Posted on: Friday, August 2, 2002
THE LEFT LANE
Hawai'i a hot item, Quilting meets hula, Surf better with yoga, Local poet on HBO
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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| The new film "Blue Crush" is part of a surge in surf-related entertainment.
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Hawai'i a hot item
They like us — or at least our beaches and our boards. They really, really like us! Entertainment Weekly has discerned a trend in surfing-related entertainment, and that translates to interest in Hawai'i. Evidence: Sheryl Crow's hit single, "Soak Up the Sun," which showed her strumming and surfing on the North Shore of O'ahu; "Blue Crush," the surf-girl flick also filmed on the North Shore; "Lilo & Stitch," animated to represent Kaua'i and the Big Island; and more. Other surfer-chick movies are "in the pipeline," as EW put it, including "Girl in the Curl," a biopic of pioneering pro surfer Lisa Andersen. Meanwhile, Quiksilver has launched an entertainment branch, to make movies, music, etc.
Quilting meets hula
Two favorite island hobbies, hula and quilting, come together in a new quilt pattern created by seamstress Dian Kaneshiro of Makiki. The Keiki Hula Girl quilt pattern comes with nine mu'umu'u, eight sets of arms, three faces and the option of moving limbs to create different hula poses.
The mu'umu'u can be embellished with ruffles, pin tucks, laces — whatever the quilter desires.
Creative types who don't quilt can embellish a cloth tote bag, pillow or T-shirt by adding a single hula keiki to it. The pattern is sold for $14 and up at Homespun Harbor, Polynesian Cultural Center gift shop, Calico Cat, Island Crafts & Fabrics and Little Hawaiian Craft Shops.
Surf better with yoga
The buzz about yoga continues to build. In July's Outside magazine, the publication continues its "The Shape of Your Life" series with a plug for flexibility training — especially yoga. Big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton, the series' poster boy, says he took up Ashtanga yoga, and saw improvement in his surfing.
"The biggest thing it has done is give me more positions I can be powerful in," Hamilton said. "It's like your body is your tennis racket, and you're giving it a bigger sweet spot."
Local poet on HBO
Joy Harjo, Honolulu poet and musician, is believed to be first from Hawai'i to perform on HBO's Def Poetry show.
Harjo, born in Oklahoma and a Muscogee Indian, has published several books of poetry. Her latest, "How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems," has just been published by W.W. Norton. She will be one of several poets on "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry," at 9 tonight on HBO.
