Sunday, April 5, 2009

Strange Hill at Kaka'ako Park

After our Kam Statue Peep shoot we went to Kaka'ako Park where Leslie took me to this hill.


You follow the paved sidewalk all the way to the top of the hill where there is this platform.You climb onto the pedestal and stand right in the middle of it. You shout out something, and the strangest thing happens . . . your voice sounds to you as if you're in the middle of a narrow hallway instead of in the middle of the wide open space that actually surrounds you. It is the freakiest thing, and it's gonna bother me to death unless someone can explain this phenomenon to me.

This is the video that I took with my wonderful phone-that-does-video. Unfortunately, it doesn't capture the "echo" effect. What's weird though is my phone-that-does-video is usually very sensitive to even the slightest breeze and even though it was windy up there YOU CAN BARELY HEAR IT . . . woooooo ooooooo . . . Before you click on the video you first gotta promise not to laugh at my Tita Sista Maaaaary voice that CLEARLY says, "I'm on top of DIS hill DAT'S soooooo beeeeeezaaaaaaar . . . "




Check out Leslie's blog for her pictures of me on this strange acoustic circle. By the way, does anybody know what this is?

10 comments:

Leslie's pics said...

you are craaaaaaazy.....

Les said...

I just realized...you put this on YOU TUBE?!?!? brave woman!! hahahaha!!!

jalna said...

Whyyyyyyyyyyyy????? I wanna know whyyyyyy.

Erick said...

Cool hill! What is it for? Nice shooting!

jalna said...

Erick, it's for tormenting me.

RONW said...

I never hear anything. U must be imagining things, he,he.

jalna said...

Ron, try go. If you just move a little out of the center of the circle, the effect goes away. So weird. Please help me figure this out. The people who built that thing must know the answer.

Betty Townsend said...

I never knew of that place. How weird!! I'd like to know too.

Unknown said...

I could be wrong but wasn't the old hyperbaric treatment center used to be where that old white "tower" is.

jalna said...

hmmmmmm . . .