You might have heard about this already, and you may also not even care, but in case you do, or haven't, or just want some interesting news to talk about at the next dinner you might be attending:
He was 18 when won his Olympic medal in Vancouver as the youngest member of the short-track squad. He’s now the reigning world champion at 500 meters. On Sunday, he turned 21. But now Mr. Cho has admitted to secretly tampering with the skates of a Canadian athlete before a race last year, an unthinkable act of sabotage that the sport’s governing body, U.S. Speedskating, called “an egregious breach” of its code of ethics.
Winning is great, but it's not everything.
Second and third and just being there is also good enough.
Got this sent in by Robin Lung, producer and director of Finding Kukan. Check out the kickstarter campaign.
ABOUT THE FILM:
When I discovered a full copy of the lost Oscar-winning film KUKAN, I was ecstatic. But what really captivated me were the stories of the two novice filmmakers behind the making of the movie – a Chinese American author from Hawaii named Li Ling-Ai and a freelance photographer from the Midwest named Rey Scott. Each braved War, Prejudice and Financial Hardship to make a color film of war-torn China that helped change history. Now the world has forgotten them. I’m asking for your help to change that.
FINDING KUKAN will be a feature documentary targeted at a national PBS broadcast that chronicles my quest to restore the badly damaged print of KUKAN and the untold story of its makers to their rightful place in history. It’s a story that has taken me from Hawaii to the mainland and from one coast to the other. It’s also a story that has been winning over friends, colleagues, and complete strangers who have donated time and resources to get us to where we are now -- two thirds of the way through production. Now, at the difficult juncture between production and post-production, WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD.
When music is your life, a big break is all you need. For 10 independent artists around the country, that break is already within reach. Myx TV’s Press Play kicks off the voting period for its second episode of the show’s second season. Based on total fan votes, the winner’s original music video will get premiered and played on the nationwide cable channel. The music act will also perform at the network’s state-of-the-art studios in California and experience a full launch as a break out artist. Check out the network’s greatest finds and vote! The polls are open from October 8 til October 15, 12pm pacific time on Myx TV and the winner will headline the premiere episode on November 9.
Check out the original songs and music videos from artists like Matt Almodiel of Oxon Hill, Maryland with his single, “Nothing To Lose.” This R&B pop musician debuted into the scene through the Kollaboration DC stage in 2011. No stranger to entertainment, having played a small role as Sean Kingston’s “High-fiver” on an episode of Disney’s The Suite Life, Chicago’s TrakBoss premieres his track “Act Like You Want It.”
California comes in strong this week with a number of artists including JB of Brentwood with “2AM (Original).” The multi-genre acoustic artist was recognized as California’s Best Unsigned Artist at the 2012 Apollo Night in Stockton. Former starting point guard of a division one basketball team, the self-taught pop musician Alex Carbonel of San Jose with her single “I Can’t Wait” moves from the hard court to the entertainment scene. Also check out sultry soul songstress Tracy Cruz of San Jose with “Love’s Galaxy” and versatile popstar Morgan Ashley’s “Never Get Enough.”
The best lyrics tell life stories and that’s how “When You Come Home” was made by Alaskan hip hop artist Blaack. “I wrote half of this song while I was deployed, the other half once I was out of the military,” he says of his recent stint serving overseas. “Choose me coz it’s for the troops.”
At its core, Press Play continues to search for unique voices like San Francisco’s KOOL GUY w/ EazE. His hip hop electronic single, “It’s Going Down” speaks to his style. “I dare to be different.” This week also features street famous hip hop artist J Slick ft. Samyell of Sacramento with “Lookin at You.”
Krystle Tugadi brings “Sunshine” from Buena Park, California. She says, “All I’ve ever needed was one shot to prove myself as an artist.”
So check out these videos and vote for your favorite through October 15. Get your favorite artist “played.”
