A quick aloha from Lua...

Pace de Lucia always had a fierce allegiance to tradition and strong appreciation for contemporary genres, but, as he told Contreras, “I’ve always been careful that [my music] doesn’t lose the essence and the roots and the tradition that is flamenco.”

A view that I have heard many times is that Hawaiian knowledge focuses on a whole, while Western science seeks to pick things apart. Methodologically, this may be true: in research, we seek to tease apart different processes to quantify their effects, and the method of research does a very good job of describing observable phenomena. Hawaiian ways of knowing are primarily experiential, and build holistic knowledge from personal and ancestral experience. However, research and traditional knowledge systems are not necessarily opposed to one another. As emphasized by Dr. Pacala, knowledge of the system as a whole is integral to using science analytically.

Read more about He’eia fishpond here. Apart from having a very pretty name, these fishponds were ingeniously used by indigenous people to feed themselves if fishing became to dangerous. The fishponds are constructed so that the fish might enter them when they are small, but when they grow larger, they are unable to leave, providing a captive food source. Invasions by mangroves and algae and cracks in the seawall have altered the food web and environment of the He’eia fishpond. What I love about Siple’s project is that her results will be used the help the local Hawaiian people restore and manage the fishpond so that it may once again be a productive fishery.

Na Pali Coast from the air, Kauai | Hawaii (by Alfred Hermida)

I love the details you notice in some photos. Here, there are quite a few things. One, the plethora and diversity of people (not band) in the photo, they are encroaching on the stage, hanging around, some facing the band, some walking away, and one lotus positioned man on the riser above. Second, the tie dye covers on the stage monitors (think about it - the audience can’t see this, this was for the band’s pleasure alone). Third, the weather - people (Phil!) are in sweaters and parkas, it was cold out. Fourth, the detailed and decorated guitar straps on the guitar players. Alot to digest in the seamingly simple scene.

It’s a Very Small World by Michael Gittes

Artwork: Herb Kāne.

source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea

Waipio valley | Hawaii (by Robert Ostrochovsky)

THIS is why I love my Hawaiian culture <3 U’i nui loa këia mele! Kaulana Nä Pua-ProjectKULEANA

Delixx — Could You Be Loved Dub (Uprising In Dub)

This Land is My Land by Mike Gittes

Island Dreams by ~PersephoneStock