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Gabriel Miller and Freddy Leone, the singer-songwriters of @twelvenoonandmidnite, explain their #creative process and how #music has lifted both out of struggle and strife in the #FLUXUtopias season of #InFLUX. #nmgnetwork

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For #FLUXUtopias issue, we asked five local contemporary poets to write an original #poem based on a photograph from its #Hawaii day in the life visual essay, all published exclusively online at fluxhawaii.com. Poet @m.g.martin selected this image of Waiānuenue Falls in Hilo by @andrewrichardhara and wrote the following:
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“thick aloha”

we try to give the river
the same sized attention
we give the ocean.
since the great māhele
our water has tasted expensive.
some rivers fall into rainbows:
this is a form of shaka.
thick aloha can be achieved
by fashioning a bed from monstera
& lying under the sky. to learn aloha
go to the falling river
& collect the raindrops
of a lehua blossom.
every river on the island
has flown through you
from before time
before you
were ever here.

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Choreographer Mark Kanemura (@mkik808) dances to his own beat, a rhythm he found at an early age as a local boy growing up in #Hawaii. At 10 years old he remembers saving his allowance to buy a strobe light to better put on homespun Broadway productions in his family's living room in ‘Aiea. “I loved anything that would contribute to my theatrical vision,” Kanemura says. With his younger sister Marissa, the two would perform “Cats” and “Phantom of The Opera” for their parents. “I grew up with a sister who never questioned me, she never called me any names, she was always just down for the ride—that encouraged my creativity,” he says. “Being able to create as a child is why I am able to freely do that now.” Now, in his 30s, after already finding success as a contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance?” and touring with @ladygaga, he reconnected with this childlike wonder via Instagram. Enamored with @carlyraejepsen’s “Cut to the Feeling,” Kanemura filmed a lip-synching spectacle via his iPhone: It went viral, landed on a segment of Entertainment Tonight, and his weekly series #CutToTheFeelingFridays was born. In each clip he manifests #wigs, balloons, confetti, and #rainbow flags into a “campy fantasia of precision,” as writer @mitchellkuga describes them. Today, Kanemura travels to teach his choreography at dance conventions, direct visual content for stars like @selenagomez, and occasionally model and act. But he always budgets time for those elaborate #Instagram segments, which allow him to tap into his inner child. “That’s my playtime,” he says. “When I’m not working, I make sure to do those videos because they bring me a lot of joy.” Photographer @michelle.mishina captured these portraits of Kanemura in his Los Angeles apartment, where he now resides. Follow @leiculture, the #LGBTQ traveler produced by @nmgnetwork, for more stories about the islands' creative community.

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"You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go." — Nikos Kazantzakis. Sentiments from the #FLUXUtopias spine. Image by @thunderhug.

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Gabriel Miller and Freddy Leone, the singer-songwriters of @twelvenoonandmidnite, explain their #creative process and how #music has lifted both out of struggle and strife in the #FLUXUtopias season of #InFLUX. #nmgnetwork

Instagram post 2157872097598052334_13312082

For #FLUXUtopias issue, we asked five local contemporary poets to write an original #poem based on a photograph from its #Hawaii day in the life visual essay, all published exclusively online at fluxhawaii.com. Poet @m.g.martin selected this image of Waiānuenue Falls in Hilo by @andrewrichardhara and wrote the following:
.
“thick aloha”

we try to give the river
the same sized attention
we give the ocean.
since the great māhele
our water has tasted expensive.
some rivers fall into rainbows:
this is a form of shaka.
thick aloha can be achieved
by fashioning a bed from monstera
& lying under the sky. to learn aloha
go to the falling river
& collect the raindrops
of a lehua blossom.
every river on the island
has flown through you
from before time
before you
were ever here.

Instagram post 2157784269727891005_13312082

Choreographer Mark Kanemura (@mkik808) dances to his own beat, a rhythm he found at an early age as a local boy growing up in #Hawaii. At 10 years old he remembers saving his allowance to buy a strobe light to better put on homespun Broadway productions in his family's living room in ‘Aiea. “I loved anything that would contribute to my theatrical vision,” Kanemura says. With his younger sister Marissa, the two would perform “Cats” and “Phantom of The Opera” for their parents. “I grew up with a sister who never questioned me, she never called me any names, she was always just down for the ride—that encouraged my creativity,” he says. “Being able to create as a child is why I am able to freely do that now.” Now, in his 30s, after already finding success as a contestant on “So You Think You Can Dance?” and touring with @ladygaga, he reconnected with this childlike wonder via Instagram. Enamored with @carlyraejepsen’s “Cut to the Feeling,” Kanemura filmed a lip-synching spectacle via his iPhone: It went viral, landed on a segment of Entertainment Tonight, and his weekly series #CutToTheFeelingFridays was born. In each clip he manifests #wigs, balloons, confetti, and #rainbow flags into a “campy fantasia of precision,” as writer @mitchellkuga describes them. Today, Kanemura travels to teach his choreography at dance conventions, direct visual content for stars like @selenagomez, and occasionally model and act. But he always budgets time for those elaborate #Instagram segments, which allow him to tap into his inner child. “That’s my playtime,” he says. “When I’m not working, I make sure to do those videos because they bring me a lot of joy.” Photographer @michelle.mishina captured these portraits of Kanemura in his Los Angeles apartment, where he now resides. Follow @leiculture, the #LGBTQ traveler produced by @nmgnetwork, for more stories about the islands' creative community.

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"You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go." — Nikos Kazantzakis. Sentiments from the #FLUXUtopias spine. Image by @thunderhug.

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