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“Music exists in nature to make you smarter."

zaelic — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:47:10 -0800

Bob Brozman, the undisputed master of the National Resonator Guitar, has passed away at age 59. Ethnomusicologist, virtuoso fingerpicker, musical historian, and anarchist philosopher Bob Brozman fell in love with National’s metal body resonator guitars as a teenager and made them his life’s passion. He began as a teenager mastering Delta blues, jazz and Hawaian slide styles, and then performing with cartoonist Robert Crumb’s Cheap Suit Serenaders. Brozman went on to record with legends like Hawaiian Tau Moe, Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya, and Mauritian maloya accordionist René Lacaille. He was fascinated by the music of colonial regions – how colonizers brought music that had a rhythmic emphasis on the first beat (like a march) while the people being colonized preferred emphasizing the off beats and playing in open tunings. His most recent efforts had been to explore the world of Papuan string band music - and he always liked to bring a bag of Bolivian charangos as gifts to see how different cultures adapted them to their music. “Music exists in nature to make you smarter. Commercial music is designed to make people stupid.”

Hawaii, 1997

zabuni — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:10:00 -0800

Hawaii, 1997 A comic by Sam Alden. Previously.

He's Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

mygothlaundry — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:53:37 -0800

Hawaiian kayak fisherman almost catches a little more than he bargained for. SL more or less YT.

55m Down Somewhere Off Maui

jontyjago — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:09:10 -0800

Whales off Maui Divers encounter a group of humpback whales (slyt).

Dolphin seeks assistance.

panaceanot — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:29:51 -0800

A (presumably) wild dolphin entangled by fishing line approaches divers for assistance. Another heartwarming intervention: Baby elephant getting rescued from a hole (Warning: Coldplay soundtrack) Previously: Humpback whale rescued from net Source: reddit

Christmas Can Be Green And Bright

The Whelk — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:52:31 -0800

"Mele Kalikimaka" (Ukelele cords) is a Hawaiian-themed Christmas song written in 1949 by Robert Alex Anderson. The phrase is borrowed directly from English but since Hawaiian has a different phonological system - Hawaiian does not have the /r/ or /s/ of English and doesn't have the phonotactic constraints to allow consonants at the end of syllables or consonant clusters - "Merry Christmas" becomes "Mele Kalikimaka". Enjoy the canonical version with Bing Crosby And The Andrew Sisters (lounge remix) or by KT Tunstall or Bette Milder or Jimmy Buffet or Gianni And Sarah or The Puppini Sisters or Reel Big Fish or Country Western style or pared down instrumental or Celtic Rock style or performed on the Metro by Pokey LaFarge or ..whatever the hell this is.

Sen. Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012

Rangeboy — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:54:56 -0800

Senator Daniel Inouye, Democrat and senior senator from Hawaii, has died at the age of 88 from respiratory problems. Inouye was born in Honolulu, the son and grandson of Japanese immigrants. He served as a medical volunteer during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Later, when the U.S. Army began to allow Japanese-Americans to serve, he joined the fabled 442nd Regimental Combat Team (previously). In 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on the Gothic Line. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, which was later upgraded to the Medal of Honor by President Clinton. After the war, Inouye returned to college at the University of Hawaii. He later earned a law degree from George Washington University and shortly thereafter was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Legislature (PDF). He was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on August 21, 1959, the same date Hawaii officially entered the union. He was elected to the Senate in 1962, and at the time of his death was the longest-serving U.S. senator (also making him president pro tempore). Inouye delivered the keynote address at the turbulent 1968 Democratic National Convention. He later went on to serve on the Senate Watergate Committee, where H.R. Haldeman's lawyer John Wilson called him "that little Jap" during a recess. He also chaired another investigative committee on Iran-Contra. His wife of 58 years, Maggie, died in 2006. He is survived by his second wife, Irene, and his son, Ken. According to his staff, his last words were, "Aloha."

You've been waiting forever / but you can make ever wait for you.

