I got to shoot 5 local directors here in Hawaii.  They direct a lot of the local commercials.  They have so much talent and found time during their busy work schedules to create local films.  Honored to be the set photographer for these guys and honored (and a little nervous) to shoot this shot of them.  I couldn’t sleep the night before thinking I’ll need to direct a bunch a directors but we had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs.  Glad that they are creating films locally.  Catch “6B” and “Paradise Broken” at The Hawaii International Film Festival.  You can buy your tickets on-line here.

From L to R:

Ryan Kawamoto – director of “The Back Door,” Roy Kimura – director of “Redemption, ” James Sereno – executive producer, Jay Hanamura – director of “Last Sixty,” and Nathan Kurosawa – director of “Vacancy”

Much Mahalo to the awesome BTS team that helped me make this shot happen:

Gaffer, Keoki Smith

Props, Cedric Fujita

Hair/MU, Laura Aguon

BTS, Mathew Mederios

Additional support, Marilyn Mick & Sasha Dominy

Treated my boys to lunch and dragged them to the Hawaii Fashion Expo.  Just another day documented.My Mase had a huge plate of ono fried rice next to him and his nose stayed glued to the iphone.  Darn you Angry Birds **fist in air**

I was stopped by a guy who wanted to take a picture of my film camera.  So, I returned the favor and took a picture of his.  I think that’s a great idea.  So, if you’re carrying a film camera and I see you please stop and take a moment to pose for a picture.  Mahalo in advance.I stopped Andy South at the Expo like a crazy mad woman and asked him to take a picture with my boys.  Thank you Andy for being so gracious.  Andy’s designs are now being sold at Neiman Marcus.  Congratulations, Andy.

Homeward bound…

I got a call one day a few months ago from James Sereno of Kinetic Films asking if I would be available to do stills for BJ Penn’s — 90 Days DVD signing.  Uh, let me think..HELL YA!  Alright, I love BJ Penn.  James and everyone else can attest to that but after hanging with him a little and observing the way he treats his fans, BJ Penn is no doubt the best.  AND he’s hilarious.  The comments he makes cracks me up like this link (it’s around :32).Get his DVD and sign up for BJPENN.COM.  He uploads videos daily.  Funny stuff..guarans!  Oh and follow him on Twitter here.

When he signed DVD’s  at the Pearl City Best Buy the line was so long I think it went over by about three hours.  We were trying to limit people to just the DVD and one other item but people kept bringing tons of stuff.  We would tell them only the DVD and they’d agree.  Right when they walked up to BJ they would bust out their 800 items and BJ Penn signed them all.  I wanted to do the rear naked choke on some peeps…JUST KIDDING!  BJ was really there for his fans that day.  He was genuine and appreciated everyone that came to see him.  That was awesome and now I tell everyone I know that BJ Penn is the coolest!

BJ Penn is getting ready to fight Diego “The Nightmare” Sanchez on Saturday, December 12th.  You can still buy travel packages to go see it live on the BJPENN.COM website.  If you can’t make that be sure to pay-per-view it and watch our local boy kick some ass..yeah ya!  Thanks BJ for letting me document your event and we’ll be rooting for you on the 12th.  I think my husband loves you more than me..haha!

Browsing you should listen to IZ’s Hawaii 78