picking stuff up andGrant: It’s not like you go to Home Depot. Yeah. Literally, everything we had to get was at a different place in town. Had to have a translator, had to go through ... nothing is done with machine. Everything is like just raw rugged like literally they just cut a tree down and they have these blocks of wood, log. I was like, “Yeah, I’m lookin’ for two by fours”. Tellin’ him my ... he’s like, “They don’t make two by ... They’ll make you”. And a two by four isn’t two inches by inches, it’s a little off measurement. Napua:
Yeah.
Grant: Normally, here you tell me two by four, they will cut you two inches by four inches. You tell ‘em whatever you want, you tell ‘em I want an 18 by a millimeter and they’ll give you a sheet of paper. So, we file that all up. It’s been days just trying to figure things and factor things. I get a little bit in over my head ‘cause I was asked to come do a demo at a school and there’s a couple hundred kids comin’ to the rooftop. And they were roller skating cause they had never seen skateboarders. It got way out ... this was on the second trip back. We had to fundraise for a year. Did way too much, built ... then we finally demoed it. Grant: Then, three weeks, or three months later, I was competing in American Ninja Warrior, again. Napua: Yeah, they kept talking about it on there. They always bring up your height and your weight, which I guess it’s a big deal. Right? Cause yourGrant: else.
Well, I’m about 30 pounds heavier than everybody
Napua:
That’s crazy.
Grant:
Mm-hmm (affirmative)
Napua:
Do you think that gives them an advantage, though?
Grant: It does, and then my height gives me an advantage sometimes. But, usuallyNapua: Yeah, for sure it does. That willGrant: On the wall. on stuff. Napua: There’s a lot of things, yeah. Grant: I don’t know. We’re all made different. We’re all just tryin’ to complete the course and see how I do. Napua: Yeah, pretty crazy. Aside from ... so, where’s somewhere you would like to go back to, and where’s somewhere where you would be maybe not for awhile? I won’t say never. Grant: Well, India, it’s there. Alaska was pretty unreal. Where I was in Alaska ... we were so deep. We were just in this remote of remote out there. Then, we would get on a snowmobile and get even more remote. I thought, “we are ... people freeze and die here”. That’s like one of the causes of death. Napua:
You’re just like, “I’m just gonna get in the water real quick.”
Grant: Yeah, yeah. The water’s not your problem, the wind is your problem.
Napua:
Really? The water’s not the problem?
Grant: Yeah. Wait ‘til you see that video. I came out of the water and literally dove into the rescue sled and they covered me up and then took off to the house. Napua:
What was that process? You’re like, “Here’s what I want to do.” Can you hire them for the day? Grant: The village ... I mean, it’s a village. Everyone knows everyone, everyone knows everything. The day we go out snowmobiling ... I’ve been on four wheelers and dirt bikes, I’m like, “Whatever, I got this”. The night before I got on one and it has a different kind of traction. You can gun it and flip the tail around and kinda like slide on the ice and drift it. I was like, “She’s gonna do another one of those.” This one has like studded treads. Napua:
Oh, God.
Grant: So it went like (makes swishing noises) and it caught, and I rolled it. I rolled it out. We’re out in the middle of this frozen lake and there’s a ski team practicing off in the distance. I roll up but like quickly pick it up, and no one saw like I’m all good. We go to and ride to this one hill and one of the things they do is one really steep hill. It’s hard to walk up. They just go to the top and they jump off of it into like ... cause the snows good,-Pretty gnarly. I have all this footage from that, too. But anyways, we do that. I come back to town and someone goes, “I heard you rolled a snowmobile”. I was like, “How do people know this?” They said, in that village, someone will know you’re stranded or hurt before they send help before help even gets to you.
43 Grant: Like, the whole town will know. It just spreads so fast. So, I come in ... my buddy tells ‘em, he’s an Eskimo ninja ... that’s why I was visiting up there, he tells ‘em that I want to do right away ... we have a team. I still subscribe to the group of people that is on the fringe of society of life sometimes, cause I get it. We roll by in Anchorage, these guys we sessioning a ledge. Napua:
Really?
Grant: Yeah, and I was like, “Oh, crap I can’t believe it.” We pulled over, and I was like, “This is unrea.l” I was like, “I can’t believe these guys are skating this ledge. It’s snowing how are they doing that?” Then, as we got closer I was like, “Oh, crap. They’re snow skating.” Napua:
What? What the hell is that?
Grant: They’re like front boarding a ledge. It’s like ... you’re just on a deck, pretty much. Napua:
Oh, just not wheels and ... I see.
Grant: Then I spent two hours goofin’ off with them. Then I was like at least I gotta land an ollie -today. It was crazy, man. So, I’m always gonna ... that’s gonna be rooted in who I continue to be from here forward. Napua: Okay, lastly, is there anything else you want our readers to know? Grant: Just my social media names. IG: Grant.McCartney Facebook/TheGrantMcCartney Twitter: GrantMcCartney_
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45 Moke Life is the amalgamation of the effects of 4 highly influential figures in my life. They each play a role in me finding and sticking with skateboarding for as long as I have, which is the main driving force behind Moke Life. Derek, my best friend growing up, was the one to introduce me to skateboarding. My perception of the world was forever changed once I was introduced to it. Driving down the street, all I would see is the potential skate spots. I was 12 when I started skating and when I was 13, I transferred to Kamehameha Maui where no one skated. The kids that did had already graduated to body boarding. My stubbornness said fuck that, skate or die. My younger brother Kaloe shared the same sentiments and we, and my now roommate Alex were the only skaters in Kamehameha when I graduated. Kaloe is the real reason Moke Life is still alive today. He’s the visionary behind the shirts we’ve released so far, which is what keeps the brand afloat and believed that it can be more that an outlet for skate videos. I was able to make skate videos because my grandpa bought me a video camera when I was 16. He also bought me my very first skateboard, which I guarantee he regrets to this day. My grandpa, a moke at heart, is a hard, stubborn old Hawaiian man who retired twice to take care of my siblings and me. Without my him and my grandma, I wouldn’t have lived the middle-class life I was given, which allowed me to get into making skate videos. How I got known for my skate videos was making friends with whom I thought were the best skaters on Maui and filming with them. My friend Ryan was the most driven out of all of us, and he was the one to really push me to film better. Naturally, I’m a perfectionist so I was striving to make my videos look like the pros, but having Ryan push himself in his skating and photography made me take filming more seriously. Moke Life started as a moniker to release skate videos under, and for a long time, that’s all I wanted it to be, to keep it pure. But after taking the time to distance myself from it, I finally believe in the potential of Moke Life growing into something much bigger. Mokes represent the epitome of what it means to be Hawaiian nowadays, and that includes all the other races the plantations brought in. That mash up of cultures brought us the contemporary Hawaiian culture in which Mokes come from. Moke Life is a sweet reminder of a life lived in Hawaii. --Kale
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Yoo What’s good how was work? Was a mellow day. Seen a chiropractor right before going in so I think I was in a chill state
Sorry since we’ve started, I’ve been on a journey to get to Whole Foods, so I’ve caught the bus, bombed a hill I never skated before, met a homie, bought groceries and barely caught the bus back home. I just got off that bus and am walking home right now Haha that’s hilarious. So we can finally start the interview? Do you film with your phone much?
You all right - injury or maintenance?
