“The Flip Book Project is a photographic book and exhibition project that aims to celebrate the achievements of Filipino Americans to American culture and society through photographs and the written text. Conceived by photographer Cat Jimenez and designed by Artist and Designer Gloria G. Galang, the goal of this project is to preserve, document and celebrate our enumerable stories for future generations of Filipino-Americans.”

The Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco recently hosted a photoshoot at the historic I-Hotel, and I was able to get a sneak-peek at some shots and their insights on embarking a project like this. Other stops they plan on making, after photoshoots in California include New York City in the near future, with more cities and stops on the way to be announced.

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Tags: filipina, filipino, pinoy, pinay, photograph, photographs, portrait, artist, designer, photographer, art, exhibition, cat jimenez, gloria galang, joe bataan, rex navarrete, bambu

Music:

Download “Matriphony” (mp3)
from “Return Of The DJ 5.5 Optimized”
by DJ Jester The Filipino Fist
Bomb Hip Hop

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Download “Suckas (Sucka DJ Dis)” (mp3)
from “Return Of The DJ Vol. 1″
by DJ Babu
Bomb Hip Hop

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“Sell Your Stories Here” is a mixed media gallery installation from artist Fernande Conrad. As the Artist in Residence at The Luggage Store Annex, a gallery in San Francisco, California, Conrad explores storytelling themes and a sense of community in this work.

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Tags: art, gallery, fernande, conrad, mixed, media, sanfrancisco, california, videobloggingweek2007

Music: Download “Don’t Go Down to Sorrow” (mp3)
from “Don’t Go Down To Sorrow”
by 65daysofstatic
Monotreme Records

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The MattMobile hits 100,000 miles.

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Tags: car, miles, photomatt, mattmullenweg, mullenweg, chevrolet, lumina, mattmobile, videobloggingweek2007

20×2 is an event that features twenty speakers answering the one question posed for two minutes each. (More about 20×2 from the creators, here.) Above is a video that I produced for 20×2 v. 7.0., which was performed at The Parish in Austin, Texas during South by Southwest 2007. This is my two minute response in video form based upon the question, “What if?”

Special thanks to my friend Nicole, who took the still above of the event.

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Tags: agendacide, sxswi, sxsw, sxsw2007, sxswi2007, 20×2

Music: Download “Leaving Ohio” (mp3)
from “Trying To Figure Each Other Out”
by Brandtson
Deep Elm

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Back in the day, I lived with my very cool housemate Scott in Brooklyn and his wonderful dog, Mazzy. Scott owned the Williamsburg, Brooklyn studio that birthed the Yeah Yeah Yeahs breakthrough album, Fever To Tell, and was the album’s primary sound engineer as well.

At the time I met him, he was looking to get out of Jersey and needed a housemate because he was moving his studio to Brooklyn. I was breaking from a bad relationship and needed out of my living situation with the crappy boyfriend I had at the time, and that’s how we became housemates.

When I think about the YYYs in particular, I think of Scott. As Fever To Tell was the definitive soundtrack of that particular scene and those times, it’ll take me back. Though I’m sitting here on the opposite coast and within a different stage of my life, what life does that album take on then? What life do those songs take on then? My auditory memory has a tendency to remind me of things through music. I wonder sometimes if those songs remain the same for me, or not.

On the surface, that may be the case. In a different space and time and place with different people, not so much.

Interesting video that exemplifies that concept… and interesting results to boot. (Thanks to kevnull for firing over the link.)

So, Matt sent this to me like it was the best thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately, this animated video of the Star Wars gangsta rap is really old… I’d say the interwebs circa 1999. However, I do have to say that it seems to be an extended version of the song from what I remember.

Furthermore, let’s see how my Hemingway template deals with this li’l embedded video..

Star Wars Gangster Rap

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(See Matthew, I blogged, are you happy now?) =) (The “Add to WordPress” is really sweet. Also, I think tags need to be cleaned up quite a bit. You might want to revert the lowercase tags to the capitalized versions of themselves, but that would seem to be quite the database cleanup.)

Average expense to go to your wedding: plane tickets, gift for you guys, hotel room, possible rental car. I tend to also ration my plane trips to New York so that I don’t have to deal with my own brand of family guilt.

I am sure your wedding will be great and I’m so honored to have been invited to witness your union. I suppose I did it to myself though, and should have known this when I joined an Asian sorority.

I am seriously backlogged on wedding gifts from 2 years ago and feel like a bum at my age. But you’re both welcome to crash at my thirtysomething hovel-of-an-apartment that I never hang out in anytime if you’re out here. You’d just have to deal with my roommate, is all.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In Windows, go to your Start menu.
2. Find the icon for "Run…" and click it.
3. When the prompt comes up, type this: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
4. Witness the awesomeness.