This is as bad as it looks. I never heard this ’80s one hit blunder but they try to jam pack everything Japanesey to rap rhyme, like “I never have to fight and I’ll tell you why, no one wants to fight a samurai” or “I train in my car, I’m a ninjaa”…. Uh, that last line was kind of reaching. There’s even the Oriental riff for good measure. Either way, watch with adulterated judgement on this Superbowl Sunday. And remember… Kumite!
(Via Frederic Ambrosine)
Miho Aikawa, is a an up and coming photographer who travels between Tokyo and NYC. Her latest series, “Dinner in NY,” shows the various ways New Yorkers have their supper, or what many people consider the main meal of the day. According to a study in Public Health Nutrition, eating as a primary activity declined in the last 30 years. But, interestingly, eating as a secondary activity rose dramatically. We also do almost 50% of our eating doing another activity. That is true, as recorded in these photos:
"Fuck Yeah! I'm Sung Kang."
Just wanted to point all our readers to this fan tumblr site that is called, you guessed it, FuckYeah!SungKang. No if’s or but’s, just fuck yeah! and to the point. Run by Admin Hanna, she unfortunately, has not updated it in months, because she’s gotten too busy with real life, like school, jobs, and other questionable activities that are taking her away from her responsibilities of objectifying the one and only Han from Tokyo Drift!
So I am calling you out, Admin Hanna! You have a responsibility to my boy Sung to update your tumblr and get the ball rolling on the Sung-man love. Yes, we are calling you out. We can’t wait until FAST SIX for you to update your tumblr. It needs to be done now. Sung Kang, Fuck yeah!
Apparently, this is a big internet meme…. fan artwork of Disney hipster princesses. I can dig it. If I were to choose who’s the hottest, I would go for Hipster Snow White. Here’s another lineup with Mulan….
Is Anastacia a Disney princess? I don’t think so… Regardless, you can check out more ironic and sad Disney princesses over at Buzzfeed.
I’m sure our readers are sick and tired of the Sundance blogs, but here’s one more that I need to have out there. One of the films in the documentary section is about political activist and artist Ai Weiwei, and is highly recommended. A well crafted film, AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY, chronicles the life of China’s most famous artist internationally, as he uses his art and social media to mobilize people under the iron fist of rampant censorship and an unresponsive justice system. But, that’s not what I am writing about here. The photo above is the little “gift” each audience member got after the screening.
Justin Lin at Sundance 2012 Awards Ceremony / credit: David Magdael
I’m back in LA, enjoying the summer like weather… This year’s Sundance was a mixed bag for me, with the documentaries being the strongest component of the programming and questionable quality when it came to the batch of narrative features. But, that’s a trend that has been going on for awhile now, especially in the indie film world. Maybe it’s the fact that we live in an instantaneous world of 24-hour news cycles and Youtube video uploads capturing immediate reports and movements, ranging from the Arab Spring to “Shit My Blank” memes, life tends to be stranger than fiction. But, it was great to hang out with some Offender cronies, in a phat house, and in the end, my viewing experience in the second half of the Festival was much better. I already mentioned THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES and BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (which won the Grand Prize for US Dramatic Competition, which Offender Justin was on the jury for), in a previous Sundance report, so here’s my top picks from this year (in no particular order):
YOMYOMF attended Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s multimedia live event hitRECord tonight at the Sundance Film Festival. Offender Justin was also part of the event, which was hosted by Gordon-Levitt and some help from the “queen of indies,” Parker Posey. Not knowing what hitRECORD was, I was introduced to a very cool project — an open collaborative production company, where people can submit video, writings, songs, drawings, and have them culled together into short films.
Tonight’s hitRECord event at Sundance was held at the Eccles Theatre, and there were literally 1,200 screaming fans. It was full of energy and Levitt was an affable host that would at times, make girls swoon. There was lots of audience participation as well, and using social media and recording was encouraged.
