LGS NETWORK - ON THE [9] with iSLAND EMORY - Noble Richardson -Artist | Educator | Entrepreneur

Summary

In this engaging conversation with Island Emory on 'The 9', we meet Noble Richardson, an inspiring artist, educator, and entrepreneur. Noble shares his journey from Hawaii to Las Vegas and back, explaining how his love for art and football has shaped his life. He talks about the challenges he faced, the influence of Hawaii's culture, and his mission to impact his community positively. The discussion touches on themes of identity, perseverance, and the transformative power of art in education.

Highlights

• Noble's move from Hawaii to Las Vegas showcases his pursuit of education and football. 🌍📚
• He uses art as a therapeutic tool, both personally and for the community. 🎨🧠
• Teaching and mentoring children is a crucial aspect of Noble's work, fostering growth and creativity. 👨‍🏫👧
• Noble shares anecdotes of life lessons learned in Las Vegas's dynamic, yet challenging, environment. 🌆⛅
• His future vision involves expanding the reach of his art and continuing to support Hawaiian cultural values. 🌺🖼️

Key Takeaways

• Noble Richardson blends his passions for art and football to inspire others. 🎨🏈
• He emphasizes the importance of cultural identity and community support. 🌺🤝
• Noble's journey reflects the power of resilience and adaptability in pursuing dreams. 💪✨
• The transition from Las Vegas to Hawaii marked a return to his roots, enriching his art and personal life. 🌄🏠
• Art is presented as a therapeutic and expressive medium, helping individuals manage stress and emotions. 🎭🧘‍♂️

Overview

In this episode of 'On The 9', we dive into the world of Noble Richardson, whose vibrant life story unfolds across the islands of Hawaii and the streets of Las Vegas. Moving away from home, Noble embraced sports initially, but it was his deep-rooted passion for art that truly defined his journey. He shares how football helped him tackle life's hurdles, while art provided solace, steering him toward higher education and a fulfilling life path.

Through engaging stories, Noble illustrates the influence of community and cultural identity on his work. His return to Hawaii marked a significant turning point, allowing him to reconnect with his roots and give back through teaching and mentoring young minds. Noble's art embodies the spirit of Aloha, promoting peace and understanding amidst diverse cultural landscapes.

Looking forward, Noble sees art as more than a personal pursuit—it's a communal endeavor. He aims to create inclusive spaces filled with cultural narratives, offering Hawaiians a medium to express identity and heritage. As he continues to paint the world with colors of resilience and hope, Noble's voice resonates as a beacon of inspiration for aspiring artists and dreamers alike.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction The chapter titled 'Introduction' features an informal and welcoming opening by Island Emery, who is broadcasting from a 'little grass shack' in Las Vegas. The mood is set with background music. Emery introduces a special guest, Noble Richardson. They exchange greetings and Emery acknowledges Noble's reputation as an artist and community worker, particularly highlighting his involvement with youth.
• 00:30 - 03:00: Background and Education The chapter discusses the personal background and educational journey of an individual who moved to Las Vegas for higher education. The individual attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) after graduating from Baldwin High School in Wailuku. The conversation touches upon the motivation behind moving to Las Vegas for 'higher learning' and possible feelings about leaving their previous home.
• 03:00 - 05:30: Transition from Sports to Art In this chapter, the speaker reflects on their transition from a sports-focused lifestyle to pursuing a career in art. They touch on feelings of wanting to leave their current locale for better opportunities, perhaps in community college, and express a sense of irony about their current situation. The speaker also mentions being at their parents' house for better internet access, highlighting a moment of self-reflection in the place they find themselves in now.
• 05:30 - 09:00: Tattooing and Art Shows The chapter titled 'Tattooing and Art Shows' explores the speaker's yearning to escape a difficult home environment. They express a strong desire to leave their situation, feeling that their home life is not favorable for a young person. While still in high school, the speaker feels like a child in the world's eyes. With aspirations to break away, they express determination, knowing they could either fail or succeed but are willing to take the risk to be somewhere different. The mention of music suggests a tone of reflection and resolve in their narrative.
• 09:00 - 13:00: Return to Hawaii and Teaching This chapter discusses the author's journey with football and art, beginning with their desire for a higher education opportunity through football. Although initially not wanted by UNLV for football, the author's passion for the sport drove them forward. They played junior college (juco) football at Saddleback College and Orange Coast College. Eventually, they returned to UNLV.
• 13:00 - 16:30: Community Art Projects and Mentorship This chapter discusses the emotional experience of leaving home and the small, endearing details, such as the sound of chickens in the background, that are often missed. The speaker reflects on these feelings while considering their move to Las Vegas. It highlights the significance of community and familiar environments in people's lives and how these elements can impact one's sense of belonging and identity.
