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Commercial Highlights UH Manoa “Lifestyle”

September 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Education, Sports, Television, Video

This past weekend’s opening college football game between the UH Manoa Warriors and the Colorado University Buffaloes was broadcast live on ESPN. And during one of the commercial breaks, both universities got some airtime to show off their stuff. For UH, the theme of the day was “Lifestyle.”

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Square Promotes Painless Payments

May 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Gadgets, Technology, Video

Square is a startup that hopes to do nothing less than transform the way people pay for goods and services. The company was started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (who recently returned to Twitter while continuing to lead Square), someone obviously no stranger to disruptive technologies. A tiny, cheap card reader, coupled with a smartphone, [...]

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Video: Eisa Drum Festival

May 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Events, Music, Video

The first ever (and hopefully annual) Eisa Drum Festival took place on Saturday on the Great Lawn of Kapiolani Community College. It was a great event, and lead organizer Shari Tamashiro — along with advisors Norman Kaneshiro and Derek Ichiro Shiroma, and countless other volunteers and performers — deserves a standing ovation for pulling it all [...]

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UFOs Over Oahu? Sorry, No.

April 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Technology, The Web, Video

A video is making the rounds on YouTube, Facebook, message boards and blogs, said to depict five unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, hovering over the Makua military reservation on the island of Oahu. It spread like wildfire through online communities focused on everything from aliens to government conspiracies, then started catching the notice of people [...]

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Video: ‘Epic’ Manapua

April 12th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Food, Video

It’s not the world’s largest manapua, but it sure looks like it could be. A group of local media makers documented the construction of a massive, 13,300-calorie manapua in a video titled,“Epic Kaukau Time: Manpua Man Manapua.” (Rated PG-13, per Cynthia Hoskins, so click with care.) The “Epic Kaukau Time” title reveals the video to [...]

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Dancing Matt in Hawaii

January 30th, 2011 · No Comments · The Web, Travel, Video

“Where the Hell is Matt?” It’s a question for the ages. Or at least those of an age to remember the earliest days of web video. Who The Hell is Matt? Six years ago, former video game designer Matt Harding decided to travel the world. A video clip of him dancing in Vietnam kicked off [...]

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ONA Parachute Training

January 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Events, Media, The Web, Video

The Online News Association was founded in 1999, and I signed up pretty early in its history, full of ideas for Islenews.com (which became HawaiiNews.com which is now HawaiiStar.com). My dream of building a robust grassroots local news site is still just a dream, but fortunately, the ONA has soldiered on. Today, the group is [...]

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My Seoul Adventure

January 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Business, The Web, Travel, Video

I returned to Honolulu from Seoul today, twelve hours before I left. Spending three days in South Korea was an incredible experience, and I can’t wait to return. Thanks again to Hawaiian Airlines for the opportunity to document their new nonstop service between Honolulu and Incheon international airports. Our trip coincided with the coldest winter [...]

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Hawaii YouTube Star Hits 3 Million Subscribers

December 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Social Media, The Web, Video

Ryan Higa, a Waiakea High School graduate now attending film school at UNLV, is the first person to hit 3 million subscribers on YouTube. Higa’s “Nigahiga” channel crossed the threshold yesterday well ahead of fellow YouTube stars Ray William Johnson and Shane Dawson. Notably, channels for individuals largely outpaced companies, with video game site Machinima.com [...]

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Honolulu’s ‘Real Weather Girl’

October 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Technology, The Web, Video

When it comes to covering the weather, local television news outlets aren’t shy about emphasizing the appearance of their reporters over their meteorological data. This may be even more true in Hawaii, where the weather doesn’t change much. The “Real Weather Girls” app for iPhone and iPad takes this concept to the next level. “Real [...]

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