Kinda, mostly just stuff to my Instagram story. Or if I need to film something in the moment. I’m gonna post that footage eventually
Injury and the effects of scoliosis over my whole life. Overdue maintenance I guess. Skateboarding was kinda harsh on my spine.
Do you think skate videos are taking a back seat to the instagratification of social media and surprisingly good quality cameras on our phones?
I wouldn’t doubt it! you got some ideas of what you can do to prevent it from getting worse?
The quality of the iPhone is fucking amazing but when you watch an iPhone clip, I feel like I’m just watching footage. Which is essentially what people want, but if you’re the one filming a video, you don’t wanna just add tricks for tricks sake, you wanna make sure everything flows together and looks good. Plus an iPhone video just gets lost and forgotten about much quicker cause it looks the same as every other Instagram clip. There’s always gonna be a place for skate videos, Instagram is like taking a hit off a joint and but a good video part is like hitting a bong. For the beer drinkers, iPhone clips are domestics, skate videos are craft brews. Although Benny Maglinao made a suuuper sick edit with Kevin Terpening using an iPhone.
Yoga. I was on it a couple years ago but at some point got lazy about it. Now I’m doing some kinda routine to set my spine and neck straight Does it hurt? Only in my neck, the rest of my spine is kinda like an S but my body adapted and it doesn’t feel bad unless I was filming lines all day Whoa, I didn’t even think of that; yeah being hunched over. maybe time for a selfie stick? What kind of camera are you using these days? Hahaha that exo gimble is kinda like a selfie stick, I’m down for one of those. I’m shooting with a Panasonic gh4 That’s like 4k crispy? What kind of camera did you make your first video and what others have you had since then? I started with a xv2100, Fo da boyz was shot primarily on that with a little bit of super 8. I sold that and got a vx1000, which I used for most of Fast Kine. I had some vx2100 footage in there. Then I got a Panasonic Gh2 because the vx1000 got a little too expensive to maintain. Chout and parts of Lolo were shot on that. Theeeen, Chad at APB got a Gh4 and I’ve been using his camera to film since.
Damn those are some good analogies and also my favorite things. So are you working on anything particular right now? Who have you been filming with? Yea I’m working on parts with Sam and Shota. Idk when this interview will be out and they should be out by the time you’re reading this. Also working on another short video with Conor for APB which should be out in July. Does Sam live on Oahu or he is still on Maui? I’m usually filming with the APB crew tho. We’ve been going out every Sunday like it’s church. Sam is still living on Maui. His part is a compilation of a couple trips I took to Maui and him to Oahu over last year. There are only 2 other filmers on Maui and one just bought a one way to Oregon. But he’s gotten a few heavy clips with those guys. Shout out to Myles and Tucker for holding it down behind the lens on Maui
47 What are some of the differences and similarities you see from island to island? For one, Oahu is the only island you can skate without needing a car. There’s no way we could do that on Maui because spots are too spread out. Can’t see you guys doing that on the big island either. The scene on Oahu is definitely bigger than the others, as it should be, but it’s kinda the same, it’s like most people are kinda over getting kicked out of street spots but the park is going stale last month, so like there’s always a burning desire to want to skate new shit. Yeah, Oahu definitely has a higher density of spots and bigger talent pool. There’s a lot of spots but strong scenes are built around the local skate park True story - don’t take that shit for granted - not every city has one. Yeah man, growing up on Maui, the skatepark was run by helmet nazis for a long time so the courthouse was our spot. Every town needs that “spot” whether it be a skate park or parking lot You got any new mokelife brand apparel coming out? Yeah, I’ve had a few ideas for graphics I’ve wanted to do for a while but haven’t because I’m a perfectionist and not a very good artist. My brother Kaloe is responsible for every shirt we’ve released until now, but he recently started his own brand and had to step aside from lead designer for moke life. I love his style and sense of humor but designing is time-consuming, especially when you’re first getting a project off the ground. So now I’m working with my wife on a new line of tees and hats, which we’re planning to release this summer. I’m releasing a new edit with parts from Sam Fitzsimmons and Shota Kubo soon. They fucking killed it and hopefully, I don’t butcher their efforts with a shit edit. And shout out to the APB squad. Whoever reading this should know them, Chad, Conor, Alec, Michael, Kelly, JC3, Gags, Silent John, Nick, they fucking kill it and they keep me inspired to keep pushing and filming. Also my wife Konami for supporting my crooked ass back for the last 5 years. Lastly, keep an eye out for Private Joy, see what happens;)
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Never Enough is one of those bands that make sticking things in your asshole sound like a good idea. Oh, also drinking a lot. And having good times with friends. If you haven’t seen them live you’re missing out. Trust.
like, “Ho brah you get the tiniest dick ever” they’d run away Jonny- Name your favorite Punk Rock record Harley- NOFX- The Decline. My favorite record. One song, 18 Minutes. It’s also a good song because it’s my favorite and then it’s also my favorite because it’s the perfect jukebox song Mitchell- Fuck man, honestly for it’s time, Masters Of Reality. Haha, dude honestly, fuck. Nothing was more punk rock then what the fuck they were doing. In 72 everybody was listening to the happy Beatles, fucking sucking Satan’s dick.
Jonny- How did Never Enough get it’s start?
Nic- Probably Rock For Light and Static Age
Mitchell- Never Enough started because I was living in a fucking my parents house and fucking Lundy calls me and says, “You know what me and Harley are tired of the Big Island and we’re gonna do the Oahu Scene. Get all buckaloose and fucking do our shit”. It was either fucking living a van or play some music, so I choose the music. It started me, Harley and Lundy.
Jonny- What type of subjects do you talk about in lyrics?
Jonny- What bands helped influence Never Enough’s sound? Nic- 311
Mitchell- Beers, buttholes, fighting, drinking, having fun, letting loose, getting buckaloose. The whole thing is like, it’s all stupid retarded shit and we have so much fucking fun doing it.
Mitchell- Probably all Sublime. Hahaha! Nah, for me it’s Poison Idea.
Jonny- When did Never Enough start?
Harley- For me I like the NOFX, Pennywise sound. I love that, that’s my inspiration. It’s all different
Nic- 1972
Chris- I would say the time nobody liked music is the time I liked music, late 80’s hardcore like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Agnostic Front.
Nic- Beers, blunts and broads Harley- What we got lyrics?
Harley- The original Never Enough was me, Mitchell, Lundy and Walter. Nic- And then shit got REAL!
Jonny- What made you guys want to leave Big Island and come to Oahu?
Harley- 2011
Nic- Brah cause I was here already and come to my island already
Jonny- Who are some of your favorite local bands to play with?
Mitchell- Cause it’s bush out there, it’s the same party every fucking week, at least you different people every time over here.
