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Post by Johnson and Johnson on Jul 7, 2021 7:03:08 GMT -5
Jack Holman, just to follow up on a lead here... Was this the Ed Lui you had found on LinkedIn? Also, have you or Mike attempted to contact Ed through there? |
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Post by Jack Holman on Jul 7, 2021 8:07:39 GMT -5
Jack Holman, just to follow up on a lead here... Was this the Ed Lui you had found on LinkedIn? Also, have you or Mike attempted to contact Ed through there? I'm not entirely comfortable giving details about the Ed Lui we're looking into until we have further confirmation on his identity. As such, I won't confirm or deny if this is the individual we're looking into. I will say that I know at least that some people that are currently making attempts to reach out to our Ed Lui, although I'm not too sure about how much progress has been made. |
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Post by Deeky on Aug 10, 2021 11:09:42 GMT -5
Has anyone had any contact with this guy? |
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Post by Jack Holman on Aug 10, 2021 11:51:36 GMT -5
Has anyone had any contact with this guy? Sam Ashby got in touch with him, he's one one who found the AD for the screening in Houston. His Instagram also managed to positively identify actor Christopher Rage in one of the earlier advertisements (the film was also listed in his obituary). |
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Post by Jack Holman on Oct 28, 2021 16:37:57 GMT -5
Heard today from Elizabeth over at AskAnyBuddy that Wakefield Poole has passed away. A very talented man with whom I was honoured to make correspondence while researching this piece. May he rest in peace.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 28, 2021 19:58:31 GMT -5
Terrible news, but I thank you for sharing it. R.I.P. Mr. Poole.
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Post by Deeky on Oct 28, 2021 21:49:46 GMT -5
Damn.
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Post by Captain Obscurity on Feb 9, 2022 15:45:35 GMT -5
![]() Haven't thought about this case in a long time, but it popped into my head while I was researching something else on Newspapers.com and...  I have strong suspicion this is Ed D. Louie. I assume this is the same bloke people were trying to contact? Edit: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Oct 31, 1976, p.39 if anyone's interested in the source. |
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Post by Jack Holman on Feb 9, 2022 20:42:36 GMT -5
Reading through that article matches up entirely with what little myself and others have found about the man. I'm confident in saying that's is most certainly him. No idea if that's the same individual we tried to contact or not, still haven't positively identified our man, but an amazing find regardless. A picture of Ed D. Louie, as well as some info on his other works, I honestly didn't think I'd live to see the day. Well done, Captain!
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Post by Jack Holman on Feb 10, 2022 7:17:06 GMT -5
Following this, I've turned up a few possible examples of this man’s work, although I stress that I’m unable to definitively confirm if this is indeed the same man. First, I found an old Blogspot article with several photographs credited to “my friend Ed Dee Louie”. I found two small ads from 1985 scouting for models under the name “Ed Dee Louie Photography”, as well as an ad from 1986 for a modelling agency which features a photo credited to an “Ed Dee Louie”. Lastly, I turned up several ads for a business in Honolulu named “Ed Dee Graphics”, with many ads actively scouting for models. Full citations will be provided in an update to my piece which should be available on my website within the hour.
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Post by Jack Holman on Feb 10, 2022 12:56:55 GMT -5
And one last thing, I turned up a listing of the contents of the February 1980 issue of the adult magazine 'Partner', though I wasn't able to find a scan of the issue itself, which listed one of the articles as having illustrations by an Ed Dee Louie. Exciting stuff!
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Post by Captain Obscurity on Feb 10, 2022 13:19:21 GMT -5
I found an address for Ed Dee Graphics. The company registration was made in 1991 (some years after the ads mentioning Ed Dee Graphics were posted) and expired in 1992. I'm not sure how company registration works in the US. Clearly he was operating under that name prior to registering, why couldn't he have continued under this or another name thereafter? So I put it into Google Maps, went back as far as it would let me on Street View, and this is what was there in April 2009.  No Ed Dee Graphics branding, but if it's not him, someone else has take on his photography studio. And they provide not only photography, but also graphic design services. By mid-2011, the business is gone, but you can see more clearly the door number, confirming this is the same address as in the company registration. I don't know if I want to dig much deeper in this direction... at a certain point, further down the line, it would start to approach doxxing, and I don't want to get into that, especially if he just wants to live a quiet life and not be bothered about his past creations. If he's still alive, he's had well over a decade to Google anything related to the time he made an feature film and screened it around North America, and find out it's become an internet mystery. I reckon he's either no longer around, or he's alive and knows about the search but is actively choosing not to come forward... It's weird to think though... around the time I first wrote that article on my old blog... if we'd only known where to look, we could have walked right in off the street and chatted with Ed D. Louie in his studio. Edit: Apparently the location has also been used by something called Studio 114 Productions. Potentially something Ed-related as well. |
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Post by Jack Holman on Feb 10, 2022 13:52:45 GMT -5
I don't know if I want to dig much deeper in this direction... at a certain point, further down the line, it would start to approach doxxing, and I don't want to get into that, especially if he just wants to live a quiet life and not be bothered about his past creations. If he's still alive, he's had well over a decade to Google anything related to the time he made an feature film and screened it around North America, and find out it's become an internet mystery. I reckon he's either no longer around, or he's alive and knows about the search but is actively choosing not to come forward... I tend to agree. Always a good idea to keep it to stuff that's already easily publicly available, and even then there comes a point where it can just becomes entirely superfluous. Anyhow, even if it turned out he was interested in talking about it, invading someone's privacy is a pretty good way to make them suddenly not want to talk to you.
