The Lucky Gal: Eva Chen Becomes First Asian American EIC at Condé Nast
I've always been a huge fan of Eva Chen. I've been following her since her start at Teen Vogue and thought of her as a role model - not just career wise, but personally as well (her impeccable style!). However, when she left her post as the Beauty and Health Director at Teen Vogue, many have wondered what her next big stint would be. Since then, she's done some high-profile consulting and held some contributing editor positions. Now - she's been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Lucky. Even cooler - she's also the first Asian American Editor-in-Chief of Condé Nast Publications. Condé...
This Girl is On Fire: Eesha Khare Makes a Device that Charges Cellphones in 30 Seconds
"Design and Synthesis of Hydrogenated TiO2-Polyaniline Nanorods for Flexible High-Performance Supercapacitors" - say what? Well, that was the name of the winning experiment of 18-year-old Eesha Khare who took the one of two runner-up prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for inventing a device that charges cellphone batteries in less than 30 seconds. It's taken the science and tech world by storm for an invention that could eventually wind up in some of our hands in the future. However, the teen is not interested in commercializing it anytime soon - she's headed...
2NE1′s Official Comeback
You read correctly! The long-awaited 2NE1 comeback is now officially set for July of this year. Founder and Chief Executive Officer of YG Entertainment, Yang Hyun Suk, personally confirmed this himself. He added that instead of releasing the songs at once, 2NE1 will release one music video every month until their October showcase. This guarantees at least four songs for their album. The first song to be released is Falling in Love which is said to have a reggae feel and utilize oversea's choreographers. Concerts will be planned after the release of the album in October, but no information...
EDM Fans: More than Just Your Average Music Fan
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) continues to take on the world by storm – and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Eventbrite has put together an interesting infographic from a recent survey comparing some of the activities and interests of EDM fans versus non-EDM music fans. Check it out below! - See more at: http://174.122.78.159/~mindlinq/audreynew/edm-fans-more-than-just-your-average-music-fan/#sthash.m0q9QP4x.dpuf
NYAFF x Dramafever: Korean Short Film Madness (Watch it NOW!)
Even if you're not in town to catch the New York Asian Film Festival coming up on June 28th (they've got a cool Jackie Chan Retrospective during the fest!), you'll still be able to experience a part of the festival from your home computer with the Korean Short Film Madness. NYAFF and Dramafever have partnered together to release a collection of short films from Korea's Mise-en-Scène Film Festival (it's all shown exclusively on DramaFever!). The short films and talented new directors are: “The Visitor” by Kim Bo-young “Poison Frog” by Koh Jung-wook “Cheong” by Kim...
What Would You Do? Reactions to Racism In An Asian Nail Salon
We've all seen the endless jokes about Asians who work in nail salons, massage parlors, and donut shops. This is often an easy target for stand-up comedians such as Anjelah Johnson and her popular skit mimicking the Vietnamese nail salon workers: Why is it such as easy target? Primarily because such businesses are in fact heavily intertwined in the Asian American community. Its easy for people to make fun of this and yet they don't take the time to understand that this is a deeply rooted issue for Asian Americans that stems from early immigration into the U.S. These comedians don't...
A Summer Accessory for the Quirky Crowd: Shwings!
What I love about summer is heading out to a lot of outdoor music festivals - and being able to dress up in some quirky fashion - whether it's rocking the latest trendy accessory off the runway, or wearing a vintage piece from my closet. I recently came across these cute little accessories for my shoes: Shwings! They're definitely not for the conservative, but they do make quite the statement on your feet if you're wearing plain sneakers (I've been wearing them with my sneaker wedges!). Check them out here. Click below for some of our favorites.
Fan’s of the beloved anime and novel series Kiki’s Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyūbin) have reason to be excited. In Spring of 2014, a live-action film adaptation is set to be released in Japan.
Majo no Takkyūbin is a popular children’s novel series released in 1985 about Kiki and her black cat Jiji. 1.8 million copies have been sold and the story became even more popular with Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 anime film adaptation Kiki’s Delivery Service (highest grossing film in Japan in 1989).
The live action film will star 16-year-old Fūka Koshiba as the young witch Kiki, will be directed by Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge/Juon), and written by Satoko Okudera.
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DEPT: The Market
AUTHOR: Paul Nakayama
ISSUE: Winter ’12-’13
“Having Sex? Don’t blow it- figuratively speaking, of course. Columnist Paul Nakayama lists the dos and don’ts of having sex the first, second and 10th times with that special someone.”
“When a woman asks me to write about sex, I will always reflexively say “yes,” but mostly because either sex was mentioned or I thought she was asking me for some. And now I’m panicking because I have to write the Dos and Don’ts of Having Sex the First, Second and 10th Times. Of course, what this actually means is writing about how I mess things up at those signposts. Well, I’m not falling into that trap again. Today, I’ll be basing all of the sad stuff on a friend of a friend.
The first time is when you can mess things up the most.”
DEPT: The Good Life
AUTHOR: Joann Park
ISSUE: Spring 2013
“In London, “Asians” are associated with South Asians (as opposed to East Asians or Pacific Islanders, who may be referred to as “oriental” instead). It’s no surprise, since the city’s thriving South Asian communities make up 13 percent of the city’s population. With a strong Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani presence, London is the place to experience the rich diversity of South Asian culture. Contributor Joann Park shares her favorite spots.”
