The animated short film “Chicken or the Egg” is an offbeat romantic comedy about a pig, Henry, who has an EGGdiction to eating eggs. But when he falls in love with the hottest chicken in town, Evelyn, he must choose what comes first… the Chicken or the Egg. The short is a student animated film by Christine Kim and Elaine Wu from Ringling College of Art and Design.
Internet Icon Season 2 continues with episode 3 “The Vlog/Ugly Truth Challenge”. The Top 9 contestants compete in “The Vlog/Ugly Truth Challenge” where they have 5 hours to shoot and edit a vlog video that compares two ugly truths using any prop(s) and/or actor(s) from the ICONography Area. YouTuber Phil DeFranco joins Ryan Higa, Christine Lakin, and Timothy DeLaGhetto as a guest judge. They critique each of the Vlog/Ugly Truth videos, deliberate, and then eliminate one contestant.
Top 9 contestants include
Will Pacarro
The Shields Brothers
Bad Weather Films
Stellar Lense Productions
The Kloons
Megan Batoon
Matthias
Shama Llama
Joule Thief
Get ready for a new way to watch theater…online. The play “Yellow Face” follows the misadventures of an Asian American playwright named DHH who leads the protest against the yellow face casting (the practice of casting Caucasian actors in Asian roles) in the Broadway production of “Miss Saigon”, only to mistakenly cast a Caucasian actor in an Asian role in his own play.
“Yellow Face” is based on David Henry Hwang’s play of the same name for which he received his third Obie Award in Playwriting and made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hwang is an acclaimed playwright whose works include “FOB”, “Golden Child”, “Aida”, “Chinglish” and “M. Butterfly” for which he won the Tony Award.
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“Yellow Face” is directed by Jeff Liu, a theater veteran and Literary Manager at East West Players (the nation’s oldest and most respected Asian American theater), and features a cast with experience in film, TV, theater and YouTube including Ryun Yu (the first Korean American to graduate from London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Christopher Gorham (“Covert Affairs”), Linda Park (“Star Trek: Enterprise”), San Shimono (original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures”), Emily Kuroda (“Gilmore Girls”), Ki Hong Lee (“The Nine Lives of Chloe King”) and popular YouTube personality Justin James Hughes.
The web series 88 Jade Way continues with episode 3. Mr. Fu investigates the disappearance of Red’s teen-idol posters, which involves several tenants. But things go from bad to worse as he finds a homeless man scoping out the basement. Later it’s revealed that this is all part of Mr. Moolah’s plan to steal the apartment building away from Mr. Fu and turn it into luxury condominiums.
The ISA! Variety Game Show concludes with episode 4. Hosted by Amy Okuda, Philip Wang, and gamemaster Yoshi (KevJumba), the show continues with some breakfast preparations for contestants Ted Fu, Jen (FrmHeadToToe), David Choi, Clara C, Ally Maki, Freddie Wong, Brandon Laatsch, Wesley Chan, Mike Song, and Anthony Lee. Each team preps toast, tomatoes, bacon, and eggs to deliver it to Yoshi in bed. Find out which team did it the fastest. The losing team gets the taste of defeat from wasabi guacamole
With the Top 10 contestants selected, Internet Icon Season 2 continues with The Next YouTube Trend Challenge with judges Ryan Higa, Christine Lakin, and Timothy DeLaGhetto along with host Chris Riedell and mentor Nick Riedell. The contestants compete in “The Next YouTube Trend Challenge” where they have 5 hours to shoot and edit a video that they believe to be the next YouTube trend using any prop(s) and/or actor(s) from the ICONography Area. Helping to judge this round is Wong Fu Productions with Phil, Wes, and Ted. They critique each of the YouTube Trend Challenge videos, deliberate, and then eliminate one contestant.
Top 10 contestants include
Will Pacarro
The Shields Brothers
Bad Weather Films
Stellar Lense Productions
The Kloons
Megan Batoon
Matthias
Shama Llama
Anthony Ma
Joule Thief
See who has what it takes to be the next Internet Icon.
