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Editorial

Jul 19, 2017

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POW! WOW! annual mural-making festivals leave legacies of beautified walls, create landmarks for locals and tourists alike, generate community, and foster civic pride. But being there during the painting is an opportunity not to be missed, and this is the third year I've been able to take my family to the opening event, which happened...

Editorial

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....

Editorial

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...

Editorial

Mar 04, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9785" align="alignnone" width="790"] Lindsey Ingram Photography[/caption] If you watched last weekend's Academy Awards, hopefully you noticed that Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture was nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture. The Cambodian/French co-production is an artful and ingenious retelling of the filmmaker's surviving the Khmer Rouge and its consideration was a milestone for Cambodians around the...

8 Questions

Jan 27, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9450" align="aligncenter" width="790"] Sophia Chang at the Agenda trade show in Long Beach (January 7, 2014)[/caption] I was introduced to Sophia Chang when we were working on interTrend's twentieth anniversary tenugui project together. Her contribution was an array of rapper portraiture done in a deceptively effortless-looking, pen-and-ink style. (Of course, the Queens creator's tastes lean...

Editorial, ICL

Oct 01, 2013

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After it was announced last week that artist David Choe would be the next speaker at Imprint Presents, it was hard not to recall last year's Q&A with him at the Art Theatre in Long Beach. Imprint/interTrend leader Julia Huang had arranged for him as well as his documentary filmmaker/Thumbs Up! sidekick/longtime friend Harry Kim...