https://www.jasonquinn.org/home daily 1.0 2022-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/5fd145f5-2306-47e5-89ac-3eea381a0092/ConcreteRainbow_frontcover_lr.jpg Home https://www.jasonquinn.org/about daily 0.75 2022-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/666cfe24-67c8-40ec-a1f9-240270f72359/Head+shot+1.jpeg About - Author, actor Jason Quinn has committed his life to the spoken and written word. He is a writer, producer, director, and professional actor who spent more than twenty years honing his craft on and behind local, national, and international stages and screens. Formerly based in New York and Los Angeles, and currently back home in Hawaii, Quinn’s focus is on performing and writing brutal truths with grit, subtlety, and nuance. He dropped an acclaimed hip hop album that had a song featured in Grand Theft Auto. His short film, The Trickle Down Effect, won best short film in the San Francisco Black Film Festival and the New York Underground Film Festival. In 2020, Quinn starred in the movie Waikiki, which won best film at the Hawaii Film Festival, and he’s also appeared in TV shows such as Marvel’s Inhumans, Magnum P.I., Hawaii Five-O, and NCIS: Hawai’i. However, Quinn’s greatest professional achievement is publishing Concrete Rainbow and recording and self-narrating the audio book. It’s a must listen. The venerable playwright and journalist, Lee Cataluna, described Quinn and Concrete Rainbow: Quinn's work on stage and screen is familiar to audiences, and his years as an actor are reflected in his writing. His story has the cadence and color of the spoken word and is written with so much voice, the experience of reading it is almost like listening to the tale being told in a moment of unguarded honesty by the man who lived it. — Forward, Concrete Rainbow. Quinn lives in Honolulu with his wife, Angelica, and son, Ziya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/84a9327c-882f-4b55-93b5-e6a7dfe91538/Screenshot_20220816-204839_Instagram.jpeg About - Ohana In Hawaii, “ohana” means “family”, and there is nothing more important to Jason Quinn than his ohana. Jason grew up in Ewa (pronounced “eva”) Beach on the West Side of Oahu in the early 1990s. The west side of Oahu was hit hard by meth epidemic and pushed many lives over the edge. At that time, the most likely outcomes for Jason were prison, death, or both. Ohana saved Jason from a life of unfulfilled potential. Staring down the prospects of imprisonment, Jason chose to move back in with his mother, stepfather, and siblings and enrolled in the local community college in Pearl City, Hawaii. There, he majored and excelled in Film Production and Theater, and met his future wife, Angelica, who also is a talented actress, dancer, and model. Angelica and Jason spent the next ten years in New York and Los Angeles chasing their dreams. In 2009, Jason and Angelica, once again inspired by ohana, moved back to Hawaii with their infant son, Ziya. Similar to Angelica and Jason, Ziya has the good fortune of being raised in Hawaii. Unsurprisingly, Ziya has already started following in this father’s footsteps on stage and screen acting. https://www.jasonquinn.org/filmography daily 0.75 2022-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/0ce3975a-215c-4454-bc26-0f35ffcfd365/Quinn+-+Waikiki+Film.png Filmography Scene from the movie, “Waikiki” (2021) https://www.jasonquinn.org/concrete-rainbow daily 0.75 2022-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/1655254945574-R5UBEMPKE7H43OUYVLQG/unsplash-image-kk-Wa2xMxhY.jpg Concrete Rainbow - When—the crystal meth epidemic In the late 1980s / early 1990s, Hawaii was ground zero for the crystal methamphetamines (meth) epidemic in America. Called by the locals as “ice” or “batu”, crystal meth wrecked havoc on the islands of Hawaii. You will not find a local family in Hawaii that did not experience the firsthand effects of crystal meth in the past 30+ years. The drug is still omnipresent today in Hawaii, but tourists are typically shielded from witnessing its tremendous affects on the islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/1655255355445-8P9HVKFRHHVFJZHDHTJD/unsplash-image-9BYeEP0CRc8.jpg Concrete Rainbow - where—oahu, Hawaii From a bird’s eye view, Honolulu, Oahu, the only vast metropolis in Hawaii, seems like a mesmerizingly beautiful and cosmopolitan city. But just outside the million dollar condos and gated communities, are pockets of slums birthed from the crystal meth epidemic. These slums serve as fertile ground for the crystal meth dealers from the west side of Oahu that turned entire city blocks into tent cities populated by ice zombies. Westside meth dealers in the 90’s on Oahu referred to Honolulu as the “Concrete Rainbow”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/1657023900538-2QZAZ0FDQ3JVYOFFILIU/unsplash-image-Aduh0KXCI1w.jpg Concrete Rainbow - who—byron & kimo Concrete Rainbow focuses on Byron, an angry bi-racial fifteen-year-old poet, and Kimo, a native Hawaiian felon who is part crime boss, part philosopher. From a broken home in California, his father safely away in prison, Byron finds himself dropped in the poor and rugged west side of Oahu when his mother moves to Hawaii to remarry a local man. Along with his new local crew, a rebellious Byron assimilates to local island life and eagerly starts down a path of fighting and selling drugs. Kimo, fresh off a fifteen-year prison stint, believes meeting Byron is no chance encounter. Kimo becomes Byron’s boss and mentor and teaches him hard, violent, and morally-questionable rules about life. As Byron gets caught deeper into Kimo’s criminal web, it becomes increasingly clear that there is something dark and dangerous inside of Byron. And he can’t control it. Together, Kimo and Byron become entangled in a deadly power struggle involving Honolulu’s skin peddlers, illegal gambling houses, and meth dealers. As Kimo’s penchant for violence escalates, Byron slowly unravels under the pressures of Oahu’s criminal underworld and starts to realize that Kimo may be taking advantage of the dark violence living inside of him. Chapter by chapter we journey with Byron through the breathtaking beauty of Hawaii's lush waterfalls and into the horror of the west side's tent city storm drains. Ultimately, Kimo and Bryon are forced to confront each other and the inner demons that are eating them alive from within. Concrete Rainbow’s climax is a collision of unspeakable trauma and unfathomable violence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/b81c78f1-a1c4-4d84-bfe7-69cb2f6a82c9/ConcreteRainbow_fullCover.jpg Concrete Rainbow - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/629cdfdfcc187113c6297106/1657023651730-XL075OD11WAGF20P3BF9/unsplash-image-1braZySlEKA.jpg Concrete Rainbow - what—under the current On the surface, the novel Concrete Rainbow is the coming-of-age story of a troubled boy caught up in the horrors of drugs and crime. But underneath, it is a meditative study of human behavior, the nuances of cultural identity, and the effects of trauma and abuse on children in a callous society. Through Byron's poetry, humor, violence and gut-wrenching honesty, author Jason Quinn vividly describes the dark underbelly of Hawaii that tourists rarely see and, in the process, sheds light on the darkest parts within us all. https://www.jasonquinn.org/store daily 0.75 2022-06-06 https://www.jasonquinn.org/store/p/manual-z7ldw monthly 0.5 2021-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609a958f8c717830a4d1c82c/1631737464859-YSK0GL13JXPHS0I10BYC/Frame+607.png Book Store - Manual https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609a958f8c717830a4d1c82c/1631737462860-UUOXJL15P2CQDQ20V4V0/Frame+608.png Book Store - Manual