We need more Asian American badasses like James Shigeta. He's not a martial artist either! Funny that most of these clips are from almost 50 years ago. Can you imagine seeing an Asian American male in a romantic lead nowadays? With a white female? Inconceivable!

This has happened to me before. Except for the getting paid part.

Whoo hoo! Racist Super Bowl commercial! http://www.salesgenie.com/LandingAd/LandingAdSb.aspx?bas_vendor=70607 Check out the panda one (and to a lesser extent the third one). This is gonna start something for sure.

A painting I did for a church auction

( looky here )

In Fall '08, an anthology project called Secret Identities will be released. It will be collecting work about Asian-American superheroes created by Asian-American comic artists. It sounds like a really cool idea, and they're looking for more submissions, so I may even try to get in on the action. Just thought I'd spread the word, as well as make myself a reminder note for later.

http://www.secretidentities.org/

If you find the comic confusing, don't take it literally because it's meant to be allegorical. When it comes to Hollywood, Asians, particularly us Asian males, don't get the same kind of representation as other ethnicities. Asian males have mostly been limited to the roles of martial artists or bad guys. Bruce Lee's success was a double-edged sword because while he established a strong, positive Asian presence in the film world which didn't exist before he came on the scene, many Asian males who followed him were seen as nothing more than chop-socky guys. For whatever reason, American culture has trouble seeing us in a different light. Does it find Eastern cultures way too different for it? Recently with movies like Harold & Kumar and actors such as Daniel Dae Kim, the industry is taking steps in the right direction, but I think it's gonna be a while before us yellow folk reach the same status as Johnny Depp and Denzel.

an in-depth analysis of a confounding phenomenon:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5847984513475560733&q=yellow+fever

"Yo dawg, the first few lemmas in the Riemann Hypothesis are not that hard to prove fo sho."
http://www.bitterasianmen.com/
it's like the site was created just for me!