Editorial

Editorial

Last Thursday, I drove over to Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood to attend the release party for my friend Justin "Scrappers" Morrison's new magazine. It's pretty bold for anyone to start a print publication these days, but that's how Scrappers approaches his life, art, and work. He just goes for it. And Scrappers has had...

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Last week, I attended the final meeting of the Programming Committee for this year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Next month's screenings will be the thirtieth annual showcase of movies, shorts, and other cinematic endeavors presented by the Little Tokyo-based collective of activists and entertainment insiders. I belong to neither camp but am flattered...

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I recently purchased a bottle of perfume for my wife, she mentioned she really liked the certain scent. So I went out and got it for her, and I did some googling and realized I had just stumbled on to a company that’s been around since before 1612. Santa Maria Novella originating in Florence has...

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Sometime around 2000, I met Greg Girard the old-fashioned way: I sent a letter to the publisher of City of Darkness, a brick of a photo book about Kowloon Walled City that Greg made with his friend Ian Lambot. Through a series of letters, faxes, and phone calls, I eventually interviewed the then-Shanghai resident about...

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On Sunday, Eric Nakamura and I gave a 20th anniversary presentation about Giant Robot magazine at GR2. As co-founders of the publication, we gave plenty of talks about it at colleges, companies, museums, and juvenile halls from 1994-2010. They were always fun, equal parts (1) behind-the-scenes stories about starting a stapled-and-folded zine about Asian, underground,...