DEPT: The Good Life
STORY: Pamela Saelieb
AUTHOR: Kanara Ty
PHOTOS: Pamela Saelieb
ISSUE: Spring 2013
“When one thinks of Myanmar (commonly known as Burma), revolutionary leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the Saffron Revolution immediately come to mind. However, there’s more to the Southeast Asian country than political discord: a culture rich in tradition and a population resilient by nature. And now with the tourism ban lifted and renewed relations between U.S. and Myanmar, Americans are more easily able to visit the once-closed off country. We got a firsthand account from Thai American Pamela Saelieb who recently visited Myanmar.”
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (The Golden Rock)
“Myanmar is newly opened to tourism, so it was a fascinating experience. I traveled in a guided tour group with about 15 others, both men and women. We visited the south of Myanmar, near Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and Bago, so I didn’t see the more tourist-saturated Mandalay or Inle Lake.
Overall, Myanmar feels like a city that is still relatively untouched, but full of emerging contrasts. There are elements that are still traditional: Most men, even government officials and business people, wear sarongs; farmland and crops full of skinny oxen go on for miles; women and girls wear thanakha on their faces, a paste made from ground bark that’s used as a daily sunscreen
and skin treatment. But also, incredibly modern features are everywhere pointing to increasing globalization and exposure to outside influence — large, new resorts commissioned by the Vietnamese currently under construction; graffiti and street art; Wi-Fi; Obama T-shirts. It felt like seeing a country that is on the verge, coming of age. So in many ways, it’s probably like a lot of other Southeast Asian countries.”
Diary from Cannes 2013: Day 5
May 20, 2013: As Sunday ended with a Midnight Screening that didn’t end until almost 3am Monday morning (and an after-Andy Lau high that probably didn’t end until 5am), the next day would inevitably be less lively.
So of course, no better way to start off a “less lively” day than seeing back-to-back films about Cambodian genocide and the Bataan death march after World War II.
Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture is based on the Cambodian filmmaker’s own experience during the Khmer Rouge regime, when Panh lost all his family before escaping to Thailand in 1975. He decides to tell his own story through hundreds of clay figures that are not animated, but strung together like a photo slideshow, interspersed with archival footage from the regime’s own propaganda files — some of which had appeared in Panh’s earlier acclaimed work. An interview with the director can be found at Asia Pacific Arts.
The Missing Picture.
In need of a game for your Bachelorette party? We’ve got just the thing! Follow the flow chart above and see how many guys you can convince to hand over their boxers. Check out our very own Ada Tseng’s experience and let us know how it goes for you!
DEPT: Features
AUTHOR: Susan Soon He Stanton
ISSUE: Spring 2013
“Recent high-profile cases of “yellow face” reveal the ugly truth about Asian American casting in theater.”
“From Mickey Rooney playing Japanese in Breakfast at Tiffany’s to Bruce Lee being passed over in favor of David Carradine for a TV series called Kung Fu, Asians have consistently been caricatured, denied the right even to play ourselves.” — David Henry Hwang
“If you’re tired of talking about race, please stand up,” asked a moderator at an East West Players public forum entitled “Why Not Asian? Why Asian?” last October. The panel was assembled by the nation’s longest running professional theater of color to discuss race politics in light of recent casting controversies in the theater community. Many people would like to believe we live in a post-racial, level-playing-field 21st century. Yet despite significant strides made by African Americans and other minority groups, Asian Americans still struggle to be fairly represented in American media.
DEPT: The Market
AUTHOR: Ada Tseng
ISSUE: Spring 2013
ILLUSTRATION: Craig Stubing
“What happens when a bride-to-be decides to do her own variation of the “bachelorette scavenger hunt” and challenges her friends to collect as many boxers as they can from strangers in Vegas? A social experiment is born, one that sheds light on male-female dynamics in bar environments.”
“Friends get surprisingly angry when you say you don’t want a bachelorette party. Having a last hurrah with my girlfriends sounded fun, but I was uninterested in wearing a tiara in public, flirting with male strippers, drinking to the point of vomiting, and collecting penis paraphernalia. However, when my friends promised I could do whatever I wanted, I went home with the challenge of planning a Vegas bachelorette party, despite having never attended one myself.”
DEPT: The Market
AUTHOR: O.D.D. Girl (Online Dating Diary Girl)
ISSUE: Spring 2013
“Six months after she began her online dating adventures, O.D.D. girl comes to terms with an age-old lesson: being honest with yourself.”
“From time to time, I’ll get passed along articles related to online dating — most of which summarize how technology ruins romance — but none have really hit home. But there was this article that one of my closest girlfriends sent me (“A Million First Dates,” which ran in The Atlantic this past January), that made me freeze in my tracks and take a hard look at myself and my dating patterns. While I didn’t agree with everything in the article, one point I took away was this: Because of online dating, we’ve all become commitment-phobes. We never allow ourselves time to mourn the end of a relationship properly. Instead, we just move on to the next person because there’s “plenty of fish” out there, especially in the online world.
I’m absolutely guilty of that.
DEPT: Pop-arazzi
AUTHOR: Olivia Ouyang
ISSUE: Spring 2013
PHOTO: Courtesy of Monika Chiang
“The fashion designer brings a global sensibility to clothes for the modern woman”
“Monika Chiang always wanted to be a fashion designer. Now, with a successful third collection and partnerships with Shopbop and Intermix, the Chinese American is making her childhood dream a reality.”