• 16:30 - 20:30: Artistic Philosophy The chapter explores the concept of artistic philosophy, beginning with a discussion of inspiration and the dual influences of local culture and sports. It addresses how individuals, particularly local youth, often view sports as a means to achieve something beyond their immediate circumstances. Despite the prevalence of this view, the chapter delves into how the speaker transitioned from sports to embracing art. The focus is on understanding the motivations behind this shift and how it reflects a blend of cultural influences and personal curiosity.
• 20:30 - 25:00: Future Aspirations and Impact The chapter, titled 'Future Aspirations and Impact,' begins with a discussion about the dual nature of aspirations, particularly from the perspective of youth. The author recounts a recent interaction as part of a program called 'Summer Intensive' with the Queen Liliʻuokalani Trust. During this session, a student expressed that the experience felt therapeutic. This interaction underscores the importance of learning opportunities the author encountered during college and sets the stage for a broader exploration of aspirations and their potential impact on personal growth.
• 25:00 - 30:00: Collaboration and Reflection The chapter titled 'Collaboration and Reflection' delves into the deep-seated personal experiences that manifest through storytelling, which acts as a form of self-therapy. The narrator describes how creating art became a mechanism to internally manage stress, which appeared to be at a higher level than that of peers. This process of turning personal narratives into artistic expression allowed the narrator to align and exist harmoniously within a peer group, suggesting a significant role that collaboration and reflection play in achieving personal equilibrium.
• 30:00 - 35:00: Final Thoughts and Contact Information The chapter discusses how football served as an outlet for aggression, enabling the speaker to push themselves to succeed. Despite challenges in education, particularly highlighted by the difficulty of completing college, the speaker emphasizes the importance and persistence in finishing a degree. Overcoming sophomore year is noted as a significant milestone in their educational journey.

LGS NETWORK - ON THE [9] with iSLAND EMORY - Noble Richardson -Artist | Educator | Entrepreneur Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] hello again this is island emory on the nine in the little grass shack in las vegas i've got a special guest today uh we got noble richardson how's it bro how are you doing bro doing good right on now uh you know no but i've heard through a graveyard uh you're an artist uh obviously you're in the community uh you work with kids but um
• 00:30 - 01:00 now you know there was there is a you know you came to las vegas right you came to las vegas for education right right right now like you went to unlv uh what high school did you graduate i graduated from baldwin baldwin high school in wailuku oh wow yeah right on so um was it was uh so for coming to las vegas kind of you know get a uh you know i guess higher learning um but you know did you really want to kind of leave
• 01:00 - 01:30 hawaii or you know say hey i'm out of here i just got to get off the rock you know i mean kind of vents around or is like oh you know what i could have just went to community college or something like maui i i mean hey like right now i'm sitting i'm at my parents house because they got better reception than i do at at my house so you know i'm here now using their 5g but um you know it's kind of ironic yes that question uh this is the place this room this is it this i wanted to
• 01:30 - 02:00 leave this so bad and uh uh you know the home front wasn't wasn't ideal for any uh any youth i call myself i was gonna say child because that's it you know when we in high school we still children to this world and um uh yeah i wanted to leave this real bad [Music] followed already out there so you know easy decision you know fail or make it i knew i'd be somewhere
• 02:00 - 02:30 so you know uh the higher learning you said higher learning it was a it was an opportunity that art as long as and football gave me unlv didn't want me for football um but football allowed my passion to push me out i wanted football first not art and uh i actually bounced around southern california saddleback college played juco there and orange coast college played the second year there and then uh bounced back to unlv got to
• 02:30 - 03:00 walk on uh and made team well no well you know um like you said it wasn't a hard decision to leave a home and as i can hear the chickens in the background but i missed that a lot of people brother understand you know just like little things like that chickens you know uh going off in the back but i miss that you know i mean but you know for you coming out to uh las vegas and then the literally uh
• 03:00 - 03:30 you know well with the unlv uh well where the where the art inspiration come from you know i mean you said you know football football but then you know now kind of because everybody looks at for local people local kids they use sports you know how they use sports to get out right yeah um that or security you know so uh but uh no no the art side is just so interesting that the you know you ventured into art how did you get into
• 03:30 - 04:00 that um kind of kind of two things there's the young part uh just you know i just had this conversation with the um this program we're doing it's called uh the summer intensive is with the queen little kalani trust and i'm talking to this student and you know he ends the session with um uh that felt like a therapy session and and i had to tell him like you know i had the opportunity to to learn in college and what the the first
• 04:00 - 04:30 thing i learned was everybody's story was a therapy session so that's where the art begins it was um it was a way for me to deal internally uh with with whatever stress you know just everybody has their own levels of stress mine seemed a lot high in comparison to my peers but uh it allowed me to deal with that internally so that i could exist on the same wave as them and not
