Daily Archives: May 4, 2012

Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD)

Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD)

During one Asian American’s freshman year at UC Berkeley, he set out to create the most ridiculously automated dorm room in the school ever. Three months and several hundred dollars later, Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD) has been completed! With a motion detector, a wireless remote, a mobile app, a tablet, a motorized curtain, and voice control, this guy managed to build something very unique that all college students would clamor for. When all the pieces are assembled, BRAD can now turn lights on, sleep mode, homework mode, romantic mode, and of course, emergency party mode. Party mode has strobe lights, fog machine, and more. Time to hit that button.

Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm (BRAD)

Shadow by Alan Wilkis x Lyrics Born x White Hinterland

Shadow by Alan Wilkis x Lyrics Born x White Hinterland

SHADOW is the second installment from PRINTS, a series of singles by Brooklyn-based recording artist and producer, Alan Wilkis. The song is a collaboration between Wilkis, Lyrics Born and White Hinterland. The music has Lyrics Born telling a tale of one man’s obsession with a model. How far will he go with his addiction? How will things end?

Lyrics Born has been collaborating left and right as of late. Listen to more Lyrics Born: Call to Arms, My Own Little World, Hardship Enterprise , Coulda Woulda Shoulda, Funky Hit Records, Pushed Aside, Pulled Apart, Lies x3, and Moving On Up.

Shadow by Alan Wilkis x Lyrics Born x White Hinterland

Win tickets to Dark Shadows Film Premiere

Win tickets to Dark Shadows Film Premiere
Vampires have been hot the past few years from films like Twilight to TV shows like True Blood. channelAPA.com is working with Dark Shadows to giveaway tickets to their premiere in Los Angeles on Monday, May 7, 2012 at 7:30pm. If you’re not in the LA area, enter the giveaway and you might win a Dark Shadows Prize pack.

Here’s more about the movie Dark Shadows:

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

Dark Shadows Trailer

For the Dark Shadows giveaway, we’ve got two options:
1) If you’re in the Los Angeles area:
Send a tweet to “@channelAPA [insert Asian Vampire Movie] http://bit.ly/Kw1G9f #DarkShadows Premiere”

2) If you’re outside the Los Angeles area:
Send a tweet to “@channelAPA [insert Asian Vampire Movie] http://bit.ly/Kw1G9f #DarkShadows Giveaway”

All entries must be submitted by Sunday, May 6, 2012 at midnight. Winners will be randomly selected and will be notified by direct message (DM) via twitter. (hint: if you need an Asian Vampire movie, see below). Good luck!!

Asian / Asian American actors who have appeared in vampire movies!

Maggie Q as Priestess in Priest
Maggie Q as Priestess in Priest
Maggie Q kicks some serious butt as a vampire-hunting priestess in this post-apocalyptic science fiction actioner.

Lucy Liu as Sadie Blake in Rise: Blood Hunter
Lucy Liu as Sadie Blake in Rise: Blood Hunter
In this supernatural thriller, a female reporter (Liu) wakes up in a morgue to discover she is a vampire. Vowing revenge against the vampire cult responsible for her situation, she hunts each of the vampires down, one by one.

Ken Jeong as Daro in Vampires Suck
Ken Jeong as Daro in Vampires Suck
Jeong co-stars as Daro, leader of a vampire organization called the Zolturi – the FBI of vampires.

Jun Ji -hyun as Saya in Blood: The Last Vampire
Jun Ji -hyun as Saya in Blood: The Last Vampire
Jun (best known for her starring role in the Korean hit “My Sassy Girl”) plays a vampire who is part of a covert government agency committed to hunting and destroying demons in a post-WWII Japan.

Kate Beckinsale as Selene in the Underworld series
Kate Beckinsale as Selene in the Underworld series
Why is Kate Beckinsale on this list? Because she’s part Burmese! In the Underworld films, Beckinsale plays a creature of the night caught in the middle of a war between vampires and werewolves.

Malese Jow as Anna in the The Vampire Diaries
Malese Jow as Anna in the The Vampire Diaries
The Chinese-American actress/singer-songwriter played an ill-fated teenage vampire on CW’s “The Vampire Diaries.”

Jason Scott Lee as Father Uffizi in Dracula II: Ascension and Dracula III: Legacy
Jason Scott Lee as Father Uffizi in Dracula II: Ascension and Dracula III: Legacy
Best known for his portrayal of Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Lee stars in these sequels to Dracula 2000 (which featured a then unknown Gerard Butler in the title role) as Father Uffizi, a badass priest who hunts for The Count.

Ken Watanabe as Mr. Tall in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
Ken Watanabe as Mr. Tall in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
Watanabe takes a break from heavy dramatic roles to play the bulbous headed owner of Cirque du Freak.

Janina Gavankar as Luna Garza in True Blood
Janina Gavankar as Luna Garza in True Blood
Gavankar played a public school teacher and shape-shifter named Luna Garza, who gets romantically involved with one of the show’s main characters.

Prison Dancer Episode 5

Prison Dancer Episode 5

The fifth episode of Prison Dancer has been released. Pop journalist and memehunter Matt Wells discovers how Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao inspired LOLA and 1,000 hardcore criminals to dance, and meets HOOKAPS, the brains behind the first viral video. It’s the Pak Yow episode. There’s even a tutorial from Hookaps on how to do the boxing moves of the Pak Yow. Learn it and show everyone your new moves.

