Hanapepe Ice Cream Shop

My quick and dirty salute to James Hoyle. Who was one of the first artists to call Hanepepe home in the 70's. I was working off of a photo of what appears to be an old abandoned ice cream shop i took on the main drag through town there. So like many Hawaiian tourist paintings, this is way more colorful than the real deal, which was pretty old and beat.

I'll try to dial it in and post something better later. James is way better with the coloring in his paintings than this crude tribute attempt i knocked off in about 2 minutes by quickly building a 4 step PASeq in Studio Artist. He uses an impressionist mix of colors in specific regions as opposed to just the maximum saturation coloring i selected. So you'd want to use one of our opponent mixture coloring options. And you'd want way better shaping on the paint strokes as opposed to the tube paint i'm using.

He also paints in the individual strokes initially with flat paint, and then overpaints with a smaller interior raised oil stroke. So you could use something that initially lays down a flat vector paint fill and then a raster raised oil stroke on top. Using path start repeat modulation to do it. Or generate the bezier paths for the paint strokes and do it from that using multiple passes.

And of course you don't want the paint strokes to cross or run into each other. I used clever programing of the blanking buffer to pull that off. You want something that's kind of like a wood cut or Australian Aboriginal kind of thing, but with brightly colored impressionist paint strokes as opposed to just colored dots like you see in Aboriginal artwork. He has a very cool individual style to his work, so my crude attempt to knock off something here is in tribute to his superior talent as an artist. My hat is off to you sir. Take the trip to Hanepepe and check out his artwork for yourself up close at the Amy-Lauren Gallery. They also have some of his work in the galleries in Poipu, but Hanapepe is way more fun to visit than Poipu.

Giorgio's Gallery in Hanapepe

Once you drive past the world famous Taro Chip factory chip factory we explored in yesterday's post, you'll turn left and hit Hanapepe's main street. And right in the center of it is Giorgio's Gallery. This was how it looked there at dusk as we kept searching for that famous swinging bridge.

Earlier in the day we toured the place. And met the man himself. And it's got quite a nice selection of awesome artwork for you to check out. I was really jazzed by one artist in particular, the industrial cityscapes of an artist named Dusit. Not something i would have expected to find hiding in a small gallery in Hanapepe on the island of Kauai. But then Hanapepe was full of surprises.

This photo above shows how the gallery looked earlier in the day when we went for our tour. It's really amazing, because the main street through town is really a straight line, but the rift in space and time apparently located somewhere near that famous swinging bridge apparently bends the fabric of time and space as you wander the streets of Hanapepe. So it bent the light coming into my camera. 

And there must be some kind of gravitational lens effects going on as well, because i swear i could see 2 different liquor stores that had the same artwork on the front of them, as seen in the photo above. Which looks exactly like the street scene that awaited me when i hoped out of our Alamo rental car and walked across the street to enter Giorgio's gallery.

Hanapepe Taro Factory

No trip to Hanapepe is complete without some taro chips. And they make them right here at the Hanapepe Taro Chip factory. The rift that bends time and space, apparently located near that swinging bridge they kept telling us about, adds a delightful ruffle to each hand made taro chip. The Taro Chip Factory is actually around the corner from the main drag that has all the cool art galleries on it. But you will probably drive right past the famous chip factory if you are headed into Hanapepe from north Kauai. And the odds are 10,000 to 1 that you will be staying somewhere on Kauai north of Hanapepe.

The Taro Chip Factory will be on the left side of the road just past Bert's Auto Repair as you head into Hanapepe town from the main road. Do not be afraid and turn around as you drive towards it, continue onwards, and you will be glad you kept on going. Because the different art galleries on the main drag are well worth the visit. Now we just need to find that swinging bridge. And the rift in time and space. That keeps bending the light entering my camera. Bending those taro chips with a delightful ruffle.

Hanapepe Street View

Here's a series of experiments all derived from a 360 degree video pan taken outside of the Amy-Lauren Art Gallery at rush hour in the bustling art metropolis of Hanapepe on the island of Kauai. I used the Temporal Scan Tracker to generate full slit scan panorama from the 360 degree video pan. I then tried a few different experiments with that slit scan as a new source image.

Now these street views may seem exaggerated to you, but this is exactly what i saw when i stepped out of our Alamo rental car in bustling downtown Hanapepe.

I would also highly suggest stopping in to check out Amy-Lauren's Gallery. They have a great selection of diverse original artwork by different Kauai artists to check out there. And are nice friendly folks as well. They even let me take a panorama video shot inside their gallery, so they deserve special bonus points for that. And i will use it to make a wonderful image to post here at some point. And i will plug them again when i do, because i really liked their art gallery.

This last image below is how i imagined Hanapepe might look in my dreams. As opposed to the 2 images above that are totally representative of how it actually looked to me while i was standing there.

Again, this is a straight road, Hanapepe's main street. Where all of the various art galleries are located. But the rift in space and time located somewhere in Hanapepe distorts the rays of light coming into your camera, causing the road to bend in the photos above. We thought the rift in time and space might be near the famous swinging bridge. If only we could find it. More developments on that in future posts.

Hanapepe's Central Focus Point

Every small town seems to have a central focus point. And my eye kept getting pulled to this one as i wandered the main street of the art town Hapapepe. This was taken from a section of yesterday's video pan i used for that posted slit scan image. I used the Temporal Scan Tracker to extract the relevant features from a small section in the middle of the video sequence (like 40 frames). That was then loaded as a new source image. And then i used overly adaptive contrast enhancement followed by 2 layers of composited vectorizer processing to jazz it up a little bit for the final effect.

Hanapepe Town

As promised, time to ease up on the horror for a little bit. So let us travel to a magical place. Where many magical art galleries lie along a road in a small dusty town that seems to straddle some rift in the space time continuum. On the island of Kauai. Yes, we're going to visit Hanapepe town.

As usual, my twisted eye seemed to be pulled towards something in Hanapepe that wasn't really an art gallery. Although the art on the front of the building is actually kind of eye catching. And this is really a straight street, Hapapepe main street in some sense, but because there is a rift in the space time continuum there, it actually curves the rays of light when you try to take a picture of it. Because of the rift, bending space, bending time, bending light, bending your mind. Welcome to a little tour of Hanapepe town, art town central on the island of Kauai, which we will continue exploring in the days ahead.

BadLands

Continuing the theme of disfunction and i think maybe pure evil that has permeated the last few posts. But don't blame me, it's all gallery show's fault. He (or she or it) is doing all the work. Making all the decisions. I just pointed it at this world we live in, and i guess it didn't like what it was seeing there, so it decided to point out some things it saw. While self mutating presets while processing the imagery it found, and feeding it's output back into it's input and running wet wash paint presets for the start cycle processing, like a warm rain washing clean this weird world it was looking at.
Anyway, some lighter subject matter is on the way soon.