{"id":873,"date":"2004-12-26T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T00:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2004-12-26T00:02:53","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T00:02:53","slug":"shooting_the_tu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Tube: Hawaii Surf Photographer Don King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hanahou.com\/images\/gerrylopez.jpg\"TITLE=\"Don King's classic images include Gerry Lopez at Pipeline circa 1986.\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanahou.com\/shootingtube.html\">Derek Farrar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>King is particularly proud of a recent project, Stacy Peralta?s big-wave surfing documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/sony\/riding_giants.html\">Riding Giants<\/a>, which this year became the first documentary ever to open the Sundance Film Festival. The film features King?s footage of tow-in avatar Hamilton surfing sixty-foot beasts at Jaws. &#8220;It was one of the best swells there ever,&#8221; King remembers. &#8220;Perfect, perfect waves, and super huge. Riding Giants is a really entertaining, well-made film, and the stuff we shot that day is some of the most amazing surfing I?ve ever been part of. It still takes my breath away.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Farrar: King is particularly proud of a recent project, Stacy Peralta?s big-wave surfing documentary Riding Giants, which this year became the first documentary ever to open the Sundance Film Festival. The film features King?s footage of tow-in avatar Hamilton surfing sixty-foot beasts at Jaws. &#8220;It was one of the best swells there ever,&#8221; King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}