Posted by Jeremy G. on 8th, 2008
A fun post between some real substance. Enjoy.
(click to see bigger picture, and see read bottom of post for more info.)
I hate boring pictures.
Whether it’s because I took some photography courses in undergrad or I just have a creative mind, pictures where everyone is just smiling with a shiteating grin on their face, staring straight at the camera just bug me. The result is, when I go out, I try to take unique and fun pictures, and one way I do that is by taking other peoples hats and sunglasses and wearing them for the photos. The greatest idea ever? Lol, not really, but it makes for some good myspace pics.
PS Due to popular request, I’ll be reviewing the Honolulu bar/club scene in the next post or two. Anyone planning on coming into town will want to read up as I put my honest, real world experience to work for you 
Posted by Jeremy G. on 6th, 2008
Recent Letter from a Friend
“Hey man, I was just checking out Johnstonefitness.com for some reason… probabily because I have nothing to do here in L.A. But anyways, I just thought that it’s a really neat website that I’d keep checking out just because it’s really unique and in it’s core it’s really about the transformation of this guy. I think that’s probabily why people who like the website would keep coming back to check it out. Because this guy made a website about the changes that he’s made and is making and therefore as long as he keeps up dating his life, people will always come back!
I think with all the reality television shows out there it’s pretty clear that most people are interested in living vicuriously through other’s lives. You got a cool website going, and I honestly believe that we as your friends of course will want to know what you’re up to, but if you want to connect with strangers all over the world, you’ll need to entice them with somthing that everyone will want to see. I think Hawaii is a great gateway to capture attention, but you’ll need somthing to make yourself more specific, more original, more special. If you make your website about traveling all over Hawaii to find the most exotic or strange food you can find, that’s going to be interesting and keep people coming back. If you make it about yourself going into the toughest, ghettoest, shadiest neighborhoods and fighting the local gangsters people will want to keep coming back until you die. Now, the above two are only senarios that I came up with… and obviously you’re only man enough to even attempt one of them… but you are probabily too poor to afford all the food. But here’s a pretty cool one that I think you can be challenged and probabily going to enjoy.
What if…
you went after tons of girls all over Hawaii and documented your successes and failures? (hopefully more successes) I’m just throwing that out there, cuz I’m not even sure if that’s the coolest thing you could do. I mean, what if you started to build somthing cool? Like a motorcycle with a jet turbine engine? Well, someone did that in their garage and I saw it on youtube. I’ll think of more ideas and letyou know! By the way, Johnstonefitness is probabily making him some money cuz there are a couple weightloss and weightgainer buttons that people could click and make him money on that website.”
So what do you guys think of his ideas?
Posted by Jeremy G. on 5th, 2008
As you could see in my previous post, I have been putting a lot of thought into where I want to go with this blog. The options are as follows:
1. A Hawaii Only Blog
I decided against this one, the dual reasons being interesting posts on just Hawaii would be hard to come up with day after day and the second being it just doesn’t interested me as much as other subjects. I want to be able to talk about anything and everything I see fit, without having to curb great ideas because they aren’t “Hawaiian” enough.
2. A purely personal journal
Again, I feel that this would be too one dimensional and also pretty much guarantee that I would not be able to hit any one niche hard. And no niche = no chance of massive popularity and traffic.
3. A mix of personal and Hawaiian topics
After talking to some people and brainstorming, this became the obvious choice. Whether posts of a personal nature with a Hawaiian twist, or the occasional Hawaii specific surf spot review or bar review, this option offers the best of both worlds. After talking to friends, both in person and via the comments on this blog, this is the obvious correct choice.
So there it is, time to get out there and blog, this time with my goal for this site firmly in mind!
