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[pics] i went to china and saw an art show (part ii)

March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments

so anyway. back to china. it’s the second day of the two-day art event POW WOW and the second part of WOW at garageworks just down the road from above-second. they already have the blank canvas up in the window for the live art part. i’m pretty excited at this point….

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[pics] i went to china and saw an art show (part 1)

March 5th, 2010 · 12 Comments

woah look at that maybe i should clean my lens filter thing. either that or there were some evil black orbs that didn’t want me to leave honolulu last week. “don’t leave don’t leave aaaaaa”….

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wham bam thank you ma’am

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments

i’m still in hong kong. for the most amazing 3-part 2-day art ‘thing‘ i’ve ever seen. it’s over now. but i don’t come home until monday. this place, this event………… [speechless]

part one part two part three pics soon. promise.

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[pics] chinese new year of the GOLDEN tiger, with special guest Kool Herc

February 21st, 2010 · 15 Comments

haha, i got so many messages and things about my valentine’s day column in the weekly. i guess a lot of people get annoyed with that holiday too (or just like that i used the word “bone”).
the truth is i really never cared one way or the other about the holiday. wait, that’s not true. when i was in love, it was rad. now that i am not, it’s just kind of stupid and trivial. not like i hate love or anything. actually, i love love. and a few weeks ago, i was even lurking love…. (and a martini)

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[pics] i saw cool art. and had a party for Sailor Jerry with GRLFRNDS

February 7th, 2010 · 16 Comments

so how to you top yourself when you do and see things that just seem un-topable? um, you don’t. you go to the contemporary museum and see art.

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[PICS] oh, I dunno… how about the LOST: The Final Season premiere at Sunset on the Beach!

February 1st, 2010 · 20 Comments

oh look! it’s chef vikram again. hi buddy.
ps: this is me lurking the food at the LOST cast, crew and producer press mixer that i was invited to about an hour before it started last week in the orchid suite at the heavenly-halekulani. the photo is only of the chefs/food because we weren’t supposed to have cameras, and i didn’t want to piss anyone off. the photo is really nice because torry raced home during filming to grab his $3298478293743 dollar 5D complete with lenses, flashes, and weird accessories for me to use because mine has been flashing with weird errors lately.

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[pics] BLT grand opening at trump, noise at manifest, Scotsmen, dancedancedance

January 27th, 2010 · 10 Comments

so i’m on my way to the camera store right after i type this one out. what am i going to get? three guesses. it starts with a “G9″ and ends with a “lesson on how to focus and shoot photos”. this is the media frenzie that was the BLT Steakhouse grand opening last Monday, by the way. lots of food lots of people lots of woaaah.

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[event] remember when i used to tell you where all the cool stuff was with free drinks?

January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

those were are the days

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[pics] oh hi. past couple of weeks. FLUX mag launch, sustainable cuisine at Halekulani. GLC at Shake & Pop. et al.

January 20th, 2010 · 16 Comments

well happy new year. i kinda was in a swirly-wow after my birthday party and wanted to leave that video up for a while, but here. this is what’s been happening in my world the past few weeks of two oh one oh:  i been up to my ears in cuisine and cocktails. eating stuff like shortribs bourgignon braised in burgandy wine with celery root puree, upcountry vegetables and chimichurri sauce and drinking as many grey goose bloody marys and vodka/lemonades as i can.
that’s work.
and that’s pretty awesome.

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[vid] what birthday party…..

January 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments

….oh, my birthday party.

Super CW’s B-Day ‘09 from Banzai Media, LLC on Vimeo.

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[pics] happy new year. in chinatown. where else.

January 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments

i know dan weaver said that the bigger pics are better, but i still not sure how to keep this from overlapping over there —->
wordpress dunce.
anyway. it’s BRAXTON! homey was back in town. along with a lot of you. for christamasssss. it made for some highly entertaining evenings out letmetellyou.

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Best of 2009….. according to me.

