dustrotter

Hey gang, got some pretty big news. First off, while shooting my piece on Hilo I bumped into a reporter for Big Island Weekly. She was very nice and took my picture and there's a small write up in the paper and a plug for the site. (You can read the full article here)

In other news, the local TV station KHHB has hired me to shoot video around town on assignment, basically this means sending me to interview people or shoot specific locations that will be featured on the nightly news update. Now I won't be on camera so I'm not that famous... yet. But its a step in the right direction.

Tonight I went and covered the Hawaiian Democratic Caucus. It was quite interesting to see, there was a huge turn out and the local news is reporting record numbers for total ballots counted. I talked to people, met a super-delegate, took pictures, shot video and stayed till it was all over. I'll post a video hopefully in the next few days. And the best part? Someone actually recognized me.

"Hey haven't I seen you before? Aren't you from those videos?"

Double checking the ballots. Hilo, Hawaii Caucus 2008

I've streamlined the way I record, edit and upload the recordings of my weekly radioshow. So they should be popping up a lot more frequently now. I'm technically not supposed to do this, but I'm a nobody so I'm sure all the somebody's don't care.

A few people have been asking me what I've been up to lately; well the last 2 weeks have been basically non-stop rain. And when I say non-stop I don't mean California non-stop which is cloudy skies and a few inches of drizzle. I mean heavy to torrential rains for probably 80 - 90% of the day. From what I've heard the downtown area (visible in the beginning of the Hawaii By Motorcycle Video) is totally flooded out. As a documentarian it's my responsibility to inform the public of whats going on.