So I been falling behind a little [365 Days Catch Up]

Day 040 – @Gnelle is home from China

And look what she brought back for me. A Mario hoodie that zips all the way up. You can’t see out the front of it but it’s still cool!

She also picked me up a pair of BAPE kicks, but I guess she trusted the sales guy way to much because she thought she was getting a pair of Size 10s. Instead she got a pair of 13s LOL They still cool though and I’m not going to wear them. I’ll display them in my apartment some how.

Day 041 – FHB International Auto Show

Rockin the hoodie @Gnelle brought back for me from China in front of the car I will own some day. That or a Vette or a ISF or a Camaro… You get the picture LOL

Day 042 – I have a fever

Yes. That is the trash can that I let @loganz puke in… today it’s in a bad situation too… load full of Galah… Ewwwww

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Wow! It’s a party post! [V-Lounge Hush-Kayla’s Bday]

Wow! LOOK!! I’m posting a blog about nightlife!! Yeah I guess you could say that ever since my camera got stolen, well I haven’t been doing much at all. I feel all blah about it. If I get another camera, I’m getting insurance and getting back out on to the scene. I did discover that my video camera is a lot of fun, but takes up to much space on my hard drive. Here is some of the fun I have had with it though lol.

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Now on to the party pics. There’s not many but what evers I have fun even with my little point and shoot camera LOL

First stop! V-Lounge on a Monday night. First time I been there and you know what? I like it. It’s a nice environment, very chill and relaxed. I was talking story with @_chrishughes. @djmaleko was in the house along with @steve_eskae mixing up the tunes. @minikatsu and @mrvj were there too planning the Hawaii Ocean Expo. Go check that out this weekend alright!

The bar is always great since well… Flash and Mikey are mixing drinks LOL.

CAMERA FACE!! @flashee @supercw

Mikey!

This was the F’n Best!!! I Swear! Order this if you go you won’t be let down.

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Day 039 – DJ Betty at Hush

This counts because I took it at officially 12:04am today (03/26/09). I miss her! and well she misses me too lol. I haven’t hung out with her in a while and it was fun catching up. She let me spin for a little bit and well I sucked. I’m not used to tables yet. I should get a pair of cheap tables and learn to use them lol

Day 038 – Dinner

Eggs, Potogee Sausage, and Rice with a side order of my Acid reflux meds… oh the life of me.

I gotta give a special birthday shout out to KaylaBabes. I went to her birthday party tonight at Hush. I must say though, first I been there and its kinda nice. I really like it there. I would describe it to be almost like the “White Room”  at Fashion 45. DJ Betty was in the Mix and DJ Peter Lau was setting his stuff up to finish the night. AGN was in full effect and always much love to them. If you get the chance you 21+ people, check out their regular party on Friday nights there.

K den I’m out and I’ll post pics tomorrow. Laterz!!

CharlieBoy808

Day 037 – Nissan 370Z

I couldn’t decide on what to upload today. Either the pics from last night at the V-Lounge or this sweet black 370Z I saw today. Well we can see who wins today lol

I didn’t even know they were selling these already, but this guy got one and it’s plated already. I looks really similar to the last model (350Z), but the new tail lights and the slightly redesigned front end make the car look even meaner. I love it seriously.

I must add though. If you haven’t heard about it, aside from the New Car Expo going on at the Convention Center this weekend there is a Ocean Expo going on at the Blaisedell too! Details at http://www.hawaiioceanexpo.com There’s going to be a poke contest so you know dat is going to be good brah!! go check it OUT!

365 Days Project – Day 036 – Eragon

So a friend of mine said I should blog my current running project. Project you ask? Well I decided to take on a project a while back that involves me taking a picture a day of something and posting it online. I am to do this everyday for 365 days (one year). When I started I was doing it just for myself, but my best friend @loganz was interested in doing it too. His roommates in Sacramento wanted in on it too. So now it’s a challenge to see who forgets first and doesn’t post anything. Of course I started before them so I’m ahead a few days.

