Category Archives: fashion

Michelle Phan – Youtube’s #1 Guru

Wow another Asian American has reached the #1 rank on YouTube most subscribed list. This time it’s makeup guru Michelle Phan aka RiceBunny. She’s now the top guru on YouTube with makeup tips and tricks along with creating unique looks like Lady Gaga, Sailor Moon, and Barbie. Congrats to her #1 status with over 500k subscribers.

BTW – Ryan Higa aka Nigahiga is the #1 YouTube’s all time list and the comedian categories.

Michelle Phan’s most viewed video – Lady Gaga makeup tutorial

Good Hygiene Gets Girls by Wong Fu Productions

Wong Fu Productions latest video “Good Hygiene Gets Girls” pokes fun at how little guys have to do to get ready to go out. We all love watching the makeup gurus with their tips for girls to get pretty. Girls get lots of tips on how to get ready…well, how about some tips for guys? Rick (Phil Wang) gives his advice on what guys can do to impress the ladies. How much do guys really need to do to get ready? Learn these seven tips from Rick and his suggestions for altenatives:

1. wash hair

2. wash face

3. wash body

4. shave

5. Lotion

6. brush teeth

7. put something in your hair

Here’s a brief background on the concept of Rick’s Man Tutorial.

The idea just came one night on the drive to dinner. I had just seen a makeup tutorial online and thought, wow, there are so many things for a girl to do with makeup… and inversely thought, it’d be funny if a guy made a something of the sort. Wes and Ted had the good idea of giving “Rick” a backstory just to give it a little more depth, hence the “ex girlfriend”.

Don’t forget the outtakes below too.



Good Hygiene Gets Girls by Wong Fu Productions

Good Hygiene Gets Girls Bloopers

BTW – Wong Fu is donating a portion of their revenue this month from their online store to UNICEF to help aid Haiti. Please visit their site for more info, or help whichever way you see fit.

DJ Neil Armstrong x Adidas

Sweet footage of a day in the life of DJ Neil Armstrong and his collabo with adidas. He was Jay-Z’s tour DJ. Now, he’s a pitchman for adidas. See what happens when music and fashion collide.

A Day In The Life : DJ Neil Armstrong

DJ Neil Armstron x Adidas

Adidas x Star Wars (DJ Neil Armstrong at the 26 second mark)

update: another Adidas commercial with DJ Neil Armstrong

Top Videos for 2009 on channelAPA.com

To end 2009, we’d like to thank our readers, fans, followers, supporters, the people that granted us interviews, and the people behind the scenes of channelAPA.com. Without you, our success would not be possible. In 2010, we hope to continue our rapid growth rate.

Here’s some of the top 8 videos for 2009 on channelAPA.com:

1. Be a Hiro and get Olivia Munn

When we first got contacted on this video being shown during an episode of Heroes, we knew we had to post this. Masi Oka and Olivia Munn in the same short. Olivia Munn even gave us a shoutout on twitter. Speaking of Olivia Munn, she tore it up in the last half of 2009 from hosting the Bingathon to grabbing magazine covers on Playboy, The Hundreds, and her own Hey Olivia to blitzing the late night talk show circuit with Jimmy Fallon, Geroge Lopez, and Carson Daly. BTW – She concludes 2009 and start 2010 on the cover of Maxim Magazine on stands now.

2. Canadian, Please

This video caught us by surprise. A majority of our posts are about Asian American entertainment in the US. When “Canadian, Please” went up, we started seeing an influx of Canadian readers. Props to Andrew Gunadie (aka gunnarolla) and Julia Bentley for this comedic video about Canadian pride. BTW – you can even get the song on Andrew Gunadie & Julia Bentley - Canadian, Please - Single.



3. Lydia Paek with Boxcuttuhz

Remember America’s Best Dance Crew Season 3? We saw the likes of Lydia Paek, Rino Nakasone, Team Millenia briefly, and of course the season winner Quest Crew. We miss all the Asian Americans on the show. BTW – did you see Quest Crew in the music videos for I Wanna Rock with Snoop Dogg x Quest Crew x Far East Movement and Outta Control with Baby Bash x Pitbull x Quest Crew

4. Judith Hill – Heal the World singer at Michael Jackson Memorial

With the sad passing of the King of Pop, we saw the influence he had in the Asian American community including Dance Like Michael Jackson. During the memorial service, we got a chance to see the discovery of Judith Hill with her rendition of Heal the World.

Disney Pixar UP shirt

5. Jordan Nagai as Russell in UP

Pixar released UP with one of the central characters, Russell, as an Asian American kid. We didn’t really see that coming as Hollywood whitewashed a lot of Asian American roles like 21, Dragonball Evolution, and The Last Airbender. Props to Jordan Nagai, the voice of Russell.

6. Ken Jeong in The Hangover

Ken Jeong was everywhere this year from films to TV. As Access Hollywood’s Rising Star, he was seen in The Hangover, The Goods, Sayonara Davey for Funny People, and WWE. Currently, he’s on NBC’s Community as Senor Chang.

7. Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (LXD) on So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD)

When Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (LXD) appeared on TV, our site went out of control. Jon M. Chu’s LXD, formerly the League of Extraordinary Dancers, is going to change the way we see dancers in 2010. Get Ready for LXD in 2010. He’s already done it with The Biggest Online Dance Battle in YouTube History, Step Up 2, and the Election Dance Off

8. Charice Pempengco singing at the Presidential Inaugural Gala
The Inauguration of Barack Obama put several Asian Americans in the limelight including Maya Soetoro-Ng – Barack Obama’s Half Sister, Konrad Ng – Barack Obama’s brother-in-law, Jason Wu – Michelle Obama’s Inauguration Gown Designer and Yo-Yo Ma. Charice Pempengco got a chance to perform “God Bless America” at the pre-inaugural gala with Maya Soetoro-Ng and Konrad Ng. A few months later with the help of Oprah, she released Note to God.

We couldn’t stop at 8, so here’s a couple more:

9. Kylie in a Sony Vaio commercial

10. Jin vs Dizaster and Illmaculate on GrindTime

Our party theme music for 2009: Far East Movement’s Girls on the Dance Floor. We’re closing out the year with this song.

Here’s all the top songs in 2009 mashed up into one. United State of Pop 2009 by DJ Earworm (with Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow and I Gotta Feeling along with Jay Sean – Down)

Olivia Munn on the cover of Maxim

Olivia Munn’s been tearing it up in the last half of 2009 from hosting the Bingathon to grabbing magazine covers on Playboy, The Hundreds, and her own Hey Olivia to blitzing the late night talk show circuit with Jimmy Fallon, Geroge Lopez, and Carson Daly. She’s not done yet. She’s got the cover of the January 2010 issue of Maxim and she’s bringing the hotness on this shoot.

Check out the video below for some behind the scenes footage. Olivia Munn is jumping on a trampoline and eating Cool Whip. The Maxim issue comes out on Thursday. We’re expecting big things from Olivia Munn in 2010. Almost forgot our favorite video of Olivia Munn this year “Be a Hiro and get Olivia Munn“. Watch the extended version.

Behind the scenes of Olivia Munn’s cover shoot for Maxim