8 Asians

In the latest Progressive Insurance, we have the spokesperson “Flo,” speaking with an Asian American couple about bundling their home and auto insurance together. Flo pushes a button, and a boxing announcer does a comedic announcement on getting ready to “bundle” – a play on “rumble.” Personally, I found the commercial entertaining. The couple could have been of any race or a mixed race marriage, but it was nice to see an Asian American one [...] Continue »

I was reading the Wall Street Journal the other day when I cam across an article about how The national Republican Party recently published a self-analysis report entitled the “Growth and Opportunity Project” about the Party and its recent Presidential loss in the 2012 election as well as the declining perception of the Party: “”Public perception of the party is at record lows,” the report says. “Young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what [...] Continue »

Well, another month, another poll or study concluding which we’ve blogged about already (National exit poll, Post-Election Survey of Asian American Voters and  2012, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund) that Asian Americans overwhelmingly support the Democrats over Republicans, where Gallup (as in the Gallup poll), reports: “These findings are based on aggregated data from Gallup Daily tracking surveys conducted throughout 2012, including interviews with 6,465 Asian-Americans. For the purpose of this analysis, respondents [...] Continue »

CAAMFest long conclude over a week ago, but I finally got around to seeing my last DVD screener for the Taiwanese documentary Go Grandriders:

Last September, I had blogged about Jeremy Lin’s escape from his busy Taipei schedule to play street basketball and how that was taped by 60 Minutes. The full 60 Minutes piece profiling Jeremy Lin finally aired this past Sunday night! I guess 60 Minutes decided to wait to see how his season with the Houston Rockets went as well as time the segment as the Rockets are going to secure a spot in the NBA [...] Continue »

Ironically, I saw this Miller commercial while watch the Duke vs. Creighton game (Duke won!)  Maybe it isn’t exactly irony, but Ken Jeong did go to Duke for undergrad (and became a traitor by going to UNC for medical school). In going through my archive of Ken Jeong commercial blog posts, it looks like Jeong has been getting steady commercial work and has appeared in Coke, and Pepto-Bismol, with Dat Pham being a Ken Jeong/ [...] Continue »

Dead Dad (“The pefect goodbye doesn’t exist.”), directed by (as well as co-written by)  Ken Adachi, was another film that I saw a DVD screener for after CAAMFest was over – one of many films I would have liked to have seen with a live studio audience. The film is about a:

CAAMFest 2013 has since finished, but I’ve been watching a few films via DVD screeners, since it’s been a challenge to make it up to San Francisco to see all the screenings live. The other night, I watched Someone I Used to Know:

Open City magazine and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop are looking for emerging journalists and writers of color to apply for their 2013 Open City Fellowship through the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. They are looking for five new Fellows for their Open City Fellowship: “Open City, an online magazine published by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, documents the pulse of metropolitan Asian America as it’s being lived on the streets of New York right now. [...] Continue »

As I had blogged about when reviewing Seeking Asian Female, Director Debbie Lum had hundreds of hours of footage for her documentary that she did not use. Her original intent prior to focusing on the story of Steven and Sandy was to explore “yellow fever” – or the strong preference of non-Asian men, predominately white men, who have a fetish for Asian or Asian American women. Lum is a guest on This American Life on [...] Continue »

I think I first heard of this Xmas Without China documentary project via Kickstarter. The feature documentary takes place right before December of some recent year around the Christmas holiday in Arcadia, California, a neighborhood that used to be predominantly white, but is now half Asian. Tom Xia, a Chinese-American immigrant who came to the U.S. with his parents when he was around 8 years old, seeks out a family to volunteer to go the [...] Continue »

I finally got to see Seeking Asian Female, the documentary film by San Francisco Bay Area-based director Debbie Lum. The film had debuted at South by South West (SXSW) last year and review by a fellow 8asians blogger Dino and has gotten a bit of press, including this nice interview with Lum on NPR last year. However at CAAMFest 2013, this was the first opportunity I had to see the film with a live audience, [...] Continue »