Ordering a “quadruple stacker” at Burger King and washing it down with screwdrivers at 1 in the morning will make you do silly things. As we congregate around the kitchen, eating unhealthy food and getting drunk after an exhausting day of film viewing at Sundance, we realize that there is a unifying theme with said films… These plots deal with problems and situations that only seem to happen to white people. Therefore, here’s our Top 10:
1. Dealing with awkwardness of your husband’s pants tent because of your hot houseguest.
2. Worrying if your dad is going to keep his high-paying job or retire.
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That’s our pal Parvesh Cheena at the Youtube Party last night, representing YOMYOMF. As for me, Elaine and Justin, we had late screenings, there was a major snowstorm, and our collective creaky bones couldn’t muster the strength to go all out partying. As for me, I needed to head back to the massive house that Justin rented for the family and get my sore and cold feet on some heated, hardwood floors. So, after a quick Burger King run, we made it home and just talked shop for hours.
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YOMYOMF is representing at the Sundance Film Festival throughout the week. Justin Lin, our fearless leader, is on the Narrative Jury, so he’s shackled with festival jury duty until the very end. Offender Elaine and I, on the other hand, are partaking in as many screenings as we can. Elaine is a crazy cinephile, and a screening machine, so she is out in about watching films and booking lots of meetings with industry players. As for me, I arrived a day late, and actually road tripped from LA to Park City, which is always a fun drive (with a quick stop in Las Vegas for breakfast buffet and a couple of hands at the blackjack table). I have to play catch up to Justin and Elaine, who have seen a number of films already.
Yep, we’re going to go dark on Wednesday to join our Internet brethren to protest against current legislation in Congress that could potentially curb speech rights and allow content holders (i.e. the studios) to shut down sites immediately without initial court orders. You can read more about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and it’s weaker cousin, Protect IP Act (PIPA), over at Gizmodo.
Although it looks like SOPA is dying a slow death in Congress, and the fact that President Obama has publicly stated that he doesn’t support SOPA, we still need to go all V for Vendetta and stand up for net neutrality. Because we know, if SOPA does get passed, then YOMYOMF and other blogs and sites could potentially be shut down.
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This guy who compiled this montage modelled after the classic Lionel Ritchie song had a lot of time on his hands. But, it sure is fun to watch! Looks like the brunt of lines came from BACK TO THE FUTURE, THE MATRIX, THE NAKED GUN, and TOTAL RECALL. Pretty cool! Happy Mondays, everyone!
I want to live in a world where a Latino god from the heavens throws a pizza boomerang towards Earth as it hurtles at tremendous speeds to serve, protect, and entice us with all its pizza goodness.
That ain’t tomato sauce splattering all over that girl’s face. Oh, and that streaker who exposed himself had it coming!
Sofa Experience Communications, an outfit based in Spain, created this ingenious spot. I have no idea if Pizza Boomerang actually exists as a restaurant chain, but one can hope. In the meantime, you’ll just have to enjoy the majesty of Pizza Boomerang over at the official website.
This has to be the most unintentionally hilarious TV commercials ever. Aside from Freud, what about just the fact that there’s a big basketball player, two cheerleaders and one “big foot” sub that is “too much to handle”, even for Mr. Pippen.
Hey, I’d have a party too with these ladies too… You know, with sandwich foods and some lemonade, laid out on a picnic blanket, just like Scottie. This commercial was made way back in 1991. And Mr. Submarine still exists in Chicago today.
I don’t know what’s more hilarious: That Pippen is a terrible pitchman, or the severe Aquanet infused bangs of the cheerleaders, or the part when Pippen slamdunks a sub sandwich, or when Pippen says, “Ladies, let’s go have a party!”, what he really means is “Ladies, let’s have a three way in my hot tub!”
Here’s the second half of my blog about the top ten non-mainstream films that you may have missed in 2011. Part I outlined numbers 10 through 6 . These are essentially films that may have flown under the radar, but are readily available either via video-on-demand, released on DVD, or even streaming online. Although I had absolute fun with the recent MISSION IMPOSSIBLE film (Paula Patton, love me!) and the final HARRY POTTER was a befitting ending to the franchise, they already exist on other people’s lists. Even FAST FIVE got kudos in Time and The Hollywood Reporter. But, this list is for the “little guys,” indie films that need to be seen and hopefully, will be seen by Offenders like you!
