Daily Archives: August 4, 2011

Oh Baby by Diji

Oh Baby by Diji

Up and coming hip hop artist Diji gave channelAPA.com a sneak peek of his track “Oh Baby”. The song is going to be on his soon to be released mixtape “Who The F*ck is Diji?!” If you like what you hear, you won’t have to wait long, the mixtape drops August, 8, 2011.

Oh Baby by Diji

More about Diji
Joseph Siasat, better known under his stage name as Diji, is a Filipino Hip-Hop/Rap artist from Los Angeles, California. Born in the Philippines, Diji’s beginnings would lay the foundation of his sound and personal approach to music. Although Philippines is not exactly known for its abundance with any of the elements in hip-hop culture, Diji began to appreciate the art form after seeing a local artist perform in his town . At the tender age of 10, he developed a thirst for the culture especially the music, gradually researching and discovering hip-hop artists that truly captured his imagination and sparked his love for the music.

As Diji turned 12 years old, he and his family relocated to the United States. For Diji, it was a positive culture shock that will forever change his life, as he was then truly exposed to varieties of hip-hop expression. Beat boxing was his first niche’ with hip-hop, beat boxing at school grounds with friends as other rappers in his school would rap over his beat box. He enjoyed the camaraderie, acceptance and most of all the competition. With his competitive nature, Diji thought he could do what these rappers do at his school, so he began writing daily. He wrote verses whenever, wherever and about anything, he was instantly hooked at being able to express himself in the most creative way possible. As his writings progressed, his confidence grew exponentially every day until he finally broke out of his shell and began competing with the same rappers he used to beat box for during lunch and after school hours. He began to garner attention in school as one of the best doing it, releasing several remixes over popular songs and receiving local recognition for it. Diji’s raw talent and unlimited potential is evident, confident and certain that hip-hop music is his life and passion. Now under the Redlight Music Group management, Diji is poised to grow and develop as the artist he always pictured himself to be, one with no gimmicks, just a regular kid from humble beginnings with an extraordinary talent of expressing his life through music. Stay tuned, turn the volume up, get excited.

Minoru: Memory of Exile – short film

Minoru: Memory of Exile - short film

Minoru: Memory of Exile combines classical animation with archival material, and narrated by Minoru Fukushima. Directed by Michael Fukushima, Minoru’s son, the film shows the memories of a father interspersed with the voice of the son, weaving a tale of a birthright lost and recovered. The bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor thrust 9-year-old Minoru Fukushima into a world of racism so malevolent he would be forced to leave Canada, the land of his birth. Like thousands of other Japanese Canadians, Minoru and his family were branded as an enemy of Canada, dispatched to internment camps in British Columbia and finally deported to Japan. The 19 minute film has received numerous awards.

Watch more stories about WWII and internment camps: 442-Live with Honor, Die with Dignity, The Bridge : short film, Secret Identities – 9066, and Norman Y. Mineta: A Boy from San Jose.

Minoru: Memory of Exile – short film

Help fund Yes, We’re Open film

Help fund Yes, We’re Open film

channelAPA.com told you about the film “Yes, We’re Open” a few months back. The fourth feature film collaboration between director Richard Wong and writer H.P. Mendoza, “YES, WE’RE OPEN” was filmed on an ultra microbudget over 16 days in the San Francisco Bay Area. The script has a refreshing fun take on love, sex, and weird food. Here’s more about the film:

LUKE (Parry Shen) and SYLVIA (Lynn Chen) are the very models of modern individuals in a metropolitan relationship. Enter ELENA (Sheetal Sheth)and RONALD, the free spirited polyamorous couple who are hellbent on getting LUKE and SYLVIA into bed. A fun slice of liberal San Francisco life told as a sex comedy, but much more sophisticated than a bedroom farce, YES, WE’RE OPEN throws our unlikely heroes Luke and Sylvia into a hotbed of sex, jealousy, politics, sexual jealousy, sexual politics, sex and sex. And if they all play their cards right, there might even be some sex somewhere along the way.

Learn more about how you can support the film here.

Yes, We’re Open teaser

The Guild Season 5 episode 2

The Guild Season 5 episode 2

The Guild is at the gamer convention, but a room mix up has them all staying in one room. Six people sharing one hotel room does not a happy Guild make. When you’re dealing with cramp quarters things are guaranteed to get out of control. Codex tries to get her “game on” with Zaboo, but what do the other Guildies think about that?

Codex, Zaboo, Tink, Vork, Bladezz, and Clara need to get it together before the convention begins. Watch the episode entitled “Crash Pad”, which takes place entirely in a hotel room.

Previous episodes:
The Guild Season 5 episode 1

The Guild Season 5 episode 2

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