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The Elevator Operator

August 10, 2015

Travis Hancock

Society

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Time traveling Honolulu in Javier Fombellida’s Blaisdell Hotel lift.

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Upward from Here
By Blaine Namahana Tolentino (@societyofanimals)

There is a spot in the sky
where your body knows
to surge toward heavenly things.

Mapping the heights—
ka hoʻokuʻi, ka hoʻohālāwai, ka makuʻialewa
the juncture, the meeting, the sky connection.

There are these familiar terms
for that place. There are clouds
and weather systems
to dress the moment when you arrive.
You will not know
at what part of infinity
you are stopped.

These are terms for the spot in the sky
between man and the cosmos
where the body knows.

There, we are revised—
watch the sky shimmer
with news of your beauty.

In shutting ourselves away from the outside world at the time, daily life is increasingly experienced through prose and photography. The above is a piece inspired by time spent at Tolentino's ancestral home Lanikūhonua in West O'ahu. Images by @ajfeducia, who took these photos in response to Tolentino's poetry. #FLUXArts #FLUXBeauty #nmgnetwork

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Tune in this Wednesday (tomorrow!) to our IG Live The Current of Hawaiʻi 〰️ with @alohagotsoul at 5 p.m. HST! Since 2010, @alohagotsoul has been sharing the soulful side of #Hawaii's musical landscape, featuring rare and relatively obscure #tunes from the 1970s and ’80s. DJ and vinyl connoisseur @rogerbong started his blog to chronicle the crate-digging finds of musicians who fashioned the islands' signature soul, #funk, disco, jazz, #Hawaiian, world-fusion sound. In the years that followed @alohagotsoul blossomed into a digitized archive of sonic gems. Image by @rogerbong.
#FLUXSoul #StaytheFLUXHome

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Eating in restaurants, resting elbows on a bar, overhearing conversations from strangers beside you. All of it feels instantly more bittersweet and romantic now, post Covid-19. A year ago, for an essay in the #FLUXNights on local #diners across #Hawaii, we paired images by photographer @michelle.mishina with stray dialogue noted by editor @mattdknf.
“No mountains, no trees. Just buildings."
"You know, you look just like my friend from back when."
"More coffee?"
"We don’t have that here, my dear."
"Someone should be joining me soon."
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Full story on fluxhawaii.com.

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#FLUXBeauty, naturally: the handiwork of a master lauhala weaver and stunning family heirlooms. @wehilei in @manaolahawaii donning a pāpale by the late Aunty Malu‘ihi Lee with accessories passed down from her grandmother Meleana Neula Lim.

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Upward from Here
By Blaine Namahana Tolentino (@societyofanimals)

There is a spot in the sky
where your body knows
to surge toward heavenly things.

Mapping the heights—
ka hoʻokuʻi, ka hoʻohālāwai, ka makuʻialewa
the juncture, the meeting, the sky connection.

There are these familiar terms
for that place. There are clouds
and weather systems
to dress the moment when you arrive.
You will not know
at what part of infinity
you are stopped.

These are terms for the spot in the sky
between man and the cosmos
where the body knows.

There, we are revised—
watch the sky shimmer
with news of your beauty.

In shutting ourselves away from the outside world at the time, daily life is increasingly experienced through prose and photography. The above is a piece inspired by time spent at Tolentino's ancestral home Lanikūhonua in West O'ahu. Images by @ajfeducia, who took these photos in response to Tolentino's poetry. #FLUXArts #FLUXBeauty #nmgnetwork

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Tune in this Wednesday (tomorrow!) to our IG Live The Current of Hawaiʻi 〰️ with @alohagotsoul at 5 p.m. HST! Since 2010, @alohagotsoul has been sharing the soulful side of #Hawaii's musical landscape, featuring rare and relatively obscure #tunes from the 1970s and ’80s. DJ and vinyl connoisseur @rogerbong started his blog to chronicle the crate-digging finds of musicians who fashioned the islands' signature soul, #funk, disco, jazz, #Hawaiian, world-fusion sound. In the years that followed @alohagotsoul blossomed into a digitized archive of sonic gems. Image by @rogerbong.
#FLUXSoul #StaytheFLUXHome

Instagram post 2282383497547985561_13312082

Eating in restaurants, resting elbows on a bar, overhearing conversations from strangers beside you. All of it feels instantly more bittersweet and romantic now, post Covid-19. A year ago, for an essay in the #FLUXNights on local #diners across #Hawaii, we paired images by photographer @michelle.mishina with stray dialogue noted by editor @mattdknf.
“No mountains, no trees. Just buildings."
"You know, you look just like my friend from back when."
"More coffee?"
"We don’t have that here, my dear."
"Someone should be joining me soon."
-
Full story on fluxhawaii.com.

Instagram post 2282287808436281575_13312082

#FLUXBeauty, naturally: the handiwork of a master lauhala weaver and stunning family heirlooms. @wehilei in @manaolahawaii donning a pāpale by the late Aunty Malu‘ihi Lee with accessories passed down from her grandmother Meleana Neula Lim.

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