• 04:30 - 05:00 lose it but uh football allowed me to take the aggression out and so football pushed me to get out there and then once i was out there i always had it in the back of my head that you know i would do um finish the degree that's nothing i could always you know and i say nothing just college is not easy it's not but for me once you could get past that sophomore
• 05:00 - 05:30 stage and move into the art now it was like almost like i'm manipulating college you know it was like i get to choose my own art classes and i'm doing art so you know i mean i'm going to get graded and and get my degree through art so it really was a no-brainer is if it wasn't for that i don't know how college would actually pan out for me but um yeah yeah it just uh i always thought art would be something
• 05:30 - 06:00 i could put on the back burner focus on football right and i know i know i'm putting a lot of focus on football but really that's what brought me out there so i just knew i had a clock you know age-wise and all that and uh and i didn't want to be you know the og sitting back and be like i could have played here or i could have hit harder you know i wanted to put myself to the test and no [ __ ] could i have hit harder or played along the lines of these guys um on that end i i was pretty satisfied with myself but um i always pushed it on the back burner
• 06:00 - 06:30 but it was you know working with guys like you know tequila uh west like you know all the guys that talk to you um you know big pat like these guys would always you know be like ah you did why are you not doing art and these guys would always push me every job like i mean you know how it is with the nightclub ministry you jump hey you balling like three years out of
• 06:30 - 07:00 a spot yeah but if you like me um i was always i was always pushing that i was the guy that pushed the envelope for the team and you know my lifespan was about a year so i've been to a lot of uh you know eventually nobody has to leave again it it allowed me to meet different minds and mindsets and uh you know there's always like sorry long-winded but um they would tell me you know what you're
• 07:00 - 07:30 doing how come you're not pursuing art or you know your paintings is so nice why don't you tattoo and uh so finally through through island warriors um good brother kaiser yeah he had a friend kevin ramos uh if if hawaii folks up there should know kevin brown yeah and uh you know i went to every shop possible there's um you know other guys that was making it and this and that and the first thing they slap in your face is
• 07:30 - 08:00 you know do you do you actually draw do you like drawing every day do you have a portfolio and of course me yes yes yes here's my portfolio the moment i showed a lot of these shops to portfolio they were just like oh yeah yeah you know i just remembered we're not looking for nobody oh wow okay yeah so you know it's discouraging but then kevin ramos was just like yeah you know we jumping on we want to make a hawaii team and i'll teach you and so i apprenticed with kevin and ever since then like that was the first jump so tattooing
• 08:00 - 08:30 actually pushed me into tasting like you know through art skills i can make a living and uh so then i saw the light at the end of the tunnel for that reason was um it became a trade i can go to your house somebody's house i can be in a shop i can make money if needed and um but sitting down every day and drawing in the tattoo studio ended up showing me like you know how come you're not painting so then it pushed me back to painting
• 08:30 - 09:00 and then like it always it was always tattooing art shows tattooing art shows and art shows would go this way and that way teaching and you know hey we got this opportunity so so art just began morphing but um the pursuit was coming home right uh yeah yeah yeah like we had somebody that was sick in the family and it brought us back home so after 10 years in vegas you know i was just like let's just go take care of the fans we got back and then you know uh art was
• 09:00 - 09:30 always my art is always my crutch you know something to lean on and uh the teaching thing that was a hard one to get into you want me to go into that well we'll talk more about that one you know i don't know i don't know but that my thing is that you came out here and you ventured out uh you know you ended up you know uh with the uh with the kevin ramos uh opening that door and giving
• 09:30 - 10:00 you you know a chance a shot man yeah i mean how'd that feel man because you know a lot of people like and they they they're set on something and then they get the you know one door closed another close on your face i mean how'd that feel bro because man it's hard man it's hard especially you know independent you know independent artists you know going after you know the dream or just trying to get a job yeah yeah um super hard when i was in vegas just because uh you know football was a when we first
• 10:00 - 10:30 came out um a lot of doors shut in my face just you know who who has maui boy played and that was always the thing and uh even even when it came to nightclubs i was always looked at you know i got the the tattoos and stuff and local boy you know i came off straight local boys so it was just like you can't put him on the floor he's gotta go and find somebody we can't do that and uh it was always like
• 10:30 - 11:00 you know and the guy who the guy who didn't give me a chance uh you know and i'll now say this it was opium uh and i say this because i love him now um but he he saw that in me he was just like you know he's just too edgy and i'm glad i'm glad he gave me that training will start roaming the uh the malls of caesar's palace first it allowed me to engage better and uh but yeah he uh he that he was one of
• 11:00 - 11:30 those shut doors in my face but loving now he taught me a lot uh max good brother uh but yeah all these doors that shut your face it it sucks yeah and it's hard to pursue what i love which was art and football at that time but to pursue art and you know your passion throughout life is just hey if it's good it's good right but you know how it is it's who you know you know is