I really got into K-pop this year, thanks to the girl group 2NE1, a no nonsense, fun and crazy female quartet who can do it all — rap, R&B, dance, and from different walks of life. They became my starter drug into a burgeoning music industry and genre that is ripe for world domination. And when I mean world domination, I mean thousands of fans from around the world, thanks to open business model that wants to build a worldly fan base. Much like hallyu with the popularity of Korean TV dramas and movies, K-Pop has jumped into the limelight, with not only a Pan-Asian craze in Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, but also Europe and the US.
2NE1 is the perfect example. With all 4 members (CL, Minzy, Bom, and Dara) fluent in English and Korean, not to also mention conversational Japanese and Tagalog, 2NE1 has become a force to be reckon with, selling out concerts around Asia and also building a fan base in America, and winning the MTV Iggy Best Band in the World Award, where they recently performed at Times Square a couple of weeks ago. They also recorded an American album that was produced by Wil.I.Am, which is set for release sometime in 2012.
So, yeah, I got K-Pop obsessed, and soon enough, I became hooked on watching the latest music videos on Youtube, which rack tens of millions of views in a matter of days. And since I recently blogged about my upcoming top ten random lists of the year, I figured this would be a fun exercise to check out some slickly produced music videos, in which Korea is so known for. So here’s the top ten of the year:
I know, I know… Comparing Louis C.K. to KevJumba is such a weird and awkward statement, even though awkward is an understatement in C.K.’s brand of comedy. But, what he is doing with content distribution is what the likes of KevJumba and other Internet stars have been doing for awhile now — Going directly to their niche fan bases, bypassing middle men and successfully monetizing the whole process.
Louis C.K., who we absolutely love at YOMYOMF, just hit the $1 Million mark in earnings after he released his comedy special directly to his fans online for $5 a pop last week. He basically covered the costs of renting the Beacon Theater and a camera crew through ticket sales, edited and directed the comedy special himself and set up a micro-site and sold the video file via Paypal. Sites like CNN and NYT are calling this a warning sign to the studios because C.K. circumvented the distributors, and went straight to his fans. He didn’t care if they downloaded it, pirate it and share it amongst their friends. Check out this clip where he talks about making a million in only 10 days and how he gave most of it to his staff and charity.
Some Trekkie cleaned up some background sound of the Starship Enterprise’s idling engine noise and looped it in a 24 hour long sound file. Great for ambiance or pretending you’re on the Enterprise bridge alongside Captain Jean Luc Picard? Or is this a complete waste of time? Let me just say that I’ve ditched my “waterfall whisper” sounds for the smooth hum of a NCC-1701-D Galaxy Class starship. Sleep, make it so.
(Via io9)
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Karin Chien, Independent Spirit Award winning producer, who’s had numerous films premiere at Sundance and other world class festivals, is a formidable multi-hyphenate. Aside from producting films, she started a company that releases underground Chinese films in the US called dGenerate Films, does weekend producer workshops, and is working on a major forum geared towards Asian American content makers. She does it all.
One of her most recent films, CIRCUMSTANCE, premiered at Sundance earlier this year, where it won the Audience Award, and was released nationally this fall. It just came out on DVD last week. The film’s story explores homosexuality in Tehran and is a critics darling with rave reviews in The New York Times and has been a lightning rod in bringing a particular topic in Persian life into the forefront.
Since this is “awards season” and even though it’s a grind, it’s also a necessity to get your films noticed via awards nominations. Therefore, CIRCUMSTANCE was submitted for consideration to the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards. Karin and the producers knew it was a longshot… Until they got an e-mail on December 1st from PGA’s Director of Arbitrations & Legal Affairs saying “unfortunately under the current rule structure, we are unable to accept foreign language films at this time.”
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