Harley- Mistermeaner, Sandpaper Hanjob
Jonny- If you guys could tour with any band who would it be and why? Chris- Zeke! Cause they’re the fucking shit! I would with fucking Zeke Mitchell- Poison Idea. Holy shit. They can be your fastest or they can be your slowest, Pantera is covering them. You know like c’mon, that’s like obliviously something that’s gonna influence more than just my ding dong ass. Chris- Mitchell is the main songwriter in the band and his influence is GBH and Poison Idea for sure. And he likes that dirty shit and I fucking love it too man. Jonny- Who in the band would be most likely to win a fight with a pack of Menehunes? Mitchell- I’d probably end up fucking all the menehunes, so they’d end up winning cause they’d catch me by suprise Chris- I would totally win, brah I would pull my pants down and compare dicks and be
Chris- SMITZ, 2Face4, 86 List, Black Square, Rotten Blossom Mitchell- 13th Legion is unreal, Anti-Matter Nic- Nitty gritty, my underwear is shitty. For the record Jon, I’m Disco Jack Knife Dale Jones for the record. Jonny- What is the best show you guys ever played? Nic- Ever practice Chris- My favorite show was the Punk Vs. Ska. We beat Black Square, they sabotaged us, they up and wrapped me up in saran wrap and so I couldn’t even breathe Harley- Little did they that made us better Mitchell- It was so much because it was the boys fucking with the boys. You know, it was just like an all on stage war. And like we jumped up on their set and we were singing
their songs. That was a really fun one Jonny- What was the worst show? Nic- Probably every Hawaiian Brian’s show Chris- Ever single Hawaiian Brian’s show we ever played was terrible Harley- Good practice Jonny- Who in the band is most likely to be an alien in disguise? Chris- Harley Nic- Harley Mitchell- Fuck that I’ve known him forever, I’d take Chris. Harley is Harley man, he is a smooth/cruise motherfucker Harley- That’s a weird question Jonny- How did you come up with name Never Enough? Mitchell- I was fucking wasted one night and I was fucking screaming it Chris- He was sucking all the dicks Mitchell- “Fuck beer, we’re out! Fuck cigarettes, we’re out! There’s Never Enough!” and Lundy picked up on it and Lundy called me and said, “We’re naming the band Never Enough” and I’m all, “Oh wow! Where did you get that” and he’s like, “You! You dumb ass”. Jonny- What’s your hangover cure? Harley- More beer, hair of the dog that bit ya Nic- Thelma’s in Waipahu, Filipino delicatessen, adobo Fried rice with jufran buleh Mitchell- Bacon, folic acid Chris- I don’t get hangovers, so video games I guess Jon- Would you rather eat a pound of balut or have sex with the orangutan lady from Alley cats? Nic- Yeah I’m down with a pound of balut Mitchell- Pound of balut, automatic. That orangutan lady ain’t no orangutan lady, that’s a orangutan man. Nic- I’m half Filipino, Harley is hella Filipino, Chris is pretty brown Mitchell- Chris is my little slut and he would not do that man lady... maybe he would. Give him enough booze, the sky’s the limit with him Nic- The sky’s the limit, put your dick up in it
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hair of the dog 7 hangover cures to get you back to your best self every day of the week.
Ive been having a Dr Jerkyl and Ms. Hide experience the year thus far. Half jerk face drunk and half isolated anti social recluse sans booze. After a two month stint from drinking, I’ve awakened the Dr Jerkyl side and tested out these 7 hangover “cures” just for you guys. What I do for you guys in the name of research!
1. Pickle Juice There have been theories as to what is more effective. Using the pickle juice as a back for that shot or to use the pickle juice as your watery substitute the morning after like a fuckin’ plan b pill in your most painful of regrets at 10am the next day, or 6 am-ers with real jobs. I feel weird admitting that this worked and I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because the idea of me downing a green smelly substance in the name of alcohol made me feel like I should start hitting up AA meetings.The reason behind it is salt. Pickle juice has a good amount of salt in it which retains water, which most likely is why your hungover in the first place. Next mom always said vinegar is a cure all which is a primary ingredient pickle juice.
2.Water Dude, duh. But I’m talking about taking a preemptive strike against a hangover by including water with each drink that you have. I have one very well seasoned drinker that swears by it and it’s extremely effective. There’s no shame in ordering a water with your drink and I’ll never understand why people give their homies shit about it. Guys, news flash, it doesn’t make you less drunk! It just keeps you hydrated. And should you not heed this advice then try out this weird tip: chew on ice chips the next day. It slowly hydrates you, keeps your mouth occupado and your face numb in the non drug induced way. It also satisfies that oral fixation just in case you didn’t pull any tail the night before. text x napua camarillo emojis x dan madsen
55 3. Weed. Okay. I’m not the best person to evaluate the effects of the green ganj mostly because it’s not my drug of choice but I will say this, it did help but more in aiding in my anxiety than anything else, then I didn’t do shit for the rest of the day. Semi fail on this one for me.
4. Hair of the Dog This one is half truth, half bullshit. Really I just curbed the hangover until later when I stopped drinking. It made me feel right as rain at first but back to square one later. And it almost made me feel worse.
5. Alka Seltzer This was recommended to me when I was asking bar patrons what their own personal cures were. This one seemed legit and it sure as shit is. Alka Seltzer has baking soda in it which my mother always told me is a cure all. Really what it’s doing is readjusting your stomach acid and keeping things neutral.
6. Pedialyte Some people swear by this. And after a night of drinking any sort of liquid to rehydrate your body is good. Pedialyte however meets medical guidelines for rehydration. I thought this was just some trick super alcoholics (that’s super hero alcoholics if you didn’t know) did to prevent hangovers but word is out and their website has photos of hungover adults sitting on the kitchen floor downing the juice. This is a perfect example of super alcholics knowing wassup cause it got me back on my feet in no time.
7. Surfing, barfing or showering. Pick one. If you can muster the strength to bust out into some salt water healing aint nothing better than that. It takes the temperature down and pretty much reminds you that the world, if it ends will leave you on the beach...not so bad. Barfing is sometimes what needs to get done to “exercise the demons” (you millenials probably won’t even get that reference). But once you do it makes you feel better. Better to barf then bloat. And showering. This is like a half way version of the former... If you can’t get to a beach or body of water “walk it off” so-to-speak with a downpour in the comforts of your own home. You’ll be right as rain soon enough.
Nazare
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It’s home to one of the biggest waves in the world. But to leave it at that would be a travesty because Nazare and Portugal in itself have so much more to offer. From its picturesque scenery and unpretentious food, cobblestone streets, and welcoming culture Portugal is a dream destination. Here are a few things to do, see, and eat . 1. Food. The locals swear by Casa Pires. Go for the area favorite and try the grilled sardines or the fish sandwich. Keep in mind that Nazare is one of Portugal’s biggest fishing villages so if you’re craving beef, you in the wrong spot. I’m also all for a hole in the wall places which is exactly what A Tasquinha is and then some. It’s communal dining and the walls are covered in a blue and white tile which adds to that old school charm. Another hotspot on LonelyPlanet and TripAdvisor alike exclaims mad reviews for Casa O Santo which satisfies your shellfish cravings with garlic clams and meaty looking prawns. And with only a few steps away from the funicular (cable car) it feels like the perfect place to wash the day down with a cold beer. 2. Funicular spectacular. Gondola, cable car, trolley-- whatever you want to call it, the ride provides some pretty dashing views. There are three neighborhoods of Nazare: Praia (along the beach), Sítio (an old village, on top of a cliff) and Pederneira (another hilltop village). The funicular connects the beautiful lower section to the breathtaking upper section in a short ride that climbs the steep cliffs and dumps you off at Sítio which offers a panorama of ocean and land alike. From here you can see the uniform sienna colored rooftops slashed by white sand beaches a hue of Atlantic deep blues. 3. Airbnb it. For a reasonable $64 bucks a night a two bedroom apartment in the heart of Praia looks something like this with other stylishly decorated rooms, steps away from the beach. A hotel can be nice but so can a fridge, a kettle, and a sliding door onto a balcony with a sea breeze that makes house calls. 4. Beach and breeze. Being from Hawaii there’s not a whole lot that tops our beaches and waves but depending on the time of year the waters of Nazare can be crystal clear and wade worthy not to mention the handfuls of surf spots in and around the Nazare area. Which brings us to our next point. 5. We saved the best for last. Praia do Norte aka the 70 something foot record breaking wave caught by our very own Garrett MacNamara is the beast we’ve all be keeping our eye on the past few years. What catches the eye is the wave, duh, but the aerial and seemingly ludicrous building in the foreground make the wave appear quite fascinatingly tsunami-like. Once a lighthouse, the building now exists as a museum to help tourists and residents alike understand just how the wave came to just pop out of nowhere. The wave is one part Mavericks in that you can enjoy its presence from a “safe” cliff and one part Hossegor. On a mellow day, there are a few surrounding spots that provide a decent pit including ----- Nazare is no stranger to surf or surfers the 1969 film Follow Me proves it as three American surfers (2 guys 1 gal) walk around on the water in the pre-lighthouse days. The Praia do Norte wave did seem like it popped up out of nowhere and my guess is that it was most likely deemed un-surfable. And conditions must be just right -- being in a westerly position coinciding with the underwater Nazare Canyon, the wave has become what surfers are calling the gnarliest wave.
