Author: Martin Wong

Editorial

Dec 16, 2014

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Archiculture has been making the rounds at film festivals and architecture schools for a year now, and on Wednesday, December 17, it will be made available to the public via archiculturefilm.com and YouTube. The 25-minute documentary produced by Arbuckle Industries not only gives five architecture students the Spellbound or First Position treatment in an effort...

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Dec 09, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_12167" align="alignnone" width="790"] Point Lobos, California (July 1, 2014)[/caption] 2014 is about to end and not a moment too soon. We'll probably look back at it as an uneasy year riddled with tension between races and distrust of The Man from all sides. But there's some brightness to be found if you make an effort....

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Dec 02, 2014

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Who still buys books? Those antiquated, cumbersome, and tree-killing publications that have been rendered obsolete by digital media. Those overpriced eyesores on your bookshelves that are so heavy to move and make no sense to own when you can have it all on a tablet plus links, sounds, and other bells and whistles. Well, that...

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Nov 25, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_12025" align="alignnone" width="790"] Photo on right courtesy of Oliver Seil.[/caption] A few weeks ago, I was asked by my friend James Chu to do a talk for the Art Center Branding Atelier. I don't speak much about my years at Giant Robot magazine these days and branding isn't exactly my specialty. But how could I...

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Nov 24, 2014

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Of course, I would eventually meet Sunyoung Lee. She and I dove into indie publishing around the same time and have specialized in digging up and sharing Asian and Asian American culture that isn't lame. And she happens to be the publisher at Kaya Press, which not only released my friend Ed Lin's badass debut...

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Nov 11, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_11871" align="alignnone" width="790"] Mike Watt & The Second Men (Pic: Tiffiny Harshaw); Jenny Lewis, The Voyager (2014)[/caption] I've known Josh Mills for years now, through his work with the band and our mutual friends Dengue Fever, his music and comedy PR company, and our shared love of L.A. Kings hockey. But nowadays whenever his name...

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Nov 04, 2014

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Last week I got an email from my friend Tom Devlin, Creative Director of the Toronto-based indie, arty, and boutique comic publishing imprint Drawn & Quarterly. He was asking if I might answer some questions and contribute some thoughts to a 25th anniversary and hopefully not secret anthology that is slated to come out next...

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Oct 28, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_11710" align="alignnone" width="790"] Partners in Crime (Taiwan, 2014)[/caption] I was pretty stoked to score a pair of tickets to see the new Takashi Miike flick at the AFI Fest. We don't get to see works by the Japanese director on the big screen here in L.A. very often, and Over Your Dead Body is especially...

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Oct 21, 2014

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The phone call I got from ABC's Nightline earlier this month wasn't the first time a television producer had contacted me asking if I would provide my take on cosmetic eyelid surgery for Asians. I never asked to be a spokesperson on the topic but I'm pretty sure it started in 2004. A reporter who was...