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Imprint Culture Lab 2008: The Cult of Crafts

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Our previous post on Imprint Culture Lab 2008: The Cult of Collaboration was interesting. Imprint recently posted a few more videos. This one in on making and selling your own arts and crafts.

Their panel of the DIY/Crafts community leaders discussed their own work as it has garnered cult-status, and how that affects the larger world of curious creators working in tactile media.

Panel: Jill Bliss, Matt Stinchcomb, Jamie Chan

Moderator: Eric Nakamura from Giant Robot

The things we found interesting were founder Jamie Chan talking about Bazaar Bizarre and Matthew Stinchcomb talking about Etsy. Anyone with great arts and crafts can have their own business whether in person with Bazaar Bizarre or online with Etsy.com. We kept thinking of Joyce Wan, who started Wan Art while watching this clip.

Imprint Culture Lab 2008: The Cult of Crafts

Imprint Culture Lab 2008: The Cult of Collaboration

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The symbol of X has come to define an entire industry of collaboration. Collaborations between mega brands with street-level designers, cross category partners and artists have become a mainstay in consumer culture. Imprint Culture Lab panelists discuss the origin, results and potential future of this cult of collaboration.

Panel: Hiroshi Fujiwara x David Wilson, jeffstaple x Michael Kuhle

Moderator: John C Jay



Here’s some example of recent Asian American Collaborations:
Dance Like Michael Jackson Music Video (Wong Fu Productions x Far Eat Movement)

Sung Kang pitches JUMP shoes (Sung Kang x JUMP Shoes x Zappos.com x Arowana Films)
International Secret Agents Concert (Wong Fu Productions x Far East Movement)

Imprint Culture Lab 2008: The Cult of Collaboration

Secret Information from Marvin Candle

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For all you Lost lovers out there, if you haven’t seen this footage, check out the Secret Information about Lost from Comic-Con. The footage has Dr. Marvin Candle aka Pierre Chang aka Dr. Mark Wickmund aka Dr. Edgar Halliwax. Whatever you want to call him, in real life he is played by Cambodian-American François Chau.

Secret Information from Marvin Candle

Party with Dot Com Mogul John Chow in Vegas

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Dot Com Mogul John Chow wants you to party with him in Vegas. You can win one of two full conference passes to Blog World Expo, the biggest blogging and new media expo in the world. Blog World takes place September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The passes also include tickets to the opening night gala party. If you win, you’ll still need to arrange your own hotel and transportation to Las Vegas.

To enter this is what you need to do:

To enter for a chance to win a full conference pass to Blog World Expo, write a blog post on why you want to go, what you hope to get out of it and why you deserve the pass. Link to this post and send a trackback (or comment with the URL). The two best posts, as judged by me (John Chow) and a few other Blog World people, will received the passes.

This is our entry to John Chow’s contest:

There is only one reason we have to go to this conference

We want to be a dot com mogul too.

We want to meet, greet, and network with Asian Canadian dot com mogul John Chow. He can teach us a thing or two about being a mogul. (He’s one himself.) The guy’s total blog income for June 2008: $40,125.99. That’s bank, money!! He travels around the world and throws parties at CES. BlogWorld seems to be where fellow dot com moguls congregate. Last year Mark Cuban was there. Here’s some Asian moguls this year: Shama Hyder, Pat Kitano, Amra Tareen, and Lynn Truong. So John Chow hook a fellow Asian up.

John Chow on Breakfast Television telling you how to be a dot com mogul

Vote of 2009 SXSW Panel

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racialicious and angryasianman are trying to get a panel together for the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival. (Previously, members of the two sites were on a panel entitled “Challenging the Mainstream: Asian Americans in the Ethnic Blogosphere”at the NYC Asian American Student Conference.) The panel entitled “Can Social Media End Racism?” covers the tangled issues of race and privilege in our society come to a boiling point on the internet. Exploring the complicated place of race in society, this presentation examines the ideas of race in the digital environment with a specific focus on social media. Other speakers on this panel may include Jay Smooth from Ill Doctrine and Phil Yu from Angry Asian Man. If you want to support them, go here and vote. Your vote counts.

Voting closes on August 29. SXSW Interactive hopes to reveal the first batch of programming and confirmed speakers in October.

Here’s what the discussion could be like

The Mummy Panel at Comic-Con

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The cast of The Mummy : Tomb of the Dragon Emperor was present at Comic-Con. Asian actors were there in full force with Isabella Leong, Michelle Yeoh, and Jet Li. Isabella Leong make her Hollywood debut in this film. She learned both English and martial arts for her role. Michelle Yeoh and Jet Li battle each other in what is labeled “The fight that all of Asia has been waiting for.” Jet Li said he didn’t need to do too much. With all the special effects in the film, most of his shots were done with motion capture.

The Mummy Panel at Comic-Con Part 1

The Mummy Panel at Comic-Con Part 2

The Mummy Panel at Comic-Con Part 3