If you haven’t already seen this post over on GASP!, then you’re missing out: this week, Holidays of Good is featuring Shokay as the company of the week and giving 8Asian’s readers an exclusive extra 10% discount on the items being featured (use code “8asiansdeals”).
Shokay was created by Carol Chyau and Marie So in an effort to help Tibetan Yak herders continue to sustain a reasonable living while maintaining their traditional lifestyle. All of the products they create are made from yak fibers that are hand combed from the yaks found in the Himalayan regions of Western China.
Holidays of Good is a virtual pop up shopping site that will run through February 2011 (afterwards, Days of Good will launch). Each week a different company committed to making a quality good while supporting a disadvantaged population will be featured.
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Anime and Kickstarter fans as well as people learning more about the horrific atomic bomb attacks during WWII should listen up, as a Kickstarter page has been created in an attempt to raise $2,000 for the film Hibakusa, an animated documentary/drama featuring Kaz Suyeishi, an 84 year old woman who recalls her experiences as an 18 year old Japanese American student during the morning of August 6, 1945. Mrs. Suyeishi will delve into three particular moments in Hiroshima that affected her throughout the course of her life.
ChannelAPA.com (and 8Asians contributor!) Steve Nguyen & Daisuke Suzuki are attached to direct the film and acclaimed animator & music video director Choz Belen is set to animate the film.
Inspired to bring awareness to the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings in hopes that nothing like this will ever happen again and over time, they hope to release the film on August 6, 2011, when the 66th commemoration of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings will take place.
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Via Mashable: China Launches Communist Version of Twitter. And what do you know – I was able to get a sneak peak at some of the code. Just check out line 182 in particular: if (TWEET==’TAIWAN’) { user.imprison(); } Wow. You’d think they’ve have a better job encrypting their Javascript, it being a nation of a couple billion and all.
Hey martial arts fans! Did you know that Ong Bak 3 premiered Friday December 3 on VOD, Amazon.com, Xbox Marketplace, Playstation Network? It also opens in theaters January 14, 2011. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Read on…
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (Thai: องค์บาก), also known in the United States as “Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior” was a Thai action film from 2003 that was considered the breakout film of Tony Jaa. Because of Ong Bak, Jaa was hailed as the next international martial-arts star. Ong Bak 2: The Beginning set Jaa in an epic tale of revenge set hundreds of years in the past– featuring a huge cast and hordes of elephants and showcased him as a master of a wide range of martial arts styles.
Now, Jaa returns to screens in Ong Bak 3, the third and final installment of the action series. Picking up at the cliffhanger ending where Ong Bak 2 left off, Jaa ramps up the epic supernatural elements of the previous film, while still maintaining the trademark bone-crunching action that the series is known for. This time he must face his ultimate enemy: a fierce supernatural warrior named “Demon Crow,” played by fellow martial arts sensation Dan Chupong (Dynamite Warrior). Eagerly anticipated by martial arts aficionados for some time, the matchup of Jaa and Chupong is explosive.
Why not get a refresher course of all this by watching the Ong Bak Martial Arts DVD Prize Pack, which you can win right here on 8Asians!
The Ong Bak Martial Arts DVD Prize Pack features five titles:
In addition to the first two Ong Bak movies, a DVD of 2008 Thai action film Chocolate (Thai: ช็อคโกแลต), also known as Fury! (Chocolate was directed by Prachya Pinkaew and has martial arts choreography by Panna Rittikrai, the same pair who directed Tony Jaa in Ong-Bak.) Dynamite Warrior features Dan Chupong and Exiled is a Hong Kong action crime drama film. If you love martial arts and action films, you need to check these movies out!
Ong Bak 3 premiered Friday December 3 on VOD, Amazon.com, Xbox Marketplace, Playstation Network; opens in theaters January 14, 2011.
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When you have a five year old Asian American little girl who believes in Santa, finding the right Christmas present isn’t always the simplest task. There’s the easy part of the list of course, the presents she’s already asked Santa for, like a set of Disney Princess dolls, a Build-a-Bear bed and armoire, and a remote controlled car for Strawberry Shortcake.
As I mentioned in an previous posting about a new movie on Mulan, the difficult part is finding toys that will help reinforce her cultural identity and make her proud of her Asian heritage. It doesn’t help that she idolizes blond hair and wishes she had some herself.
So her first Disney Princess doll was of course Mulan, but after that it’s been rather difficult to find anything that’s age appropriate and a good role model of Asian culture. That’s why I was happy to come across this article on Suite101.com, offering suggestions for Chinese and Asian dolls for this Christmas season.
See the list after the jump. Continue Reading »
Sunday night was the finale of The Amazing Race and Kat Chang and her teammate Nat Strand made history in the show’s 17 season span by being the first all female team to win the race! Congrats to them both!
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine literally last week about what keeps me interested in this reality show versus others I’ve watched in the past, such as Survivor and The Apprentice. First of all, I really enjoy traveling and I love seeing places I’ve not only been before, but more importantly, places that I have yet to travel too in The Amazing Race.
Secondly, I enjoy the team dynamics between the two people on the team, whether brother and sister, father and daughter, friends, husband and wife, etc. It’s really fascinating to see how relationships are strained or supported under competition and pressure. From a personal and Asian American perspective, I always find it interesting to see how Asian American team members perform on the show. I know if I did The Amazing Race, my brother and I would probably kill each other at times! In this particular season, the relationship between father Michael and son Kevin was pretty fascinating and a bit non-traditional, with Michael being kind of a goofball-at-heart like his son. Whereas when father Ronald and daughter Christina were on The Amazing Race, you could see Ronald’s transformation from an overbearing father to an understanding and trusting father.