“The search for independent music artists has been a remarkable revelation of the talent we have in the United States,” said Nicki Sun, Associate Producer for Myx TV Press Play. “Each artist brings incredible sound, unique story-telling lyrics, and a soul that truly reflects our generation.”
All videos and voting happens on Myx TV where YOU choose who gets played and who gets famous. See the winning videos premiere on nationwide TV on the network that brings the best entertainment, Myx TV.
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ABOUT Myx TV®:
Myx TV is the premier Asian American entertainment and lifestyle cable network in the United States. Dedicated to airing the best in entertainment, Myx TV’s programming is a unique combination of original and syndicated shows, including magazine talk shows, interactive music video countdowns, independent film and Asian cinema, and animation, airing 24/7 in English. Broadcast in over 10 million households across the country it provides a platform for Asian Americans on mainstream television and is also represented on its official website by a community of bloggers from coast-to-coast. To find Myx TV in your area and for exclusive content online, visit www.myx.tv.
Not time to make yourself a sandwich and sit down in front of the TV or your computer watching the latest YouTube videos of people going Gangnam Style.
Well - there's probably always time for that.
But I'm talking about voting.
I'm talking about making sure that your voice is heard in a process that does indeed make a difference no matter how many cynics might tell you different.
And On Every Post From Now Until The Election
You will see a couple of links pointing you to:
1.Register2.rockthevote.com - If you're not already registered, follow the link and get yourself registered. If you are registered but you know people that aren't - push them to the link or to the site, and help them get registered. If you want to get them registered another way - do that too.
2.18 Million Rising - I could tell you about 18 MR but I might as well just let them tell you about it because who knows you better than yourself.
There are approximately 18 million Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States, representing nearly 6% of the total population and growing faster than any other racial group (!) Despite that, Asian Americans remain one of the most politically under–organized, under–engaged, and under–represented constituencies: only 55% of Asian American citizens of voting age are registered to vote -- the lowest rate of all races.
18MillionRising.org was founded by Jee Kim and Ian Inaba (Citizen Engagement Lab) to promote APIA civic engagement by leveraging the power of technology and social media. 18MillionRising.org (18MR) is a campaign composed of a broad coalition of partners, ranging from community based organizations and print magazines to Asian American blogs and YouTube channels. Throughout the 2012 election cycle, 18MR will promote online voter registration tools, run social media-fueled civic engagement campaigns and contests, and provide up–to–date information and analysis on all things political that Asian (and all!) Americans should know about.
Ultimately, 18MR is about you, your friends, your cousins, your aunties, your whole community. It’s about making our voices heard...on Election Day, when a Sikh gurdwara is attacked, when an Asian American soldier or student is viciously bullied, when we’re misrepresented in the media or mainstream culture, when Jeremy Lin is called a “chink” (and when he registers his first triple double!), and when one of our APIA elected officials does us proud. 18MR is about us, all 18 million of us.
Who Made You The Voting Police?
No one dumbass. I'm just trying to help spread the word and if you read this post and that's the best question you have, I probably have even stronger words for you, but I'll just say this:
Even though I support a person's right not to vote (because that is your right as well to exercise), I think this election is even more important than the last and I hope you do vote - especially as APIAs because we're a force to be reckoned with - and I'll keep on reminding you of that right up until the election.
Okay.
That's it.
Now I'm hungry and feel like watching some YouTube videos...
You still have 8 days to submit your film or digital and interactive media project for the 31st San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (March 14-24, 2013)! Don’t miss out on the opportunity to have your work included with CAAM’s incredible line-up of films, videos and digital and interactive projects.
This is your chance to have your work seen by sophisticated, diverse, and enthusiastic audiences from all over the world who converge in the San Francisco Bay Area each March to participate in the world’s largest festival devoted to bringing to light stories and projects by and about Asians and Asian Americans.
There are two more submission deadlines:
TONIGHT, October 1st by 11:59 PM PST ($35 submission fee)
Next Monday, October 8th by 11:59 PM PST ($40 submission fee available only through Withoutabox).