Rory Marinich — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 05:58:30 -0800

The cryptic album Hawaii: Part II has finally been released after a months-long mystery, and it sounds like a mix between Katamari Damacy and early 20th century pop. Includes chiptune rapping, time travel, and the Erlking of German folklore. A bonus track, Variations on a Cloud, is also worth a listen.

Its' a Boat! Its a Plane! Its a Surfboard!

PareidoliaticBoy — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:41:01 -0800

If you've ever been to Hawaii, chances are that you've passed through the John Rodgers Terminal at Honolulu International Airport without giving it a second thought. The great-grandson of distinguished American Commodores John Rodgers and Matthew Perry; John Rodgers was the second American naval officer to fly for the United States Navy and a submarine commander in WW1; but what earned him the honour of having the airport named for him was the amazing and inspiring first open-ocean flight to Hawaii. Much more detail from this fascinating site here. In the best tradition of the Navy, Commander Rodgers refused to leave his craft until she arrived at her destination. They had flown and sailed the plane to Kauai and since all danger of missing land was past, Rodgers and the crew throught they could sail the plane into Ahukini Harbor, and so informed Osborn. “No! Stand by in case we miss the harbor,” Rodgers called back. He consulted his men while the submariners now looked more suspiciously upon Rodgers. (Discussing it later in Honolulu, Osborn told Connell, “We were about to come on board to take you people off physically. We thought you were out of your heads!) “They could hardly be blamed,” Connell states, “because we had 10 days beards, were dirty and our clothing was torn.”

All day I hear the noise of waters

growabrain — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:49:25 -0800

Some random, wet images: A seahorse on a diver’s watch.
A diver hitting an Olympic pool
Mass stingray migration off Baja
Two streams of water colliding
A photographer in the rain
Waiting for the bubble to burst
Close up of a wave
Bathtime at a refugee camp Kutupalong, Bangladesh
Water being released from a dam to prevent flooding in Jiyuan, China
Transparent Montana lake, (and more) A droplet in space. Ant pushing a water droplet. Water house. Monticello Dam Drain - Napa. Lake Sørvágsvatn in Faroe Islands. See-through gills. A child in Indonesia with his pet shark. Some local images: Yosemite, Pamukkale, Turkey, The Maldives, Norway, Blackwater River, Cappaquin Bridge, Ireland, Dry Tortugas National Park, Fort Jefferson. Water drops on a CD Pink lake in Senegal From Hawaii: Dragon wave near Ke'e beach, Kauai, Lined up in Pipeline. Lantern Festival, Honolulu. River surfing. Aqua climbing. Icebergs by David Burdeny Emperor penguins Fun at the fountain, by Shizuo Kambayashi. And...Ploop
(From). (Previously)

PhD Comics tv

Blasdelb — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:44:32 -0800

You may already be familiar with PhDComics (Previously) and the PhDMovie (Previously), but PhDComics.tv has now become a pretty fantastic resource for both researchers and laymen. Two Minute Thesis:

PhDComics challenged grad students and researchers all over the world to describe their thesis in two minutes or less. What they got was an incredible sampling of their creativity and communication skills now representing hundreds of diverse theses. The 2012 Winners are: Grand Prize Winner: "The Synthesis of NAViSection" (Now Animated!) Description: What defines driver capabilities and how to link that capability to safety. Author: Nahom M. Beyene, U. Pittsburgh Second place: "Transubstantiation" Description: Protestant and Catholic understandings of transubstantiation may not be so different after all. Author: Brett Salkeld, Regis College Third place: "Detective work in space" Description: Theoretical astrophysics and binary stars Author: Michael Marks, U. Bonn Also animated: Whale Barf and Perfume Baillie Redfern from the U. of British Columbia explains her thesis of cloning DNA into yeast to produce an elusive perfume fixative compound called Ambergris. It involves whale barf.