• 11:30 - 12:00 that made it hard was being in the nightclub industry i mean you're getting doors slammed in your face and people telling you you got to get free and then build up and you know all this this is how it starts but you know you're in the nightclub industry and it's just like why even try when i'm doing all this yeah yeah but no no okay though you know you fast forward yeah you have to go home and uh
• 12:00 - 12:30 you know uh help the the family out like you said um do you really think like you know yeah did a wonderful go back home or you know did you you know think that the you know what i started something in vegas i want to kind of continue to write it out or you just said you know what i'm ready to go back home and then go from there yeah i i saw i saw vegas as as uh you know i i i adulted out there so i had a lot of
• 12:30 - 13:00 family you know like you know the island warriors man they're just that it's all brothers you know i mean everybody feels like you know different parents but you know when you guys came together it was a it's a haunted on ohana you know i mean so strong yeah you know what you know if you fall down they therefore help you up you know i mean and yeah just like the football team they are you know nobody nobody gets nobody get left behind how's that you know yeah everybody eat at the table and that's one thing i kind of enjoyed uh you know obviously my kids play 500 words too
• 13:00 - 13:30 so yeah you know everybody kind of you know everybody kind of uh he said congregated around the island wars because it was that uh it said institution for a lot of local people that were single and um you know i had an out to like become family or introduced to their family because you know you figure uh iron war is built out when on high school here you know liberty high school became the hub the hub of polynesia and until this day away from home pretty
• 13:30 - 14:00 much until the end this day you know uh coach noah you know he's still a home monitor and uh you know get plenty of opportunities for polynesian uh kids because they go through that program and i totally understand what you say about family but i would say this family had to move for you know leave this family behind and then you ended up going back and taking care of your own right yeah and you know what to touch on um just because you you mentioned coach noah um
• 14:00 - 14:30 i played for the island warriors on that semi pro team which hey man that was good fun yeah hey yeah johnny with the cigarette in the mouth like hey there's a lot of stories but um you know i blew my knee out first season first first game of the season and i was having so much fun this was like finally you know i just left unlv and i could do my thing with them but blew my knee out and a long story short i'm just mentioning this because uh coach noah uh you know they fronted me a
• 14:30 - 15:00 lot of money to get by because they knew i was gonna be out and i couldn't work and all that so it's just like and not that money like i just never had love like that and you know to receive that at a young age was just like you know that's family and so without a doubt without a doubt i could um i mean like deep
• 15:00 - 15:30 yeah and so i that i just knew i i still have a home in vegas um even though i know if i step foot there right now like it just you know i look around i'm like it's not the vegas i remember but that's just phys physically uh mentally everybody's in the same heart it's it's almost like you know how everybody calls it the ninth island um you know me i'm just gonna be too too cool to call it ninth island
• 15:30 - 16:00 but what i see vegas as is like it's a it's an embassy for aloha it exists there like that's where we can be and uh you know i like i don't want it to just be bigger because i want to see that aloha you know i want to see more embassies across but but yeah but that feeling is is what allowed me to go home and be like you know let's let's go handle some stuff and if we don't like it we can always go back it's it's you know if we can go we can go back
• 16:00 - 16:30 right but once we touch down um i was in a different mindset this time instead of visiting and uh you know uh i didn't want to leave like i could i just couldn't leave hawaii got me back and no no it wasn't letting me go you know first the food and the family you know what i mean yeah i mean that's sorry i mean you you just did you know the family but you know when you start venturing out with your cousins
• 16:30 - 17:00 you know your pumping grounds i totally get it uh but you know for you to come to vegas and literally get a taste of the mainland you know what i mean and then uh yeah even uh adding your contribution to you know island warriors or uh um just the spirit of law or like you said the embassy or becoming an ambassador and then now taking that mindset back home to literally you know teach and uh i kind of tell a lot of people that when they go home it's like uh i've seen a lot of kids
• 17:00 - 17:30 that when you you know the uh first year and then they go on they go back home because uh mr ocean like hey man the ocean still gonna be there you know what i mean yeah you know the food could still be there but uh sometimes you know i get it you know homesick i get it but now with you uh you know going back and now you get to kind of teach people you know what you should betray you know because you experienced it firsthand and uh and with art uh i know you're doing a lot of stuff in the community
• 17:30 - 18:00 um now how'd you get into the community side with art you know yeah yeah yeah that's a good one um yeah yeah so like i think i think being a sponge um being in art it allowed for the intuition to pull out pull out of me and and you know gather things like a sponge and uh you know these it was actually working alongside a lot of these guys we
