A film by PF Bentley.
I must admit that although I’m not a big fan of poi I do love steamed taro. Some beautiful filmmaking by my buddy PF Bentley who now calls the Friendly Isle home. Shot with a Canon 7D HD-dSLR and GoPro Hero.
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Taro Dreams
Friday, July 16th, 2010Dirty Harry meets his match
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
2012 – The Movie Review
Sunday, November 15th, 2009*Spoiler Alert* DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW UNLESS YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THE MOVIE!
Noble scientist tries to save the world but it’s a secret (he lives)
Explosions, crashes, earthquakes, devestation (this is the best part)
Doom kept secret by government, those who stumble upon secret murdered
Divorced dad stumbles upon government secret with kids but doesn’t know it (they live)
Whackjob into conspiracy theories tells divorced dad the secret (he dies)
Explosions, crashes, earthquakes, devestation, tidal waves (this is the best part)
Boyfriend of ex-wife (he dies)
Tramp dies
Divorced dad has overly long, melodramatic scene with ex-wife before he saves the day in the nick of time (she lives)
Explosions, crashes, earthquakes, devestation, tidal waves (this is the best part)
Noble scientist macks President’s daughter (scientist & President’s daughter live, President dies)
Mankind survives (about 300-400K live if you don’t count Africa)
Dad is hero, stands in gleaming sunset with ex-wife and kids all happy
*footnote: President is black, Asians in background and minor hero roles, Russians are bad (but do good things in tough situations), common sense not included in the plot.
I give the movie 1.5 stars, maybe 3.5 stars if you turn your brain off halfway though. Did I mention that the explosions, crashes, earthquakes, devestation and tidal waves are the best part? www.whowillsurvive2012.com
But will Oprah recommend it?
Saturday, July 4th, 2009The first page of a book showed-up on digg.com and people had a field day posting comments for the book on Amazon.com You have got to read the reviews on Amazon.com after reading the page below.
Any relation?
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
A film short by Joe Sekiya
A Journey back in time
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
online casino netSteve Perry and Neal Schon of Journey playing at Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu. circa 1981
So tickets for Journey are going on sale for the Waikoloa Bowl. I’ve told folks that I’ve photographed Journey before, twice, and the second time I met the guys and got autographs from their previous island concert on Oahu. So here’s a little proof, a photo of the boys on stage along with their autographs on it.
By this time they had replaced keyboardist Greg Rollie with Jonathan Cain and when they looked through my concert photo album and saw Rollie’s photo they pointed at it and said, “There’s Bird.” So maybe that was their nickname for Rollie? They also saw a photo I have of Carlos Santana and they called Schon over to take a good look saying, “He’s got a photo of Carl.” Since Schon and Rollie both had played in the Carlos Santana band it’s not surprising they were interested in my Santana photos.
They are great showmen, have a great sound and no doubt will do a great job at the Waikoloa venue. Ticket prices aren’t the same as they were in the 80′s but I’m sure it isn’t cheap putting these shows on. I started off as a concert photographer, which is why I have plenty of concert photos, so maybe I’ll have to give Tom Moffat’s office a call and update my Journey pics this time around with new singer Arnel Pineda and drummer Deen Castronovo. (I only have photos of drummer Steve Smith, back when he had hair)
Neal Schon (with the 'fro)
Adios Adobe
Thursday, October 16th, 2008(non-photo geeks may want to skip over this post)
Adobe has released their Camera Raw 4.6 plug-in for Macs and Windows versions of Photoshop CS3. This plug-in allows CS3 (aka Photoshop v10) to open the latest RAW files from new digital cameras. The problem is that Adobe says 4.6 is the last update to Camera Raw for CS3. So once again Adobe screws their users to who buy new cameras by forcing them to upgrade to CS4 if they buy a new camera that isn’t included in Camera Raw 4.6 plug-in.
I’m tired of this forced upgrading, it’s like a virus infection. Sure, Adobe will say you can convert RAW files to their own DNG format which can then be opened with older versions of Photoshop but DNG files are pretty big and take time to process.
I for one will make CS3 my last Photoshop upgrade (unless I trip over a pile of money in the woods or something similar). I own Apple’s Aperture and they have updated their Raw plug-ins for new cameras at no extra cost. There’s a learning curve to Aperture but I hate to pour hundreds of dollars into Adobe products and be left hanging if I buy a new camera.
Sure, I’ll still use Photoshop but I think the transition away from it for my needs will serve me better in the long run and save me money too.