I've passed the info here onto Sam Ashby who, as mentioned above, was able to contact a few of Louie's old friends. I'd say he's probably as good a bet as any for something coming of this, but we'll see.
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Post by Captain Obscurity on Feb 10, 2022 16:09:05 GMT -5
Anyhow, even if it turned out he was interested in talking about it, invading someone's privacy is a pretty good way to make them suddenly not want to talk to you.
100%. One final thing: it's noted in the above newspaper article that Ed Dee Louie's performance art pieces at The Foundry were taped by a group called Videololo. It seems this group specialised in creating a record of various cultural events taking place in Hawaii in the 70s. No sign of their Ed Dee Louie video, but I did find an incomplete collection of Videololo clips here. This one is a snippet from a video compendium of various events, one of which is the Jim Gooley exhibition mentioned in the article (though this snippet doesn't appear to actually include anything from that part of the full video). Most of the videos include the note: Which makes me wonder if this organisation -- The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi -- might not be in possession of some works by Eddie Lui. They certainly won't have HIM, but they might have something else of his, if that's of any interest. Maybe even an interview or something like that... |
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Post by Jack Holman on Feb 10, 2022 16:29:16 GMT -5
One final thing: it's noted in the above newspaper article that Ed Dee Louie's performance art pieces at The Foundry were taped by a group called Videololo. It seems this group specialised in creating a record of various cultural events taking place in Hawaii in the 70s. No sign of their Ed Dee Louie video, but I did find an incomplete collection of Videololo clips here. This one is a snippet from a video compendium of various events, one of which is the Jim Gooley exhibition mentioned in the article (though this snippet doesn't appear to actually include anything from that part of the full video). Most of the videos include the note: Which makes me wonder if this organisation -- The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi -- might not be in possession of some works by Eddie Lui. They certainly won't have HIM, but they might have something else of his, if that's of any interest. Maybe even an interview or something like that... Worth a shot at the very least. I'll report back if/when I hear back from them. |
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Post by Captain Obscurity on Feb 10, 2022 16:36:15 GMT -5
One final thing: it's noted in the above newspaper article that Ed Dee Louie's performance art pieces at The Foundry were taped by a group called Videololo. It seems this group specialised in creating a record of various cultural events taking place in Hawaii in the 70s. No sign of their Ed Dee Louie video, but I did find an incomplete collection of Videololo clips here. This one is a snippet from a video compendium of various events, one of which is the Jim Gooley exhibition mentioned in the article (though this snippet doesn't appear to actually include anything from that part of the full video). Most of the videos include the note: Which makes me wonder if this organisation -- The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi -- might not be in possession of some works by Eddie Lui. They certainly won't have HIM, but they might have something else of his, if that's of any interest. Maybe even an interview or something like that... Worth a shot at the very least. I'll report back if/when I hear back from them. Hopefully it won't be yet another case of a known Holy Grail lying un-digitised on a shelf while archivists sit a few feet away from it picking their toenails and ignoring emails  One of those per mystery is enough. |
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Post by Captain Obscurity on Feb 11, 2022 4:04:55 GMT -5
Jack, I found something else on Ed. Sent you a PM. 👍
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Post by Jack Holman on Feb 11, 2022 5:57:29 GMT -5
Thanks, Captain! Responded!
Got an email back from the Hawaiian archive stating that they were unable to locate anything relating to Louie, but that they'd get back in touch if anything ever turned up.
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Post by Jack Holman on Feb 11, 2022 6:57:05 GMT -5
So the good Captain messaged me with some more articles about Mr Louie, including one which features a much clearer photo of the man. The Captain left it at my discretion how much of them I wanted to share around, and given that the articles are mostly about his family and business ventures unrelated to this film, I'm hesitant to reprint any major details from them out of respect for his and his family's privacy. However, given that they're technically publicly available, and since the whole stated point of my piece was not to withhold any information whenever possible, I've included citations of these articles, though very few details from them, in an update of my essay which should be live on my website now.
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