• 18:00 - 18:30 mentioned in nightclubs where um you know it's the idea of just soaking up game and uh so so that i think that skill set coming home and i teach this to the youth all the time is like you know go out and come back sell out sell back but when you come back some of us cannot sell out so teach us what you know get get to that
• 18:30 - 19:00 that structure that we all know as aloha the hoianna um whatever just that culture take that but i want you to um you know transgress that into something new show me new like i like new but but you know do things for us so it's the idea of gaining that knowledge coming back and and sharing um but that was always that was always there and uh i wanted so i wanted to give back to
• 19:00 - 19:30 this uh school i work at wailuku elementary and uh i had i had a art enrichment program that would pull me out of fourth grade and fifth grade classes every hour of the last hour and and mind you i did that because it was pulling me out of class but uh so anyway i went back i wanted to give back and they had this ugly matching container right on the mayday field i was like let me paint that for you guys like i've done two may days since
• 19:30 - 20:00 i've been home and i can't stand looking at that rusty thing let me paint that and then uh you know the principal's like well you know let me um you know you know how do you want a job and i was like no you don't gotta pay me i just i'll paint it and then uh it was a job to teach and she's just like i think you got a lot to to give back and just hey this woman saw something in me that like i said most doors shut in my face just because of the the profile right right and uh and i get that
• 20:00 - 20:30 because i was in the job of profiling um so you know i don't get mad when people roll up windows sometimes but uh uh anyway so she saw something and then uh you know i had to talk with the wife and i was like i can't i don't know how to deal with that like you know like all i knew was it's this way or not if not i'll help you get out like you know that i was nightclub that was it like that's all i knew for job wise was nightclub and uh
• 20:30 - 21:00 i gave it a shot and those kids man they bring you back uh nostalgia i mean i mean it was my stomping ground so i'm watching kids play the same games i did still base with the slippers and all that give me the action yeah that's not how you hold it you got it you gotta put it right there so and then i get to see my niece and nephew running around and you know my nephew looks like me so and he has my
• 21:00 - 21:30 name and i'm hearing kids yell no bull on the playground so all that brings you back to the core of an artist where it's they always say um you know it's the child that never left and so here i am just gaining more of that of that memory and so it uh just just interacting with kids man they're pure they tell it how it is and there's no bs yeah they they're my co-workers and and
• 21:30 - 22:00 it's all honesty yo i got that booger they're gonna tell me yeah that's good they're not gonna let you work but that's not at all so the the piece right behind me did you paint that the the painting yeah that's from college i actually just took that off just now to put that up um i had an old uh i had an older one from high school and i was just like um so that's actually from high school too
• 22:00 - 22:30 um this was sophomore year in uh in college uh local boy man i just wanted to show them so when you become an educator uh how long have you been educating at uh elementary um i'll be going on my fifth year fifth year yeah and that's crazy to say
• 22:30 - 23:00 for me well because you like you said you jumped yeah yeah i'm not kicking people out of the house night clubs anymore right now so your educator uh and then um i see you know a lot of work that you've done uh i think on your facebook page uh with uh you know art you know i mean painting murals on side of buildings uh also you know it's kind of reminds me you know when you watch the old school you know la you
• 23:00 - 23:30 know you know in l.a all the all the murals and stuff like that and when i thought i was like wow you're a local boy representing you know what i mean i just have to ask the people when you paint those walls they give you permission factor is it graffiti or is it street art um because hey man like i've seen some uh graffiti that is just epic and uh but yeah it's permission these guys so
• 23:30 - 24:00 these guys gave permission the encouragement for that like i've always seen murals and always thought wow that's it it's a different push it's a bigger ball game um a pricier ball game because you're talking about like you know the things to execute the job scaffolding stuff like that right and so it was never a thought because just just to cough up that money but
• 24:00 - 24:30 then the more i got knowledgeable about it and then there's events and um which to be honest and i'll say that straight up it's a give and take uh right sometimes the events have a formal reason and they want you to do a wall but then maybe somewhere along the lines there's that person who owns the wall who's not doing it for that or that but just for the free hero so hey it's it's how much you want to give and how much you want to give back
• 24:30 - 25:00 but bottom line for me was you know when these um art groups travel like like oahu has powwow and that's every year for them and and then they have all these people that come around the world and and come together and they jam um we just sometimes they they ask permission to come into maui maui's real tight about right yeah you know we we real uh sensitive yeah and so we knew these guys was coming in and and i was already
• 25:00 - 25:30 just beginning to start doing murals and uh you know the mindset for me was always you know like we gotta welcome them in you know we gotta they come into our village that let us welcome them in not only that let me be part of this and uh there's no way i could i could walk the streets of my town and see all these murals that went out without anybody from our home and so you
