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….
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”….
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]
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)
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. [Read more →]
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. [Read more →]
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.
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.
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: [Read more →]
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….
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 birthdayparty 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.
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.
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.
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 ——->
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!
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.
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…
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….
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. [Read more →]
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.
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.
the o.g. everywhere-girl found love, and it’s amazing. omedetou gozaimasu!!!!
[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.
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.
[harbor court bistro opening, first fashion friday, hotness at loft, skyline, happy birthday kanoe]
[harbor court bistro opening, first fashion friday, hotness at loft, skyline, happy birthday kanoe]
[off island to seattle and tacoma. capitol hill block party, libbe married and jake the snake.]
[mix plate monday and vampire weekend at pipeline.]
[loving nobu, bye-bye randy, groundUP at cupola, level 4 opening blessing, graham funke at skyline, strange fruit, living room]
[so in to the deadbeats, two wednesdays at jazz minds, club monaco opening art show, art spree]
[life=slow. neil abercrombie's birthday bash, stranger than fiction at next door, blurry house party, 4th of july]
[soul pacific, black square, blue scholars, and epic kickball sunday]
[industry night bowling, Best of Hawaii, art people, BIG wednesday, up too late]
[hokus red carpet, 3rd thursday art and booze overload, skyline, stussy and chinatown.]
[HDC takes art shows to another level, more tim fagan & mike white, and a very beachy weekend]
[june first friday art walk, bebe waikiki grand opening, tahiti ray's birthday white party with tim fagan and mike white]
[nobu waikiki made 1 year, diesel made new clothes, art after dark, next last movement and sandbar with VJs]
[memorial day weekend with no sandbar. sad. but good! lots of waikiki. sheraton. nobu. rum fire. etc.]
[the scene is better than ever. geisha at nobu, indulge at bar 35, ad2 spring palette]
[hello summer! hifi at candy bar, babes who brunch, groundUP, pool party]
[steve aoki and cobrasnake back, dj kero one, jason mraz, and cinco di mayo]
[mall parties, fancy parties: bally, lululemon, art after dark, north shore, and I was on LOST!]
[RVCA back in hawaii. matt costa back, cobrasnake back. everyone back. also earth day.]
[to kauai to kauai. HiFi presenting Green Style on the Garden Isle]
[kaleidoscope, landon, art walk with all the artists, burlesque, skyline with adam saaks]
[art, friends, and food makes sad me happy. the contemporary museum, art after dark, 50 cent and more art]
[natural koncepts, incubus, pancho's art, julie's house, good life at living room]
[guest blog: zane at the private silversun pickups show]
[secret society, miss hawaiian tropic, organik clothing, st patrick's day]
[north shore rules. acid wash anniversary, first friday art walk, nice hike, nice fire]
[art after dark: bhutan, soul clap, planet hollywood, skyline with graham funke and stonerokk, carey hart is still yum]
[richard cheese back in town, gyu kaku and planet hollywood pig outs, and the oscars]
[supper club at doraku, bhutan at the academy, minus the bear, the next movement]
[listening party, chikos, big wednesdays, hotel st social club]
[thank you for participating in my art project]
[kid cudi, tempo valley, nocturnal sound krew, fendi furniture, the police, doraku sushi]
[mardi gras with augie t, rum fire with everyone else]
[chinese new year vs. first friday art walk. i was the first one there.]
[rum tasting at rum fire, angry woebots at split obsession, store attacking QUEENS candy shop]
[first lady chef to teppanyaki at benihana, cherry blossom cabaret at skyline]
[blog-colleagues, little bit indashio, lotsa lotsa starlight ball, tiny bit mic3]
[first art walk of '08, 50-50 art show, nocturnal sound krew cd release]
[KTUH sesh with davey shindig, the sheraton's new amazing RumFire, Lunch 2.0 and bits of NYE]
[Best of 2007, according to me.]
[VRE holiday party, Social Wahines at Accents, and MY SWEET SIXTEEN(x2)]
[citizen cope intimate show, ooklah, okto, ima robot, cobrasnake back in hawaii, skyline]
[lurking UH, club301 podcast, HAB holiday party, pool rules, showdown in chinatown]
[geeks in manoa, ctrl alt del, niketown party, ArtAfterDark, rain]
[listening party goodie edition, thanksgiving at asterisk, next movement, talib kweli, image at longhi's]
[lurk status turbo: lurking lost, lurking the indies, lurking social wahines, lurking local artists]
[nov art walk, enterprise party at LOFT, lots of bboy stuff. planet bboy at iiff]
[Last of Hiff, Superferry, Halloween parties Galore, ArtAfterDark-Voodoo]
[more HIFF, shiny toy guns, my favorite band ever: ctrl alt del, and cosmos at Washington Place]
[thirtyninehotel 3 years, LOFT is all brand new with ctrl alt del, HIFF begins]
[Honolulu Fashion Week. yup. we have one!]
