Muslim organization, My Faith My Voice, created a powerful PSA against those who believe Muslim Americans don’t have a right to live or practice their religion in this country. Their message? We’re not here to take over your country nor do they support terrorism.
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Last week, former CNN producer, now the newly crowned Next Food Network Star, Aarti Sequeira went back to her “old stomping grounds” – the CNN studios. But this time, the bubbly Bombay-born chef was in front of the camera, chatting with her former colleague, Ali Velshi on Your Money about her path from unemployment to finding her true passion – cooking. And realizing, as she puts it – “There is such a thing as getting paid to do something you love.”
Any Kpop fan worth their kimchi should be very familiar with the monogram JYP. It stands for Jin Young Park, CEO of JYP Entertainment, the company behind such Kpop successes as 2PM (which has two Asian-American members, Nichkhun and Taecyeon), 2AM, Wondergirls, Rain, and most recently, miss A. His company has offices in South Korea and New York, where they recruit young talent and groom them for a chance to make it big in the entertainment industry. Park’s innate ability to find worldwide talent is recognized by many, including Usher.
Here’s a kick-ass story about Kim Ja Moon – a feisty 4’10’’ tall, 100 pound, no-nonsense, ain’t afraid to take down the bad boys, words of wisdom givin’ dry cleaning shop owner in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park.
The 25th Annual Miss Asian America was held on August 7, 2010 at the San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. Twenty-two Asian American girls from the ages of 17 -27, came from all over the United States to compete in this pageant. Sarah Liu, a 19 year old, was crowned the title of “Miss Asian America.”
While not as well-known as the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, the Miss Asian America pageant holds the good intention to integrate young Asian American girls into society. According to the Miss Asian America website, “The goal of the Miss Asian America Pageant is to showcase young Asian American women in a high quality production that will best represent their culture, beauty, intelligence and talent.”
Photo source: David Yu
Tan Le is a whiz woman. She is the president of Emotiv Systems–a company she also co-founded–which created a headset that allows its user to control virtual objects by reading the user’s brainwaves. To operate the headset, the user simply needs to think and concentrate on the desired action. It eliminates the need for a mechanical interface between humans and the virtual world (i.e. mouse, remote, keyboard).
Even better, the headset can also be applied to real life physical actions such as turning the lights on and off, controlling a remote-controlled helicopter, and even operating an electric wheelchair. One helpful feature of this headset is the fact that it’s wireless, so the user can use it anywhere. If this device becomes popular and widely-used, think of how life-changing it could be!
The ten-minute video is worth watching to learn more. The headset is just the first step to other revolutionary devices that will give humans the power of mind control.
(via The Huffington Post)
How in the world did origami extraordinaire, Satoshi Kamiya do this? I can’t seem to wrap my head around the complexity and intricacy of his 8-inch-tall paper marvel, Eastern Dragon. The folding alone took “40 hours, which was spread out over several months.” Unbelievable.
“Using rice paddy fields as their canvas,” local farmers and residents in northern Japan’s Inakadate village (Aomori Prefecture) get together every year to do the backbreaking job of plotting out and arranging a variety of different colored rice plants, which within three months – a rural masterpiece like the one you see above, will have finally sprouted into life. Just magnificent.
Cr: The New York Times, Daily Art Fixx, CBS News
I’m always in awe of talented people who can create stunning visual art by using nothing more than limited materials and having an extreme passion.
With that said, take a look at this mini papercraft metropolis called, Umi no Ue no Oshiro (A Castle On The Ocean). It took Japanese art student, Wataru Itou four years to construct – painstakingly cutting, folding, and gluing each piece. The futuristic marvel also features a color-changing lighting system and moving train.
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t mind living here!
How long would you wait for the one you love?
Better late than never.
Up until August 8, The Jubilee Project and various sponsors will donate $.30 for each and every view that the above, fetchingly sweet, video receives to LiNK: The Hundred, whose goal is to free 100 North Korean refugees. They have over 7,000 views already, but we can help them do better than that!
P.S. You have to watch until the very end or else you’ll be heartbroken-ly P.O’d like I foolishly was…oops.
cr: askakorean.com, jubileeproject.org
