Ua Mau t's

A modern take on Kauikeaouli's, Kamehameha III's, proclamation spoken on July 31, 1843. This was the day that sovereignty was restored to Hawaii by proclamation of Queen Victoria following a five-month-long rogue British occupation. The motto appears on the coat of arms of the kingdom of Hawaii and was adopted in May 1845.

It is popularly translated as "the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness," but based on the context of the original proclamation, we prefer to say, "the sovereignty of the land is perpetuated in righteousness."

We have white men's t-shirts and black with pink wahine tanks. If you're interested and don't want to wait until the Volcano 4th of July craft fair, e-mail Ahi (808idesign@gmail.com) or comment on the blog or Facebook.

Mother's Day Crocs

My mother's day shoes. It's becoming a tradition that for mother's day I get shoes from Ahi. I actually had these red ballet shoe Crocs, then he started making a tiare design, changed his mind, erased what he did (ancient Pake secret), then came up with this multi-layer design.

Art is music. Music is art.

So I found an old Suzuki guitar(yea, I've never heard of that either) at my grandmas house like a year ago and it was in pretty bad shape. The varnish on the body was all cracked and blistered so I decided to sand it all down and hook it up, 808 iD style. Here at 808 iD we tattoo just about anything we can get our hands on and this guitar was no different. I drew inspiration from more Samoan motifs, because that's just the mood I was in, but I also threw a clef note in there with a little tribal twist after talking to one of my friends about a tattoo he saw including the treble clef. Hopefully, this is the first of more to come, If the next couple ones I have lined up work out, I might just start taking orders and add guitars to my product list as well.

Now I just need to learn how to play.