[theBoat, the contemporary level two, HIFF opening, First Fashion Friday finale, wall to wall]
[valerie joseph, modern luxury, shoe diva, art after dark, soul clap, flavors of technology]
[kpoi party, zoo party, and lurking LOST]
[north shore, what art tastes like, and back in the trees at the summer palace ruins]
[acid wash fun, a watanabe birthday, social wahines and geeks in manoa at ward]
[labor day always has a lot of art pussycat doll, smart mag party, art after dark, wu tang clan, contemporary museum's new stuff, skyline, groundUP movement]
[epic wednesday
and it all started when i snuck into better brands holiday show... senior frog's grand opening too. and acid wash.]
[diesel party, KUMU live breakfast, lunar eclipse. chill.]
[kid koala, running for the hills, and a fun skyline with pirate undertones]
[gym class heroes]
[american heart association had a fundraiser black tie and blue jeans they call it. we went. also some from hot summer nights at chai's and kapoilani park]
[hefty one
first friday art walk hop, drive drive drive, grown up house party, skyline, bye bye esprit]
[more birthdays, more acid wash more fun also day one of next door's 2-year anniversary. woo!]
[fashionby3, acid wash, the next movement]
[met a vice writer slash editor of big brother! also wine club, opera and little bit Honolulu at Bar 35.]
[EPIC monday. RATATAT,... also the shins and benihana's!]
[chill]
[xyloh, the listening party and art spree 2007]
[first fashion friday, element party with bam and muskabeatz, russell tanoue's quiet birthday and perfect sunday]
[grand opening of heaven on earth kaleidascope tuesday, 4th of july wednesday, and the iphone]
[different week finale. 2007 Beer Olympics]
[different week part ii. ice palace, omni and fatlip, kauai for release]
[different week part i. flash and kalima's birthday. and wine clubbing]
[riveted clothing launches on oahu russell tanoue's 'beautiful' party at chais]
[the next movement is for the love, arts at marks, du vin, next door]
[anton at frequency and everyone at skyline]
[mega live show week pennylane, underoath, at sea, ctrl alt del]
[lots of art, anton and bbqs, groundUP movement, anton at indigo, prototype at lotus, thirtynine at kaimana beach]
[in case you forgot, i live in hawaii, karaoke with the indies, kalideascope, 80s with nocturnal sound crew, contemporary museum downtown]
[it's a nice time for a white weekend: still at sheraton, can't get away. skyline anniversary, nu mark at next door, skin pool party]
[i miss ryan laskey already. cherry blossom burlesque, anton at o lounge, laskey's going away party,art walk, lotus]
[skin party, planet of the drums at lotus and SANDBAR!]
[moonlight monday bowling like no other, and acid wash with fun bobby]
[explore and 30seconds to mars, listening party, native guns, aarons grand opening AND dan weaver in the trash]
[kobe, harris party, acid wash, 30seconds to mars, showdown in chinatown, honolulu at longhi's, lotus afterparty]
[supercw.com guest blog by richard cheese]
[i heart san francisco. i semi-heart justin.tv]
[cassis opening, indie bands at next door, hats at mercury, sheraton pool party]
[betsey johnson at pearl, trump vodka at the ice bar, 80s at next door and living legends at next door.]
[my daniel dae kim weekend. matt costa at next door, uh senior fashion show, tea at halekulani]
[urban pacific spring 2007, smart mag anniversary at the w, some other stuff]
[thailand trip. reprieve. i got the ae-1 shots back.]
[part 2 of malekos bachelor party lotus, art museum, dig lifestyles and showdown in chinatown]
[most definitely enjoyed mos def and makana's private party. and part 1 of maleko's bachelor party]
[very expensive street course with DC and a skyline]
[my best friend pulls me out of a funk. and we get funky. next door, EnO, Airspace jam sesh and Brew Moon]
[natural vibrations at [h]O lounge and art after dark: let them eat cake...]
[russell's Beautiful party at indigo and the craziest night you'll ever see at aiea bowl]
[modern luxury party, diesel party, bally party, paul ogata and michelle lau]]
[so thailand. i almost didn't come back.]
[finally saw those whales. sailing is fun.]
[did someone say academy awards? oh! k. rad. also pacific edge magazine anniversary and more sailing]
[yardhouse opening, libbe's stint on oahu and hopping through hollywood]
[new stuff at the contemporary downtown sol de cuba, anti-gravity, and lauren hill at marley fest]
[hello, winter. i disagree. love, christa tiny bit art walk, lot of sailing, tiny bit punahou carnival]
[sushi night... next door you know, things]
[debut of "honolulu" at the W, inked hawaii fabulous opening party]
[ketel one is NOT from the devil also skyline and anton glamb]
[so i guess i'm not the only one that loves MATT COSTA]
[lbc friends in town, jazz minds, anton glamb at detox]
[malia sent me new year's pics since i was down for the count. happy new year!]
[happy birthday to meeee. mishen x-mas party, north shore and christmas in waikikiiiiii]
[holiday parties are so very.]
[supercrew did a little U2]
[makana's CD release party, pennylane at detox, and grand opening of MAC 24/7]
[Holiday inCircle party at Nieman Marcus, ]
[Miss Sixty grand opening with kelly hu, joshua radin and steve aoki. Party of the year.]
