Saturday / May19 / 4:00 – 5:30pm / R&D

Virtually all creators, as well as arts and cultural organizations, are faced today with licensing opportunities both as the owner (licensor) and potential licensee of intellectual property. Understanding licensing has never been more important, and various issues arising out of contractual licensing arrangements will be addressed from the perspective of both parties. This R&D program will focus on intellectual property (IP) law, with a primer on some of the more pressing legal concerns for artists and creatives today, such as the distinction between ideas and expression, the use of appropriated images and text, as well as fair use.

Panelists
Sharon Webb, esq., Honolulu arts and IP attorney
Mark Bernstein, esq., Honolulu arts and IP attorney
Robert Saarnio, Director of Development, UH Foundation
Ola Rapozo, Designer and Owner, Fitted Hawaii
David Deluca, Executive Director, Bess Press

Typescripting Party

Wednesday / Apr18 / 6:30 – 8pm / R&D

Bring your laptops and join R&D for a type-scripting party hosted by Puakea Nogolmeier, Executive Director of Awaiaulu, and Kau‘i Sai-Dudoit, Project Manager of Ho‘olaupahi. The project is digitizing century-old newspaper archives to create a searchable database that reveals new insights into Hawai‘i’s past. Come be a part of a mass volunteer movement and learn more about the typscripting project by watching this video!

Wednesday / Jan18 / 6:00pm / Free / 691 Auahi St

With elegance and authority, Buildings of Hawaii presents the architecture of the six major islands in the Hawaii chain. Don J. Hibbard delves into the development of the state’s distinct blending of the building traditions of the East and West within a subtropical island context. The first in-depth examination of the architecture of the Islands, Buildings of Hawaii covers structures from the early nineteenth century through the first decade of the new millennium. Included are Japanese temples, Chinese society halls, the only royal palaces in the United States, the earliest known reinforced concrete public buildings in the country, and the only nineteenth-century British-made iron bridge in the nation. Not only are masterworks of such mainland architects as Bertram Goodhue, Julia Morgan, Ralph Adams Cram, Skidmore, Owings and Merril LLP, Edward Killingsworth, and I. M. Pei considered, but vernacular single-wall building traditions of the plantation period abound. In addition, Hibbard’s entries examine the various distinct regional designs developed over the course of the twentieth century, and includes brief biographies of Hawaii’s major architects. More than 250 illustrations — including photographs, maps, and drawings — give further detail to the more than 400 entries.

Join Don at R&D on January 18 at 6PM for a special presentation and book signing of this long awaited and much anticipated resource, representing twenty plus years of research

Author:

Don J. Hibbard administered the State of Hawaii’s historic preservation program from 1981–2002 and now works as a heritage specialist and architectural historian. He has written several books on Hawaii architecture, including Hart Wood: Architectural Regionalism in Hawaii; The View from Diamond Head and Designing Paradise.

A novelist, a cook and a poet share their different paths to the bookstore shelf

Saturday / Nov19 / 3:00pm / Free / 691 Auahi St

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R&D presents a panel discussion with 3 authors who work in 3 very different disciplines. Each will speak about the challenges and triumphs of their distinct literary realms, and discuss the present and future of writing and publishing.

DABNEY GOUGH is a food writer and recipe developer whose work has appeared in HAWAII Magazine, the Honolulu Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Fine Cooking Magazine, among others. She is co-author of the newly released book Eat Good Food, as well as the forthcoming Sweet Cream & Sugar Cones, the highly anticipated cookbook from San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Creamery.

SCOTT ABELS has an MFA in Creative Writing from Boise State University. Rambo Goes to Idaho, just released by BlazeVOX [books], is his first book of poems. More of his poems can be found (or are forthcoming) with RealPoetik, Lungfull!, Forklift Ohio, DIAGRAM, Sink Review, H_NGM_N, Word for/Word, and others. He currently lives and teaches in Honolulu, where he edits the online journal of experimental poetry Country Music.

TYLER MCMAHON is author of the novel How the Mistakes Were Made (St. Martin’s 2011) and a professor at Hawai‘i Pacific University. His short work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Three Penny Review, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown. He co-edited the nonfiction anthologies Surfing’s Greatest Misadventures and Fishing’s Greatest Misadventures from Casagrande Press.

In memory of Steve Jobs, Hawaii’s Apple historian Bryan Villados will give a one-hour lecture on this great man. “Steve Jobs According to the Mac Geek” is a play on the “The World According to” column that once appeared in the HMAUS Signal magazine. And, like his monthly column, His insights into the co-founder of Apple are unique, and at times jaw-dropping. He will cover Mr. Job’s life in ways that hasn’t been covered in the mass media. He will cover the key elements that caused both the failures and success of Apple, Inc., when the company was both in and out of Mr. Jobs’ control.

Mr. Villados will compare Mr. Jobs with other CEOs of Apple, Inc. And, he will discuss how Mr. Jobs drove pundits in the open platform movement bonkers. A question/answer session will follow the lecture.

Sponsored by the Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users’ Society, the Oahu Apple Users’ Group http://hmaus.org and Interisland Terminal, a Space for Everyday Innovation http://www.interislandterminal.org/exhibitions/current/rd/

When: November 9, 2011 Wednesday. 7 pm – 8 pm
Location: R&D 691 Auahi St., second door Ewa from the intersection of Coral Street. http://g.co/maps/85ftv

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Gary Chou / Venture Capitalist & Independent Film Producer

Saturday / Oct15 / 3:30pm / Free

By day, Gary Chou is a venture capitalist at New York City-based Union Square Venturesinvestors in tech startups like Twitter, Tumbler, Kickstarter and Etsy. By night, he is the Executive Producer of Surrogate Valentine, an independent film franchise by Dave Boyle and Goh Nakamura. Gary will be discussing how the creative process has been relevant in tech, and some of the transformational things (driven by the Internet) that are changing how we create things (tech startups, creative projects, and
everything in-between).

usv.com / surrogatevalentine.com/ / garychou.com/