Here are the ground rules to our contest:

  • A photo must be taken that day and uploaded (unless it is physically impossible to do so).
  • Self portraits don’t count.
  • Each picture must have a description and title.

I think that’s it. It has been fun so far and I hope you enjoy it too.

Here are links to all of our photo galleries:

CharlieBoy808 (Me)

Loganz

Itzjere

Mystikchris – He doesn’t have his separated but what evers he still taking and posting pics everyday HAHA.

So here is my submission for yesterday (March 23, 2009).

I’ve been reading this series of books for some time now since the first one came out. However, for some reason I just can’t finish this last book. Maybe to many distractions or something. Maybe just no urge to do it anymore. It’s sad really :( 

Well the good ol’ SD450 still works… [Lomography, V-Day]

Alright well I know that yesterdays post was a lil emo but I think I have come to the conclusion that I will save up to buy a new setup, what i don’t know yet. What has made me come to this conclusion is the fact that I had been reintroduced so to speak to my good ol’ Point and Shoot Canon SD450. Did some things with it and realized… I really love taking pictures with it. I didn’t have it for a while since I lent it to Gwynnelle cuz some guy dropped her SD900. So for Valentine’s Day I bought her a SD1100.

If you couldn’t tell, I like Canon cameras. LOL However the same can not be said about Video Cameras :) I like Sony as they have the picture clarity part down for video. I’m sure the Canon Cams are good but Sony been doing it longer :)

Well with that being said, how many people know about Lomography? or Lomography Photography? No? well here’s a bit of history…

In the early 1990s a couple of students discovered a small, enigmatic Russian camera, the Lomo Kompakt Automat, and created a new style of artistic experimental photography with their first unorthodox snapshot cavortings. The approach: taking as many photographs (Lomographs) as possible in the most impossible of situations possible and from the most unusual positions possible, and then having them developed as cheaply as possible. The result is a flood of authentic, colourful, crazy, off-the-wall, unfamiliar and often brilliant snapshots. These are mounted on panels to form a sea of thousands of Lomographs which regularly astonish viewers with their sheer colourfulness, diversity and power of expression. Ensuing major exhibitions in Moscow, New York, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Havana, Zurich, Cologne, Madrid, Cairo, Tokyo and many other cities, where up to 100,000 Lomographs were shown at a time, established an international reputation for Lomography.

– e-Lomography on Flickr

The reason why I mention it is that Gwynnelle order a few Fisheye versions for me and her before my camera got stolen. Truthfully, they are pretty sweet. I didn’t know what to expect since it’s a film camera and I haven’t shot film since like the late 90s (trying to make it sound like a long time ago cuz it was). The thing is the last film camera I had did have a lil brain in them (focus and some fancy redeye thing). These cameras have no focus, no electronics a side from the light that comes on to tell you the flash is ready LOL. So I was worried about how these would turn out. Well I have a lot of learning to do but here are the shots that managed to make it past the photo department at WalGreens. Apparently, he had a hard time doing them since we took a lot of night shots. You’ll see why….

Her Camera (from mine)

My Camera (from her’s)

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Photography, for me is a Hobby not a Job [Shine @ Bonsai]

Hello all my great readers. I know weird title huh? Anyways, I realized recently that I am remind why I got into photography and it was because I loved taking peoples pictures, and not for the money. This is the reason why I kinda don’t like working with computers any more, because it used to be something I loved until I started working in this career. Now I don’t hate it but I don’t love it either. Catch my drift.

A little thing that I’d like everyone to be aware of, I think this past Friday I stopped by Pearl to say “Hi” to the party people there and was stopped before I left to tell people about this!! (sorry Sarah I don’t have a scanner for the flier)

FM, Jack Law & Star 101.9 present
Wave Waikiki Annual Anniversary Bash
Sat, Jan 31st, 2009
at Pipeline Cafe

Hosted by the infamous Jack Law.
MCd by Star 101.9 & Radio Free Hawaii’s Maleko.

Pimpbot, Missing Dave, Creed Chameleon & tha Spacifics all performing live.
1st band starts at 10pm.