• 25:30 - 26:00 know we gathered was like yo we all got to get together and we got to be part of this either we all can do our own walls or be be on one so that was the whole teamwork jamming on one idea and you know what shout out to prime you know wahoo i haven't i haven't met him yet but um that guy is he you know off the grid he's inspired me yeah well you know i see you you already know in las vegas we get the gallery last and uh you know island you know and uh you know from
• 26:00 - 26:30 what i thought they all live maui yeah does the art community there you guys all get together or what or or is it like oh no you from yo you from there you know you know you don't see it yeah yeah yeah yeah they get their own moku yeah yeah that's not right i just say well when you talk about art you want to express yourself you can express yourself as community you know so it's like i figured that our community should be tight there because he's not that much artist it's a i think
• 26:30 - 27:00 it's a delicate community okay um when we're taught any of us who have the higher education we we were all taught how to produce art but none of us was ever taught the business part of it which shocks me that college don't have that um but i guess that's why you got a double major and pay for your classes yeah but uh you know some of these guys carry that somebody some of these artists that move
• 27:00 - 27:30 to hawaii um they carry that they carry the i got you know the masters from chicago or i got this in that from an art institute or college of arts and uh you know that's great and all but what what it boils down to for me is um you know there's a voice that we all have this you know the accent we carry so yeah to the end of time that same thing is in our culture our culture has an accent that cannot be mimicked and and when mimicked you can tell like
• 27:30 - 28:00 you know i can tell when your heart is saying the kind incorrectly right and so that ends up creating um pockets of ideology but um uh like you mentioned lassen um he's a local boy he he's from maui uh went to lahainaluna um i mean that's about all i know i've met people that know him i've went to high school with his uh nephew a couple of them yeah that's all the homies but um he
• 28:00 - 28:30 he comes from a different time him robert nelson uh the well people yeah they're from a different time when it was almost like record deals where uh artists was given that platform of a gallery and will produce you will make your prints and all that the times have changed it's no longer it's no longer the goal to get there now it's it's totally entrepreneur art and that's why you're seeing a lot of
• 28:30 - 29:00 murals a lot of classes a lot of different things happening and especially the explosion of tattoos i mean it's more lucrative for a guy to just put down the paintings and pick up the machine you know or stick with the machine yeah yeah well because uh you know because when i see a you know i always say maui too you know it's a a very uh desired place to live you know from a mainland point oh yeah
• 29:00 - 29:30 yeah and it's like a lot of the artists they're like seven years old and like i want to retire out here and paint yeah uh no i would think you know the art the art community would kind of rally you know together and uh kind of perpetuate the the culture of what you're doing you know with the kids the new generation you know give them uh something to uh you know it's you know to be us and you know aspire to uh in the future and what you're doing right now is like
• 29:30 - 30:00 from what i hear is like i mean you're living the dream bro you know what i mean it's like to me you know so it's sometimes not monetary but yet um you could be teaching the next picasso you know what i mean this kind of stuff for you know i kind of i think you know and then and then for you to kind of pick up projects and literally donating your time and and uh working with kids and you know not just the educator but you're almost you're a therapist too you know what i
• 30:00 - 30:30 mean a lot of people come to you with probably some strong emotions and and then you know you know what here here's a paintbrush and you know create something that would you know what you vision and uh math and i applaud you for doing what you do bro that's why i read our hospital and no i don't know i mean what's in the future for you man i mean uh what noble gallery or what i mean uh that you know what i i just read maybe about a couple months ago it was like an
• 30:30 - 31:00 old newspaper or something like that from high school and uh that was my goal to have my own gallery i was like oh hey i'm on the same path but i think you know uh with that gallery you would you have all these helpers that you know you you know inspire and then learn yeah i mean i would like to generate an a you know i really are a lot to music um yeah if i want to tell my story you got to have your own gallery
• 31:00 - 31:30 because it is what it is if if the gallery you know um and no disrespect in lahaina uh wants you you still you're in their house they want you to paint what they want right and they know what sells [Music] even though i'm like nah this will sell i'm telling you they're going to want this and you know they're just like no we just want to be played safe so if you want to say what you want to say you got to have your own spot yeah that's that so opening up with the
• 31:30 - 32:00 um murals is has been giving me a lot of voice of of not just myself as a storyteller but i'm retelling stories and you know you work along with the community and so you become a catalyst um i mean that you can go deep on that but you just become an instrument for your community and we're working along with the kids like my biggest thing is um you know i i come from where they come from so so a lot of the work i've been
• 32:00 - 32:30 doing is like section 8 maui and you know i i let them know bro i used to live happy valley just like you i know all these i know all your parents even and all that and i just want you to know that like you can make something of yourself you don't have to leave the island to even make something of yourself you can still make it um just stop you know i want them to know me you know and then like for me it's it's healthy for me walking down the streets or driving through dropping