[david choe, mickey avalon, schwayze, revok, bj penn, and the fuckin cobrasnake. all at blue hawaii. RVCA!]
[WESC party at the W. those guys are so fun.]
[cinema paradise and the frank gehry collection party at tiffanys]
[halloween and iolani palace]
[what you think i didn't go to the PRADA party? also art after dark]
[the fabulousness that is HIFF. with all the side things and such.]
[derin's birthday month and gearing up for film festivalness.]
[Contemporary Museum's 10th anniversary party at FHB and URBAN PACIFIC]
[supercrew needed a break. to maui to maui.]
[we stole the guestlist at the Pearl opening. also VIP skyline, richard cheese and diesel party.]
[du vin and my hanai family the AKAKAS]
[kc's art, recruiting fun, free the dog, and pacific edge magazine launch party]
[shoe diva, bar 35 and goldie at indigo]
[lulus and the wave waikiki reincarnated for its anniversary]
[osake pau hana, makana, boosh at o lounge, germ's birthday and skyline with mayhem and cathy tanaka]
[the contemporary museum, hugo boss grand opening, all american rejects]
[mada in hawaii=madawaii. paul mitchell estate=cocktailin]
[camera-phone-er-iffic]
[skaters at shokudo, colonel senior at the contemporary museum, band camp]
[not, like, totally off the face of the planet. just in the clouds]
[iolani palace garden tea party. like woah.]
[smart ladies at crazy beautiful]
[makana at the zoo, art spree at the contemporary museum, and friends of the library!]
[one more fourth]
[art after dark, thirtyninehotel, and two nights of z-trip]
[plantation party in paradise disco sluts from outer space, and olena rubin on hawaii stars]
[friday at EnO trading company, brew moon, pacific edge magazine party at skyline]
[opening of bad sushi, wahoo wednesday, ko'olina resorting and the 50th state fair]
[little bit poetry slam, lot more skyline anniversary a.k.a. the white party]
[memorial day mokuleia beachiness]
[the Skaters of Honolulu 2007 calendar preview also hanks, hys, sam choys, lilly and mikey's bdays]
[he said i can use all the shots this time... AW! house party, manoa falls, emo kitty]
[april showers bring may dice... at fitted!]
[strange ventures, cholo's bowl, art after dark, ong king]
[kris markovitch is back for a hurley art show and the best easter ever]
[kc in the metroHawaii show, foster's botanical gardens, art quest in the storm drains, and kanye west]
[will it ever stop raining. johnny layton visits, as well as mikendo and some other skaters, sorry about the weather.]
[still raining. pepper and 311.]
[shoe diva and st patrick's day]
[two at palomino's and keolu's most wanted. my first and last skate contest with phelony.]
[how did we use to do this so much. smart magazine anniversary party and a skyline revival.]
[david choe is back! dgk demo, fitted party with apb and in4mation. woo.]
[house parties are fun. so was that contest at hickam.]
[phelony girls calendar shoot on maui... with playboy models. WHAT! dream? NO!]
[art walk, chinese new year, ravi druma back and at fashion45]
[christa's the name, professional ASR lurker is the game]
[you probably didn't notice my weekends slowing down...well, they're back up there again! blackaliscous, dieselboy, drunk flash]
[i took my skate team to the big island. o what fun we had.]
[happy new year. phelony clothing launch party.]
[my big birthday bash at the wave, hamburger eyes art show, and christmas with mako and tim jackson]
[three concerts, a motley crue meet and greet, one ballet and a circus]
[supercrew chills out on the north shore. pipeline masters. triple crown. ahh.]
[art walk, blue hawaii skate contest, kalei's birthday skyline and ZANA'S BEACH BIRTHDAY BASH]
[natural vibrations rule for life. this time they rule mai tai bar.]
[more from contemporary, friday bar hop, and i cooked. TWICE! what.]
[the wave turned TWENTY FIVE... shepard fairey and futura are also both on island... lucky HAWAII]
[WHO flies to LA for ONE day JUST to see natural vibrations play? .....ahem]
[just halloween. just look.]
[shokudo, ozomatli at kaponos, art after dark, and the COLONEL as my prom date. woot!]
[doc martin at next door, graffiti contest at living room, Hawaii International Film Festival party, and skate sesh]
[DJ CHAVEZ IS BACK ON OAHU! along with shad lambret dot com]
[more skatin, abstract rude, Lakers in honolulu]
[went to jail AND got molested by a porn star this week... rad.]
[ah california. wait, wasn't i just here? HOORAY for hollywood.]
[pat rakestraw came out to hawaii with his split team... and got naked in front of everyone! also mae... TnC sunburn classic, skyline.]
[i had absolutely no business at ASR. did i still go? HELL yes. this is a good one]
[dj kool herc only INVENTED hip hop. ...this week he was cruising with ME]
[labor day weekend.... part two, er, part SANDBAR]
[the boneyard with anton glamb, jeremy's birthday, art at apb, first friday, the myspace party. etc.]