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June 21, 2012

[caption id="attachment_4449" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jane Lui will be performing at the Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony for V3con.[/caption] We're deep in the planning process for V3, the Asian American Digital Media Conference, scheduled for Aug. 25 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles with an Opening Night Reception and Awards ceremony on Friday, Aug. 24 at the Pacific Asia...

June 20, 2012

Vincent Chin was beaten with a baseball bat 30 years ago on June 19 in a Detroit suburb, and died four days later. At the time, I was three years out of art school, managing a paint store, and was a budding young rock critic writing for a Denver newspaper. I didn’t follow any news coverage about the attack on Vincent...

May 24, 2012

Marion Barry is the elected councilman for Washington DC's 8th Ward, but he's more commonly referred to in the District as "Mayor for Life." That's because the man seemingly has nine lives, politically speaking. He's now embroiled in a controversy over anti-Asian remarks he made a couple of months ago, but an attempt to mend fences with a community meeting today...

May 24, 2012

Pretty powerful stuff. Matthew Shimura, a 9th grader from Honolulu, Hawaii won the Grand Prize for his documentary, "The Constitution and the Camps," in C-SPAN's annual StudentCam competition. The Grand Prize winner (announced March 7) received a $5,000 award and $1,000 for his teacher to buy video equipment for his school. (Coincidentally, he attends the Punahou in Oahu, where Barack...

May 10, 2012

President Obama never fails to inspire with his speeches, and for me, especially his speeches in support of the Asian American community. The video above is from his speech in Washington DC on May 18 at the 18th Annual Gala of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. And while I'm at it, I'm embedding Obama's historic interview yesterday with...

May 4, 2012

This just in from Joni Sakaguchi of the Japanese American Resource Center of Colorado: Here's a list of PBS programs being shown for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month through Rocky Mountain PBS. These documentaries appear a bit heavy on Pacific Islander coverage but that's cool. Especially here in Colorado, there's a great deal of interest in Pacific Islander history...

May 2, 2012

[caption id="attachment_4376" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Connie Lim portrait by Shane Sato (courtesy of connielimmusic.com)"][/caption] The V3 Conference organizing committee got some great news last week, when we learned that singer-songwriter Connie Lim had agreed to be part of the Opening Night festivities for the third conference of Asian American digital media-ites that started as the Banana gathering way back in 2009. Lim is...