Ikaika shirts
mardi 25 février 2020
Anyone else remember those shirts from the 90's that had a bodybuilder type person from hawaiian strength,jawaiian strength,reggae works and such? I noticed some had anthro characters, in that they seemed to be animal headed people.
Ikaika shirts
Indie comic and art
Hello!
Last night, well, today a few hours ago, I finished the cover art for a few notebooks to promote an upcoming Indie comic, one of them is related to Hawaiian culture. I hope you like it and any feedback is appreciated!
Edit: The picture, for now, is really low quality. I will upload a better version once I manage to put the three covers in my social media.
TanifaPreview.jpg
Last night, well, today a few hours ago, I finished the cover art for a few notebooks to promote an upcoming Indie comic, one of them is related to Hawaiian culture. I hope you like it and any feedback is appreciated!
Edit: The picture, for now, is really low quality. I will upload a better version once I manage to put the three covers in my social media.
TanifaPreview.jpg
Hello!
lundi 24 février 2020
Hello everyone!
It is very thrilling for me to be here, as for a while now I have been looking for ways to communicate with anyone from the Polynesian islands. I have a lot of questions, some of them may seem simple or outright ignorant, but so far my only means of knowledge has been the internet.
I'm an amateur artist and comic writer, with my first comic ealing with creatures from different cultures and whose protagonists, at least two of them, are based on Hawaii and Aotearoa; if anyone is willing to discuss both writing and illustration with me I'd really appreciate it! A fair representation of a culture, more so one that is not my own, is very important (more so in the visual department).
As for my person, well. I'm latinamerican, currently working as a freelance editor and a part time ESL teacher! I'm also trying to learn Hawaiian but, sadly, there is no one available for me to practice with. A speaking buddy would be nice, too. I can teach Spanish in turn, if it is of any interest!
Looking forward to write with you,
~M. Corvin
Hello!
It is very thrilling for me to be here, as for a while now I have been looking for ways to communicate with anyone from the Polynesian islands. I have a lot of questions, some of them may seem simple or outright ignorant, but so far my only means of knowledge has been the internet.
I'm an amateur artist and comic writer, with my first comic ealing with creatures from different cultures and whose protagonists, at least two of them, are based on Hawaii and Aotearoa; if anyone is willing to discuss both writing and illustration with me I'd really appreciate it! A fair representation of a culture, more so one that is not my own, is very important (more so in the visual department).
As for my person, well. I'm latinamerican, currently working as a freelance editor and a part time ESL teacher! I'm also trying to learn Hawaiian but, sadly, there is no one available for me to practice with. A speaking buddy would be nice, too. I can teach Spanish in turn, if it is of any interest!
Looking forward to write with you,
~M. Corvin
Hall & Oates
https://pagesix.com/2020/02/21/john-...ands-of-women/
John Oates is the Wilt Chamberlin of pop music.
Hall & Oates
John Oates is the Wilt Chamberlin of pop music.
Hawai'i TV: 1970s, 80s, 90s – Joe Moore, Emme Tomimbang, Bob Sevey, and JACK HAWKINS
dimanche 23 février 2020
TV'S REAL LIFE "TED BAXTER" (Mary Tyler Moore Show's buffoon anchorman played by actor Ted Knight)
(And Joe Moore, Emme Tomimbang, Bob Sevey, Leslie Wilcox, Bob Jones and a lot of other memories)
Burl Burlingham wrote a great memory of KITV-TV 4 (ABC Hawaii) anchorman JACK HAWKINS’ last broadcast on Channel 4’s news, and here, Hawaii-raised Keoni (Hiroshi) Tyler – now in Hollywood at NBCUniversal – reflects on him, KGMB, Joe Moore’s rise, and Hawaii’s TV environment in the 1970s~90s.
He would love to hear your comments on here or on social media, so please reach out – always love to hear from people from his original homeland!
***
PART 1 of 5 [thread]
I am gonna jump around to various topics – all related to TV broadcasting and the subject at hand – but still, long-winded and a curvy journey. I am trying to weave together the environment at the time of Jack Hawkins and his departure. We in film and TV know that our visual mediums have to also add a "look and feel" of the station in the way things are presented: The colors of the logo... the music ... the chosen announcer and what tone is used ("You're watching KITV: Island Television" seems simple, but everything is all by design, because it adds to an emotional tug that is often subconscious to viewers, but equates to how you feel about what you just watched and if you 'take it with you).
