Tuesday, December 31, 2013

AWESOME DISPLAY FROM THUNDER & LIGHTNING BEINGS OVER BIG ISLAND of HAWAI'I / MY FLUTE CONCERT FOR THEM :)




Recorded on the morning of 30 December 2013, near Pahoa, Hawaii, during a lull in the massive thunderstorm that has been passing through for the last 48 hours. For a while the thunder beings continued to speak, but no rain was falling, so I went with my flute out into the back yard here on the lower slopes of Mauna Loa and played for them.
My Odell Borg 'High Spirits' native American F# aromatic cedar flute is named 'Aihe-waniwa Tui-Ruru Kotare-Kaitiaki Magellanic Thunder Song'.
The Cloud Camera is an experimental high sensitivity camera mounted to the catwalk of CFHT. The purpose of the camera is to take pictures of clouds and other weather at night, even on moonless nights. It only operates from sunset to sunrise.
Because of its sensitivity, even very faint things in the sky can appear very bright. The moon looks a lot like the sun and the planets appear brighter than we are used to seeing them. Even a crescent moon is so bright it saturates the image like the sun does to normal cameras. You can usually tell the difference because when the moon rises you will still see stars but when the sun rises all the stars disappear.
Everything in the sky rises and sets at a different time each day. The “Guides” tool annotates images and movies with approximations of constellations (in red), the names of the five brightest stars in the view (in white), and the planets plus our moon and the sun (in blue). These positions are recalculated for each image to make sure the positions are accurate.
This camera is facing East towards Hilo and you can usually see the lights of the city and the belt road through Hamakua along with boats and barges on the ocean. You can also see inter-island and mainland flights arriving and departing from Hilo airport.
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf


THUNDER AND LIGHTNING BEINGS PUT ON SHOW


MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – An incredible image was captured over night on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. The view is facing Hilo, and it shows last night’s unusual thunderstorm over the east side of the island.
At one point, the lightning is seen occurring with such high frequency that is appears as a fixed light on the cloudcam, which takes a picture every 60 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures. Thunder and lightning is rare over Hawaii Island, maybe happening only a handful of times each year.

The Cloud Camera is an experimental high sensitivity camera mounted to the catwalk of CFHT. The purpose of the camera is to take pictures of clouds and other weather at night, even on moonless nights. It only operates from sunset to sunrise.

Because of its sensitivity, even very faint things in the sky can appear very bright. The moon looks a lot like the sun and the planets appear brighter than we are used to seeing them. Even a crescent moon is so bright it saturates the image like the sun does to normal cameras. You can usually tell the difference because when the moon rises you will still see stars but when the sun rises all the stars disappear.

Everything in the sky rises and sets at a different time each day. The “Guides” tool annotates images and movies with approximations of constellations (in red), the names of the five brightest stars in the view (in white), and the planets plus our moon and the sun (in blue). These positions are recalculated for each image to make sure the positions are accurate.

This camera is facing East towards Hilo and you can usually see the lights of the city and the belt road through Hamakua along with boats and barges on the ocean. You can also see inter-island and mainland flights arriving and departing from Hilo airport.





There is another show going on above the clouds atop Mauna Kea, as East Hawaii is getting drenched below. A coating of fresh snow has returned to the 13,000 foot summit. - See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf
There is another show going on above the clouds atop Mauna Kea, as East Hawaii is getting drenched below. A coating of fresh snow has returned to the 13,000 foot summit.
The Cloud Camera is an experimental high sensitivity camera mounted to the catwalk of CFHT. The purpose of the camera is to take pictures of clouds and other weather at night, even on moonless nights. It only operates from sunset to sunrise.
Because of its sensitivity, even very faint things in the sky can appear very bright. The moon looks a lot like the sun and the planets appear brighter than we are used to seeing them. Even a crescent moon is so bright it saturates the image like the sun does to normal cameras. You can usually tell the difference because when the moon rises you will still see stars but when the sun rises all the stars disappear.
Everything in the sky rises and sets at a different time each day. The “Guides” tool annotates images and movies with approximations of constellations (in red), the names of the five brightest stars in the view (in white), and the planets plus our moon and the sun (in blue). These positions are recalculated for each image to make sure the positions are accurate.
This camera is facing East towards Hilo and you can usually see the lights of the city and the belt road through Hamakua along with boats and barges on the ocean. You can also see inter-island and mainland flights arriving and departing from Hilo airport.
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – An incredible image was captured over night on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. The view is facing Hilo, and it shows last night’s unusual thunderstorm over the east side of the island.
At one point, the lightning is seen occurring with such high frequency that is appears as a fixed light on the cloudcam, which takes a picture every 60 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures. Thunder and lightning is rare over Hawaii Island, maybe happening only a handful of times each year.
From the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope:
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – An incredible image was captured over night on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. The view is facing Hilo, and it shows last night’s unusual thunderstorm over the east side of the island.
At one point, the lightning is seen occurring with such high frequency that is appears as a fixed light on the cloudcam, which takes a picture every 60 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures. Thunder and lightning is rare over Hawaii Island, maybe happening only a handful of times each year.
From the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope:
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – An incredible image was captured over night on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. The view is facing Hilo, and it shows last night’s unusual thunderstorm over the east side of the island.
At one point, the lightning is seen occurring with such high frequency that is appears as a fixed light on the cloudcam, which takes a picture every 60 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures. Thunder and lightning is rare over Hawaii Island, maybe happening only a handful of times each year.
From the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope:
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – An incredible image was captured over night on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. The view is facing Hilo, and it shows last night’s unusual thunderstorm over the east side of the island.
At one point, the lightning is seen occurring with such high frequency that is appears as a fixed light on the cloudcam, which takes a picture every 60 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures. Thunder and lightning is rare over Hawaii Island, maybe happening only a handful of times each year.
From the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope:
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – An incredible image was captured over night on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. The view is facing Hilo, and it shows last night’s unusual thunderstorm over the east side of the island.
At one point, the lightning is seen occurring with such high frequency that is appears as a fixed light on the cloudcam, which takes a picture every 60 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures. Thunder and lightning is rare over Hawaii Island, maybe happening only a handful of times each year.
From the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope:
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – An incredible image was captured over night on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea. The view is facing Hilo, and it shows last night’s unusual thunderstorm over the east side of the island.
At one point, the lightning is seen occurring with such high frequency that is appears as a fixed light on the cloudcam, which takes a picture every 60 seconds and compiles time-lapse movies from those pictures. Thunder and lightning is rare over Hawaii Island, maybe happening only a handful of times each year.
From the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope:
- See more at: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2013/12/30/video-lightning-explodes-over-hilo-hawaii-on-cloudcam/#sthash.C7MJEvHJ.dpuf

