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It’s a beautiful…

Posted on 08.23.16 under Anekona, Cloud Hands Project, Dustin Wong, haleakala, Matt Papich, maui, Pekelo Cosmos, Predawn Voices, Takako Minekawa

Summer!
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But I like to think that all summers are beautiful…

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Aaron Boothe in Historic Wailuku Town. Son of Pekelo Cosmos, Aaron plays a mean guitar and sings a pretty but gritty song.

“Predawn Voices,” a Cloud Hands Project song recorded in August 2016 features Aaron on electric.

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The Sugar Company is getting their last crop in. Hopefully, they will replace the sugar with hemp, but I’m guessing that housing and commercial developers have different plans.

Yes, that’s a commercial jet landing at OGG…

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Ah yes, the ripening fruit.

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Home grown pineapple and lilikoi. Lilikoi has been scarce this summer. Lack of bees…

Let’s blame Monsanto for that.

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Making a ti leaf skirt is quite labor intensive and time consuming.

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Junko will be making her own, soon! As soon as I bring back 200 ti leaves…

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The controversial observatory on Haleakala. Give them an inch and they’ll take the summit.

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Tourists bring a drone to the summit. The ranger did not like that. Not at all.

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They quickly played the conspiracy card: “Secret stuff up here they don’t want you to see, right?”

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Kahuna Bula picks noni leaves and camphor to make a poultice for Takako’s leg injury.

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Dustin and Takako were at Anekona with Matt Papich (he played with Dustin in Ecstatic Sunshine a few years back before Ponytail) to mix Dustin and Takako’s new album.

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The famous silver sword.

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Tourists leave rubbish. I turned it into an Iichiko Shochu homage.

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This is one of the real posters.

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“Coming down, from the mountain. My lady waits for me…”

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Matt pounds ulu (breadfruit). This is a superfood that could end world hunger. Yeah, right…

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This was a Budweiser, but is now “America.” If you drink enough, it could end world peace… Yeah, right!

Make America great again! Because this beer sucks…

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Subtle. Subliminal. No one cares. It’s all about the money.

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Matt is the sonic director adding depth and oomph with side chains.

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Here’s to a successful album!

It’s 2016

Posted on 01.02.16 under haleakala

2015, we hardly knew you…

To celebrate a year that passed so quickly we went to Haleakala for the last sunset of the year.

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3 shadows

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iPhone handover

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Clouds on Haleakala

Posted on 11.13.15 under haleakala

Haleakala has many micro-climates. At the top, it may look like this.

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In the clouds, raining with a strong wind. But a couple of thousand feet lower it can look like this.

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Haruno is visiting the spots that her kahiko “mele” references. She is experiencing what she must express in her hula.

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