Surprise! Clearchannel is WACK!
Above is a billboard concept I was working on with Forecast the Facts to call out companies like Phizer, Microsoft & Comcast, which are throwing money at Heartland Institute – a conservative think-tank that recently put up a huge ad saying that if you believe in global warming then you’re just like the Unabomber, Osama Bin Laden, and Charles Manson.
Guys, I was UBER excited to see my first ever full-sized LED billboard go up, especially because it was going to be shown exactly in the same spot as the original Heartland billboard, overlooking the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago. Sweeeeet!
But alas, this is a concept that shall forever remain in the dwellings of my hard drive, for Clearchannel – the same good folks who had no problem projecting an image of Osama for Chi-Town to see – rejected our concept over property rights. Boooooooo!
BUT! As a neat consolation, we got featured in The New York Times!
Click here for more info on our campaign and how you can get involved.
The Adventures of Kim Jong Un
I hate that I love this. (via bombshelltoe)
Living through disruptive times, our family had to move thrice. On September 21, 1969, Sau Ping once again took the children to emigrate to San Francisco. At Easter 1970, we went on a trip to Sacramento and took this in front of the Capitol Building for remembrance.- Yee-Fat, Mexico City, Summer 1970
I’m often greeted with suspicion when I reveal to people that I’m Chinese. My last name “Luis” is the stamp left on my lineage when my grandfather & great-grandfather moved to Mexico City decades before the rest of my family settled in San Francisco.
My dad uncovered this bit of family history a couple of weeks ago. Consider it real-life Instagram.
My friends have expressed concerns that I’m dating a spy. (Taken with Instagram at Vietthao)
Source: editorrealtalk
Good bye, Maurice Sendak
I just got word that writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak has passed away. It saddens me deeply, he was one of the greatest defenders of childhood and imagination we had. His most famous works are Where the Wild Thing Are and The Night Kitchen, but my all-time favorite book of his is Chicken Soup With Rice, which is the song that taught me my months in the 2nd grade. The book is only twelve pages long, but it took my class a year to read it – my teacher unveiled a new page on the first of each month, and I anticipated it with the wild excitement.
Here’s the fantastic animated musical adaptation of the book, directed by Sendak and sung by Carole King, which my teacher didn’t show us until the last week of school. It’s filled with fantasy and delicious weirdness. The fact that I learned the phases of the months and seasons through this song – and that it comes to mind whenever I think of chicken soup – is some indication of why I view the world the way I do.
Thank you for all you’ve done, Mr. Sendak.
PS: Here’s a fantastic interview Sendak did on Fresh Air. It’s pretty damned sad, but it’s also an existential mindfuck. When I heard it in September, it touched me in a way that hasn’t quite left me, and probably never will. Enjoi!
A few months ago I launched Economist-Staff.com, a satirical take on The Economist, a publication that touts a global view but that features a monochromatic staff.
Much of my inspiration came from my dear dear compadre Josh Begley, mastermind of meme sites like Prisoncount.org & Racebox.org. Now he’s at NYU studying sciences & techniques behind internet viral behavior (watch out now!)
With some colleagues, his latest offering is Kickstriker, an ironic take on crowd-commodification. To me, it’s an effective critique both of supposed harbingers of change who argue that the sole barrier of social change is money – and of social clickers who are convinced that a Like and Paypal invoice means they’ve done their part.
What do you think?
Source: kickstriker.com
I promised I’d be better at keeping you updated about my design-double-life, so here goes…spanking-new website for NYC’s Asian American International Film Festival!!!!!
One of my gripes with film fest websites is that there’s never enough actual film to watch. So I worked with Asian Cinevision to pack this with loads and loads of trailers and short films…enough to whet your appetite to see stuff on the big screen.
Over the next few months we’ll be dropping the trailers for this year’s AAIFF, as well as a Tumblr archive of its 30+ years of film screenings. It’s gonna be sweeeeeeeeeet!
Ooooooh my boy learned Final Cut!
Check out this dope new poem from my fellow iLLian Dahlak.
#poemtitlesicantsay
Just because you bought a ticket to this museum doesn’t mean you’re not an exhibit. (Taken with Instagram at mumok)
