Meet your new editor-in-chief

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“Art –  that which is of more than ordinary significance.”

There’s an old saying that goes something like this, “I may not know art, but I know what I like.” Art being such a mercurial term, I’ll bet there are a bunch of folks who share that sentiment when it comes to anything that gets labeled “art”.

Well, I pretty much share this sentiment.

And who am I? Well my name is Chad Fujihara and I’m the latest individual to be tempted by the promises of riches and fame that come with running a college-based online arts and culture magazine. I have roughly one semester to get this thing going again. Skewed ideas about “riches and fame” aside, I’m a UH student in what is his final year of college. I’m a journalism major with very little in the way of artistic training or experience.

Now before anyone starts composing something angry regarding the fact that the guy in charge of an arts and culture website doesn’t know much about art, please stay your furious fingers and let me explain. Now granted the only art class I ever took was the writing intensive section of Art 101, I know enough to have an opinion. Art also expands out to other fields such as writing, video, photos, music, etc. Some of those categories I definitely have an opinion about and a large aspect of any art, in my opinion, is perspective. So, if you or anyone you know begs to differ on my opinion or the opinion of my staff or contributors, by all means let us know. Though, I should mention that the best way to share your opinion on what is art is to go ahead and submit some examples. Pictures/videos/paintings/songs/etc speak louder than emails.

Now if you look up in a dictionary the definition of art, like I did a few seconds before writing this, you’ll find a ton of perfectly suitable answers. The definition at the top of this post though is the one I’d like to align myself and Ka Lamakua with most.

I want this website to be a growing, shifting, collection of that which is of more than ordinary significance. I want people to visit it and see things that surprise them, which in turn causes them to look at things differently and find things to share that may in turn surprise others. I want people to read things that make them think and want to write which makes others think and want to write, etc.

 Ultimately, I guess, I’m trying to turn this website into a weird moebius strip of  ideas