The mischief makers of Go Violets get food all over the questionnaire (nom nom) when they rock in for the Time Off Magazine Live cover shoot this week.
Read about them in this week’s issue #1627.
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The formidable Bullhorn ensemble blows through our Time Off Magazine Live cover shoot this week.
Read about them in this week’s issue #1626.
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Hawaii 2012 part #2 – Waikiki
Waikiki Beach
Having Chilli’s Bar and Grill on the ground floor of our hotel was one way to welcome us back to American food culture, tantalisingly delish but instantly regrettable. Luckily there was plenty of walking to be had around our new temporary home to help move along the couple pounds of meat, cheese and grease we had just ingested.
Waikiki is pretty much the Oahu equivalent of Surfers Paradise, ie. tourist central, but its not all bad! Street botherers and slow moving path blocking groups aside, between the scores of hotels there is a generous speckling of retail shops and eateries. Kuhio Ave is a good place to start with the Waikiki town center, Kings Village shopping center, Royal Hawaiian center. Here you’ll find almost any souvenir you can imagine with the usual excessive over redundancy of content and shops in tourist hot spots but it is still worth a look-through as some stores will stock different designs, colours or styles. The fixed shops make way for open air markets and mobile stalls in surrounding lanes and streets, thankfully very few are pushy with their sales.
The Royal Hawaiian is where the branded shopping begins with high end names like Fendi, Hermes, Bvlgari and even a Ferrari store but the one we were most interested in was Zumies – the token skate, surf, snow, moto-x store. They actually had quite the range of stock and brands, even a small section of Undefeated along with a bunch of sale items, always a good sign (:
Downstairs, it wouldn’t hurt your taste buds to pop into the Honolulu Cookie Company and try a few samples of their gourmet shortbread cookies.
Out on the streets you’ll find a couple 88 tees stores – kind of a designer vintage tee store dressed up like a rubbishy clearance store where shirts are in piles on large tables and in pigeon holes. There were some cool designs but prices were quite expensive for what they were (starting around $20). They did however have some other random items like old Hawaiian and American licence plates which were great for a slightly quirky souvenir (:
Alot of the high end stores made use of their massive store fronts for some intriguing art exhibits.
Finally, if by some chance you were walking around with your eyes closed, you may not have noticed that there’s quite literally an ABC store on every corner (not be mistaken with the Japanese Footlocker equivalent). Basically your one stop shop for souvenirs, convenience items and last minute life saving.
Next up, we take our best shot contracting mall dementia by running the gauntlet of the major shopping centres on the west coast… all in one day!
Hawaii 2012 part #1 – Arrival
Hawaii 2012 part #2 – Waikiki
Hawaii 2012 part #3 – Honolulu shopping – Part A
Hawaii 2012 part #4 – The Big Island – Volcano tour
Hawaii 2012 part #5 – Shopping Honolulu – part B
Hawaii 2012 part #6 – Tattoo Honolulu / Boardshorts: A Perfect Fit art exhibits
Hawaii 2012 part #7 – Pearl City area
Hawaii 2012 part #8 – Swap meets and Made in Hawaii festival
Hawaii 2012 part #9 – Cook offs and Car shows
Hawaii 2012 part #10 – North shore
Hawaii 2012 part #11 – Windward shore and Sealife Park
Hawaii 2012 part #12 – Chief’s Luau at Sealife Park
Hawaii 2012 part #13 – South shore – Diamondhead crater, Hanauma bay
We had a big week of running around this week! First up Jakarta Criers are in for our Time Off Magazine Live cover shoot, then we catch The Rubens at the Tivoli and get our school sports carnival on with a few locals at the Track and Field event featuring Dune Rats, Jungle Giants and Alpine at Electric Playground.
Check it all out in this week’s issue #1625.
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The Rubens
Track and Field
Dune Rats
Jungle Giants
Spunkette songstress Georgia Potter, complete with her local designer threads joins us for our Time Off Magazine Live cover shoot this week.
Read about them in this week’s issue #1624.
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Forever the Optimist bring their positive, glass half full vibes to our Time Off Magazine Live cover shoot this week.
Read about them in this week’s issue #1623.
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Nike Air Max 25th anniversary
Celebrations have been in full swing all around the world (yet to see any locally tho! ): ) for Nike’s irrepressible technology, second to only the Air bag itself, the Max Air bag cushioning system clocks up a quarter century milestone this year. Being a bit of a sucker for things that make us feel like we’re walking on clouds, we thought we’d dig into the archives for some of our favourite Air Max photos. As you can see we’re rather partial to one particular model 😉
Happy Birthday Aero Maximus!
New “festival” on the block(s) and classic Simpsons quote “The Blurst of Times” Festival headed up a host of local bands from Violent Soho and Velociraptor to Gung Ho and Bitch Prefect. Spread across three venues, Coniston Lane, Alhambra and Black Bear Lodge, it was kind of like a festival, a bit of running around but minus the long queues and battling the elements.
Our full gallery is available over at The Good Guide – Blurst of Times Festival.
I call all the shots, rip all the spots, rock all the rocks, cop all the drops…ok maybe Biggie wasnt rapping about these local lads but Call the Shots are bringing their brand of pop punk to our Time Off Magazine Live cover shoot this week.
Read about them in this week’s issue #1622.
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We interrupt the New Jack Rubys during a mid afternoon round for our Time Off Magazine Live cover shoot this week.
Read about them in this week’s issue #1621.
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