Things Explained:

Alex and the gang visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and go inside the Mars Rover Test lab and chat with engineers Chaz Morantz and (yes) Bobak Ferdowsi. (5:01) Jorge talks to Physicists Daniel Whiteson and Jonathan Feng about what Dark Matters is, how much of it there is, and how we know it's there. (6:11) Physicists Daniel Whiteson and Jonathan Feng update us on life after finding the Higgs Boson (8:11) Jorge talks to Physicist Daniel Whiteson at CERN about what the Higgs Boson is and how they know if they've found it. (7:50) (Previously) What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about. (8:23)

PhD Detours:

Alex, Jorge and the gang travel around the world to talk to real grad students and young scholars about the work they do and why they do it. From hiking out in lava fields to ethnographic studies of tap dancers, Ph.Detours gives you an inside look at the environments and the people who are doing some of the most interesting research today. Jorge and Alex travel to the highest peak in Hawaii for a look at how Astronomers figure out the molecular composition of far away stars and planets. (11:30) In this episode, Alex and the gang travel to Hawaii to find active flows of lava (16:45) Jorge visits the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. Soybeans and Symbiosis Jorge talks to Fernando, a Ph.D. student who takes care of the farm in exchange for cheap housing at the New Mexico State Chili Pepper Research Institute. Jorge visits the New Mexico State University Chili Peppers Research Institute in Las Cruces, New Mexico and finds out what makes Chili Peppers so hot.

The Audio Ph_iD Podcast

Episode 1: In Which Curiosity Goes Gangnam Style (15:41)

A gash in the skin of the world

the man of twists and turns — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:49:40 -0800

Lava Lake in the Halema’uma’u Crater at Kilauea Reaches New High Live Panorama of Halemaʻumaʻu Overlook Vent Live Panorama of Puʻu ʻŌʻō Crater ‘Volcano hunter’: I stood 30 yards from lake of boiling lava 5 Most Incredible Lava Lakes On Earth

Hot

heyho — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:57:02 -0800

Two photographers risked their lives to become the first people to capture the explosive moment fiery lava crashes into the sea. Nick Selway, 28, and CJ Kale, 35, braved baking hot 110F waters to capture these images, as they floated just feet from scalding heat and floating lava bombs. The pair, who chase the lava as it flows from Kilauea through Kalapana, Hawaii, spend their days camped on the edge of active volcanoes to capture the incredible images.

Larry buys Lana'i

specialk420 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:48:51 -0800

Larry Ellison is buying 98% of Lanai , one of the Hawaiian Islands. Best way to protect the island and the commons? or bad precedent and an example of the tyranny of small decisions?

popcorn & hawaiian snack noms

flex — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:16:23 -0800

Did you know popcorn may be the perfect healthy snack food? Probably not so much once you pile on the toppings! If you'd like to try a uniquely Hawaiian snack (are you adventurous enough for crack seed?) then popcorn meets Hawaii in hurricane popcorn: a mix of buttered popcorn, furikake, and arare ("mochi crunch" - a rice cracker mix). (This re-invented version includes corn pops, dried pineapple, and bacon).

State favorability poll

escabeche — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:31:21 -0800

Americans love Hawaii and hate California. A new PPP poll asks respondents which states they like and dislike, resulting in favorability ratings for all 50 states. Full results, including crosstabs, here. (.pdf) Sorry, Illinois! Nice work, Colorado!

Sea bros

2bucksplus — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:54:55 -0800

Off the coast of Hawaii comes the first scientific evidence of cooperative play between a bottlenose dolphin and a humpback whale. In two separate incidents a dolphin rode on the head of a whale above the surface of the water. It is not, however, the only footage of dolphins and whales playing around and helping each other out. From the American Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel:

Many species interact in the wild, most often as predator and prey. But recent encounters between humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins reveal a playful side to interspecies interaction. In two different locations in Hawaii, scientists watched as dolphins "rode" the heads of whales: the whales lifted the dolphins up and out of the water, and then the dolphins slid back down. The two species seemed to cooperate in the activity, and neither displayed signs of aggression or distress. Whales and dolphins in Hawaiian waters often interact, but playful social activity such as this is extremely rare between species. The latest Bio Bulletin from the Museum's Science Bulletins program presents the first recorded examples of this type of behavior.