December 29th, 2009 · 11 Comments

Yes I’m almost a month behind on my blog. It’s mainly because I’ve been pawing through the past year to find all of my favorite, most memorable moments from 2009. You can’t have the archive-obsessed Christa NOT do a ‘Best Of’ entry, I mean come onnnn. 2009 is finally over and now we get to go into the double-digit tens place. We are sooo future right now. I’m excited for what’s to come, but of course we gotta look back just a little:
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[pics/sponsored] omg i’m soooo indie (american apparel), GRLFRNDS, first HURLEY friday

December 16th, 2009 · 16 Comments

if you read me you know i pretty much say no to all the ad inquiries. they’re gross and i don’t want it interfereing with my … artistic integrity? but at the same time,  if american apparel calls me up a few weeks before my birthday with a SHOPPING SPREE in their waikiki store… well….. i guess just call me Hippie McHypocrite. after creeping through the one at ala moana for pieces to compliment my plain-ass-plain wardrobe i was stoked to see that the waikiki store totally has a whole bunch of different stuff….

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eskae + supercw mizzz

December 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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eskae is hands down one of my favorite music machines on the island. maka v said last night he wished when he’s listening to his ipod that there was a button he could push to have eskae appear and mix the songs. dude has a way with DANCEDANCEDANCEPARTYWOOOO. it’s an honor to have him play by birthday party next week, and he’s not messing around. Here is the cw mix he made for my bday. get excited. kid sister, junior boys, passion pit, mgmt and, yes even The Jump Offs!  just download it bu.
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[pics] happy RAGEsgiving, north shore for White Tee party and Rell Sun Aloha Jam

December 8th, 2009 · 15 Comments

OH MY GOD the north shore. i mean, really. seriously. REALLY! could it BE any more magic you guys? AAAAAAAAA. i didn’t get to go like Eddie but I watched some of it online from work today. so amazing so amazing. so anyway. i been doing my thing. doing doing doing. still WAY in to the bubble guns from the bubble promos. like, way way in to them. Nina and i bubble’d ourselves all over town last tuesday.

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[pics] fancy chais, crazy flosserdaumus, crazier V lounge, craziest Shake n Pop, mellow North Shore

November 25th, 2009 · 20 Comments

yikes just let this one load. it’s a doozy. there was just too much. it’s too much. you guys are TOO MUCH….


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love these guys

November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

i always wanted to start a rogue anonymous website where i just asked ppl around town a bunch of random questions and post them. never got around to it. love to dst for the interview. you guys kick so much ass.

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get excited. it’s exciting.

November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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showdown and 3DEEP tomorrow in chinatown, and this dude tonight….. basically what i’m saying is RAGEFACE.

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[PICS] one of the most epic first fridays, and clones of queen/grlfrnds at annas

November 19th, 2009 · 17 Comments

i been spending some quality time with eskae. dude’s really real, but he’s gotta let off some steam once in a while. i have a feeling i’m perfect for…. that. i made him rage his face off last week. read on and see how his weekend was with ME. and PS: i really have no idea what to do about my image sizes overlapping like that, ugh ——->

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[pisc] halloween and stuff. lots of stuff. hi!

November 11th, 2009 · 15 Comments

oh, oops. these are kinda big. they kind of overlap to my links and categories and whatnot over there
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sorrriee.
also my bad about getting these up so late. this shot of  el nina at the royal hawaiian is pushing 3 weeks, but just hold on!

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[pics] Hawaii International Film Festival, LOST and Contrast Magazine’s 3Deep

October 25th, 2009 · 11 Comments

well. that was a tough week. these pics have been sitting here in my draft queue for a bit long, sorry. i didn’t want to really do this when we were all grieving our friend. it’s still so very sad, and definitely not real. gotta keep moving i guess.

this time of year is definitely my favorite. october. where i grew up in tacoma that’s when the leaves on all the trees are amazing fall colors, and i remember mom taking me and lisa to wright park and letting us run through the leaves while she drove slowly along side us. i would always be scared that she would drive away if i didn’t keep my eye on her car the whole time, so i sort of missed out on jumping on some pretty epic piles of leaves.

anyway, october now means the Hawaii International Film Festival, which is like nothing else in this world to me. i love you guys. thanks for working so hard.

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hank maccaslin

October 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments

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i miss you so much

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[pics] a tweat up, an alternative taste festival, & FIVE YEARS OF THIRTYNINEHOTEL!