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P O R T U G A L Portugal is the largest producer of cork. That’s right the wine bottle you just opened most likely was corked with a nub from Portugal. Cork is made from the bark of trees and harvested every 7-10 years. And acquiring the cork is surprisingly not harmful to the tree at all! Yay. Portugal is a world leader in renewable energy. Over half of their energy consumption, today is provided by completely renewable energy. So things like solar, wind, and hydropower are the amazing things behind it which also includes a floating wind farm and a wave roller which convert the energy of ocean waves into electricity. In 2016 the entire country went 4 days on renewable energy alone. Portugal’s most famous export and it’s national drink is Port wine. Port is fortified wine which means that a spirit is added to it to increase the alcohol content and thereby stops the fermentation process. It also leaves the wine a bit sweeter making it a perfect dessert wine. The longest bridge in Europe is in Portugal. It’s a six lane, cable-stayed bridge named after the explorer Vasco de Gama who was the first European to reach India by sea. The bridge itself crosses the Tagus River to the north of Lisbon is over 10 miles long with speed limits reaching 75mph. Portugal is the oldest country in Europe. It has had the same defined borders since 1139 when Afonso Henriques won the Battle of Ourique and was declared King making it the oldest nation-state in Europe. Portugal abolished slavery all the way back in 1761 - that’s half a century before Britain, France, Spain, or the United States. The Portuguese brought us the ukulele. Well kind of. The ukulele is an adaptation of the musical instrument called the machete which is also a four-stringed instrument and was introduced to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants in the 19th century.
CLIFF KAPONO Pono means good. And boy oh boy is Cliff Kapono is doing good things, not just for surfers, but for the world. We recently discoverd him on the Instagram and had to investigate further.
Let’s start off with your name, age, where you were born and where you currently reside? My name is Cliff. I’m 29 years old born on the east side of O‘ahu, being that I was raised on the east side of Hawai‘i Island, and currently residing in San Diego, California. In lots of the media I’ve seen over the years of you surfing, you’re always riding different rad boards. Have you always been riding a mix of surf craft? Do you have a certain type of board that makes you smile the most? Growing up surfing in Hilo, I feel resources were sort of “limited” when it comes to standard surfboard designs. A couple of the top surfers would travel to O’ahu during the winter season and if you were lucky, you could get your hands on a typical performance surfboard. Other than that, you were riding whatever was under the house or in someone’s garage. I grew up surfing a bunch of different boards from longboards, shortboards, fishes and even traditional wooden boards. My Dad taught me how to surf and always emphasizes that it wasn’t about the board, more about the rider. I gain a lot of inspiration from the 70s and 80s surfers like Larry Bertlemann, Dane Kealoha, Buttons Kaluhiokalani, Tiger Espere and Eddie Aikau. Their approach to riding waves, in my humble opinion, emphasizes pure Hawaiian style. They rode big waves and small waves with single fins, thrusters, bonzers, longboards and guns. I guess I feel that the boards they surfed are still relevant today and I do my best to perpetuate that perspective on surfing. - Along with surfing, I see you make lots of short films that show your love for the ocean. How did you get into making these videos and what do you hope your viewers will experience when watching
questions x mackenzie yoshida and assaf azouri images x dan lorch
the films? I started making short clips in high school. At Kamehameha Schools we were fortunate to be able to rent camera from the library. Even after I graduated, I kept going back into the library to burrow and make small films. I feel that storytelling through digital media fits very easy into a Hawaiian way of life. Traditionally, we used so many different forms of communication. For me, filmmaking just makes sense as a Hawaiian. My first short films (if I can even call them that) were basically just putting montages together of imagery that I felt represented what words can’t really explain. Being born into a culture that is so intimately tied to nature often results in a lot of “loss for word” moments. I hope my images can help communicate the feeling I get get when I’m in or around the sea. Although I sometimes were prefer to just lay images over music, my recent films have been more narrative and short stories to share messages of environmental conservation and sustainability. So I’ve been seeing a lot of coverage on a current study you are working on, The Surfer Biome project. You have been traveling to study surfers and the unique bacteria and molecules they accumulate by spending extended periods of time in the ocean. What encouraged you to start this journey? It has been a wild year so far and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. The whole project came out of a conversation with my mentor Professor Pieter Dorrestein. I am a graduate student in his lab and I remember him asking to speak with me one afternoon about something important. He said he has been noticing how much time I am surfing. I thought that he was going to be upset with me, but to my surprise, he said he was really supportive. He asked if I could come up with a project that included surfing. We brainstormed
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a bit and came up with the Surfer Biome project which is a subset of the American Gut Project at UCSD. If it wasn’t for Prof. Dorrestein and the funding opportunity from the Global Health Institute at the University of California San Diego, I wouldn’t be able to be doing what I am doing for sure. And Is the goal of this study purely scientific, or are there any practical goals as well? I think that this project is as practical as it is scientific. There is not a lot of empirical evidence out there that correlates human health with the environment. We are aiming to show for the first time that we can measure the ways the ocean will affect what it means to be human. We are hoping to provide society with clear examples of why we should care about our environment. Not just because it is important 7 generations down the road, but it is important for our health today.
