Honor Roll Model
By Daniel Ikaika Ito

It’s Friday night at the Hard Rock Café Waikiki and there are four 20-something girls violently shaking their rumps in front of the stage. These coeds are in a booty contest with $100 bucks as the prize for the lady who can shake their moneymaker the best. They are a sensual spectacle for the entire party who congregated at Hard Rock to raise money for the 2007 Hawai‘i World Amateur Surf Team and skank to the local reggae rhythms of Ooklah The Moc. All the boys at the shindig stare and squeal like pigs at the wiggling hips and jiggling posteriors. Except for 17-year-old Kekoa Cazimero.

A man and his camera

By Chelsea Johns

Through Allen Mozo’s lens, one experiences stunning seascapes, the hydrodynamic skills of watermen caught at the height of action and wildlife in uninterrupted tranquility. Behind the lens, however, is a man who not only overcame paralysis as a teenager after a skateboarding accident left him with a broken neck, but also endured the early passing of his best friend, younger brother and fellow photographer, Jon Mozo. Despite these tragic incidents, or perhaps because of them, Mozo has a definitive love of life, concern for the people around him and appreciation of the simple beauties of nature.

Sidetracked in the Subcontinent
By Beau Flemister

May 19, 2008
As a surfer, there are random and infrequent moments when you want, when you need something else. We slip out of the saltwater like some primordial deja vu on our evolutionary path, trudging onto land in search of some new adventure. There are other ways to get your adrenaline pumping other than dropping in to an eight-foot wave at Pipe, and I chose Pakistan.

By Beau Flemister

Several years ago, an independent film was showing at the now closed Varsity Twins Theater in town called What the Bleep Do We Know? It’s an insightful documentary, sort of a Quantum Physics 101 for the movie-going masses. Of the many speakers it featured and followed throughout the film, a scientist by the name of Dr. Masaru Emoto shared some interesting (and even considered controversial) scientific findings. He was conducting experiments with water. Well, actually frozen water.