IF YOU WANT TO JUST JUMP TO THE BOTTOM LINE, skip down to Part 5 of 5.
February 2020
I grew up in Kalihi, then Aiea and left my island homeland in 1996 when Hollywood enticed me and I needed to spread my wings. Growing up in a gang-infested neighborhood (right after we left, gangs burned down 4 schools in one day including my beloved Puuhale Elementary), I never thought I would be working/producing on the Academy Awards® (our team garnered a Primetime Emmy® nomination for my first Oscar® broadcast); never thought I would get invited to meet BIG stars and have drinks with them or go to their homes; or have the successes and failures I have had in my 24 years in La La land. I still marvel at Hawaii television, and am honored when anchors like Diane Ako interact with me on Instagram. Maybe one day, I will make Hawaii proud, though I am aging quickly. It would be great to be able to give back to my island home.
Growing up, I was fascinated with TV, video and Hawaii's broadcasters ever since my parents caught me tuning into KHET-11's sign-on test pattern (Google it) – and would call the station and bug technicians to identify the instrumental music they played during that and D.O.E. Educational TV logo “slides” (still pictures like “Television Classroom” and “Inservice Seminar” that filled time before the next educational program started). Just from memory, after I moved to Hollywood in 1996, I would in the late 2000's re-create the test pattern and all the music tracks, and made Blu-ray/DVDs and sent them as a gift to Hawaii Public Television – now branded as PBSHawaii. VP Robert Pennybacker was impressed and even shared the discs with a few old-timers who were about to retire. Robert Pennybacker is a legend who rose at KGMB after college in Los Angeles.
I was a strange kid: I would sit with my mother's alarm clock watching KITV and other channels and time each commercial break, and would notice a pattern back then: Obviously, it must have been FCC rules. In the 70s, primetime TV had a limit of 9.5 minutes of commercials and 2.5 minutes of station promos (“Tonight on ‘Charlie’s Angels’”); and you could not break away from the main show more than 5 times an hour; a 6th time was the "Adjacency" (end break) that followed a show's credits, and preceded the start of the next show.
Fast forward to today, where I sometimes re-cut old tv series, to, unfortunately, squeeze-in more commercials (I worked on re-cutting the original "Hawaii Five-0”). We take those old 1-hours and make room for 18-20 minutes of commercials, and also, break away from the show 10-12 times an hour! That means trying to cut scenes or shots out without taking from the story. A lot of editors just hack it because they have a quota to meet per shift. I was always a fast editor, but as a director, writer (and sometimes producer), I genuinely cared about respecting the legacy of anything I touched, so I watched the episodes carefully then went back to decide what to trim, with respect to the original artists and storytellers (and disdain for what I had to do to earn a living).
After we re-cut the show, the episode is sent to “Vari-Speed:" They take the new shaved edit I just did and they speed it up 1.5%, but keep the audio pitch the same so actors don't sound like Mickey Mouse. That 1.5% speed-up fits in yet another :30 second commercial! And broadcast and mainstream cable wonders why their audiences eroded.
All of us kids would love it when KGMB-TV 9 (CBS Hawaii) had "technical difficulties" in the 70s and would play a cool song: Mason William's "Classical Gas," putting a 35mm slide up saying programming would resume momentarily. I mean, it was as cool as hearing the Hawaii-Five 0 theme.
***
(End of Part 1 of 5)
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Hawai'i TV: 1970s, 80s, 90s – Joe Moore, Emme Tomimbang, Bob Sevey, and JACK HAWKINS
(And Joe Moore, Emme Tomimbang, Bob Sevey, Leslie Wilcox, Bob Jones and a lot of other memories)
Burl Burlingham wrote a great memory of KITV-TV 4 (ABC Hawaii) anchorman JACK HAWKINS’ last broadcast on Channel 4’s news, and here, Hawaii-raised Keoni (Hiroshi) Tyler – now in Hollywood at NBCUniversal – reflects on him, KGMB, Joe Moore’s rise, and Hawaii’s TV environment in the 1970s~90s.
He would love to hear your comments on here or on social media, so please reach out – always love to hear from people from his original homeland!
