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Archive

Cover of “Aloha” magazine
December 1924

DeSoto Brown
The Historian of the Bishop Museum
www.bishopmuseum.org
As this photo (labeled “Christmas in Hawaii”) shows, you really can swim and surf at Waikiki on Christmas Day.
Behind these three seated tourists and the Hawaiian man with the solid wood board is the horizontal structure of the Moana Hotel pier.
From this pier, and the roofed pavilion at its end, you could watch surfers pass by below you in the shallow water on small waves.
Numerous photos and movies were taken from this spot, often showing beachboys waving or clowning around for their audience on the pier.
This ended when the pier was demolished in 1930, and it was never replaced. No structure like this could ever get permission to be built today.
“Aloha” magazine was published by the Matson Navigation Company for employees as well as frequent travelers who had traveled from San Francisco to Hawaii via Matson. It appeared from 1920 to 1928.
EventS

Anna Trent Moore
Bud Browne Film Archives
Film Screening of The Essence
Filmed by Bud Browne | Produced by Bud Browne Film Archives
Film Screening of The Essence at the Maui Art and Cultural Center on January 10, 2019. Order Tickets at 242-SHOW (7469) or mauiarts.org.
After the screening, we will talk story following the film with Kai Lenny, Archie Kalepa, Paige Alms, and Andrea Moller.
Filmed by the father of the surf film genre, Bud Browne, The Essence evocatively shares the beauty of surfing while pondering the reason why we surf.
Beautifully produced with archival footage from the Bud Browne Film Archives, it showcases over fifty of surfing's greatest legends, among the likes of George Downing, Buzzy Trent, Gerry Lopez, and Duke Kahanamoku.
A celebration of the sport and the generations who defined it, it captures the pure joy and mystery of riding waves, through the eyes of surfing history, captured by Bud Browne.
Included in the film is the first day that Honolua Bay was filmed in 1963.

Frame Grab of "The Essence" | Courtesy of Anna Trent Moore

Bud Browne | Courtesy of Anna Trent Moore
Tom 'Pohaku' Stone
Makahiki Kuilima
Itʻs time for Makahiko Kuilima, on January 12, 2019. This is our traditional celebration of ʻo Lonoikamakahiki!
If you want to be part of or participate in our living traditions and cultural history, then you need to here.
If you ever wanted to experience the tradition of heʻehōlua (sliding across rock), this would be at Turtle Bay Resort.
There is the only place in Hawaiʻi that has a working traditional rock slide constructed for this Makahiki. We have made it bigger and better.
Come share the aloha! There is so much more to our living Hawaiian traditions.
For an Interview with Tom 'Pohaku' Stone on He'eholua: Hawaiian Sledding
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiMQWa4bnkk&


Pacific Longboarder
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Australian Magazine
pacificlongboarder.com
“Fictional Discharge” | Surfing by Trenton Tarpits – BarfRake
www.pacificlongboarder.com/news/Fictional-Discharge-Surfing-by-Trenton-Tarpits-BarfRake
3 minutes and 30 seconds from Florida. Edit by Sam Aills. Filmed by John Massey, Merrick Cunningham, Nick Gunter, Luke Kothera

The Surf Network
the largest collection of surf video online
www.thesurfnetwork.com
Nausicaa | 2018

Details
Length: 25 minutes
Director: Luca Merli
Writer: Luca Merli
Studio: Block 10 Productions
Surfers
Andy Nieblas, Ale Ponzanelli, Mele Saili, Makala Harmony Smith, Matteo Fabbri, Margaux Arramon Tucco, Lex Weinstein, Natalia Resmini, Seba Concas
For more
www.thesurfnetwork.com/detail/75808a1a85aa339cf5509d174f617b1dbc09b24f11a46415/movie
Synosis
A journey in search of adventures, unexplored shores, empty waves in the Mediterranean most secluded places living with almost zero carbon footprint.
This is a surf-film about our small Ocean, the cradle of civilization and a reflection on living a simple lifestyle in symbiosis with nature.
The boats together with the Onde Nostre Crew traveled the Mediterranean Sea following Ulisse's journey with surfers, sailors, free divers, musicians, artists.
The film is a tale of friendship and nature which speaks to all lovers of the sea.
A modern Odyssey in the search of freedom and waves but also a testimony to our love for the sea and to document the most hidden seas of the Mediterranean.
This film is the story of a moment, of the people who live from one moment to the next and can relish the beauty of an instant.
The film unfolds in tales of adventure so that finally, as in Onde Nostre's motto: "We*ll be able to tell our spectatorship: 'Look where I brought you'.'
As surfers, we tend to stay open to the world around us. The art of wave-riding is truly a pursuit, a pilgrimage of sorts that takes the participant from naive groms to seasoned and sometimes jaded experts, from internet surfers to globe-trotting travelers.
The surfer quickly learns the need to follow the weather and tides, to find the direction of the swell on a map and chase the far-reaching corners of the globe in hopes of finding that magical, fleeting moment of bliss -- the perfect wave.
Movie
Summary
The forces of Nature are immutable - as are the forces of human nature. From previous chapters we know what Nature can do.
But in Part 1 of Cross Currents at Ka’unua we are concerned with the people who are now setting course to the climax events that will soon take place at the sacred reef of the sea people.
But the challenges of human nature are no less powerful than the ocean’s waves. David Helmares must summon all his inner strengths while voyaging to the reef.
And from the other end of the world, Heath Larson, Cheryl Corlund, and the team resurrected from the collapse of Wavelife International are now fully aware of the opportunity to redeem themselves - though now in light of the fatal disaster at the reef.
Please note that in the original printing of Waves of Warning, this chapter was divided into sections that focused on the various characters as they headed towards their encounter at the sacred reef.
For ease of reading we’ve combined the first two sections into this installment.
Book
License Plate

Tom Keck
Photojournalist
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Forwarded Topics

Jean Pierre Banville
Contributor to the Surf Blurb
Allen Kukel
Sea Of Clouds Leads Project To Nominate California Beach Associated With African American Heritage To The National Register Of Historic Places
The Value Of Owning More Books Than You Can Read

Marketplace
Surf-Riders of Hawaii | Centennial Edition + First Bibliography
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The Pipe Masters Posters
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U.S. | The World Stormrider Surf Guide | 2018 XL Edition Signed
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Surfing: A History of Gliding from the first Wave to the Beach Boys
[In French]
(1.200 copies sold)
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Ka'unua
Sacred Reef of the Sea People
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Editor's Pick

Ph.D. Jeremy Lemarie
Editor of the Surf Blurb
An Academic Look
This paper has been published more than 20 years ago, but it is still a very good introduction to the sensitive topic of surf localism.
Free access on ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net/publication/241748468_Making_waves_with_burke_Surf_Nazi_culture_and_the_rhetoric_of_localism
Jack Robinson Goes Absolutely Next-Level In This 5-Minute Edit
www.theinertia.com/surf/jack-robinson-next-level-surfing-5-minute-edit
Surfers brave monster Mavericks waves, despite no competition
British Surfer Tom Butler Thinks He Set a New Record for Biggest Wave Ever Ridden
www.theinertia.com/surf/tom-butler-british-surfer-world-record-nazare-rodrigo-koxa-guinness
The Radical Surfer
"Certain Death" Warning Ignored by World's Best Big-Wave Surfers
Amp Session | Mavericks
Mundaka | The Basque Jewel

The Last image

David Pu'u
Surf Photographer
December 18, 2018
We all love it when the NPAC comes alive!

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