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Ken Tanaka is hilarious. Today, I was filmed for one of Ken Tanaka's video spots. What an honor. It should be up in a few weeks. If you don't know Ken, he's the whitest Japanese man I've ever seen. I don't think he realized that he was holding the Raideen jumbo backwards, which is very Ken Tanaka. Also the Raideen is also missing it's left hand. Here's a video of what he sort of does.



Film #2. Documentary about Takashi Murakami. Happened at JANM, and we'll see how many moments that I'll actually make it onto a documentary. I'm sure I'm there for comic relief, since there's no doubt, big time curators, critics, benefactors, other artists, TV people, actors, rich folks, etc, and then me? Find me on the cutting room floor.

Slow News days

So it's for real. It's a cover image, the article is pretty short, and I think there's a couple of quotes in there. That's a huge image and big text. The article doesn't talk much about the mag, but it's our second cover there. Thanks AsianWeek.

The one below is the LA Times.

Downtown News

Latest Biennale News write up. I'll keep posting stuff until I can't handle it anymore. I guess! There's more coming, I'll be putting that up too when I get a chance. It's cool they quote JANM art director guy, Clement in it, and it's cool how we got on the same page first before doing any press type stuff. He called and casually asked me some questions first, then he got set and did some talking. That's smart prep.

The LA Downtown News.

Asian Pacific American Book Festival in Little Tokyo

Martin, I, Lela Lee (angry little asian girl), Phil Yu (angryasianman) spoke on a panel about basically being Asian American and doing what we do. Here's some pics. I don't have any highlights, but it was fun.

Little Tokyo - JANM and Imagawayaki

Little Tokyo - JANM meeting today, we met up to talk about this cool show that's coming up in the early summer that's about Japanese American landscaping, which for me more or less means, an exhibition about the JA gardeners who've changed the way people look at yards in Southern California. What was I doing there? Suggesting things to hopefully make the show better. It was informative and hearing words from a humble "gardener," to landscape professors to curators made this interesting.


Imagawayaki. It's a little disc of red bean. The outside is like a pancake, but a bit tougher, inside is warm red bean. One of the coolest things about Little Tokyo is that they make this in the little walk through area among new and older businesses. It's cool to see a person making it in the window. You walk in one step and get it fresh. Before she passed away, and while she knew she was ill, my grandmother went there. Imagawayaki are sort of heavy and big, and although her appetite wasn't great then, I think she knew it was the last time she'd have one. She finished the entire piece.

I stopped by here to pick up some manju. You can easily pick it up at the local Japanese markets, but there's a great feeling to get it from the company's flagship store.