dustrotter

This week I traveled to the top of Mauna Kea, the largest mountain in the world, to watch some snow skiing.

Taking advantage of a break in the weather I got on my motorcycle and went up Saddle Road, a highway that crosses the island of Hawaii.

A few weeks back I went to Kona for the weekend and snorkeled at Honaunau (Place of Refuge). Its considered to be one of the best snorkeling spots in Hawaii.

My work for KHHB has been interesting so far, I've been traveling to places I wouldn't normally go and meeting quite a few people around town. The paperwork is in and processing for me to get a real-life, honest-to-goodness press pass. My imagination is reeling with ways to use it and get into all sorts of places to shoot some pretty neat video. We'll see how that goes, I'm also accepting suggestions for things people would like to see. Feel free to leave a comment here or send me an email directly @ dustrotter@gmail.com. Below is a picture of me with the mayor of Hawaii County (the entire island), Harry Kim.

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.

A look at what goes on in a small town during the democratic caucus.

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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

This week we head to South Point, the southern most point in the US and swing by a green sand beach.

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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.



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As promised, I've delivered; today I went downtown and shot some video of the flooding. From what I heard and saw the flooding was quite a bit worse on Saturday. Rain is still in the forecast for this week so if things get crazy here, I'll get it on tape and get it on line. I planned, shot and edited this video today its a little rough, so bear with me.