KTown Cowboys watchers will recognize Lanny Joon. He plays the main character John Kim in the web series as a Virginia transplant to Los Angeles’ KTown, where he learns the lessons of KTown from his cousin’s friends. channelAPA.com spoke with him briefly about his role in the series and his favorite activities in KTown. Learn more about Lanny Joon on his website here.
KTown Cowboy Lanny Joon
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Mike-Dash-E does another collabo this time with HBK. Check out the music video for Heavyweight by HBK x Mike-Dash-E x Hollywood Keefy off the ClapCity Clapilation Volume 1 album. Download it for FREE here
Here’s a couple more Mike-Dash-E collabos: Take it There and Baby What You Drinkin.
Heavyweight by HBK x Mike-Dash-E x Hollywood Keefy (contains profanity)
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Brooklyn indie rockers, Audio Fiction’s new music video for Race the Hourglass is created entirely of Rock Band life like avatars of themselves, right down to the Audio Fiction logo on the bass drum. The band made the debut launch on Harmonix’s Rock Band Network back in March and released the video days ago. Audio Fiction has directed all their own music videos at close to zero cost by making creative decisions on how best to approach making them within a tiny budget. (Also see the music video Way Out.) The band’s bassist, Darren Korb actually created the video, assisted by drummer Mark O’Toole. Each of the band member avatars were created to look like each of the real band members. The bassist also authored the song in Rock Band.
Outside of the bassist, the band has internally debated whether they could actually score 100% in expert mode. The band plays The Studio – Webster Hall, NYC this Thursday June 17th 9pm. Look for guitarist Charles Park in the video and in person.
Pick up Race the Hourglass by Audio Fiction on 
and Amazon.
Race the Hourglass by Audio Fiction
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Guitar solo on Audio Fiction’s track ‘Race the Hourglass’ on Rock Band
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The folks at Arowana Films released a powerful music video F*CK the ROBOTS by Far East Movement off the Folk Music album. This project was conceived over 3 years ago as an experimental artistic collision of media and music. The vision was to blend “familiar” visuals in a context that is all too common with our mind’s eye. The images from the media invade our lives daily from beating, shootings, and riots. Why are these images so familiar to us? Is this the world that we choose to see? or is it the world that we live in? Ultimately, do we really have this choice?
Arowana Films seems to be producing more videos with a serious tone including The Man from North Korea and To Dream.
F*CK the ROBOTS by Far East Movement (contains profanity)
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Director Rik Cordero delivers a unique twist on the old school song “Video Killed the Radio Star” with his own version “Internet Killed The Video Star”. The song is electrified and modernized with the latest technology in the lyrics and special effects. Check out the music video fusing Deranged Fan x Jason Lam x Nami Unreal.
BTW – Rik Cordero is in the latest Sprite commercial. Look for it everywhere.
Internet Killed The Video Star by Deranged Fan x Jason Lam x Nami Unreal
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The 2010 Houston APA Film Festival kicks off today and runs through June 19, 2010. Through ‘edu-tainment’ of film and cultural performances, this annual event seeks to educate on issues, tell the stories of our communities, and to support Asian Pacific American artists and filmmakers. The emotional and visual impact of film, dance, poetry and music as an expression of the creativity of individuals, is the perfect medium to show the diversity and richness of the APA experience. Films to be screened include Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story, A Village Called Versailles, 9500 Liberty, Vincent Who?, and Wo Ai Ni Mommy. Get details on the film festival here. Film Screenings are free for anyone interested, but registration is required.
Transcending: the Wat Misaka Story Trailer
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