Pacific New Media presents: A Survey of Digital Imagery

The University of Hawaii’s Pacific New Media division will be presenting a juried photography art show at the Canon Gallery at Ward Plaza aka the Bank of Hawaii building across the street from Ward Starbucks.

The show features pieces from some of Hawaii’s top photogs, including a few homies of the atypicalLIVING crew.

The show runs from March 2nd-March 30th.

The opening reception is this Monday from 11am-1pm.

For more info, check out Pacific New Media

Soul Clap TONIGHT

Like you needed me to remind you…

SOUL CLAP, Hawaii’s dopest end of the month dance dance party revolution, will be going down tonight.  Join the Honolulu Bird Gang aka The Nocturnal Sound Krew for a night full of dope music and dope dancing.  Also, Soul Clap runs throughout the night, so you can still hit up the superCW Anniversary Party before or after this.

Soul Clap goes down tonight from 9PM-2AM at thirtynine hotel.

For more, check out DJ ESKAE.

Fashionista’s Market this Saturday

Everyone’s favorite Fashion get together, sample sale, and Swap Meet is back for another edition.  This one is dubbed the “Recessionista” sale, how cute.

Explore fashion looks from brands like Tokidoki, Rock & Republic, Rich & Skinny, True Religion, Christian Audigier, Ed Hardy and many more.  All of it 50-80% off retail prices, so make your way down ladies and be prepared to duke it out for some hot new fashions.

Word on the street is there’s also a $5 rack involved, so you KNOW that’s gonna be prime battlegrounds.

This month’s Fashionista’s Market takes place at the Japanese Cultural Center this Saturday from 9AM-2PM. $3 for FM Members, $7 general admission.

For more, check out the Fashionista’s Market website.

NEW! Fitted Hawaii “Koku, Hou, and Waimaka” pack

Another Saturday, another dope Fitted release.

Special two-part release this Saturday.  First up is two new hoodies based on the Koko, Hou & Waimaka graphic.  Roughly translated as blood, sweat & tears, these two hoodies go hard with the navy blue or red with the graphic on the back & the Fitted crest on the front.

The hat is another collabo with Estate LA.  Navy Blue crown, red logo, white stroke. “Welcome to Honolulu” on the side, the Fitted crown on the side & the logo on the black. OFFICIAL.

So OFFICIAL, in fact, that the hat is limited to 100 pieces.  SO, get yours before yours gets got.

Again, same rules apply, phone orders after 12pm & if you’re planning on camping out for these, please KOKUA & park at Ala Moana and walk to the shop.

For more info, check out http://www.fittedhawaii.com

groundUP Records: the beginning

2009 is the year of diversifying your assets sonnn!

With everyone trying to do everything to keep above water, there’s a select few still pushing the envelope and making things happen for Hawaii.  One of those cats is nBOSS of the groundUP Pirates.  He and the rest of the pirates will be celebrating the launch of their latest endeavor, groundUP Records.  The movement will now be recorded for posterity.

(Almost) Everyone on the groundUP Label will be out in force at (SURPRISE!) an art show.  groundUP DJs Memoirs, Kutz, and Liger will provide the sounds while Bo Evans, Rhyme, Kowai Kowai, David tamaoka, Amanda Frazier, Abba Translation, Elephant Armada and MTA will provide the performances.  Pancho Abalos will be rocking the Artist Proof and hitting up a live canvas, while nBOSS will host and throw out some giveaways.

This all goes down this Friday night at Tattoolicious in Waikiki.  Show starts at 8PM, $5 for all ages to go.

For more info, check out the groundUP Movement.

NEW! St. Alfred Logo Fitted Hat

Kicks/HI will be releasing the always dope St. Alfred New Era caps on an unexpected mass of people on Saturday.

Two new colorways make this set up, with a Celtics green and old’ school White Sox red/white/blue scheme.  Both hats are adorned with the St. Alfred’s Fleur and both are available in limited quantities, so get your before it gets GOT.

These will available this Saturday at 11am at MAKALOA ONLY.

For more info, check out http://www.kickshawaii.com

Six Years of superCW.com

Six years and over 80,000 photos later, she is the Queen of the Bloggies.

