neaato:

 legendary L.A. graffiti artist Tony “Tempt” Quan gets his voice back through technology after being diagnosed with ALS and rendered almost completely paralyzed, http://www.booooooom.com/2012/01/26/getting-up-film-about-tony-tempt-quan/

01.28.12 ♥ 5
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Zoom neaato: kids x ryu and ken

neaato:

kids x ryu and ken

01.27.12 ♥ 68
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Speaking of clichés, Heejun Han is a model of Asian impassiveness with an odd twist. He tells the camera he thinks he is a “little good” as a singer, but some of the others who are auditioning are “just crazy good, and now I’m thinking I’m not that good at all.”

[…] We’re getting major cues that this Heejun is a geek show. But no, his audition of Michael Bolton’s “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” is good, and we begin to question the whole impassive act. […] His comic timing is too good. We think the judges just got punked on their own racial stereotypes.

— Lisa de Moraes from the Washington Post, on why Heejun Han has become American Idols’ anti-William Hung in a three minute audition clip.

01.22.12 ♥ 15
Zoom
01.21.12 ♥ 12

WALK - Goh Nakamura

01.20.12 ♥ 3
Zoom My cousin’s twin boys at IKEA. There is something strangely poetic about this photo. ^EH

My cousin’s twin boys at IKEA. There is something strangely poetic about this photo. ^EH

01.17.12 ♥ 8
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[EDITORS NOTE: This K-POP and J-POP podcast from popcast88.com contains tracks from Sekitova, Crystal Kay, After School, Ann One, Masia One, Tasha (Yoon MiRae), SNSD and 2NE1.]

From Christine, POP88: Welcome to 2012 and our long awaited 51st Episode of POP88. I’ve missed you and being here! For those in the San Francisco/Berkeley, California area January 28-29th, I will be speaking at the KPOPCON conference hosted by KPOPCON. They asked me to talk about critiquing and reviewing Kpop. Come by, say hi. Tickets are only $10 and it’s bound to be a fun day of Kpop fandom. For more information and to register, please visit KPOPCON.com – Thanks Divina for reaching out to me!

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01.10.12 ♥ 0
Download

Masia One’s “Warriors Tongue”

Via Christine: “I think this should be her 3rd or 4th album. I hear M.I.A + a deep Jamaican rooted influence, very different from the GTA/ Toronto-based sound from her first record (which I still like).

Significant fact: First FEMALE Rapper ever to be nominated for the Best Rap Music Video at the 2005 MuchMusic Video Awards for “Split-Second Time” off her first album.”

01.03.12 ♥ 10
“ I actually think the U.S. is no worse than any comparable country (think about any similarly diverse and large country). The US does have major problems with the education system, but at least the culture of the country is one that promotes creativity and entrepreneurship better than any place that I know of. I would make the US Education system more American (promoting creativity, ownership of learning, and independence) and less Prussian (moving together in an assembly line).

— The Khan Academy’s Salman Khan, when asked which foreign education system the United States should mimic on Reddit

12.30.11 ♥ 0
Zoom Sacrilegious, but this made us laugh. ^EH

Sacrilegious, but this made us laugh. ^EH

12.23.11 ♥ 16
Zoom urhajos: 1000 Doors by Choi Jeong-Hwa

urhajos:

1000 Doors by Choi Jeong-Hwa

12.22.11 ♥ 6307
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Zoom fuckyeahalbuquerque: // ]]]]>]]>

fuckyeahalbuquerque:

12.22.11 ♥ 5542
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Zoom greatestgeneration: This is my mom and dad towards the end of WWII. My dad was in the all Japanese (except for the officers) 442nd Regimental Combat Team - the most highly decorated unit of their size in US history. One reason was because of the number of casualties they had. My dad was wounded 3 different times during the war (he survived all 3 ). The 3rd time he was wounded, he wouldn’t let the doctors take the shrapnel out of his leg because he “had to get back to his buddies”. He was part of Company K during the rescue of the Texan “Lost Battalion”. After the rescue Company K had fewer than 20 men (out of 200) who were not dead or wounded. This was one of times that my dad got wounded. Here is one site that talks about that battle: http://www.asian-nation.org/442.shtml All this while my grandparents were in the internment camps. Awesome! Thanks for the submission!

greatestgeneration:

This is my mom and dad towards the end of WWII. My dad was in the all Japanese (except for the officers) 442nd Regimental Combat Team - the most highly decorated unit of their size in US history. One reason was because of the number of casualties they had. My dad was wounded 3 different times during the war (he survived all 3 ).

The 3rd time he was wounded, he wouldn’t let the doctors take the shrapnel out of his leg because he “had to get back to his buddies”.

He was part of Company K during the rescue of the Texan “Lost Battalion”. After the rescue Company K had fewer than 20 men (out of 200) who were not dead or wounded. This was one of times that my dad got wounded. Here is one site that talks about that battle:

http://www.asian-nation.org/442.shtml

All this while my grandparents were in the internment camps.

Awesome! Thanks for the submission!

12.20.11 ♥ 895
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Zoom neaato: krusiec: http://www.michellekrusiec.com/blog/2011/12/paying-my-respects/

neaato:

krusiec: http://www.michellekrusiec.com/blog/2011/12/paying-my-respects/

12.16.11 ♥ 3
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Zoom ollymoss: I worked with Studio Ghibli and Mondo to create these two posters for one of my favourite movies. I still can’t quite believe this, it’s such a huge honour.  My Neighbor Totoro is a 20x36 8-colour screen print. It’ll be for sale from Mondo soon and, as usual, I will have some signed APs for sale at some point later.

ollymoss:

I worked with Studio Ghibli and Mondo to create these two posters for one of my favourite movies. I still can’t quite believe this, it’s such a huge honour. 

My Neighbor Totoro is a 20x36 8-colour screen print. It’ll be for sale from Mondo soon and, as usual, I will have some signed APs for sale at some point later.

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