Other than surfers, are there any other groups of people that you are planning to study in this project? We are specifically targeting surfers now, but we eventually want to invite all types of people who frequent the outdoors. The more information we can gain from learning about how nature shapes our bodies, the better off we will all be. Do you predict any potential benefits to the ocean from the outcomes of this study? If we can show that the bacteria and chemicals in the ocean are important in keeping us healthy, then I feel we can add a lot more value to a healthy ocean altogether. By providing evidence for such claims, we might be able to leverage such studies to influence regulation and public awareness. I would like to believe that people just want
to keep the ocean healthy because it is the right thing to do, but I recognize that this isn’t always the case. So if we can show how saving the ocean actually keeps us healthy, maybe it will result in more immediate and timely actions. At this stage, have you analyzed any preliminary data? If so, have you learned anything interesting so far? I am currently finishing up the data processing, but yes, we are seeing that we are seeing some interesting relationships between surfers and the ocean on a molecular level. I can’t wait to share all the findings this summer. How many samples are you planning to collect? Will you collect the same number of samples from each geographic region? I’ve collected about 500 samples from 50 individuals at 6 different regions. I travelled to Ireland, England, Morocco, San Diego, San Francisco and Hawai‘i. I would love to travel to South America, the South Pacific and Asia. We are hoping to do so next year. Where have you traveled for this project? And are you planning on visiting anywhere else? Have there been any discoveries about a variety of surfers in different regions? Were there any unique similarities or differences between the surfers you’ve been studying? The analysis is ongoing, but that is what we are hoping to find out. What is the most significant discovery of the Surfer Biome Project so far? One of the best things about the scientific community is that we share our findings to a community of experts first. They look at the results and determine whether these findings can become facts of they are just random coincidences. Once the science has been approved through a rigorous peer-reviewed process, then we often share the findings with the general public. I hope to finish this step this summer and then I can give all the updates about the results of the project. Do you believe there’s a connection between culture and science? How do you believe that the Hawaiian culture influences your projects and studies? I believe that there is a strong connection between my Hawaiian culture and “modern” science. As a Native Hawaiian, our ideology of
mālama ʻaina and imi ʻike are as scientific as it gets. I donʻt believe there is a distinction between the two ideas, just we often do things in different ways when executing the methodology. Surfing is one of the most significant ways I experience my heritage. I have been sliding on waves since before I can remember and hope to continue to do so. Itʻs a huge honor to have something so meaningful to my identity and culture also have global relevance. I am so lucky to have surfing be the bridge between my ancestry and my hopes of becoming a global contributor. Is there a place you traveled to throughout your studies or surf trips that stood out the most? Why? I canʻt pick out one place in particular. Everywhere I go is so unique and amazing. It is actually quite funny, Iʻve learned more about myself this past year than I have about other people. It truly has been and continues to be an amazing experience that definitely helps me appreciate being from Hawaiʻi. In regards to your work on coral reefs, I noticed that the main focus is on the Hawaiian Islands? Are there any plans to extend this elsewhere? There are no immediate plans to study reefs outside of Hawaiʻi. But in reality, all reefs are important and if it is necessary to study foreign reefs to help protect Hawaiʻi, then Iʻm always down. Do you think that studying coral reefs with this new 3-D technology could improve our understanding of coral bleaching and other phenomena associated with global warming? Virtual reality is a hot topic not only in conservation, but also in entertainment. Audiences around the globe are constantly looking for new ways to interpret the world around us. VR is another form of that, and I think the next 5 years will show just how important it is to immerse audiences into the natural spaces we are trying to protect. Any big future plans? This is always a tough questions. I feel I have so many plans and they are always evolving. I feel that the future is big and I just plan on taking it one step at a time. Last words of wisdom..... I just want to acknowledge my family, friends, teachers, mentors and support groups. You know who you are and I canʻt thank everyone enough for sharing this journey with me. Also a huge mahalo to The Manifold. Me ka haʻahaʻa.
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the immigrant song (rant)
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was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. My dad owned a couple of V8 cars and played in a blues & rock n’ roll band. So as you can imagine, I grew up with a very Americanised view of the world. It’s not to say that I didn’t appreciate my country’s culture or history, but I was always fascinated with American culture - and even more so with American counterculture. This is all to paint a picture of why I decided to eventually immigrate to the US, but we will get back to that story later.
US is that I don’t believe most Americans can relate. Less than half of all Americans have a passport. Why does that matter? It matters because if you don’t travel, you don’t broaden your horizons. You don’t put yourself in situations that make you feel uncomfortable. You never get to feel (even if just for a very brief period of time) what it’s like to be on the other side. I deeply believe that if Americans traveled more, their views about immigration would change dramatically.
People immigrate to the US for a number of different reasons. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it’s not always out of desperation. Many forget that America is a nation built by immigrants. Some came fleeing persecution, while others came to find better opportunities here in the states. The idea that people come to the US to steal jobs from Americans, or even worse, that they come here to commit crimes (whether petty crime or actual terrorism) is a grossly skewed vision of why people immigrate from their home countries to the US. These warped ideas of immigration, they really piss me off.
How do I know this? Well, in the ten plus years that I have been living in Hawaii, I’ve interacted with a number of men and women that are currently serving in the US military. As a former punk-rocker, I obviously had a very misguided view of what an army person would sound and act like. To my surprise, these brave men and women (in their majority) are very well educated, very well traveled (even if only due to the nature of their profession) and are very open minded when it comes to other cultures. Because they’ve had to relocate, to learn another language, to respect the culture they were inserted into during their time serving in the military. In my eyes, they are proof that a well traveled American can be very tolerant and very open minded.
(Not to say that there aren’t bad people out there that could possibly fuck up your life. They definitely do exist. And they come in all different colors, shapes, genders, nationalities, religious backgrounds and so on. No need to discriminate…) unnecessary! On a more personal note, immigrating to the US wasn’t all that easy for me. It took several years (and quite a bit of money) to eventually get my green card. And this is coming from a middle-class family in Brazil who had the resources to help me out. I already knew how to speak English and knew a lot about American culture. I can only imagine how it feels to move here from another country without knowing how to speak English, without having the necessary social and professional skills to start a new life in a completely different country. The reason I share my personal story of coming to the
Over the past few weeks, I’ve also had a couple of interesting encounters with other immigrants here in Hawaii totally by chance. The first was a guy from Iran who owns a car dealership here. We were talking about the craziness of all that is happening right now, and he shared how even some people he knew (friends and relatives) got caught in this latest travel ban. People who have a green card (or had at least, as some of them had to “give their green card away” to reenter the country) or that are legal citizens of the US and still got stuck in an airport because of the place where they were born. The other immigrant I met was a Polish woman who
moved here 17 years ago. She now has two kids and rarely visits back home. Not for fear of not being let back in the US, but basically because her country (as well as many other European countries) have been overrun with refugees over the last two decades. According to her, places that were very safe and civilized, are now unsafe to walk at night. She said that “most people avoid getting out of the house at all costs after sundown because of how high the crime rate is”. Whether that is true or not, I am not sure, but I’m just trying to show both sides of the coin for the sake of having a fair argument. And finally today (on the last day that I’m writing this), I met a woman from New Orleans and had an interesting conversation about her experience living in Hawaii, Portland, New Orleans, and also our current political situation. At one point we discussed how important it is to travel to which she mentioned: “When I was 20 years old I went to Indonesia and it changed my life forever. Seeing how other people lived and what they had to go through made me see the world with different eyes. I wish I could share that with my daughter to make her understand how privileged she is. Even under this (terrible) administration”. There you have it, folks. My point is that immigration is far more complex and nuanced than we can all imagine. The best we can do is to educate ourselves and to travel as often as possible, in order to really see the world and the people we interact with through a different light. I am sure that once you open your mind to other cultures, ethnicities, and places - your life will never be the same. Paraphrasing The Sonics, (an American garage rock band from the 60’s) … Have love, go travel!
