by Jay | Sep 5, 2012 | Asia, China, Hawaii, Photography
The 2012 East-West Center Alumni Conference in Beijing wouldn’t have been complete without a field trip to climb the Great Wall of China. And climb we did! After a rainy conference morning which looked like it was going to put a damper on our climbing fun, the...
by Jay | Sep 4, 2012 | Asia, China, Hawaii, Photography
Every two years the East-West Center, a Honolulu-based Asia-Pacific research institute that funded my M.A. studies in Hawaii, holds an alumni conference biennially somewhere in Asia. Having served as the official photographer for the last three conferences (Hanoi in...
by Jay | Jul 10, 2010 | Hawaii, Photography
While visiting my fiancee in Hawaii, one of her good friend’s Li Juan also had her fiance in town visiting. Actually officially they were already married, though they hadn’t had a wedding ceremony yet, nor taken any engagement pictures together. While I...
by Jay | Sep 27, 2008 | China, Film, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Publicity
Recently the University of Hawaii’s monthly magazine Malamalama ran a short article about me entitled “Jay Hubert: Exploring Asia with a camera.” My friend Jason had wanted to submit some freelance articles to them, and thought I would somehow make...
by Jay | Nov 30, 2005 | Hawaii, Writing
This is a nice little article I enjoyed writing for the upcoming edition of the East-West Center Cookbook, a collaborative effort of East-West Center participants from all corners of the Asia-Pacific region. There is a fantastic variety of delectable recipes every...
by Jay | Sep 15, 2005 | Hawaii, Writing
This is a State of the Internet address I made by e-mail to the East-West Center participants in late 2005 in response to a number of people on the listserv complaining about the slow internet connection. If you don’t know what the East-West Center is and never...