8 Asians

[Editors note: Connie's post about her experiences as an attendee and a filmmaker have already been blogged about, but after finding the documentary on YouTube, I felt it appropriate to repost her experiences as a filmmaker, but this time with the documentary embedded. Thanks to Connie for her permission, as well as Dr. Elizabeth Lee [...]

This weekend I was reminded of why I want to continue making films.
Watching Witness to Hiroshima in the Museum of Chinese in America, I sat in silence and in awe. Through watercolor paintings, former Japanese soldier Keiji Tsuchiya recounts his experience of providing relief after the 1945 U.S. bombing. He illustrates the colors of radiation [...]

My friend works for OASES (Oakland Asian Students Educational Services), a non-profit org geared towards empowering youth who have limited resources, particularly those in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities of Oakland through providing educational services and social support. Help support their 1-week fundraising drive which ends this Tuesday.

OASES is out to win the Razoo [...]

If International Secret Agents was a representation of Asian American artists, we’ve got a long way to go.

My palette’s got quite the eccentric pairing of taste buds. You would think I would do well at a buffet with the wide variety of selection—the salad bar, the burrito bar, the rotisserie, the “unknown,” and my favorite, the non-fat yogurt machine. I’d be able to taste a little of everything and leave satisfied having [...]

I love “chick-lit,” also known as fiction written for and targeted to young, working women in their twenties and thirties.  I must say, it’s about time chick-lit is written by and for Asian American women, and Christine Son’s Off the Menu does just that.  Intertwining the lives of three best friends — Hercules Huang, Whitney [...]