Previous episodes:
Prison Dancer Episode 1
Prison Dancer Episode 2
Prison Dancer Episode 3
Prison Dancer Episode 4

For sneak peeks of upcoming Prison Dancer episodes, see Step.

More about Prison Dancer
Prison Dancer is the story of 6 Filipino prisoners whose lives are forever changed by the dancing rehabilitation program that became a worldwide viral sensation on Youtube. Using surveillance footage, interviews with inmates inside the prison, and good old fashioned investigative journalism, pop culture journalist Matt Wells uncovers the personal, poignant, hilarious and universal stories of 6 prison dancers whose group dancing turned a maximum security jailhouse into a world stage.

Behind the prison walls, we meet inmates Ruperto Poblador aka LOLA (who along with his gay minions OO OO and NANA, choreographs the first prison dance routines), HOOKAPS, (the prison hustler), SHAKESPEARE (the prison’s resident poet) and CHRISTIAN, (the prison’s newest inmate) and discovers a tale of life, death, dreams, fears and ultimately, redemption.

Prison Dancer Episode 5

Pak Yow Dance Tutorial

Lyrics to Pak Yow from Prison Dancer

Pak Yow

(Do the Pak Yow)
Manny Pacquiao is his name
he will punch you in your brain
you can do just like he does
when you put on your boxing gloves

(Pak Yow! x4)

Manny Pacquiao is the best
You know he can beat the rest
Sometimes when you touch his punch
His fist will eat your face for lunch

(Pak Yow! x4)

Everybody duck the rope
duck the rope
duck the rope
duck the rope

Everybody rope a dope
rope a dope
rope a dope
rope a dope

BUBOY!!!

Manny Pacquiao is the king
king of all the Philippines
right jab
he can kick your ass
left punch
take off your moustache

(Pak Yow x4)

Who’s your coach?
Freddie Roach x8

Who’s your coach?
Ask yourself that question…

Don’t Kick The Chair by Dia Frampton x Kid Cudi

Don't Kick The Chair by Dia Frampton x Kid Cudi

Singer Dia Frampton x rapper Kid Cudi team up for the single “Don’t Kick The Chair” off Dia Frampton’s Red album. Look on the brighter side of things when things look down. Keep your hope alive. Don’t give up and kick the chair. Persevere and things will get better. You could be better all by yourself. Kid Cudi lends his laidback rhyming style to this opening cut from the album. You can get the track on Don't Kick the Chair (feat. Kid Cudi) - Red.

Listen to more Dia Frampton: The Broken Ones

Don’t Kick The Chair by Dia Frampton x Kid Cudi

Lyrics to Don’t Kick The Chair by Dia Frampton x Kid Cudi

Have you ever felt like everybody’s watching
Waiting for you to lose?
Have you ever felt like you’re living in a spotlight
Searching for the real you?
Tell me have you ever woken up
Just to wish you could close your eyes?
Getting hard to find a friend in a city like this
Where you can’t even trust a smile

There are lonely nights when you see no hope
And you’re feeling short of breathe
Like the whole damn world is a braided rope
In a noose around your neck

Don’t kick the chair
It’s gonna get better
Don’t kick the chair
It can only get better

Have you ever felt love, really really felt love
The kind that could save a life
But right before you know it you find out in a moment
You’re gonna have to say goodbye

There are lonely nights when you see no hope
And you’re feeling short of breathe
Like the whole damn world is a braided rope
In a noose around your neck

Don’t kick the chair
It’s gonna get better
Don’t kick the chair
It can only get better

(Kid Cudi)
Yep, yep, you know
If I can make it through then you can too
Yep, yep, I’m good, focus like always
Feels like I’ve been hit, hit, hit, by ten brick walls
Some people like to just sit, sit around and wait for you to fall
Then bound back way quicker than you fell down
Laugh in their face like what?
See nothing can break me
No no no no no no, listen
If you gotta think twice about life
Some really ain’t right
You don’t need no help
You could be better all by yourself, aah
You could be better all by yourself, aah
You could be better all by yourself, yeah
You could be better all by yourself, aah, whoa, whoa, whoa

Don’t kick the chair
It’s gonna get better (it’s gonna get better)
Don’t kick the chair
It can only get better (it can only get better)

Don’t kick the chair (yep, yep, you know, you could be better all by yourself)
It’s gonna get better (yep, yep, I’m good)
Don’t kick the chair (yep, yep, you know, you could be better all by yourself, aah, whoa, whoa, whoa)
It can only get better

COTDAMN by dumbfoundead

COTDAMN by dumbfoundead

Rapper dumbfoundead dropped a new single “COTDAMN”. He takes you to the studio to show you what he’s got flowing. His verses cover everything from women to fame to drugs. COTDAMN!!! dumbfoundead murking the beats.

You can download the track FREE below:

Listen to more dumbfoundead: Cellphone, Cool and Calm, For You, BRB, Are We There Yet?, and Love is a Song (DFD Remix).

COTDAMN by dumbfoundead (contains explicit lyrics)