[via BoingBoing]

Charlie Chan: The (Not Entirely) Fictional Chinese Detective

filthy light thief — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:17:57 -0800

Charlie Chan is more than a fictional character created the author Earl Derr Biggers, or the star of 50 movies (played by 8 different actors). His origin goes beyond the illiterate Chinese-Hawaiian detective with a bull whip instead of a pistol (previously). Charlie Chan is more than racial stereotypes and yellow-face. A part of his far-reaching story is told inside. Charlie Chan is a Chinese detective who first worked in Hawaiʻi, as written in the pages of the 1925 mystery novel The House Without a Key. He isn't the primary character in this tale, where he is treated with skepticism by the white folk of Boston, though he is revered in his native Hawai'i. The reason for the late appearance in this novel (Google books) was due to how Earl Derr Biggers, an American novelist and playwright from Ohio, found his inspiration for the character. Earl De Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio on August 26, 1884. Biggers had "the need for the glory of print" at an early age, founding a monthly magazine while in high school. He accepted to Harvard, where me majored in literature. He was a member of the Advocate and the Lampoon, and in the same period, he sold a number of short fiction pieces to popular magazines. He graduated in 1907, and started his professional writing career first as a crafter of of comedic quips for the Boston Traveler (worst bestsellers (Gb), likened to "making faces in church -- it wasn't fun, and it offended a lot of nice people"). It was there he met Eleanor Ladd, who wrote under the pen name Phoebe Dwight (Gb). She influenced his writing, leading to many of his stories and plays including an independent young woman. He then got the job of drama critic, but he was too critical. He was engaged to Ms. Ladd and without a job, so he cranked out a mystery book, writing a chapter a day. The story, Seven Keys to Baldpate (Arcive.org; Gb, Project Gutenberg) was, in part, a mirror on the author, short on funds, writing an insubstantial but popular novels to cash in on public demand. But the book was a hit, coming out on the cusp of the golden age of detective novels. The novel was re-written (Gb) as a play, then as a film, released in 1917, and retold in film five more times. Biggers, more than able to support his family, continued to write both plays and novels, until he hit upon the character that would gain him the most renown. Biggers was working frantically on a number of different projects, and it was taxing health, though he was only in his mid-30s. His doctor suggested he go on vacation, which lead to his stay Waikiki. Biggers visited the Territory of Hawai'i for his health in April 1920, in a time when opium use was rampant amongst the Chinese population, and local papers carried stories of the police trying to crack down on what was once an open trade and permitted use (Google news). Either while on the tropical island of Honolulu or back in the states, Biggers read about Chinese detectives on the Hawaiian police force who apprehended "a certain hapless Chinese, being too fond of opium". According to some quotes, Biggers found the notion of a Chinese detective a pleasant antithesis to the racial stereotypes spread through Yellow Peril racism, and added the character into his story that was already under way.

"I had seen movies depicting and read stories about Chinatown and wicked Chinese villains, and it struck me that a Chinese hero, trustworthy, benevolent, and philosophical, would come nearer to presenting a correct portrayal of the race."