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

RICKY MAYNARD, TASMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHER & INDIGENOUS ACTIVIST :)

 RICKY with PAINTED ROCKS
 Mine on left, one from central Australian artist, 1996
RICKY WITH PHOTO OF ANCIENT PETROGLYPHS ON TASMANIA
 HONOURING THE ANCESTORS

 THE OLD CHURCH AT WYBALEENA FLINDERS ISLAND
 FURNEAUX ISLANDS LANDSCAPES
 VANSITTART ISLAND
 THE REAL PEOPLE
 OF AUSTRALIA

 GLADYS


Ricky Maynard is an internationally-known indigenous Australian photographer and activist. Originally from northern Tasmania, he and his wife Anita were living on Flinders Island, Tasmania when we did this interview in February of 2013. Soon thereafter, the Maynards moved to Clark Island where they are working with indigenous youth who have been in trouble with 'white civilization.' In these interviews we talk about many things, from what it's like living on Flinders Island...regarded as 'the worst of the worst' places in Australia from the perspective of the indigenous people, from the days of 'terra nullius' to the not so distant past...to Ricky's numerous international sojourns as artist-in-residence...to various dimensions of photography and artistic creativity in general.
Ricky is very much a photographer of the 'old school', and in many ways could be thought of as the 'Ansel Adams of Australia.' He works almost exclusively in large format black-and white film photography, and his primary goal as photographer and artist is to tell the real story of his people, the indigenous people of Tasmania, who were subjected to the most brutal treatment of anyone in Australia. A big part of Ricky's story is dispelling the institutionalized myth that the indigenous people of Tasmania are extinct. They are, in fact, very much alive and well, despite what the 'powers that be' have tried to do for the last 200 years!
THANK YOU RICKY AND ANITA...KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! :)


RICKY MAYNARD INTERVIEW WITH JEFF PHILLIPS, FEB 2013 (PART 1 of 2)
http://youtu.be/O90KWmYTtAQ
'ON THE BRINK' RADIO #49 (AUDIO OF SAME INTERVIEW)
TECHNICAL NOTE: Please forgive the poor audio quality, it has resulted from a video capture anomaly, have corrected as much as possible with EQ etc.
https://soundcloud.com/jeff-arohanui/on-the-brink-radio-49-ricky

 RICKY MAYNARD INTERVIEW WITH JEFF PHILLIPS, FEB 2013(Part 2 of 2)


ON THE BRINK RADIO #50  (Audio of same interview)

 https://soundcloud.com/jeff-mahalocules/on-the-brink-radio-50-ricky
'PORTRAIT OF A DISTANT LAND' Message Stick
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/messagestick/s…ries/s2377561.htm
FOR AN IN-DEPTH PRESENTATION OF THE REAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA SEE JOHN PILGER'S BRILLIANT DOCO 'THE SECRET COUNTRY'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_r0Wgg0T0
DAVID STANNARD 'AMERICAN HOLOCAUST' (documents the genocide of Native Americans from the time of the Columbian invasion)

BBC'S 'SURVIVING PROGRESS' (recommended by Ricky)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT9FfECB8A8

JEFF PHILLIPS
BIG ISLAND HAWAI'I
10 DECEMBER 2013