• 32:30 - 33:00 my kids off to school and things like that and you know my kids shout out oh daddy you're painting yeah ah that makes me happy yeah yeah so there's there's um i just go with the flow i don't really as long as i can paint and feed the family what more can you ask yeah no um what do you uh so in the future i mean what do you see noble like in the next 10 years bro i mean so so um like my email uh
• 33:00 - 33:30 noble isms is so mobilism's is how it's pronounced and uh you know the whole ideology behind that is um we all know isms as as a as an instrument or tool for destruction really um racism classism you know all those isms and then even the part of like forcing something into a box uh you know when we talk about art you got
• 33:30 - 34:00 cubism like oh he's a cubist cubism painter or he's a realism painter um so noblisms is is taking you know my name is noble but the but the definition of it so just the purity and just overall energy and using their tools against them so to push you know i mean like you got consumerism can be seen as negative
• 34:00 - 34:30 but if we out there pushing good things out through consumerism to me that's that's nobleism when you're sending one message and um so like mobilism is my just still my that's my mission but uh and you know we all have growth so no disrespect to any of like t-shirts brands out there who who might be you know kind of you know giving me that right now like i mean i do i do shirts too um i mean like
• 34:30 - 35:00 i'm gonna throw that out there yeah you know um king's cartel that's that's something i started with with my friend you know cartel has a negative term too but it's it's the idea of um you know grabbing hold like so a lot of us are doing t-shirts that do hawaii stuff and uh you know we gotta be careful as artists i'm gonna say that right now we all
• 35:00 - 35:30 gotta be careful and we all got to be human um we're all young at one point as far as spirituality so we never know where we're at in life but sometimes you may send a message to the youth um indirectly without knowing and you know it's okay if your brand says this and that and then like later on in life you feel like ah you know like mindset might change and be like i don't know why i'm saying that and don't have a crash just evolve you know but
• 35:30 - 36:00 but art is a powerful tool is what i'm saying so that's the whole idea behind nobelisms is taking what could be a negative term and using that and generating that to to shoot out more positiveness for you know for me right now my focus is hawaii and uh yeah so to focus more attention on that and not not because it's uh uh you know like a set claiming type of deal where i just want to show everybody
• 36:00 - 36:30 you know hey it's more of we have a we have something to to share that especially right now and now's time uh and that's aloha like you know and also like you know to go along with mauna kea it's it's kaku alone yeah you know sometimes you know it we have to share and then sometimes you know you gotta pull back and watch out and and then let
• 36:30 - 37:00 them and be firm about it like it's a we aloha but we're still firm aloha don't mean soft allah don't mean give away you know right yeah yeah so yeah you know with the history that you know has been told and uh you know uh with everything that's going in in the world and yet uh to me i'm just trying to figure out you know what what do us uh hawaiians really fit you know you know uh you know all these
• 37:00 - 37:30 protests and i'm trusting other protests but i just like for you as a visionary and uh kind of staying to roots uh what you're trying to perpetuate man it's very strong because in art um like you said somebody can pick it up you know pick pick something up negative or positive but yet um i mean i just see you painting you know king kamehameha all over again you know draped in regular flowers you know something like that that shows power you know shows the
• 37:30 - 38:00 people or even just showing a child just fishing you know just fishing and save that's what i used to do when i was small smoky time or grabbing you know you know getting liquors from your father you know yeah it's pushing that storyline out there because um the youth is who needs to see it you know our appeal and you know a lot of them don't come from a home that even has a cell phone right and even if that home had that cell phone it's not like they can
• 38:00 - 38:30 run over there and you know go through and google the world but it you know and a lot of them can't even catch the bus to go around so so we're in our pockets i think that's the beauty of murals like you know a lot of a lot of murals um uh people who are in the mural game they talk about how they uplift uh you know like a a dingy community like all of a sudden instead of like these burnt down buildings or prison looking schools you know i have a
• 38:30 - 39:00 beautiful mural that says something yes that's great but but to me it's it's these kids who aren't getting that parenting and then all of a sudden they walking down the street and and slap dead and your face is a monologue yeah you know and whether you know the story or know how to read the story or not when that that sinks in and then when when somebody's telling you some kumu or something in schools telling you the story then it connects then that becomes your the the image in your head that's
• 39:00 - 39:30 telling that story while they talk right yeah yeah yeah so i think it's it's a good way to take hold of who we are while physically things are changing right yeah and physically we're we're here to do it because you know you never know when cool going to take you you know so hopefully uh you uh provide uh you know some inspiration or uh aspiration uh while you live you know not not to get deep or anything like that it's just you know with everything