And thus, Charlie Chan was born. But how is it that there came to be a Chinese detective in the primarily white police force of the new Territory of Hawaii? The life of this detective charts some significant points in Hawaii's history. In 1790, while heading from the United States to China, a trading ship stopped in Hawai'i to get more wood, water and salt. The wood they found was sandalwood, which native Hawaiians used for some medical practices. Highly valued in trade, merchants bartered with King Kamehameha I, trading military uniforms, liquor, guns, silks, leather, silver mirrors, brass cannon for the valuable wood. In three decades, the Hawaiian sandalwood populations were nearly eradicated, ending the profitable trade. Sugar plantations were the next boom industry, filling the void left by the sandalwood trade, and further separating newly rich white land owners and everyone else. Like the harvesting of sandalwood, sugar plantations required significant manpower, but the population of native Hawaiians were greatly diminished, from the introduction to western diseases. Enter the Chinese coolie, the inexpensive hired hands that powered a new economy. And with that, we come to to the second son of an immigrant family, a key character in this convoluted story. Ah Ping Chang was born on Oahu sometime between 1864 and 1871 (Gb) to Chinese parents who were working on one of the sugar plantations. The early life of Chang is vague at best, but it is known that his family moved back to China when he was three, and that he then returned to Hawai'i with an uncle some seven years later, with his old name Hawaiianized as Chang Apana. The early years of Apana's life roughly ran parallel to the life of Chung Kun Ai, who wrote a record of his life in My Seventy-Nine Years in Hawaii. But where CK Ai came from wealthy parents and ended up an even wealthier business man on Hawai'i, Apana had to make a living with more physical tasks, like dealing with the vast herds of cattle of Hawaii. Though records limited to anecdotes, it is assumed that Apana worked for the Parker ranch, the first cattle ranch on Hawai'i, where he became a paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy. In 1891, he went to work for the Wilder family, tending to their horses and cooking for the family and guests, and came to look upon their family as his own. Through his years of service on this ranch and the Wilder family, he gained favor from Helen Kinau Wilder, who started the Humane Society for Hawai'i. Wilder hired Apana as one of the first Humane Society officers, seeing to the protection of animals on the island, and he brought his bullhide whip with him from his days as a paniolo. From this position, Apana was hired into the first police force of the Territory of Hawaii, where the only Chinese officer, and the only officer ever authorized to carry a whip as an official duty weapon. His beat was primarily Chinatown, where he could blend in and go under cover, infiltrating gambling houses and opium dens as his white counterparts could not. This put Apana in the way of danger, but also gave him the chance to shine. He holds the record for number of arrests, for single-handedly arrested 70 gamblers. All that rabble-rousing and rough living was quite different from the portly portrayal of Charlie Chan, generally a quiet detective, but the parallels were understood by the Hawaiians who read Bigger's stories of the cunning detective. So Chang Apana gave way to Charlie Chan, a favorite character in the Saturday Evening Post serialized story section. But wait, how was it that popular opinion of the day cast "Orientals" as "the heathen chinee"? They went from being called "one of the most worthy class of our newly adopted citizens" (Gb) in January of 1852 by California Governor John McDougall, to being taxed for not being a citizen in May of that year. This tax was aimed specifically at Chinese gold miners. By 1870, California had collected $5 million from Chinese miners, accumulating between 25 and 50 percent of all State revenues. The Chinese then moved from the gold fields to low-wage jobs in cities, and were instrumental in building the western portion of the transcontinental railroad, and Chinese men worked on various rail difficult lines from the 1850s through 1870s. Then the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882, which was extended and expanded upon in the following years. The threat of the Chinese was exemplified in the stories of Fu Manchu, first serialized by English novelist Sax Rohmer in 1912, providing "inspiration" for the film The Mysterious Wu Chung Foo in 1914, and officially adapted to the screen in 1923 in The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu. The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu was played by Swedish-American actor Warner Oland from 1929 to 1931, and then Boris Karloff took the role of the Chinese arch-villain. These facts are interesting, given that Oland would go on to be the most widely know face of Charlie Chan, from 1931 to 1937, in a total of 16 films, and Karloff played counter to Oland in one film. Though Oland was not of Asian descent (and not likely to have any Mongol heritage, contrary to his claims of the sort), the fourth Charlie Chan was the first white man to play the role, after two Japanese actors (first George Kuwa in 1926, then Sōjin Kamiyama in 1927), and the third (E.L. Park, in 1929) was a British fellow, possibly of Korean descent (Gb). The third film was the first talkie, the first for Fox, and the first film to have surviving copies to this day, but none of the first three featured much of Charlie Chan. Wait, you say, we're already up to 19 films! Aren't there only 6 Charlie Chan novels? Why yes, you are correct. Earl Derr Biggers health problems never really let up, and in 1933, he died of a heart attack, only 48 years old. And wasn't Hollywood hit by the Great Depression? How did Fox make so many films? Well, movies, wildly popular in the Depression, were an inexpensive escape from reality, and Charlie Chan kept Fox afloat through the 1930s. For Fox, the Chinese detective could not depart with the death of Derr Biggers or his tales of mystery. And the death of their on-screen Chan couldn't stop the franchise, either. 20th Century-Fox had planned for a long career of Oland as Chan, securing another 10 films with the actor in 1937, but he died the next year, at the age of 57, in his homeland of Sweden. The next person to become Charlie Chan was Missouri man Sidney Toler, winning out over 34 other candidates. The perennial supporting actor took the role at 65 playing Charlie Chan in 22 films, and by some accounts, becoming the most memorable portrayer of Chan. He died in 1947 at age 72. The next Charlie Chan was Roland Winters, who outlived the role, playing Chan in six films, ending in 1949. He lived to be 84. Charlie Chan had two more lives on the big screen in the US, as Ross Martin in a TV movie in the 1970s, and Peter Ustinov (looking more like a youthful, suspicious Colonel Sanders than a Chinese detective) played the role in 1981. And that's just the US films of Charlie Chan. There were three Spanish language adaptations, shot on the same sets as the English movies, with different crew shooting at night. And in China, Warner Oland's Chan was warmly received, in part for the positive portrayal of a Chinese man in Western film. Most of Oland's 16 Chan films were exhibited in China, and the Charlie Chan series inspired its own Chinese imitations. An American's version of a Chinese Detective, played by a Swedish-American actor, was finally re-cast in China by Chinese actors. To set some balance to the white men playing the Chinese detective in the US films, Charlie's extended family was played by a large cast, including some more-than-bit parts for his Number One and Two sons, actors Chinese-American actors Keye Luke and Victor Sen Young. They appeared together only once, in The Feathered Serpent (1948). Keye Luke would be the only Chinese actor to play Charlie Chan in the US, but in voice only. For one wacky season in 1972, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, "[for] the first time on a regular network cartoon, we were seeing an Asian family that shared more in common with Scooby Doo or The Archies than the stereotypical Charlie Chans we knew from the past." There have been rumors and murmurs of a Charlie Chan remake or a new film for some while, from "a Chan for the '90s - hip, slim, cerebral, sexy and (what else?) a martial-arts master" publicized in 1997, to a film with Lucy Liu as the Chinese-American detective's granddaughter discussed in 2006. In between these possibilities, The Fox Movie Channel was going to run a several-months-long "Charlie Chan's Mystery Tour" showing of Chan films, but canceled due to complaints of negative racial stereotypes in the films. Counterpoint:

