Daily Archives: October 21, 2008

XXX : Forbidden Love Story

On October 11, 2008, Italian design company Diesel threw 17 simultaneous parties live as they happened around the globe for its 30th anniversary. (That’s how you get the XXX) During the party in Beijing, a short film by Alexi Tan (director of Blood Brothers) was shown starring Liu Ye and Gao Yuan Yuan with music by Miho Hatori. See the mini site for XXX : Forbidden Love Story. The short film went well with the party theme with peep shows and dancing girls.

XXX : Forbidden Love Story Trailer

XXX : Forbidden Love Story

At the Diesel BEIJING XXX party, you can see XXX : Forbidden Love Story running on the screen

Riverside Asian Film Festival

Riverside Asian Film Festival

Well, it’s kinda the Riverside Asian Film Festival. The San Diego Asian Film Festival is headed to Riverside. They are bringing 14 film programs to the University Village Cinemas, October 21-23. The first show each day is FREE for UC Riverside students!

Here’s the lineup for Riverside:

Tuesday, October 21st

5:30pm Oh Saigon

6:15pm Hollywood Chinese

7:00pm Planet B-boy

8:45pm Public Enemy Returns

9:15pm Manila and Beyond

Wednesday, October 22nd

4:30pm House of Sharing

7:00pm Kissing Cousins

8:00pm The White Silk Dress

9:20pm Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe

Thursday, October 23rd

5:00pm Mystic Ball

6:00pm Always : Sunset on Third Street

7:15pm Ping Pong Playa

9:20pm Animation: The Illusion of Life

9:30pm My Father

Riverside/San Diego Asian Film Festival Trailer

Wii Music

Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto demonstrated Wii Music at E3 over the summer. Wii Music makes it easy for up to four players to jam to tunes, even if they don’t know anything about music. Wii Music transforms the Wii Remote and Nunchuk™ controllers into more than 60 different instruments, including a violin, steel drums, electric guitar – even a cowbell. Players strum, shake, tap and drum along to the music in a pressure-free musical playground where there are no mistakes. They can improvise on their arrangements by skipping a note – or adding 10. The music always sounds great, but it’s up to players to come up with creative arrangements that they can then send to friends and family who have Wii Music. Those Wii Friends can then put their own spin on the arrangement and send it back and forth over WiiConnect24.

Creating a musical masterpiece is easy with Wii Music

• It’s easy to play improv jams. Musicians in your band jam by simply playing their instruments to the beat of a song or by improvising to their heart’s content. Play faster. Play slower. Skip a beat, or throw in 10 more. No matter what you do, Wii Music automatically transforms your improv stylings into great music. There are no mistakes—just playing for the pure joy of playing.

• Wii controls immerse you in the music. You can play most of the 60-plus instruments in Wii Music using simple motions with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers. Strum to play guitar, banjo and sitar. Drum to play jazz drums, congas and marching drums. Hammer away to play piano, vibraphone and marimba. Unlike most music games, Wii Music doesn’t make you use complex buttons. You only need to imitate playing the instrument.

• Wii Music offers virtually endless ways to make music. You choose the
song and instruments and decide whether to blaze through a rock take on classical songs, put a jazzy spin on folk tunes or transform Nintendo classics like the Super Mario Bros.® theme into Latin-flavored numbers. The song list is only a takeoff point—it’s how you improvise with the songs that matters.

• Send your band-jam recordings to Wii Friends who have Wii Music. They’ll see your Mii™ band members, your players’ improv styles and your instrument selections. They can watch your recordings, or play over parts of your song, then send their modified recording back to you. Improv jams can be sent back and forth over WiiConnect24 and changed again and again.

Buy Wii Music

Wii Music Trailer

Margaret Cho on Prop 8

Comedian Margaret Cho did an Apple-like ad for No on Proposition 8 in California. She did this while she was really sick because it was very important to her. Between takes she was nearly fainting, but you can’t really tell. Good lighting goes a long way. (The other person in the ad is Selene Luna. You can catch them both on The Cho Show.) Last week, Margaret also hosted Equalipalooza, a fund raiser to defeat Prop 8.

Remember to Vote in November. Californians know how important Prop 8 is for their state. Recent, surveys released indicated that Asian Americans are opposed to Prop 8.

Margaret Cho on Prop 8