See the Festival submission guidelines and instructions here: http://caamedia.org/festival/call-for-entries
All CAAM members can submit for free! Limit one waiver per member. Join CAAM today to receive the amazing benefit of submitting your SFIAAFF31 entry for free.
Members also receive fantastic benefits throughout the year including:
Invitations to year-round events, exclusive members-only screenings & receptions and sneak preview screenings of theatrical releases
Discount on tickets to the festival
Visit our membership page or call (415) 863-0814, ext. 102 or more information.
Justice Randall Eng will become the first Asian-American presiding justice to sit in the Appellate Division, after Governor Andrew Cuomo named him to head the Second Department on Monday.
Eng, who was born in China and raised in New York City, said in an interview Monday that he was "very honored" to receive the appointment.
An associate justice in the Second Department since 2008, Eng was one of seven Appellate Division appointments announced by Cuomo.
"I am proud to appoint such an accomplished and diverse group of jurists to the Appellate Division," Cuomo said in a statement. "I am also pleased to appoint Justice Eng to serve as New York's first Asian-American presiding justice and lead one of the busiest appellate courts in the country."
In an interview, Eng said he became the first Asian-American judge in New York history when he joined the New York City Criminal Court in 1983.
In the nearly three decades since, he noted, the number of Asian-Americans in the legal community has grown, although perhaps "not as many as it should be on the bench," he said. "I hope this gives encouragement."
Caught this video from the The Huffington Post and while the arrest isn't funny - and the White woman was the one that actual pushed Mona Eltahawy and I didn't see her get arrested (or hear about her getting arrested for anything - but then again I'm slow...) this video just made me laugh because the White woman is just bat-shit crazy and echoes the cries of Clueless White People who she obviously likes to quarterback for (in her own bat-shit way).
Free Speech For Everyone Including Clueless White People.
Roger W. Lotchin
Professor; Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense
562 Hamilton Hall
CB# 3195
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
919-962-3946 (phone)
rlotchin@email.unc.edu
Fourth, feel free when you send him mail to send him a link to this article:
Fifth -- are you fucking kidding me? This guys is a professor at The University Of North Carolina and he teaches the following courses?
HIST 128—United States History Since 1865
HIST 373—The United States in World War II
HIST 374—The American West, 1800 to the Present
HIST 395—The United States in World War II: War and Society
HIST 584—The Promise of Urbanization: American Cities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Holy fuck institutions of higher learning - what the hell are you doing? Do you not interview your professors or can just any racist dumb MF get a job at your school?
I want to call your attention to a new addition to Wyoming culture. It is a museum of the Heart Mountain Japanese American Relocation Center between Cody and Powell in World War II.
As you probably know, the Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were evacuated from their West Coast homes to camps in the interior West and Arkansas. That was done as a national security measure because the U. S. government doubted the loyalty of many of the “Nikkei,” as the group was then called, and feared the military prowess of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The point of the museum is to prove that the camps were “concentration camps” and that they were established because of racism. Neither charge is true and neither has ever been proven. It is beyond question that many of the first generation Nikkei (a term comprising all Japanese-Americans) were loyal to Japan and some even went so far as to repatriate themselves to that country during the war and many more stated their intention to do so. The first generation had extensive pre-war ties to the Imperial Japanese government through the Japanese consuls in the United States. The pre-war Japanese claimed to have an extensive spy network on the West Coast and just before the war the government rolled up a net headed by a man named Itaru Tachibana. We don’t know whether a net existed after that point, but we do know that the Imperial Japanese servants thought that they had one. So did the American government. The United States and its allies suffered tremendous losses in the first six months of the war and the government thought that it could not fully trust the Nikkei in case the Imperial Japanese launched a raid on the West Coast. That was what caused the relocation of the Nikkei.
How many Japanese- Americans were disloyal is not known, but I have never read a piece of evidence from a reliable witness which said that all of them were loyal.