"As a comparatively small ethnic group in America, Asian-Americans are still too fragile to discard any icon, no matter how old-fashioned or “politically incorrect” today. We’re simply not there yet; that is, not part of the mainstream. "

Following the release of the second of the newest Sherlock Holmes movie adaptations, the question was asked: if Sherlock Holmes can make a comeback, why not Charlie Chan? ___________________________ Media: The Charlie Chan Omnibus on MobileReads (.mobi format), including: 1. The House Without a Key 2. The Chinese Parrot 3. Behind that Curtain 4. The Black Camel 5. Charlie Chan Carries On 6. Keeper of the Keys Movies * Charlie Chan Carries On (YT, 1:19:30; Spanish version, with English subtitles) * La Serpiente Roja (Spanish YT clip, 2:24) Starring Warner Oland * The Black Camel (YT, 1:10:53) * Charlie Chan in London (YT, 1:19:25) * Charlie Chan in Paris (YT, 1:11:25) * Charlie Chan in Egypt (YT, 1:12:10) * Charlie Chan in Shanghai (YT, 1:11:01) * Charlie Chan's Secret (Archive.org; alt: YouTube, 1:11:32) * Charlie Chan at the Circus (YT, 1:11:45) * Charlie Chan at The Race Track (with a leading trailer for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness) (YT, 1:13:16) * Charlie Chan at the Opera (YT, 1:07:56) * Charlie Chan at the Olympics (YT, 1:11:17) * Charlie Chan on Broadway (YT, 1:08:16) * Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (YT, 1:11:43) Starring Sidney Toler * Charlie Chan in Honolulu (YT, 1:07:39) * Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (Blip.TV, 1:14:03) * Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (Blip.TV, 1:03:21) * The Chinese Cat (YT, 1:04:50) * Black Magic (YT, 1:04:54) * The Shanghai Cobra (YT, 1:04:27) * The Scarlet Clue (Archive.org; alt: YouTube, 1:05:01) * The Jade Mask (YT, 1:06:11) * Dangerous Money (Archive.org; alt: YouTube, 1:06:04) * Dark Alibi (Archive.org; alt: YouTube, 1:01:31) * Shadows Over Chinatown (YT trailer, 1:30) * The Trap (Archive.org; alt: YouTube, 1:08:04) Starring Roland Winters * The Chinese Ring (Archive.org; alt: YouTube, 1:07:46) * The Golden Eye (Archive.org; alt: YouTube, 1:08:10) Starring Ross Martin * The Return of Charlie Chan (aka Happiness is a Warm Clue) (YT trailer, 0:30) And if you have Netflix: Instant Watcher search results for Charlie Chan, currently listing a few films starring Sidney Toler. * Charlie Chan Sunday Comics, from 1938 to 1942 * Some daily comics, from 1938 to 1939, and they're pretty small at their largest size * Summaries and information on The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, a 39 episode TV series, aired from 1958 through 1959, many episodes posted online. Start with Your Money or Your Wife, and YouTube will recommend more. ___________________________ Bonus links: * The Charlie Chan Family Home, an awkwardly formatted website, full of hidden gems. Not all links are obvious, and many links send you to full scans of old articles and newspaper clippings. * Dr. Berlin, Charlie Chan's Biggest Fan, author of Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom (Gb) and The Charlie Chan Film Encyclopedia. * Old Movie Maven's review and information on all the US Charlie Chan movies * Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii (Google books preview), an interesting view of Hawaii, before it was a Territory of the United States * Sailing for the Sun: the Chinese in Hawaii (Google books preview) And the source of most of my information for this post: * Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (Google books preview, and linked throughout this post)