An essay by Ben Efsaneyim on the perceived Asian-American Gender Gap and the separation between Asian men and women: “… [G]ender division – or the separating of Asian men from women – must be seen as one of the most potent mechanisms of dis-empowerment for the Asian minority and has been in place almost since the beginning of Asian immigration to America.”
I was watching TV last week and saw this Pepto-Bismol commercial with The Hangover & Community star Ken Jeong. Like I’ve blogged about Jeong in the past, I can’t say that I’m exactly a huge fan. I think he goes a bit over the top most of the time. It would be interesting to see him in a less comedic role and a more dramatic role that required stretching his acting ability over going super-hyper kinetic. But I doubt we’ll see that anytime soon. I’m not sure this commercial exactly makes me want to eat more and count on Pepto-Bismol to relieve any indigestion…
Now here’s another reason why you should have good manners: According to the BBC, a 60-something Filipino American visiting the Philippines won the largest lottery prize ever there: 750 million pesos or about $17 million. According to the winner, a woman pushed him out of the way to buy her lottery tickets and he let her go ahead. Given that lottery tickets in the Philippines are sold consecutively, if she had waited her turn, she would have won. Instead, because of his politeness, he won instead.
I was personally hoping that my dad was the guy who won since my dad has impeccable manners and given that the BBC reported that the winner is a 60-something Filipino American father of 3, but unfortunately, my dad was still here in the US when the winning ticket was drawn. (And I wouldn’t have to worry about paying for pharm school, but oh well.)
(Flickr photo credit: missjdub)
By Jason
The issue of dog-meat has become newsworthy, thanks to the efforts of “enlightened” ex-marine Robert Lucius and an LA Times article. He aims to end the consumption of dog-meat in Vietnam; however he also denies being a “cultural imperialist.” Every culture has different views on which animals can and cannot be eaten, and therefore it is not up to Robert Lucius to decide that the Vietnamese culture is wrong.
I’ll admit that he primarily focuses on animal rights rather than the actual consumption of dog-meat and that should be commended; but it feels like he’s a missionary spreading Western thought and condemning Asian “savages.” What exactly makes eating dog wrong? Is it their cute puppy-ness and their social status as pets? I’ll admit that I have never eaten dog myself, but I would not go out of my way to force others to stop eating it. He also notes that he is fully vegetarian, and therefore why doesn’t he also influence the Vietnamese to stop eating meat altogether? Due to his Western upbringing, there must be an underlining motivation that specifically says “dog-meat is wrong” and therefore regardless of if he believes it or not, he’s definitely a cultural imperialist.
Besides dog is eaten in other Asian and non-Asian countries; many other types of foods are also eaten in Asia that would make some Westerners shudder in surprise. I think more focus should go more towards the destructiveness of the Western diet on the human body in terms of diabetes and obesity, especially in the Asian and Asian-American communities.
ABOUT JASON: I’d like to grow up to be an activist and a catalyst for change. Presently, I am located in Los Angeles busily studying Asian American topics and living the student life.
(Flickr photo credit: Paul Keller)
Quora – a Web 2.0 website more known for Internet Entrepreneurs to circle-jerk ask insightful questions to other Internet Entrepreneurs, gets asked the question that Asian blogs and bulletin boards love, hate, or love to hate: Why do Asian girls like White guys? The answers have so far been rational; I guess anonymous angry asian men that troll on forum boards and call Asian females “whorientals” don’t run web start-ups. (Hat tip: Mike L.)
I’ve been a fan of Lucy Liu ever since she was on Ally McBeal, and a few of us on 8Asians were pleasantly surprised to see Liu’s character Mia in Cashmere Mafia actually date and kiss a fellow Asian American (since it always seems that on TV and the movies, Asian American women are dating or marrying non-Asians).
Well, on Sunday, December 12th and Monday, December 13th,, Liu will be starring in the made-for-cable romantic comedy called Marry Me on Lifetime Television:
“Lucy Liu stars as Rae Ann Carter, a single aspiring-artist-turned-social-worker who always wanted a fairy-tale romance — to fall madly in love and live happily ever after. But when her two-year relationship falls apart, Rae unexpectedly falls for a new man, Luke, who asks her to marry him after a few short dates. Just as everything seems to fall into place for Rae, her ex-boyfriend Adam suddenly re-emerges into her life with a proposal of his own. Things get even further complicated when a third man, smitten by Rae, enters the picture and asks for her hand in marriage, as well. With three men after her heart, who will be Rae’s Prince Charming?”
Probably not the most challenging role for Liu, given that she’s been in hit TV shows like Ally McBeal and hit movies like Kill Bill and Charlie’s Angels as well as recently appeared on Broadway. This TV movie definitely sound pretty formulaic. Originally, Liu’s character Rae was originally written as a Southern blonde who had an accent. Beyond that, I don’t think this is going to be the “must see” TV event for the holidays.
In real life, Liu is still single. So besides asking Zhang Ziyi to marry me, Lucy Liu would be on the top of my list! Liu’s got that girl next door down-to-earth charm and look.
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