Cuba libre
text and images x al town
65 As our plane started to descend, I was startled awake. My big red eyes found the little round window, and I saw home: green cane fields tugged Maui-tight with fallow burnt orange squares of dust, an exogenic quilt pulled up to the city. My dozy mistake; this was not Kahului. It was Santa Clara, three hours from Havana. When my girlfriend and I booked our tickets, there were no direct flights yet from the U.S. to Cuba’s capital; that just became possible in the days before we left. It is only slightly hyperbolic to say we were effectively diplomats, representing a new breed of American tourist soon to be mouth-breathing our way down Havana’s streets, agog and chuffing cigars with ron (rum) bottles in hand. Luckily, we two were a little rarefied. We got to claim our origin in comradeship, as fellow islanders — Hawaii to Cuba. But I am not Hawaiian. I grew up on the outskirts of Philadelphia — more like a white Cuban than a Kanaka. Walking down the street in Habana Vieja (old Havana), I was often considered to be from there, until I opened my mouth (because I’m told my Spanish sounds like a Mexican Christopher Walken). This mistaken identity increased after I visited the barber for a Cuban hairdo, completing my camouflage. Jeannie was the opposite. She was assumed to be a foreign fashion model, passing through
a cloud of curious and baffled faces. Holding hands with her, we confused everyone. I seemed to be a Cuban with a good secret. Never have I felt so lucky to be an imposter. I was sometimes barred entry by the doormen of high end places, assumed to be a resident and too poor. Locals approached me to admire my tattoos, unabashedly touching my arms, genial and respectful. They possess an intense interest that exceeds the RPMs of their atmosphere. They fix their own cars on the street, repair century old crumbling edifices themselves, and sell bandoliers of onions for nothing. I was proud to pretend that I could be so resourceful, too. Fidel Castro died on our fifth day there. It was the 60th anniversary of him heading out with 81 men on a ratty yacht, to overthrow the elitist Batista, to revolution. (Ironically, it was also Black Friday, our yearly American ‘holiday’ where people clamber over each other at department store openings to prove how deft they are at consuming.) We had no cell service and internet was hard to come by. That day, our only clue something had happened was that all the music, which usually fills the streets, had stopped. We learned the news from a Havanan friend at one of our new favorite bars,
La Taberna. It’s a stone cave that has been open since the 18th century, and normally half of it is taken up by the band. That night it was empty. For the next nine days, Alexander told us, there would be a government sanctioned mourning: No music or alcohol permitted, not even at home. The television and radio programs were limited to certain ‘informative and historical content’. We later learned museums and government sites were also closed, the restaurants that were open were barren, and our neighborhood felt perpetually like an hour before a tsunami was due to hit. We spent those days wandering throughout old Havana, teasing out the shielded stories normally drowned in music and booze. People were genuinely sad about Castro’s passing. Some feared for what was next. Jeannie likened the sentiments we heard to a complicated relationship with a father. It felt like reconnaissance, like we were undercover and now over-sympathizing with our target. I was being converted to their side. Our new Cuban friend Jaqueline expressed concerns about our choice for the President-elect. She made a breaking motion with her fists, indicating what she is afraid will happen to the budding relations between Cuba and the States. Meanwhile, we did the math of how much we’d have to earn working remotely, in order to stay.
There is no safe way to discuss the passing of Fidel Castro in our country that only seems to allow for polarized politics. In the high contrast wake of the ‘16 election, only vitriolic spitlaced indictment seemed to fold uncensored into the American fabric of c-word tee shirts, calls for witch burnings and the rest of the litany inveighed against the sandbagged shores of both sides. Trying to empathize with a passed foreign ‘dictator’, however — or even just offering condolences to his family as the magnanimous leader of the free world — this is grounds for virtual evisceration, for not holding hands in celebration of his death with the rest of us. Or something. Cuba is a complicated place. It seems to swell with a collective pride for its pluck and resolve, carrying on so long without the help of its domineering capitalist northern neighbor. It has evolved to understand — and, do the utmost with — the limits of its conditions. This is in stark contrast to the anxiousness of
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illustration x sergio garcon
Tita Titsling
Josh Roach: I am the creator, director, and choreographer for Tita, a local drag character of the Honolulu Chinatown area. JF: Who is Tita Titsling? Tell us about her. When and where was she born? JR: Tita was born in Honolulu, she’s quite young…about four years ago she hatched, but she grows very fast. And learns even faster. She grasped the bottle at a very young age and I kinda just let her have it, let her just run with it! She is what I would call a raunchy, exaggerated expression of gender... mainly an extreme persona who challenges gender normativity and expectations. JF: How did Tita Titsling get her name? JR: I am an extreme homo and so love the movie Beaches, naturally. The song Otto Titsling from that film has always stood out for me, about the war between Otto Titzling and Philippe DeBrassiere, creators of the bra… or the “tit sling,” if you will. So her last name was inspired by that. Then of course the name Tita comes from the slang term in local Hawaiian culture, for like a really aggressive, masculine chick that you would not want to meet in a dark alley. Or maybe she just has a big posse of friends that she roams around with and goes to like, Ala Moana Mall to chum around with other fucking titas and aunties. That’s Tita Titsling. JF: Does Tita have drag parents? Who are her inspirations? JR: Tita is an orphan I adopted. No drag mom or drag father to speak of, but she is inspired by a lot of great people….mainly Divine. She’s a John Waters character for sure. She definitely identifies with that lifestyle. Being one of the filthiest people in the world is important to her and she hopes to hold that title one day. JF: Does Tita have other hopes and aspirations for the future? JR: As a character, she has a lot of goals…but mostly she just wants to get
JF: What is the story behind Tita’s iconic mustache?
JR: Tita’s moustache represents the people in the world that don’t fit in. When things are different than what is expected, it causes discomfort. I want Tita’s moustache to break that barrier of the “natural” and “predictable.” Who is to say ladies can’t have a stache and men can’t have tits? Not me!
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Josh Fuentes: Please describe your relationship with the notorious Tita Titsling.
by sucking cock and performing at clubs, living in paradise here in Hawaii’s Chinatown…wearing bathing suits during the day, fabulous makeup…and painting her mustache hot pinks and purples, all the while doing anything to make money pretty much.
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Tita Titsling is the preeminent gutter queen of Hawaii’s Chinatown drag and performing arts scene. She is legendary for her on stage trash talking, over-the-top makeup, vintage fashions, and signature mustache. She doesn’t shave. She doesn’t tuck. And she doesn’t apologize for it. I sat down with her creator, Josh Roach, for what can best be described as a “memorable” interview.
interview x josh fuentes photos x molly caskey
JF: Who are Tita’s fans, what are they like?
