Archive for the ‘Arts & Culture’ Category
Thanks Mary for sharing this “open letter” by Phonte. It captures a lot of what I’ve been trying to articulate about Michael Jackson and my frustration with the U.S. media’s portrayal of his life and work. R.I.P Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009) My Hero Ain’t Molest Them Bitch Ass Kids: A Kaing’s Tribute I haven’t [...]
We featured Kian Goh at the Unspoken Borders Conference this year, during the Talk20 session. Having Goh be part of the conference was fantastic, particularly because of her direct engagement with the queer community on design issues. One of her projects is featured in our hot-off-the-press publication. She was also recently interviewed by the American [...]
Last Saturday I went to check out the Mid-Autumn Festival organized by Asian Americans United and the Philadelphia Folklore Project. The first time I had heard about this event was several years ago through my involvment with the Detroit Asian Youth Project and our efforts to engage youth with cultural arts and activism. There’s a [...]
I have a small confession; I like to watch CBS Sunday Morning. If you have ever seen this news show, you’ll know that it is catered to a much older (than me) audience, mostly because it doesn’t use a lot of flashly graphics, and I don’t know of very many mid-twenty year olds that wake [...]
The writing is punchy and imaginative, and I imagine that if read aloud, the short chapters would sound like spoken word. I’m really digging how the author captures the experience of waiting for a train: This is the fabled journey underground, folks, and it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. [...]
Before going to see the newly opened MOCAD, my friend and I spontaneously decided to enter and explore the Michigan Central Depot. It was surprisingly easy to get in from the tunnels. We were walking in darkness for a minute, before suddenly stepping into the expansive main lobby/waiting area (represented in the photo above courtesy [...]
I just found out about this documentary film called Yellow Brotherhood (released in 2004), a group of Asian American former gang members who create a “self-help” group to help their community in the 1960s. I had met the filmmaker a few years ago through a mutual friend in LA. We were chatting at a party, [...]
Okay, so I didn’t take this photo, but I do love growing vegetables and urban gardening! This photo is part of a fantastic photography collection of produce from NYC’s Grand Army Plaza weekly greenmarket. Yes! Magazine featured some of these photos in a recent article on how greenmarkets and other farmers markets can promote fresh [...]
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An investigation of the systems, infrastructure, and design processes that create or perpetuate socio-economic and environmental stratification of communities, this publication explore issues of the environment (constructed, cultivated or untended), public health, mobility and access, communication, and race, class and culture. Featuring authors from design fields of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and urban design.
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