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On not Examining

May 30th, 2009 by Emily

I announced not long ago that I’d joined Examiner.com as the Honolulu Museums Examiner. I was pretty excited about it at the time, even though I realized it probably wouldn’t make me much money. It seemed like a good way to get more into the museum groove here in Honolulu.

Here I am, a month and a half later, busy up to my eyeballs (whatever that means) and unable to keep up with the writing and reviews I’d initially been very excited about. I’m also quite certain that I’m never going to make ANY money off it. So, I thought to myself, why not just ditch the Examiner.com thing (I don’t like their website anyway) and continue writing about museums at my own pace on my own blog? Bingo.

From now on I’ll be trying to write more about museums here – especially innovative public programs, outreach, interesting events, and things along those lines. I’ll also try to migrate my Examiner.com articles over here one at a time, since the company assured me that I have full rights to reprint them wherever I want.

P.S. On a related note, I changed my Twitter name to @EmilyAlbarillo. Now I’m just me.

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David Dondero at TCM

May 10th, 2009 by Emily

I hope to write something more complete about this tomorrow for my Honolulu Museums Examiner thing, but for now a few pictures from Lo-Fi Sunday at The Contemporary Museum.

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Megum Pie (followed by Jesse Atomic) started the show. Note the awesome background. This took place in the Cades Pavilion, where the whole interior is an installation by David Hockney.

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And David Dondero. I’d never heard him before, but I liked him.

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Shangri La: Wow. Oh wow.

May 2nd, 2009 by Emily

I’m sure there’s probably a better title than “wow, oh wow” but that’s really what I felt this afternoon. A little overwhelmed, a little confused, a lot “wow”.

I toured Shangri La today as part of a museum studies class I’m taking (field trip!). Shangri La was the Honolulu home of American tobacco heiress Doris Duke and in 2002, nine years after her death, it was opened up for public tours. The place is incredible. Why? Because of the art. It is chock-full of art. Islamic art. From all over the world. From back to at least the 13th century. I think my jaw was permanently dropped for the entire tour. The place is amazing. Here’s a little bit of (Persian?) tile goodness:
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Digital archive talk

May 1st, 2009 by Emily

Earlier this week my supervisor and I gave a talk about the work we’ve been doing with Kaipuleohone, the digital ethnographic archive we’re starting in the linguistics department here. I’m just putting the videos of the talk up on YouTube – I’ll embed the first one below and then you should be able to link to the next two from there (total of three videos). Sorry the sound’s not great – it was a last-minute decision to film and so we just used the camcorder mic, which was at the back of the room. Anyway, here it is:

(Part 2 is here)
(Part 3 is here)

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Counting down…

April 25th, 2009 by Emily

It’s finally hit that point in the semester where everything’s still crazy-busy, but I can count the remaining projects on one hand and the end is in sight! I presented a paper at the College of Language, Linguistics, and Literature graduate student conference this morning. The paper was about the “rhetoric” of language documentation – how people are advocating for the documentation of endangered languages, what (sometimes problematic) themes are emerging, and how this might be changing. I looked at the Language Documentation Training Center here at UH as a case study, trying to figure out what point(s) of view was/were emerging in their discussions of language documentation. Hopefully I’ll get the presentation online later today.

On the more fun side of things, the Honolulu Academy of Arts held their monthly ARTafterDARK party last night, and I went with a few friends. It’s a great event – you can hang out with friends, drink wine, explore the museums, and then – oh! – the DJ fires up the bhangra and you realize there’s a DANCE FLOOR IN THE MAIN COURTYARD.

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New “job”

April 19th, 2009 by Emily

Yeah, it gets quotes around it – even though it’s pretty interesting, I don’t think it’s going to make me much money.

I was just hired by Examiner.com to write content about museums in Honolulu. That’s right, I’m now the official Honolulu Museum Examiner! My job is to write about Honolulu’s museums – events, exhibits, public programs, whatever – and try to promote my content. I’ve written four articles already, and started up a Twitter account (@HonoluluMuseums).

Despite the low money-making prospects, I’m glad I’m doing this. It gives me a chance to write more (they want four articles a week), and also it’s a good excuse to learn more about what’s happening in Honolulu’s museums (I already have free access to most of them through my Hawaii Museum Association membership).

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