Posts filed under 'API'
There’s a growing list of technology speakers who are of Asian descent going on. I’ve been doing my fair share of naming people in the comments of the post, because lately I’m a little miffed (OK, “miffed” isn’t the word, really) that I don’t see more Asian representation out there in the technology sector. C’mon — it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that there’s an onslaught of Asians in the field, people. Please contribute the name of anyone you know of that has speaking experience in the technology sector, along with any associated links from previous engagements.
March 22nd, 2007
Pictures of APAture 8 from poeticdream.com
AUDIO: I’ve been emceeing a couple of events lately, one of which was closing night of APAture this year. Brandon, who was working the sound that night, decided to sample a couple of clips from the board tape and throw a beat behind it. I wish I could say that I don’t remember saying any of those things, but when you throw a mic and some beers in front of both myself and MJ, you can pretty much bet some silly sh!t comes tumbling out of our mouths. Also, I play a ditty on keyboard near the end of the track. Now, go and enjoy some seriously asinine audio at my expense. (Thanks Kenni.)
October 15th, 2006
Donating to Jane Kim’s campaign for San Francisco School Board is easy. You can do it online here. Thanks Jay, for the link. UPDATE: It appears that ChipIn has disabled the creation of new ChipIn accounts because they’re launching a new version in the next couple of weeks. So, in order to donate with that link you’ll need a pre-existing account with them. HOW INCONVENIENT. That must really suck for people that have fundraising in progress on the site, and new users of the site trying to donate. I’m just saying.
September 24th, 2006
I was at MJ’s blogging workshop as part of APAture a little bit later than I would have liked today, only because I was manning the monthly Locus Arts‘ Rent Party and stayed the duration of it the night before. There was a lot of great conversation during her workshop and it was really great to see more people in the APA community with a genuine interest in blogs and self-publishing.
I approached and helped with some answers to some small technical and business questions and after, there were some individual inquiries and requests that I could only breeze over as time to the next workshop would allow. So please, if anyone needs to follow-up, feel free to contact myself, MJ, and Alex. (Also, someone asked about disallowing hotlinking and modifying .htaccess files during the event, so here’s that link for you.)
A lot of the events have been pretty great thus far, and I’ll be on deck to kick off Tuesday and Saturday night at Space 180, so if you’re looking for something to do, by all means come out and support the arts!
September 24th, 2006
On Tuesday here in lovely San Francisco, APAture festival kicks off at 6pm at Space 180. APAture, a long-running multidisciplinary arts produced by Kearny Street Workshop now in its’ 8th year, showcases the various works of 100+ Asian Pacific American artists that either live or work in the San Francisco Bay Area. It “includes a visual arts show, film screenings, workshops, literary readings, performances in spoken word, music, dance, theater, and other performance genres, and an area for zinesters and comic artists to display and sell their work.”
Particularly of note this year are the participation of eight Mission District venues to showcase works, as opposed to previous years’ one. Yours truly will be on-hand to emcee the literary arts/spoken word and music events held on Tuesday the 26th with filmmaker, Bantercut bassist, buddy, and fellow Filipino Jim Espinas. In addition, I’ll be co-mastress of closing ceremonies on Saturday the 30th with neighbor, wacky gal pal, and fellow APA female blogger MJ Kim.
And lastly, in addition to all that — APAture’s organizer, Samantha Chanse — is sitting here in my living room right now. So if you’d like a brush of greatness, be sure to thank her if you do make it out to an event and enjoy it. (And she didn’t put a gun to my head to write this; I totally started it before she got here.)
September 18th, 2006
Originally uploaded by head.zoo.keeper.
My friend, neighbor, and a fellow Co-Director at Locus Arts, Jane Kim is running for San Francisco School Board! I recently had the chance to read her platform on her site, entitled “Working Together to Fix Our Schools”. I couldn’t help but notice one distinct parallel, among others, between both the use of technology to make media and local politics here in San Francisco; the keyword being democratization. (That is, I found it impressive that Jane’s campaign did outreach to the bloggers and not necessarily mainstream media, with thanks to MJ.) Using grassroots means to deliver huge impact it is not only a reflection of the fact that Jane “gets it” (after all, she is also a blogger herself), but isn’t this what technology lately has been all about?
And speaking of the democratization of media and the web in so many words, it was good to run into independent journalist and recently imprisoned vlogger Josh Wolf again at the event, who’s been fighting for his constitutional rights (and yours and mine for that matter) since I last saw him. He’s a free man and out on bail for now. Let’s hope it stays that way.
September 17th, 2006
