http://vimeo.com/19592281 Just watched this trailer for the movie A Rainy Day for Earthworms. The synopsis: Set in Chinatown, A RAINY DAY FOR EARTHWORMS follows the perspective of a 1st generation Chinese-American child after a tragedy shakes the community. I didn’t find out much about the plot from the…
This is pretty cool. “Dressed” is a documentary about Nary Manivong, a fashion designer who used to be homeless. Manivong’s parents abandoned him and his siblings when he was fourteen. He struggled to survive on the streets of Columbus, Ohio. When he saw a copy of Vogue magazine,…
From February 12 to May 8, the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington will be displaying photos from the Seattle Camera Club. The club, which ran from 1924 to 1929, was founded mostly by Issei men: first-generation Japanese immigrants. However, it had an eclectic mix of…
But until then, there’s Kenneth Choi as Jim Morita in Captain America. Jim Morita is one of the Howling Commandos, an elite American military unit fighting during World War II. I don’t know anything about Captain America or the Marvel comics, to be honest–I’m more of a Batman/DC…
Even though Kim Yuna’s name fills me with glee… Brother and sister team Maia and Alex Shibutani made their senior national debut last month, and although they didn’t get the gold medal, they did win the silver, and racked up an impressive score of 173.18 points. “It’s easy…
Internet use has dramatically increased over the last decade and it keeps on rising. My parents, siblings, friends, peers, and my dog depend on it. Compared to other ethnicities in America, Asians have the highest percentage of living with internet access. I thought it would be related to watching anime or kdramas…