• 39:30 - 40:00 going on in the world you never know what's going on well it is i mean i think everything we're doing is a example of of deep uh you know i listen to a lot of music and uh kendrick lamar he's real inspirational to me and i just saw alicia keys last night and they were both on a tiny desk tiny desk concert and i think alicia's was like put on two
• 40:00 - 40:30 days ago but basically both of them is both talking about like a hawaiian proverb without knowing the proverb and i think it's the connection of uh the just the art artistic intuition mindset but um kendrick lamar has something where he's just releasing where it talks about or there's three choices um past future and now and and so like uh and then alicia keys
• 40:30 - 41:00 was talking about that too but the whole idea that everything exists in now past present those all those thoughts become what reacts now and you can't exist in the future in now because that's not possible and you can't exist in the past with now it's it's all that converges to what's happening right now and uh it was just very interesting to see the spiritual connection that um
• 41:00 - 41:30 other cultures aligning with right and like i think that's what i go digging for is is um you know the connection between everybody i mean like uh yeah there's just i think we all have a spiritual ptsd that we all got to deal with uh all lives matter yeah yeah but but also but also not to take
• 41:30 - 42:00 away from from from uh black lives matter yeah um because you know like out there i mean i knew like wes like i never saw him as a black individual he's just a brother like and that goes along with israel and i'm only mentioning wes because i just saw video and uh talking to ahu and i you know i just i love it i love that he's he he's he's there connecting with all of
• 42:00 - 42:30 us on this still yet he's still riding with us or are we still writing him um just because like from you know from my perspective i've been gone for a long time and to see that unit together just like yeah yeah still doing runs still going you know but i mean i think it's good to point out um the struggles of each culture um the way i see things though is um the culture is is uh the oppressed you know right and we all want to handle
• 42:30 - 43:00 that that weight and uh we all i think we all have mentally um nobody's running around thinking we're like physically pushed down because you know if you try hard you can you can make it happen lifewise but you know i get it though for for everybody's point of view my my thing is i'mma sit and listen to anybody's point of view i don't care what part of country syria i don't wherever you at that's having hard times um if we can't sit and listen to somebody
• 43:00 - 43:30 else's deal then why should why should we tell them about you know current stuff like mauna kea and then expect them to put heart into that so it's like you know we want them to listen to our voice we got to listen to their voice and i think that helps in the learning game too is when we we give our anecdotes and then people don't know our culture no they don't they don't know our history our own people don't know our history so yeah i mean it there's a lot of there's a lot
• 43:30 - 44:00 of uh i think comparing contrast that can happen that's why i mean i think that um you know as an artist that you can literally just paint that you know yeah yeah all that i said but the thing is that you know it doesn't have to be it could be you know even a series of paintings that could literally uh you know mock up the uh the history of uh you know people or our people but then
• 44:00 - 44:30 yeah and um yeah i see so much snowball i'm so glad that we uh talked and i'm sure we'll be talking more uh yeah yeah for sure but uh you know if that they can get your art and stuff like that what website can they go to or do you have a website you know i haven't i haven't gone down the the road of um reproducing my artwork it it that's been a strange strange thing to deal with too because uh you know everybody who's been my
• 44:30 - 45:00 mentor has been old school style so like they've don't go in this whole world of selling prints and but like for me though it's like you know i look in my wallet and i'm not gonna go out there as much as i love art i'd have a hard time trading my art with someone else let alone stepping in there and being like 10 g's like yeah here i want that like that ain't happening
• 45:00 - 45:30 right you know ten dollars a poster we can do that so that is something in in my future but you know just the love of teaching uh youth and stuff like that and you know shout out to vegas anywhere you guys liberty high school if you got a wall that's funny hey send me in prime out there actually my uh yeah i'm like my kids are gonna get high school this funny thing
• 45:30 - 46:00 yeah but they go to the great high school um no man no thank you very much for uh you know hanging out with me for the past hour and i i think we have other ideas that we can literally kind of collab and uh learning to get that art into the world so yeah hey much more hollows man for taking your time bro um and well you have a facebook at least somebody can people can see oh yeah yeah if you look on uh ig or facebook nobleisms n-o-b-l-e
• 46:00 - 46:30 i-s-m-s make sure you get that s on the n-isms and uh yeah i i kind of fell back on the posting but i'll get back in there well i know you're busy you're busy you know i mean yeah um you know with the summer being off and coving stuff what kind of projects you got going on right now are you still teaching kids or distance wise or yeah yeah that's the beauty of it is um
• 46:30 - 47:00 i had i had the opportunity to go bang out some murals while everybody's you know sheltered up right but you know i took the time to spend that more with the kids that's good and uh yeah yeah so that that was a a beautiful like uh um result of all this but yeah yeah yeah like uh teaching teaching is a weird one so right now if it wasn't for you know the queen little kalani trust
• 47:00 - 47:30 doing this online camp um i don't think i'd be comfortable with [Laughter] zoom uh again what is the uh facebook so you can check out noble isms
• 47:30 - 48:00 you