And To The Trib.com
What the fuck are you printing this vile, racist, uneducated (ironic huh?) crap for anyway? This isn't opinion - this is KKK hang everyone from a tree hate speech and there's no way around it.
Hope you were able to get in...and at least you can still RSVP on the waitlist...sure, you probably won't get in...but you can at least say you tried...like trying to get an HP Touchpad off Ebay that one time...when Touchpad's were hot...
Presented by Tuesday Night Project
with social media sponsors AngryAsianMan.com & channelAPA.com
and community sponsors hereandnow theater company
***FREE PRIORITY GENERAL ADMISSION RSVP SOLD OUT***
http://blacklava20th.eventbrite.com/
((Over 150 of you RSVPed but feel free to RSVP to be on the waitlist. We just need a way to manage FIRE CODE concerns in our intimate gallery setting. Thanx!))
blacklava is turning 20! let's celebrate the legacy of this groundbreaking Asian American institution AND all the wonderful friends who made blacklava what it is today!
SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
6:00pm - 7:30pm VIP and PRESS
7:30pm - 12am Guests with RSVP
Hatakeyama Gallery
905 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
http://www.hatakeyamagallery.com/
Light Refreshments and Cash Bar
FEATURING
* A special exhibit of original works by community artists and writers inspired by blacklava.
* Children's activities - so bring the family!
* Music and beats from our favorite DJs!
* A blacklava photo shoot!
* and more to be announced...
Some of the Gallery Exhibitors Presenting Original Work Inspired by Blacklava:
Tak Toyoshima / Secret Asian Man
Alfie Ebojo / Alfie Numeric
Byron Dote / +he op+imist
Jay Bartlett / Simple Studio Lighting
Steve Wong - Visual Artist
Erin Nomura - Nomura Studios
Mark Yamasaki - Graphic Artist
Yumi Sakugawa
Dean Yasutake
Shane Sato - Shane Sato Photography
Belinda Vong - By Belinda
Karin Anna Cheung - Actress/Artist/Singer
Narinda Heng
Mike Palma
Durwood - Golda and Gertie
Mike Park
Patty Lee
Max Medina
Shin Kawasaki
Kevin Cunningham
Traci Kato Kiriyama
Gina Lee
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Emmie Hsu - Fomato
Scott Okamoto
Saturday
7:00pm until 10:00pm in EDT
SAVE THE DATE for the 3rd Annual Kollaboration DC Talent Competition and Showcase
September 22, 2012 at George Washington University Lisner Auditorium
TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!!!!
http://tinyurl.com/KollabDCShow3
$15 General Admission $40 VIP
VIP Ticket gives you Center Orchestra Seating, Goodie Bag, and Free Admission to Afterparty, + Raffle Ticket for pair of tickets for David Choi/CLARA C concert on Nov. 10th!!
2012 Kollaboration DC #3 Finalists (In no particular order)
1) LacsaJacaKhan - Singer/Guitarist/Rapper
2) Christopher L. Santa Ana - Singer
3) Robert Park - Spoken Word
4) GU Jawani - Dance
5) Robyn Kim - Singer
6) Jin Shin - Singer
7) Rocka - Singer
8) George Yamazawa Jr. - Spoken Word
9) Mighty Morphing Boogie Rangers - Dance
10) Jonathan C. Chen - Violinist
The slantyapolis/seftre blog has served millions of views trying to help in its own way, to give voice to the Asian and Asian American community, as well as document it, over the last 18 years. Sometimes op-ed, sometimes straight news, sometimes off the beaten path--the continued impetus remains that there's power in sharing voices and in sharing your own voice and reflecting that back into the communities you belong to.
If you're looking for the 2008 In Review Posts, the link list has been moved out, but you can still get to them all by following this link which pulls them up by label (they'll be in reverse so go to the oldest post to read them in order).
2007 In Review Posts
If you're looking for the 2007 In Review Posts, the link list has been moved out, but you can still get to them all by following this link which pulls them up by label (they'll be in reverse so go to the oldest post to read them in order).