October 16th, 2009 · 12 Comments

so the film festival just kicked off. we are in the midst of it right now even. i so much love this time of year, holy crap.
i meant to post this wednesday. i kinda missed my own deadline. todays seems like a good day to get around to it though. this was last week thursday. i didn’t realize the kapahulu safeway parking lot had such an epic diamond head view. they should call it the diamond head safeway…

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[pics] HIFF is sooo close, Apt3 on a weekend, and my vacation to hawaii

October 7th, 2009 · 14 Comments

god DAMN it’s been slowing down guys. like, to a screeching halt. i would sit here and piss and moan about it but it feels sofa king good. in fact, i’m feeling pretty amazing….

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[pics] here’s my slump. call me slumpy.

September 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments

blah, i’ve never really been in to the planets and stuff. saturn in venus affecting aries moving around jupiter’s tenth house of career in the full moon to the third power? come onnnn. we all have good days and bad days. like i’m supposed to believe that it’s some giant masses of gas and debris bazillions of light years away that’s making me not want to go out on a friday night?
ok, fine. i can’t avoid this mercury-in-retrograde period thing. how was your september, communication wise? just asking, cause it was supposedly one of the worst months of the year for ALL OF US, according to these planet sociopaths experts. in any case, i didn’t really feel all hyped to leave my house much, so i didn’t. having this amazing ginger cocktail with golden raspberries made by bargenius kyle at thirtyninehotel doesn’t count as leaving my house either. this IS my house.

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[pics] I <3 the Deadbeats, NeonNeon, Apt3 BBQ and Fresh Cafe!

September 23rd, 2009 · 15 Comments

GOD what is it about the deadbeats. why do i love them so much. ok, ya, i mean, woah hotties, but there’s a lot of good music in town, why am i so stuck on them? it’s like my passion pit obsession- it’s like i can only be obsessed with one band at a time or something. omg. i’m a monogamous groupie.


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[pics] chill ass chill. kinda just magoo’s and pizza. AMAZING pizza tho…

September 18th, 2009 · 9 Comments

so i don’t have a tv. i have the internet. that’s worse almost. cause the internet has tv too. i didn’t go out friday OR saturday night. totally got consumed by hulu.com. it was a beautiful thing, really. oh, and tuesday? when i was blabbing to the world that i was drinking dollar guinness at magoos? i mean the varsity? TOTALLY true. proof.

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[pics] silversun pickups private show, first friday, red bull rivals, daniel’s stupid bday

September 10th, 2009 · 14 Comments

i got a visit from my non-live-in non-bf friend the other day. the first thing we did was blind taste my vodkas. there goes my newhealthylifestyle…

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buti groove moka is now….

September 6th, 2009 · No Comments

….buti real estate bbrands WIFEY moka.

the o.g. everywhere-girl found love, and it’s amazing. omedetou gozaimasu!!!!
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[pic lurked from bambooth. so rad.]

pics soon. oh wait, pics you say? WHAT DOING NOW?? i’m heading down to SOHO to show everything i took all summer. kind of a labor day goodbye summer see ya nice to know you’re still around kinda thing. there will be a lot of daniel gray because it’s his birthday but guess where there’s a lot of everyone. ALL. summer. long. how many times did you see me and canon? did you see it here? you might not have, haw.

come down.

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[pics] indie music, fancy stuff, saucy stuff

September 2nd, 2009 · 10 Comments

one of my photos violated the terms of my photo hosting website. i was like HEY! at first but it’s nice to know i have 3rd parties regulating the pg-13 nature of these posts. no, seriously. i started doing this all “underground” but never really wanted to, you know, violate any terms. hawhaw i should start uploading these to my own domain already. media temple hooks it up to pretty much limitless space. hmmm… maybe next entry. i still need photoshop to watermark these.

anyway.

last tuesday i finally saw ara laylo’s new band Clones of the Queen play at Kaleidoscope. she’s got like computer software engineers and stuff playing music in her new band. and matthew mcvickar is pretty keen on some sounds. i sat here alternating between gazing and drooling most of the night. it sounded amazinggg.

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