JR: They’re mostly a bunch of assholes. They spend a lot of time throwing things at Tita. I think everyone will agree that it’s a love-hate relationship. Tita can be a little abrasive when speaking to her fans from the stage, but if you manage to get close to Tita, she’s pretty nice if you look cute and buy her a drink or if you have a big cock. JF: How important is the drag / performing arts communities here to Tita’s character? JR: A major part. She’s not performing exclusively at clubs and parties, but she is also working with burlesque troupes and other local artists, bringing very different cultures together in a sense. If this vibrant community didn’t exist, Tita would not have such a fitting place to do the things that she does. I am so grateful for that. It’s really a small community here in a lot of ways,
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especially compared to bigger cities. Honolulu certainly has some room to grow in that sense, and that’s why it’s so important for the community to support each other and express their talents. JF: That’s why we need Tita! I have a few fun questions for you. Does Tita have any hobbies? JR: She loves collecting used wigs from around town. But they have to be reeeeeeally used. She also definitely enjoys a healthy bout of public sex in the park. JF: What would Tita’s ideal date be, a night on the town? JR: If you were to take Tita out on a date, she would expect to start the night out in a very dark, sloppy corner some place discreet, not noticed by other patrons. The beer should be continuously flowing, she’s a big beer drinker and not dainty about it (burp). Keep those six packs coming…all thems six packs if you catch my drift. After that they would just go directly outside to the parking lot and fuck. JF: Sounds fun! What might we expect to see at a typical Tita performance or gig around town? JR: On point lip-synching, she’s definitely known for that. She also does live singing, she sings a lot of songs…anything from Disney crap to rock crap. Her voice is very distinct. She loves to scream on the microphone. You will also see some tongue wagging, Tita’s tongue likes to play a lot. You also might be insulted (at a Tita show) but that’s just part of the fun. She often picks the prettiest person in the room to poke fun at because they often don’t expect it. They obviously spent a lot of time getting ready so she loves to tell them… “Girl…looks like you got that shirt from Ross!” Even though it’s obviously from Versace! Then everybody can scream and talk about bow Tita is such a bitch ha ha! JF: If Tita was a cocktail, what cocktail would she be and when would be the best time to drink her? JR: Vodka on the rocks, drink her anytime of the day, from morning, noon, to night…including while you are asleep. JF: Describe the drag scene in Oahu for us. JR: It’s growing. It’s really a historic community that’s been around a long time. We have had some amazing characters pave the path for all of us queens today. The drag community here is becoming one giant family I think. Fellow queens have a lot of respect for each other here. For the most part, everybody is striving to build the community up and that’s really the focus, despite the expected dramas. As we all work to grow the community, the closer we are to taking over…more power in numbers! Then all the drag queens will TAKE OVER THE WORLD! JF: Thanks for the warning. So what is Tita’s message to the world then? JR: Expect the unexpected! We all want to live our lives while being happy, and for those that can’t handle that, mind your own fucking business! JF: When and where can we find Tita Titsling? JR: You can find Tita at Scarlet Honolulu in Chinatown hosting the Fresh Fish Drag Revue, starting around ten PM and we always have fabulous performers from all corners of the drag community and around the world. Tita also hosts the Tropical Fish Drag Competition, open to all levels of drag, for a chance to win money, fame, and the crown if you really got what it takes. You can check me out at my website, www.titatitsling.com for more info on Tita and what she does. The voice of Tita: You can also find me on IG and FB if you look for me, fucking assholes!
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dont even A casual list of do’s and don’ts for harmonious Hawaii living
text x napua camarillo & gui alves
Don’t talk shit about how much your are unimpressed by Oahu or any part of Hawaii. The locals here are very proud and your mouthy disrespect will not go overlooked. It’s a good way to get a beating or severely overcharged. Don’t attempt to swim on the North Shore in the winter unless you’re in a mellow zone and you’ve talked to the lifeguared. I had a friend tell me he couldn’t wait to take pictures in the water at Pipe during the season. That statement got a huge laugh from me and scorned look from him. He assured me that he grew up in Florida and that he could handle. DON’T be that guy. Ignorance is not bliss it’s a snapped neck and a tombstone. Don’t brag about the fact that youre going to buy a house here. Most of the locals will have a hard time affording that luxury for a place that they are born and raised so don’t go flapping your gums about how much money you have. Hawaii is rich in happiness and quality of life but certainly not uber wealth. Don’t honk your horn unless it’s to warn someone of something. Even when I’m behind someone who hasn’t noticed that the light is now green they still get a casual 6-7 Hale’akalas before I give them the heads up. You on island time now, boo. Relax.
Dear white people who didn’t grow up here: Don’t try to speak pidgin. It tends to come off like you’re trying too hard don’t kid yourself into thinking you can get the right inflections on the right word. Attempts at this have been known to make the locals ears bleed. Jk. No I’m not. While we’re on this subject, dear white people who didn’t grow up here, Hawaii is a beautiful land of reverse racism. I’m kind of proud of that. So remember your place. I had a conversation with a white lil Kansas cutie who told me that she experienced a little bit of racism when she attempted to go this popular eatery. I just nodded and agreed that it must have been awful. Listen up lil b, I’m sorry your lil white ass had to feel what black, brown, and gay people feel in their everyday, but I DON’T feel sorry for you. Bye Felicia. Do pack your trash WHEREVER you go. This isn’t just for Hawaii, girls and boys. This is an ecosystem not a egosystem. This especially goes for visitors and locals alike. A ciggarette butt is TRASH. Didn’t mean to blow your mind on that one, but remember that the next time you throw it out the window. Pele would be pissed and don’t nobody wanna piss of Pele. Do stay in Waikiki. We like to keep all the tourists in one spot and the locals in another. You can have Waikiki beach, we’ll take Yokahamas, Waimanalo, and Waimea. Mo’ bettah that way. Don’t get it twisted, Hawaii is beautiful but there is an ugly side. We are one of the leading in the nation for the homeless population. According to Honolulu.gov as of January 24, 2016, 4,940 homeless individuals across the island were counted. Of 2,173 unsheltered homeless, 631 individuals suffer from severe mental illness, and 623 individuals have chronic substance abuse issues. Don’t believe me, take a walk around Chinatown.
Prior to moving to Hawaii I was told how heavy localism is over here and how I should be careful when surfing around here. Granted that most of what I was told was true, there are some myths about how surfing etiquette applies or doesn’t apply in certain moments. I always knew better than to paddle straight into a pack of people and to try to catch the set waves they were waiting for. That still might not be enough to keep you out of trouble though. Being the brazilian that I am I always paddled a little too hard, (and sometimes even around people) when paddle battling for a wave. Never got called out of the water for it, but I did get scolded a couple of times and that was enough for me to learn my lesson. Extra pointer for all the other brazilians out there: don’t paddle out in packs (more than 2 people is a pack already), don’t be loud (whether in portuguese or in English) and most importantly don’t drop in. It won’t end well.
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Before moving here I had no idea that the proper etiquette when paddling out was to aim for the whitewash. Having said that, I did cause a couple of small accidents when paddling back out into the lineup. The first one was prior to knowing this. I was surfing Jockos and this stand up paddleboarder dropped in pretty close to me. He had to bail on his board, his leash wrapped around his calf and he gave me an earful about how what I did was wrong. Once again, lesson learned. The second one happened at Bowls, I was paddling back out and waving “hi” to John Hook, (the famous photographer, hehehe… Love you, John!), and suddenly I realized there was someone about to come out of a barrel pretty close to me. Mind you that the guy was so deep that I couldn’t really tell if he was going to make it out or not. I trusted my instinct and paddled towards the face of the wave only to see Kai Sallas making it out of the barrel and coming straight at me. The nose of my board made a huge gash on his board and I paddled in. I waited for him at the parking lot and paid to get his board fixed which was the very least I could do. He was not happy…
Every spot has a “rotation”. Technically you catch a wave, paddle back out and should wait for your turn again, (meaning that technically you should wait for everyone else that haven’t caught a wave since you did to then paddle for another wave). There will always be guys (and girls) that don’t respect that rule. Sometimes I’m that guy, sometimes it is someone I know. Either way I am continuously learning (and being reminded) not to do that. Recently I’ve been giving a lot more waves than I have been taking (even when I’m sitting deeper) and I’ve been also having more fun than ever. Surfing is supposed to be fun, so let’s keep it that way. Change your mindset, be respectful and don’t take it too seriously. It’s only surfing...
