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Beach Walk #349 – How much does talent matter?

Posted on February 7, 2007 
Filed Under Akimbo, Business, Ideas, Language, Video Podcasts

Talent sits on a pedestal and also goes unused. Beach Walks takes a look at the pressure that invisibly gets attached to it.

Talent is one of those ideas that goes unexamined so often, and inadvertently creates pressure. This can be whether you are "wasting your talent" or not trying something you want because "you have little or no talent for it."

Mahalo for the many emails and testimonials that you have been sending. Please keep them coming!

Last night I met Doug Kaye, founder of IT Conversations and his lovely wife Cessna who are visiting Hawai'i. He motivated me to create a survey. So I hope you will please help us in our "get some sponsors" project by taking the survey! Mahalo to Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central for organizing the dinner.

Please go here to take the Beach Walks Audience Survey.

Check out the great poster Ipo made for us on Kanoa's MySpace:
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We are looking for companies who may be interested in sponsoring/advertising on Beach Walks. I have two requests for your kokua.

  1. Email me with your name, age, gender, location, and profession, so we have an idea about our audience. Please be sure to tell us what you love about Beach Walks!
  1. Contact companies you may know and give them our information. You can also download our info sheet. (PDF) I've added a new page in the right column for Advertisers and Sponsors.

    Mahalo nui for your kokua!

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    Our wonderful theme music is from Kaimoku: The Ukulele Experiment.

    Hawaiian words
    Kanekapila: playing music and talking story
    Noʻeau: talented, skillful

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    3 Responses to “Beach Walk #349 – How much does talent matter?”



    1. darlenewong.com » Blog Archive » Hawai Music News of today on February 8th, 2007 3:32 am

      [...] Beach Walk #349 - How much does talent matter? [...]



    2. AJB on February 8th, 2007 10:12 am

      I love contemporary Hawaiian music and agree that it's under-appreciated outside of the islands. It's funny you should mention kanikapila. My family is kind of musical and one of the things we would do sometimes is play around together on the guitar or piano. It was always best when my great-uncle Mariano visited because he can play the ukulele.



    3. JoeC on February 8th, 2007 4:55 pm

      From what I read about the mainstream music industry, musicians under contract to big companies make very little from sales of recorded music (digital or otherwise). It's the companies that make the lion's share of the profit. Those musicians make money by performing, because they're the only ones that can be themselves. With the revolution taking place in artist-published content, though, that equation might change. We can only hope!



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