Bytemarks

If you don’t already know about the excellent NHK Taiga Drama, Ryomaden, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 will be the series finale. The show airs in Honolulu on KIKU-TV at 8pm on Tuesday evenings and repeats on Sunday at 8pm. Ryoma Sakamoto lived in the 1860′s and is recognized as being the change agent that brought [...]

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Shot from Kewalo Basin near Ala Moana Beach. This morning’s sunrise was quite spectacular.

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This is just a short post while I sit in the hotel lobby on the only Internet workstation in the hotel. I am currently in Arita, Japan, a city known for its porcelin ceramics. Very beautiful stuff and a great history on how the skill was brought to Japan. While in a old historic building [...]

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On October 22, 2010, the 20th anniversary of stopping the bombing of Kanaloa Kaho‘olawe, presents the opportunity to reflect on what has been accomplished over the last 20 years and what is planned for Kaho‘olawe’s future. The Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana (‘Ohana) together with the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission (KIRC) worked to restore the island’s cultural and natural [...]

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This past week was quite a learning experience participating in the Kanu Hawaii Eat Local Challenge. To be conscientious about sourcing locally produced foods is a challenge and has to be well planned out. In our eat and run culture, I found myself slowing down a bit to think about what markets to go to [...]

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If you haven’t already seen 442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity the time is now. The film, about the 442nd Regiment Combat Team won a Special Audience Award at this year’s Maui Film Festival in June and has since been making the rounds on the West Coast. The movie will play a short run [...]

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If you look in the back room of some of the most traditional practices in Hawaii, you will find tech. In this case it was the Jodo Mission Bon Dance. An annual event that I have grown fond of for is home town feel and great camaraderie. Each year there is the standard food fair [...]

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Props go out to Mei Jeanne Wagner of Laird Christiansen Advertising for putting this short video together. Ryan and I spoke to Michael Smith, Artistic Director of the upcoming Cirque Du Soleil show Alegria back on June 9, 2010. Alegria will be coming to Honolulu on October 15, 2010 at the NBC Arena. This is [...]

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If you go to enough raku events, like this annual Raku Ho`olaulea, you begin to appreciate the incredible diversity in ceramic firing techniques. I haven’t even started to scratch the surface of the art of raku firing but I wanted to share this one with you. Philip Markwart, shown in photo, is a long time [...]

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Rather quietly, the Kaiwo Maru slipped into Honolulu Harbor just returning from a 150 year Anniversary celebration in San Francisco. The Kaiwo Maru is a modern day replica of the Kanrin Maru sailing vessel that made the first historic all-Japanese trans-Pacific voyage from Toyko to San Francisco back in 1860. It was at a time [...]

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