808 ID is offering 2 shirt colors for the holidays: chestnut t with sand ink and white t with charlie brown ink (earth tones).
Limited supplies – on sale in November.
Design – Kāwili- it’s a blend or mixture – the top of the design includes traditional patterns like the ʻihe, hāloa and lauhala. The designs then blend together with the modern styles to create symbols that are used in tattoos today.
Senior year – first day of school – and rockin the 80′s bandanna, oh my!
Originally uploaded by cathy.ikeda
Our house is a total mess with hats and sharpies all over the place. Pono once again had to give up his storage crates in his room for our display, so who knows whatʻs on his bed.
Ahi will be at the Volcano community 4th of July craft fair, so hopefully weʻre all doing last minute preparations. Daddy is in charge of equipment, Iʻm in charge of naming, photographing and doing inventory. Pono does everything else.
808 ID will have a booth at the 4th of July craft fair in Volcano (Cooper Center), so if you’re headed up mauka, please stop by and say hello. I’ll include some teasers here.
Etsy store front
The merchandise site is finally up. You can visit him at http://808id.etsy.com
All merchandise is customizable, so weʻre figuring it out. Still learning.
808id.wordpress.com
With the sales during Merrie Monarch, Ahi’s finally on a roll, so he set up his new blog site, 808iD, and the merchandise site will be set up soon. Exciting times. Now if only he could concentrate on his trig and English. It’s still under construction, so don’t expect much, but it’s up.
Ahi had a no good, very bad, horrible, devastating day, and all before 8:30 a.m.
Bzzzz – my iPhone starts vibrating in first period. I have an email. I quickly check – KS Connect – Isaiah Ikeda has a progress report from E. Truesdale (English). I quickly text Ahi – F in English. Missing historical fiction essay = F. His reply, “oh snap, I forgot to turn it in.”
BZZZZ – another email on my iphone. KS Connect. Isaiah Ikeda has received a progress report from trigonometry. WHATTT? Nothing about missing work, just that he needs to prepare better. Text again. “Trig too?” No response.
Meanwhile, Ken is at the Butler Building setting up Ahi’s display of shoes and hats in Grandma Hughes’ Merrie Monarch crafts booth. He sends me the picture above at 9. Ken’s message: “cool huh?” Response, yeah, cool. 2 progress reports already this morning, NOT COOL.
Ahi, meanwhile, is not in texting range anymore. He’s leaving school to play baseball in Kona, so maybe he went to one class today.
Did I mention that Ahi has dog shit luck? That when I was pregnant with him, we won these outrageously fabulous prizes from random contests on the radio? It’s uncanny how his bad days can change to good days just by the random act of his moving forward. So on to the rest of the day.
While Ken was watching Ahi in Kona, I was visiting mom at the craft fair after work. I told Ken he really shouldn’t waste all that gas to go to Kona because Ahi’s not going to play. They played a hack team on Monday and he saw ZERO playing time. The game before that, about the same. So why should Ken go 200 miles out of his way to watch Ahi sit on the bench? Remember dog shit? Ahi got put back in the rotation as DH again. Not only that, he went 3 for 3 with one triple and two RBIs. He even stole a base again (his speed is the reason he was on the varsity team from freshman year, but he hasn’t really had opportunities to steal). Of course once he stole the base they put a pinch runner in for him.
Meanwhile, when I get to the craft fair, Isaac is talking to a girl and her mom and he hands them over to me. They are buying Ahi’s hat. Cool. They give me $25 in cash, I give it to mom, and she gives it back to me with another wad of cash. “Here’s Ahi’s money from sales today.” WHAT? I look at the rack (see photo above). No hats. Isaac sold the last hat. I look again. One pair of shoes is sold too. Whoa. If he didn’t just start making hats, sell one early and keep one for himself, he probably would have earned more than $125 today. Now that’s dog shit turned into fertilizer.
Getting ready for Merrie Monarch so we went to Walmart for shoes and there were no shoes! Zero. Freaking out. So we went to the mall to look for alternatives. Found some blank hats at Lids, so experimenting with the two surfaces. Going with the canvas one with the 808id logo because the surface holds the color better than the puffy one.
Two things happened to complicate the “art.” First, dad found a MySpace website of a NY tattoo store named 808Ink. No connection to Hawaii and ugly tattoos, so changing name. The new name is 808iD. It has to do with knowing who you are, your kupuna, your ohana. It also stands for Isaiah’s designs, and indigenous designs.
The second thing was my friend found a local website with shoes for sale, and one of the shoes looked like something I made. So, time to get serious and get my general excise license, so I did. Mom and I are now owners of 808iD.
Dad’s doing some research and maybe this summer we’ll have an official website up and running, but first I have to make it through hoike, baseball season, track and the end of school.
These are my first shoes I tried with colors. I’m practicing my Japanese side. I also made some wedges for mom’s red hat luncheon. Mom found some cork wedges at Ross. She wanted pink sakura, so I used black sharpies and permanent color pens. Mom did the coloring.
This is a repost now that we moved blog sites. Ahi was doing a slam poetry competition at one of the local stores in November. He always made it through to the next round, but at the semi finals, he had to go to Honolulu for a leadership workshop, so he couldn’t continue.
This first video is an original poem on any topic Ahi slam video
He wrote on the spoken word.
The next round was a topic chosen by the promoter of the contest. Each contestant got the topic on Monday and they had to write their piece, memorize and deliver it on Saturday.
He had to write about the store, Wiwo’ole, but wiwo’ole in Hawaiian also means fearless. Slam 2
