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2009 San Diego Comic Con – Asian American edition

If you are at the 2009 San Diego Comic con, be sure to check out all the Asian American artists out there. We have seen a sampling with Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. They’ll be at Booth #1735. Along with editors Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow and Jerry Ma, they have scheduled appearances at the Secret Identities include Kelly Hu, Keiko Agena, Sonny Liew, Ming Doyle, Bernard Chang and more. Secret Identities Editor-in-Chief Jeff Yang moderates a Panel featuring Dwayne McDuffie, Gail Simone, Jai Nitz, Stuart Moore and Gene Yang. Check the full lineup here.

Over at Imprint TALK, they have a 4-part guide to navigate through San Diego Comic Con to see all the panels that include Asian-Americans (artists, actors, industry people) as well as anything and everything to do with Asian pop culture.

Thursday

Highlights include Spotlight on Gene Yang, MMA fighter Cung Le at Overture Films: Pandorum, and Focus Features: Thirst

Friday

Highlights Meet The Guild, Ming-Na at Stargate Universe, John Cho at Flash Forward & TV Guide Magazine: Sci Fi Hot List, Olivia Munn at G4: Attack of the Show, Anil Kapoor at 24, and Four Color Reality: Making Comics Relevant to Readers Across Cultures

Saturday

Highlights include Women in Manga, Grant Imahara at Myth Busters Q&A and Sneak Peeks, Chris Yen at Give ‘Em Hell Malone

Sunday

Highlights include Kelly Hu at The Spectacular Spider-Man, Nick Jr. Presents: Ni Hao, Kai-Lan and Wonder Pets!, 25 Years of Usagi Yojimbo: Spotlight on Stan Sakai, and Charlyne Yi at Overture Pictures: Paper Heart

Also the San Diego Asian Film Festival will be out there too at Booth #4019. BTW – if you can’t make it out there Angry Asian Man has an asian american superhero contest

Visit the Secret Identities booth at 2009 San Diego Comic Con

Featured Acoustic Playlist 2009 in San Diego

Cool event out in San Diego. The Featured Acoustic Playlist 2009.

Be a part of history at the first ever Official BlogTV Event to be held Saturday, July 25, 2009 at the Market Creek Amphitheater in San Diego, CA. All you favorite Asian American YouTubers will be out there. Live Performances by Ramiele Malubay (Top 9 Finalist, American Idol – Season 7), AJ Rafael, Passion, Gabe Bondoc, Cathy Nguyen, Sam Hart, Chris Cendana, Lydia Paek, and other YouTube Stars! The goal of this event is to showcase the musical talents of today’s youth, while sparking interest in art and music; thus bring people together in a common interest to raise money for a good cause.

This will be the biggest event that blogTV.com will have this year as well as being the largest acoustic music show ever conceived. Expected turnout is 1200+ with many blogTV and YouTube personalities attending. The event will open up opportunities to meet the artists and possibly give you the inspiration to emulate or follow in the artist’s footsteps. The overall expected outcome for this event to is bring the community closer in a common interest: music, primarily acoustic guitar, songwriting and piano. Get tickets here.


Featured Acoustic Playlist 2009 in San Diego

Luminance in San Diego

Cool event at UCSD. A bunch of up and coming Asian American artists coming together to showcase their skillz. Happy Good Friday!!

The Loft at UC San Diego Presents

LUMINANCE

Featuring Sam Kang, Olivia Thai, Seriously, and Jennifer Chung

The Loft at UC San Diego

Friday, April 10, 2009 / 8:00 PM

Doors: 7:30 PM

UCSD Price Center East, 2nd Floor

La Jolla, California

General Admission: $8

UCSD: *Pay As You Can

858.534.TIXS or www.theloft.ucsd.edu

The Loft shines a light on these rising Asian-American stars. Watch them shine on stage and share your support as they break into the mainstream.

Here’s a sampling of what you can expect:

Jennifer Chung (she changed her hair style)

Olivia Thai singing Soulja Boy

Seriously sining Irony

Sam Kang aka Geunjin

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers screening in San Diego

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Feb. 19

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is the first big screening for the San Diego Asian Film Foundation. This is the companion film for The Princess of Nebraska. Both films are based on short stories by Yiyun Li. Here’s the info about the screening:

synopsis: A father (Henry O) flies from China to comfort his newly divorced daughter in America, but finds himself lost in a different culture.

When: Thursday, February 19, 6:30 PM & 8:30 PM

Complimentary reception for attendees at 8 PM in theater lobby

Where: UltraStar Cinemas, Mission Valley Hazard Center

7510 Hazard Center Dr., San Diego, CA 92108

Tickets are $9 each. more details about the event here. There’s a couple of deals for food on that page too.

For Twitter users in the San Diego area, win Free Tix to “1000 Years of Good Prayer” Feb 19th. Tweet Out Favorite Asian Film with @SDAFF in message. You’ll be entered to win tix. Winner notified Monday.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Trailer

2009 San Diego Asian Film Festival – Call for Entries

The San Diego Asian Film Festival is turning 10. And you are invited to submit film entries. They are looking for the best in Asian and Asian American cinema. Mark your calendars:

10th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival

Oct 15-29, 2009

Call For Entries Deadlines.

Early Deadline: April 30, 2009 ($25 fee)

Late Deadline: June 10, 2009 ($40 fee)

Rules, entry forms, and festival info at www.sdaff.org

CASH prize for Jury Winner

2008 San Diego Asian Film Festival Trailer

San Diego jet fighter crash kills Korean family

By now, you may have heard about the San Diego jet fighter crash. When both engines of an F/A-18D Hornet failed, the pilot ejected to safety seconds before the aircraft slammed into the pavement on Cather Avenue near Huggins Street, about two miles west of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Sadly, the plane crashed into a residential area, where a Korean family had moved into the house just two to three weeks ago.

The crash happened around noon and took the lives of 36 year old mother Young Mi Yoon, her mother sixty year old Suk Im Kim, and her two daughters 15-month-old Grace and two-month-old Rachel. Suk Im Kim, had recently arrived from South Korea to stay a short time and care of the baby. The family is survived by the husband and father, Dong Yun Yoon, who had said goodbye to his family and left for work a few hours before the crash. He is getting a lot of support from his church, the Korean United Methodist Church in San Diego.

This is such a tragic story right before the holidays. Our hearts go out to the Yoon family.

San Diego jet fighter crash kills Korean family

Dong Yun Yoon talks to the press