The surfer closest to the “curl” always has the rightof-way, right??? Not always, at least not when you’re surfing Bowls or any other heavy local spot around Hawaii. On those spots you basically don’t paddle for the same wave as the old timers. Period. If you show respect long enough (months, maybe years), they will let you surf their spot with minimal aggravations, but don’t expect to be fully embraced unless you’re a pro-surfer, famous or if you been surfing that spot for a couple of decades.
WTF WHERE’S THAT FROM? Language identifies us. And in today’s world most of what we say has been shortened like some sort of textual ebonics. WTF, LOL, LMAO and the list goes on. It’s kinda easy for the trend to catch on and by now we can guess what the acronyms mean but what were the phrases and sayings we got from yesteryear. Where did “running amok” come from? Read on and find out where we got our most commonly used sayings.
DON’T THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER Meaning: Don’t dismiss something without a second look Hisory: During the 1500s, most people bathed once a year. Yes, once a year! And when they did bathe it wasn’t the modern version of mom banging on the door telling you you had 5 more minutes. It was tub filled with hot water and used by the whole family. The patriarch went first, then the sons and finally the women and lastly the children. The baby was washed last and in the murky water. Not sure how often people were throwing a living being out was actually a thing but it must have been hence the survival of this phrase. In my research there was more posts to support this history than anything else but there was however one website that claimed most of the history of phrases like “graveyard shift”, “saved by the bell” were false folklore. That same website claims this phrase is merely a German proverb that served as a reminder that should the bathwater be murky and gnar be careful you don’t lose the chubby cherub slamming it’s tiny paws on the water surface? THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND
text x napua camarillo illustrations x wencke chodan
Meaning: Drink. Drank. Drunk. History: There are a lot of phrases we use today that come from sailor speak. “Run a tight ship” refers to all the ropes being tight and the ship running smoothly or “taken aback”when the winds set the sails of the ship against the masts causing the ship to be set back. Anyhow, sailors had a lot of terms for being drunk and they all related to the ship. Being tipsy was “a sheet in the wind’s eye” and being hammered was a full “three sheets to the wind.” If you were thinking that sheets were the sails well then you’d be wrong. The sheets were actually the ropes that tied down the sails. If they were loose the wind could take over and cause the sails to flap and flounce much like a teenager on a Friday night.
PLEASED AS PUNCH Meaning: To be very happy History: Not a super commonly used phrase today but it had such an interesting backstory, I wanted to include it. In the 16th century a puppet show originally for adults then later for children called Punch and Judy with orgins in Italy became popular seaside entertainment in the UK. The main character, Pulcinella which got anglicized to Punchinello would often times be violent and take part in killings. The acts were sadistic and he would always appear to be so pleased with himself.
75 meant you were voting for the candidate and black meant you weren’t. If one were to spill the beans you could see all of the anonymous votes in a clear color coded display. RUN AMOK Meaning: Go crazy History: There are a few different interpretations of this phrase but most of them revolve around a tribe of “death or glory” type warriors called Amuco. The term “amok” derived from them as they became crazy and frenzied in their attacks. There are instances of this in writings as early as 1516 and then again in Captain James Cook’s Voyage.
SAVED BY THE BELL Meaning: Something said when a difficult situation ends suddenly before you have to do or say something that you do not want to. History: Not to be confused with the popular 90’s television show of the same name, this phrase appears to be a bit more on the nose. While thought to be a phrase that originated from bells attached to coffins due to a common occurance of people at the time being buried alive--it’s merely a bell used in boxing that saved a brutal beat down from another boxer. I prefer the former because it ties in more appropriately for another phrase. People who’d stand watch over these graves in case of any bell ringing would be working the “graveyard shift”. Then that however got somewhat debunked to another theory that sailors that were set to stand watch from 12am to 8am coined the term because of it’s high death count during this time. Seems to hold less water for me but one can never be sure.
SPILL THE BEANS Meaning: To reveal a secret History: This phrase is said to have originated in Greece where good ole democrazy was invented. To cast your vote you’d drop a colored bean into a container. White beans
DON’T LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH Meaning: Don’t insult someone who’s doing you a favor or gifting you with something. History: This one is pretty simple, as a sign of aging horses’ gums receed thereby making them appear long in the tooth or pertrude forward. Note that, horsey chompers tell you a great deal!
THE RULE OF THUMB Meaning: A common length of measure, guide or principle History: In 1782 Judge Sir Francis Bueller supposedly allowed for hubbies back in the day to go all white trash on their wives with a stick so long as the stick was no wider than a thumb. This theory was backed by a cartoon illustrated a year later by James Gillray. But this rumor has no hard evidence meaning that there’s no written proof that it existed, which if it was a law seems ruled by a judge seems pretty fishy. The most likely origin is simply that it was commonly used measurement by carpenters and measure taking folk.
identity crisis random thoughts on a road trip to find some clarity x ricky peters
“Day 2, I broke down 20 miles outside of Needles, CA. The roads were so bad on Route 66 that something shook loose on my bike and busted a spark plug. After paying an ungodly amount of money for a tow, I was left in this middle of nowhere town, having to wait out the weekend and Easter Sunday until the shops reopened on Monday.�
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“It’s was kind of eerie riding all those miles alone. I would stop to stretch and look around, me only to realize that I hadn’t passed a car in a really long time, and my phone was saying NO SERVICE. I would just have to hope there would be a gas station up ahead sometime soon.”
“There’s an underground pinball scene in Chicago. Bars that have pinball games become “home bases” for teams, and tournaments take on a city wide sprawl, each team defending their home bar’s reputation.”
“America is really divided these days, it’s a tumultuous time. You could feel the difference as you passed through the states.”
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“There’s an underground pinball scene in Chicago. Bars that have pinball games become “home bases” for teams, and tournaments take on a city wide sprawl, each team defending their home bar’s reputation.”
last word Jamie Kidd is an instagram fashion blogger who’s a jet setting, eye piercing, cali transplant living in Maui and making festival clothing the every day norm.
How would you describe your current fashion identity? I would describe my fashion style as Western boho with inspiration from all my travels!
What do you think will be the next thing in fashion blogging? I think the next thing in fashion blogging will be travel, its already starting and I think its a great way to show people all over the world new and amazing places! What did you do 5 days ago? 5 days ago I was modeling at a photoshoot Who was the last person you texted?
Where have you traveled in the world that would best display your current state of mind? My state of mind changes wherever I travel! Every country is so different in culture. I love to really feel like I live there and experience it all! What in your fashion or beauty arsenal are of must-have importance? Name five. I always have to have my steamer (keeps all the clothing looking perfect) I always need my favorite highlighter from MAC Face masks from LUSH cosmeticsand My favorite chapstick from Australia that my fiancé gets me! Who is your style icon? MY style icon changes everyday, I like to dress a different “persona” everyday, so one day I could be really Western with cute boots and some cutt-off shorts, the next day I could be in a long maxi dress and some sandals!
My fiancé :) What is your favorite album? Shania Twain What was the last book you read? I’m not a big reader, more of a sit and watch a movie to relax. Which website besides social media do you frequent? Netflix! Where’s your next adventure? Italy in July with my Fiancé! What’s the favorite piece of clothing right now? Harem pants (comfiest EVER) I love it when: ________You find the perfect location for the perfect outfit__________ My biggest pet peeve is: When people click their pens
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emojis x dan madsen