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Slack Key Festival this Sunday

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:36:05 GMT

This Sunday, August 16th, is the 27th Annual Slack Key Festival at Kapi‘olani Park Bandstand. Please make plans to be there all afternoon for some great performances. I play at 1PM. See you there.

My song played at Obama's Inaugural Ball in D.C.

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:38:53 GMT

This is truly unbelievable. At the Aloha Inaugural Ball for President Barack Obama on January 18, 2009 which was held at the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., the band played my composition "E Wai'anae" and a hula was presented. Now how cool is that. You can see this video on YouTube.

What a Spooky Thought

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:36:23 GMT

I was just reading an article from USA Today that talks about Google Earth and its effect on National Security. Because of all the commercial satellites in space, pictures of every conceivable area on earth can be obtained. This means that security facilities have to be hidden from sight or face global exposure from friendly, as well as non-friendly eyes. Something to think about. Big Brother is here.

HARA General Meeting

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:03:53 GMT

Just a reminder to all Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts members that the General Membership meeting is tomorrow, November 11th at Willows Restaurant. Lunch is at 11AM for $26, then the meeting will commence at 12PM. Hope to see all of you there.

Cell Phone Comparisons

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:00:14 GMT

Here is an interesting article that talks about the durability of iPhones, as compared to Blackberry and Treo phones. Seems like Apple created another winner product all the way around.

CD Almost Completed

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:49:05 GMT

I just finished the corrections for my vocal parts today. I am so relieved. It was a long week of work to get them just right. My producer Shawn Moseley and I pounded out the studio hours and we are so stoked about this CD. Our concept is to created hit singles and thread them together into one CD, then you give each song its own worth. In this sixteen song CD, I canʻt imagine having less than eight legitimate hits, but that is for the listener to decide. Checkout some of my songs draft on mymyspace site.

Massive tv monitor

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:38:58 GMT

A new 125 inch curved plazma television has been developed by Shinoda. It weighs in at a remarkable eight pounds. They donʻt foresee a release date earlier than April or May 2009. Now that is worth waiting for. Imagine using that monitor for your computer. Woah!

Different Perspective on the Digital Download craze

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:47:02 GMT

After reading this blog by David Harrell, I walked away feeling so much better about the state of music from a old school perspective. When I used to buy vinyl, I remembered every nuance of each songs and could recite the band, the album title, each song, etc. There is such an overload of music in my life that I have no time to digest each offering and savor its individuality. I donʻt think there is anything wrong with what is going on today, but I donʻt seem to have enough time in my life to sample everything anymore.

DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:40:31 GMT

Here is an article from blog.wired.com that talks about a bill that was signed into law ten years ago by Bill Clinton that has spawned the Web 2.0 explosion in the interactive websites. Itʻs so hard to know what is going to happen in the future, but easy to see the outcome of what has been setup in the past. This analogy should be likened to many other social and environmental plights, in hopes that mankind will continue to strive for ethical and moral correctness for the sake of future generations.

Podcamp Hawaii

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:46:28 GMT

I am spending the final day at the Hawaii Convention Center attending the Podcamp. There are so many interesting topics and so little time to get fully acclimated.