***
PART 1 of 5 [thread]
I am gonna jump around to various topics – all related to TV broadcasting and the subject at hand – but still, long-winded and a curvy journey. I am trying to weave together the environment at the time of Jack Hawkins and his departure. We in film and TV know that our visual mediums have to also add a "look and feel" of the station in the way things are presented: The colors of the logo... the music ... the chosen announcer and what tone is used ("You're watching KITV: Island Television" seems simple, but everything is all by design, because it adds to an emotional tug that is often subconscious to viewers, but equates to how you feel about what you just watched and if you 'take it with you).
IF YOU WANT TO JUST JUMP TO THE BOTTOM LINE, skip down to Part 5 of 5.
February 2020
I grew up in Kalihi, then Aiea and left my island homeland in 1996 when Hollywood enticed me and I needed to spread my wings. Growing up in a gang-infested neighborhood (right after we left, gangs burned down 4 schools in one day including my beloved Puuhale Elementary), I never thought I would be working/producing on the Academy Awards® (our team garnered a Primetime Emmy® nomination for my first Oscar® broadcast); never thought I would get invited to meet BIG stars and have drinks with them or go to their homes; or have the successes and failures I have had in my 24 years in La La land. I still marvel at Hawaii television, and am honored when anchors like Diane Ako interact with me on Instagram. Maybe one day, I will make Hawaii proud, though I am aging quickly. It would be great to be able to give back to my island home.
Growing up, I was fascinated with TV, video and Hawaii's broadcasters ever since my parents caught me tuning into KHET-11's sign-on test pattern (Google it) – and would call the station and bug technicians to identify the instrumental music they played during that and D.O.E. Educational TV logo “slides” (still pictures like “Television Classroom” and “Inservice Seminar” that filled time before the next educational program started). Just from memory, after I moved to Hollywood in 1996, I would in the late 2000's re-create the test pattern and all the music tracks, and made Blu-ray/DVDs and sent them as a gift to Hawaii Public Television – now branded as PBSHawaii. VP Robert Pennybacker was impressed and even shared the discs with a few old-timers who were about to retire. Robert Pennybacker is a legend who rose at KGMB after college in Los Angeles.
I was a strange kid: I would sit with my mother's alarm clock watching KITV and other channels and time each commercial break, and would notice a pattern back then: Obviously, it must have been FCC rules. In the 70s, primetime TV had a limit of 9.5 minutes of commercials and 2.5 minutes of station promos (“Tonight on ‘Charlie’s Angels’”); and you could not break away from the main show more than 5 times an hour; a 6th time was the "Adjacency" (end break) that followed a show's credits, and preceded the start of the next show.
Fast forward to today, where I sometimes re-cut old tv series, to, unfortunately, squeeze-in more commercials (I worked on re-cutting the original "Hawaii Five-0”). We take those old 1-hours and make room for 18-20 minutes of commercials, and also, break away from the show 10-12 times an hour! That means trying to cut scenes or shots out without taking from the story. A lot of editors just hack it because they have a quota to meet per shift. I was always a fast editor, but as a director, writer (and sometimes producer), I genuinely cared about respecting the legacy of anything I touched, so I watched the episodes carefully then went back to decide what to trim, with respect to the original artists and storytellers (and disdain for what I had to do to earn a living).
After we re-cut the show, the episode is sent to “Vari-Speed:" They take the new shaved edit I just did and they speed it up 1.5%, but keep the audio pitch the same so actors don't sound like Mickey Mouse. That 1.5% speed-up fits in yet another :30 second commercial! And broadcast and mainstream cable wonders why their audiences eroded.
All of us kids would love it when KGMB-TV 9 (CBS Hawaii) had "technical difficulties" in the 70s and would play a cool song: Mason William's "Classical Gas," putting a 35mm slide up saying programming would resume momentarily. I mean, it was as cool as hearing the Hawaii-Five 0 theme.
***
(End of Part 1 of 5)
-------------
Apple Pay and Google Pay at the gas pump
vendredi 21 février 2020
I'm a huge proponent of mobile wallet payments (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, etc) and was happy to see that gas stations are now equipping their pumps with NFC readers. Since then, I've been on the lookout for stations with these upgraded gas pumps.
It appears that any 76 station that has the new pump with NFC reader is ready to go. Aloha stations with NFC readers on the pumps are also good to go in most cases.
On the flip side, Hele has stations with NFC equipped pumps, but they are not enabled. You can scan your phone but then you get a message that it hasn't been enabled. Same with Shell. The excuse I got from the regional Shell manager is that they only allow payments with their own mobile app (that is, they are trying what CVS failed to do). I have yet to see any Texaco stations with NFC readers on the pumps. So for now, I'm only chasing Aloha and 76.