Former Wave resident DJs KSM, RacerX & Byron the Fur in the mainroom with special guest DJ Rayne.
Hip-Hop in the side room with the Stone Groove Family’s SubZero & Jrama plus Jedi & ShawnG.

Plus the return of some classic Wave games & contests.

$200 bottles of Goose!!! woohoo!!
RSVP yours now at vip@flashandmattyboy.com
Grey Goose & Jack Daniels on special all night.

9p-4a, 21 & up, old Wave dress code (as in there is none).
Cover TBA, $5 guest list will close at midnight.
$5 for old Wave VIP Cardholders plus one til 12.
Valet parking available.

Oh and another party from them as well!

hapa-jan-24-web-front.jpgHAPA
SAT, JAN 24th
PF CHANG’S WAIKIKI
corner of lewers & kalakaua ave
entrance on 2nd floor

$200 bottles of goose all night!!!!!!!
goose & bacardi on special
$5 pupu menu

djs xl & Esake

email guestlist@flashandmattyboy.com with your full name & number of guests by this friday. the list is $5 & closes at 11pm.

9:30p-2a
21 & up
4 hours of FREE parking at the Royal Hawaiian Parking structure
$5 guest list closes at 11pm.

Anyways, with that said time to show everyone what a good time looks like. Now there is only one photo set here and thats because this past week I haven’t been very healthy. So I took it easy. I heard Bonsai on Sunday was a smash and that Level 4 was off the chain. Where did everyone else go?

Alright enough with the questions ON TO THE POST!!! or should I say… PICTURES!!!!

Bonsai is a really cool party to be at on a Saturday night and everyone should check it out! The bars are really cool!

Even a camera crew was there taking video.

And of course the people who love to party.

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I’m no longer a First Friday virgin [ThirtyNine Hotel Bar 35 The Loft]

Alright before I start this whole thing I must say… this is how work should be done. On a 1080p LCD TV with PIP (picture-in-picture) showing HD football on one side and my computer on the other HAHA. Oh and if you didn’t see it in front of my TV is the “Best Waste of Time” as awarded by @SuperCW on her blog for her “Best of 08” post.

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Haha anyways its over now and I just saw the worst OT defense ever way to go guys.

So Friday was the first “First Friday” (that is so grammatically wrong) in China Town of the year and well my first ever as well. So I’m no longer a virgin to it. I’ll probably go again next month since there were people telling me that it was slow. So if i was having a good time then that means the next one will be even better!! I guess it was slow because everyone is still hung over from New Years Eve and Day combined. A girl named Linda (whom i still can’t remember where we met each other before) was saying that, “NYE isn’t an excuse. They had a whole day to recover.” I had to laugh at that, because she was right LOL.

Well the spots I went to were ThirtyNine Hotel, Bar 35, and the Loft. These spots were definitely kicking and from what I heard was still kicking after I left to finish some work at home :( @SuperCW, next time I’m coming to Next Door. I swear the tweets were just saying a “off the hook!” party was going on :( Anyways enough talk more pics!!

Coincidentally, the first person I ran into down in China Town is @SuperCW. Rock on! and her buddy from Cali… Lance? Damn I suck at names “Boo me…”

We took a walk up to ThirtyNine Hotel where immediately I started drinking haha. People were having a few drinks and dinner before the big night on the town. This place is cool!

On the stairwells were articles about ThirtyNine Hotel and lots of other stuff too. It was something to really look at on the way up. Next time you go take a peek at it. Just don’t block peoples way.

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The Last Post of 2008

Since everyone else has been posting up blogs like this I figured I’d give it a shot. Mine however will be different since I’m sitting on a bus doing mine hehe. So here goes.

This year has been an eventful one, and I think everyone in Hawaii will agree from Obama in office to the Rail Transit dispute. Many new venues to party to many venues closing their doors or being sold. Like me starting a new at a new job at Heald College Honolulu. This year has been very eventful. Oh yeah, my brother got married too.

Well I guess all I really want to say is that this past year has been full of memories that we remember or want to forget, but what we do in the past and present is what makes our future. So here’s to new opportunities and a new year start out fresh again. Make 2009 the year to be remembered