Brothers On Vacation in Hawaii Meet....for the First Time

zizzle — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:58:24 -0800

Rick Hill was vacationing in Hawaii. So was Joe Parker. The two lived within one town of each other in Massachusetts, but discovered on that Hawaiian beach, when Joe offered to take a picture of Rick with his fiancee, that they have the same father.

"Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith. Or for that matter my citizenship." - President Obama

Fizz — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:55:01 -0800

Handwritten 1961 memo in father's immigration file notes Obama born in Hawaii. "Documents obtained from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service through a Freedom of Information Act request offer evidence that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. A memo dated Aug. 31, 1961 from William Wood of Immigration and Naturalization Services indicates that Barack Obama, Sr., was attending the University of Hawaii on a student visa and that a son, Barack Obama, II, was born in Honolulu on Aug, 8, 1961." [Image of Memo]

Aloha, mahalo

Artw — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:31:42 -0800

The history of Hawaii, as told in plate lunches, by Sarah Vowell.

Uke Virtuoso

zarq — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:35:12 -0800

Taimane's Toccata. Via Also Her website. Background articles: * How hard is it to define Taimane Gardner? Don't try. * Taimane Gardner — a Samoan gem * Diamond Glow

VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945

zzazazz — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:04:46 -0800

Richard Sullivan has posted the 16mm color footage his father shot of the "spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender" on Kalakaua Ave in Waikiki on August 14th, 1945.

Sol K. Bright, Hawaiian musician

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:58:41 -0800

Let's head down to the sunny Hawaii of the 1930s and pay Sol K. Bright a visit, shall we? His charming vocal work and masterfully playful guitar wizardry are sure to please! Hawaiian Cowboy - Honolulu How Do You Do? - Tomi Tomi - La Rosita. Aloha!

Complex Mag Cover Story: Kanye West

daniel_ — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:27:21 -0800

Kanye and I had exchanged emails days after the Taylor Swift incident, but between him being inundated with criticism and my own personal distraction—a recently discovered brain tumor, of all things—this conversation, a month later, was our first real catch-up. Kanye notices something off in the delivery, and he presses the intercom button to talk to RZA: "Um, fam, it's actually ‘thirty white bitches,' not ‘dirty white bitches.'" RZA laughs. "I'll do it again," he says, "but to be real, the way I be saying words, you ain't gon' be able to tell the difference." Ha! At Rap Camp, the shit is fuckin' ridiculous.