I created a Google Map for this purpose. I'm only adding locations where I have confirmed that my Apple Pay works at the pump. You'll find it here: https://www.google.com/maps/@21.3385...DL4_JikamosEzj
If you have successfully paid with mobile wallets at the pump at stations not mapped yet, you can tweet them to me at @indicru
Mahalo!
Apple Pay and Google Pay at the gas pump
It appears that any 76 station that has the new pump with NFC reader is ready to go. Aloha stations with NFC readers on the pumps are also good to go in most cases.
On the flip side, Hele has stations with NFC equipped pumps, but they are not enabled. You can scan your phone but then you get a message that it hasn't been enabled. Same with Shell. The excuse I got from the regional Shell manager is that they only allow payments with their own mobile app (that is, they are trying what CVS failed to do). I have yet to see any Texaco stations with NFC readers on the pumps. So for now, I'm only chasing Aloha and 76.
I created a Google Map for this purpose. I'm only adding locations where I have confirmed that my Apple Pay works at the pump. You'll find it here: https://www.google.com/maps/@21.3385...DL4_JikamosEzj
If you have successfully paid with mobile wallets at the pump at stations not mapped yet, you can tweet them to me at @indicru
Mahalo!
Best supermarket Hotdog????
That is the best supermarket hotdog in hawaii????
The plastic package type.
Since costco no longer had the Polish hotdog, I'm looking for a replacement.
Oscar Mayer
Redondo's
Nathan's
Hebrew Nation
Ball Park
Goviea
Others.........
Best supermarket Hotdog????
The plastic package type.
Since costco no longer had the Polish hotdog, I'm looking for a replacement.
Oscar Mayer
Redondo's
Nathan's
Hebrew Nation
Ball Park
Goviea
Others.........
RIP: Kellye Nakahara of M*A*S*H
mercredi 19 février 2020
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...ies-at-age-72/
M*A*S*H did a good thing by showing that people from Hawaii served during the Korean War.
RIP: Kellye Nakahara of M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H did a good thing by showing that people from Hawaii served during the Korean War.
UH mens basketball
lundi 17 février 2020
I'm bummed UH lost this past Saturday.
They just look tired.
But I really enjoyed the game.
No david hallum to listen to.
UH mens basketball
They just look tired.
But I really enjoyed the game.
No david hallum to listen to.
Congrats to A4sForever
samedi 15 février 2020
A4sForever turns 114 years old today.
Congrats to A4sForever
Airplane Seating Etiquette
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/man-...235817329.html
I don't put my seat back. That's why I have a hard time sleeping on a plane.
Airplane Seating Etiquette
I don't put my seat back. That's why I have a hard time sleeping on a plane.
Houston Astros Signal Gate
vendredi 14 février 2020
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...t-their-title/
The Houston Astros won the 2017 Electoral College World Series.
Houston Astros Signal Gate
The Houston Astros won the 2017 Electoral College World Series.
If you are an American patriot, sing along.
lundi 10 février 2020
RIP: Robert Conrad
dimanche 9 février 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/wild-wild-wes...025523204.html
No one dared to knock off the battery on his shoulder.
RIP: Robert Conrad
No one dared to knock off the battery on his shoulder.
Isaac Toast
vendredi 7 février 2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...q91?li=BBnb4R7
The secret is the grilled bread. This reminds me of the Flying Saucer you eat at carnivals with the sloppy joe fillings.
Isaac Toast
The secret is the grilled bread. This reminds me of the Flying Saucer you eat at carnivals with the sloppy joe fillings.
RIP: Kirk Douglas
jeudi 6 février 2020
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news...eople-magazine
Rip Spartacus, as in the movie. You'll be remembered.
RIP: Kirk Douglas
Rip Spartacus, as in the movie. You'll be remembered.
RIP: Terry Jones of Monty Python
mercredi 5 février 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30116194
He could play the straight man or a wacky character in a Python's sketch.
RIP: Terry Jones of Monty Python
He could play the straight man or a wacky character in a Python's sketch.
Coronavirus
mardi 4 février 2020
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...official-says/
Be prepared! The death toll keeps rising in China.
Coronavirus
Be prepared! The death toll keeps rising in China.
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