Another great day over on Puna side. Space market on Saturday was a trip, this place is new age hippy town central. HOWEVER...they did have some amazing food. If you want to be a part of the market you have to be local, like super local. Which is cool. This juice lady had the best juice Ive ever had, in my life,
Ginger, Turmeric root, Pineapple, Lemon, Lilikoi, WOW! It was 5 bucks for a small glass but it was so worth it. She also had this 20 micro green juice with garlic and jalapeno, but she wouldn't budge when I was trying to get the other ingredients from her.
Steve, Rachel, Lyssa and myself went to Medicine for the People in Hilo later on in the day. I had only heard their music a few days earlier and thought it was ok, but the live show made me a fan. These guys
had so much heart, energy and power in their music. Everyone had their dancing shoes on, but really just in spirt because everyone was barefoot and lovin it. Go Hawaii! Barefoot for life.
Juice lady and Rachel
Pretty Polestar flowers
Medicine for the People in Hilo =)
This girl killed the jembe jongas, and cajon, killllllled
I took a ton of pictures, and still only managed to get it down to these. But they are super fun.
3 weeks at Polestar is over in just a few hours =) and =(, from getting picked up in the Hilo airport by two strangers to all the moments Ive shared with them and everyone else I can't even believe what I have done, seen, shared, learned. Wow. This blog is one tenth of the total that Ive seen in this short time. This past week, more like actual days I engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered one 8 track CD, one 5 track CD
made 2 video edits, recorded 8 songs at the Muku'u Market, and now Im finally done
What is really amazing is that my stupid Bachelors degree is actually getting me noticed to do this kind
of work. Ive been able to trade 3 days of work here at Polestar to help them make music. And in the process Ive been a part of some eye opening moments where Ive played harmonium on tracks, worked with 7 over 4 rhythm, been exposed to Kirtan songs, (of which Ive spend hours on end editing =) and Im
just blown away with the contacts Ive met.
I came here to set my intention for my trip to Hawai'i, dive deep into Raja pranayama yoga, get up early, work all day, go to bed early and satisfied and along the way Ive some how met all the right people
who have eagerly wanted to share their knowledge on the subjects that I came here to more know about.
Complex poly rhythm, Water catchment management, Proper cooking or lack of, Solar grids, Kirtan, Hatha and Raja Yoga, Proper Meditation. These are the things I wanted to know more about for the past year. Here I am after 3 weeks of WOW seeing how Ive gotten to learn more about these things first hand from really sincere and cool people who are certainly my friends. Thank you POLESTAR!
I will miss your Bananas.
Here are the 5 songs I just got done Mixing...FYI all I had to work with was 1 USB Blueball Podcast Mic, broken regular sony headphones, and if I got lucky I could check my mix on the stereo until someone mentioned it was getting annoying =) For what I was working with, this is really something.
I'd equate it to painting a 10 foot wall mural with a pencil in 2 days....Did i mention no mic stand
(If your reading this then I didnt post the songs yet...)
Apparently im making some tough decisions
Michael on the Harmonium
A little Video Clip
Did i mention no mic stand...oh yep I did
Used a music stand to get the mic up there for vocals =)
My ghetto mixing desk i put together behind the tv in the living room haha, it was actually rad to be able to set up
anything at all. Candles and incense are a must for mix downs
Last Sunday I took my computer a USB Blue Ball Mic my Nikon and a hand held recorder to the Maku'u Market. My friend Abram plays in the Mwenje Marimba Ensemble and had a performace there. I was able to get some really fun audio and video of the whole set. I walked around and got some more sounds
of busy crowds for the foley/sound library that Im working on. Bought some handmade local soap, and magnets for little gifts for some people, you know who you are =)
Went to the Tide Pools with Norbu, Mason, Carla, and Szylvia. This place is so pretty. The ocean water comes into this inlet and had the coolest fish ever. The water is so clean, clear and super warm. Its 75-80 year round, HA! I stood up in a shallow spot and counted over 100 tropical fish swimming all around me. One of the fishies came right up into my hand! Thank you Max for the snorkel gear, I use it almost ever day, hat a blessing to have my own pair. Oh yeah and
did I mention giant sea turtles just chilln...
So this is a bit of a back post but I thought I would share these pictures anyway. I met a guy named Steve at a potluck this past Wednesday who had lived in Colorado for quite some time. We got talking about the Rockies and he said he hiked all 53 (?) 14erzz in Colorado! I had some pictures on my computer when Max and I hiked Mt. Quandary in Breckenridge over Thanksgiving break in November. So in light of Steve Ill post some pictures of snowy Colorado. Don't wanna get lost out here in all the tropical beaches and forget about muh Rockies =)
Summit 14,265 baby
I love this one
Walking on the tops of mountains =)
Breck
These are all iPhone pictures so not the best quality but fun to look at none the less.