Hard to believe that Christa Wittmier has been running superCW for six years.  She’s seen the ups and downs of Hawaii’s nightlife scene with her Honolulu Nightlife Diaries, making friends and snapping flicks of anyone (and everyone) who’s anyone in Hawaii.  She’s also been named the “Best Local Blog” by the readers of Honolulu Weekly.  Not bad for someone that lurks the nightlife.  I can only hope to get to that level someday.

So, congrats to Christa for all the hard work during the past six years (and for helping out this local blog figure out what’s going on).  You SO deserve this party, you don’t even know.  And you can celebrate along with all the other hot peoples and experience your own crew mesh at Pearl Nightclub this Friday night.  There’s drink specials all night (obviously), pupu menu all the way until 1AM, and it’s free before 9PM.  Organik Clothing (makers of the notorious “Cameraface” CW Pro Model shirt) will be doing a fashion show.  Maleko from STAR 101.9 (@djmaleko) will be handling the emcee duties and DJ Eskae (@steve_eskae) will be holding it down in the DJ booth.  Which makes me wonder, how is he gonna get from the superCW party to Soul Clap if he’s rocking both parties at the same time?  Hmmm, only one way to find out right?

The superCW party goes down this Friday night at Pearl Nightclub at Ala Moana Center.  FREE before 9PM, $10 until 10PM, and $5 if you’re on the guestlist.  Also, if you rock the Cameraface shirt… well, I’ll let you find that one out at the door what happens.

Anyway, congrats once again to CW for six years of bouncing the camera flash off of peoples faces and making Hawaii look better and better through your expansive photo updates.  Congrats, superCW.com is officially a first grader, and Hawaii couldn’t be any more proud.

As always, check out superCW.com

Props to Flash & Matty Boy Productions for throwing this event.

Free Pancake Day at IHOP

Everyone seems to be hopping onto this free breakfast thing nowadays.

Today, along with it being malasada day, IHOP’s all across the nation are celebrating Mardi Gras in their own special way by calling it “National Pancake Day.”  Besides giving away a free short stack of pancakes between the hours of 7am and 10pm, all IHOP’s will be raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network.

They’ve been doing this since 2006, so it’s not like they’re trend-humping on the Denny’s thing, but since Hawaii’s only had ONE IHOP for so long, no one really did any coverage on it.  Now that it’s in multiple locations, people should be flocking over to get some free pancakes and donate to a worthy cause.

For more details, check out http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/

Happy Malasada Day!

In Hawaii, we celebrate Fat Tuesday, but we go about it in a different way.

Fat Tuesday is the day before the beginning of the Catholic season of Lent.  Usually, for Lent, people give up indulgent foods for the 40 Days.  That includes malasadas, the fried, sugar coated puff bread pastry of Portuguese origin that’s a locals favorite.  So, as tradition, Leonard’s – the purveyors of such delectable creations – has always designated the the day before Ash Wednesday as “Happy Malasada Day.”

So, get all happy go lucky and scarf down a dozen or so of these things before it’s no go starting on Wednesday.

You can find all the Leonard’s locations here.

NEW! Fitted Hawaii “Kuli Kuli” shirt

Oh man… give it up to the Fitted Ohana for bringing back the ol’ skool.

The Fitted Ohana always drops the dopest designs for the masses and this one is no exception, with the extra bonus point of being mad attractive for those that understand the terminology.

So, the story goes (for those that don’t know) the term “kuli-kuli” is basically the locals way to tell someone to shut up, knock it off, pipe down, etc., but in a nice way and authoritative way that people understood.  Hope that explains the graphic for you.  Now, about the shirt itself, crispy white tee accented with the mouth graphic  done up in in red reflective lips and grey reflective words.  Fitted crown adorns the back, just so you know.

Oh, didn’t think I’d notice the hat in the corner huh?

NEW! Kamehameha Fitted Hat done up in grey flannel wool for the crown, black denim bill, red underbill and button and a white Kamehameha the Great graphic.  SUPER OFFICIAL STATUS is definitely bestowed upon this set.

Be forewarned, the hat is limited to 30 pieces, so get yours before it gets GOT.  Same rules apply, as always, so please Kokua and park at Ala Moana and walk over if you plan on getting there early.

As always, FITTED HAWAII.