Here’s an interesting McDonald’s site. McDeezy is getting into APA Heritage Month. You can even learn some phrases in Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Japanese, and Korean here. Are you lovin’ it?
This reminds us of a Far East Movement – McDonald’s Commercial
Myinspirasian.com – I’m lovin’ it
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The Center for Asian American Media in collaboration with artist Kip Fulbeck presents HAPAS.US. This new interactive website is part of a year long project where multiracial Asian Americans can share their stories about the hapa experience by providing an online gathering point. HAPAS.US members can share videos, words, ideas, audio, photos, and meet other hapas.
channelAPA.com sat down with SFIAAFF Festival Director Chi-hui Yang and talks about how the festival is supporting the HAPA/MULTIRACIAL community.
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Press conference announcing HAPAS.US
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This is an interesting web series we just heard about, the Guild. It’s kinda like a geeky version of Friends. The online series is a independent sitcom webisode about a group of online gamers. It is written for gamers, about gamers by a gamer. Episodes vary from 3-6 minutes in length, and follow the Guild members’ lives online and offline.
The Guild is finishing season 2 today. Two of the supporting characters from season 1 and 2 are Asian. Sandeep Parikh who plays Zaboo the Warlock and Amy Okuda who plays Tinkerballa the Ranger. In season 2, a new character emerged Wade played by Fernando Chien. The web series got support from Microsoft, so Season 2 is on Xbox Live/MSN Video/Zune Marketplace. Check out the series here.
The Guild. Here’s the very first episode that kicked it off.
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Olivia Munn challenged Attack of the Show viewers to sign an online petition. If she got 10k signature, she would jump into a pie. The signatures quickly passed 10k and the the ante upped. If 50k signed the petition, she would jump into the pie with a naughty French maid outfit. In the end, over 60k people signed the online petition. Olivia wore her skimpy French maid costume and jumped into a chocolate cream pie, destroying the G4TV studio with 3,000+ lbs. of pudding. (Olivia’s always doing crazy stuff. Remember Tokyo Dance Trooper dancing with G4TV’s Olivia Munn.)
Olivia Munn celebrates Pie Week by jumping into a chocolate pie
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Continuing the pie theme, Olivia also made a promo video about the relaunch of her website. The new wordpressed site has photos, videos, downloads, twitter, fan club and more. Also it looks like the site is part of the Complex Media Network.
OliviaMunn.com promo video
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The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a partnership between the Palace Museum and IBM. The goal of the project is to provide the means for a world-wide audience to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history. The website gives gives you the ability to enter the gates of the Forbidden City and enjoy a full immersive experience inside the walls of the Forbidden City.
The Virtual Forbidden City is a 3-dimensional virtual world where visitors from around the world can experience the Forbidden City in Beijing. You can explore the magnificient palace as it was during the Qing dynasty, which ruled from 1644 until 1912, the end of the Imperial period in China.
The Forbidden City was created to embody the idea of the emperor as the center of the universe, and to evoke a visceral sense of his power. This huge palace complex was completed in 1420 and covers more than 72 hectares (178 acres). It contains hundreds and hundreds of exquisite buildings and historic artifacts. Now, using virtual world technology, you can experience the awe inspired by this vast and amazing space. And rather than experiencing its wonders in isolation, the Virtual Forbidden City allows you to see and interact with other users and a range of helpful automated characters. As you explore the Virtual Forbidden City, you can choose to simply observe the buzz of activity, or you can take tours and participate in activities that provide insights into important aspects of Qing culture.
While it provides an immersive and compelling experience in its own right, the Virtual Forbidden City also provides an unequalled way to plan a visit to the Palace Museum in Beijing, as the Forbidden City is now known. If you are lucky enough to be able to visit the Palace Museum, you will be much better able to find your way and to understand the significance of places and things that you encounter because of your experiences in the Virtual Forbidden City.
Given the depth and longevity of Chinese history and culture, the Virtual Forbidden City can only begin to reveal the countless amazing stories that can be told. Hopefully, your explorations here will encourage you to learn more about what you encounter, and to continue to return to the Virtual Forbidden City to discover things that you haven’t yet experienced.
The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a partnership between the Palace Museum and IBM. The goal of the project is to provide the means for a world-wide audience to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history. The website gives gives you the ability to enter the gates of the Forbidden City and enjoy a full immersive experience inside the walls of the Forbidden City.
The Virtual Forbidden City is a 3-dimensional virtual world where visitors from around the world can experience the Forbidden City in Beijing. You can explore the magnificient palace as it was during the Qing dynasty, which ruled from 1644 until 1912, the end of the Imperial period in China.
The Forbidden City was created to embody the idea of the emperor as the center of the universe, and to evoke a visceral sense of his power. This huge palace complex was completed in 1420 and covers more than 72 hectares (178 acres). It contains hundreds and hundreds of exquisite buildings and historic artifacts. Now, using virtual world technology, you can experience the awe inspired by this vast and amazing space. And rather than experiencing its wonders in isolation, the Virtual Forbidden City allows you to see and interact with other users and a range of helpful automated characters. As you explore the Virtual Forbidden City, you can choose to simply observe the buzz of activity, or you can take tours and participate in activities that provide insights into important aspects of Qing culture.
While it provides an immersive and compelling experience in its own right, the Virtual Forbidden City also provides an unequalled way to plan a visit to the Palace Museum in Beijing, as the Forbidden City is now known. If you are lucky enough to be able to visit the Palace Museum, you will be much better able to find your way and to understand the significance of places and things that you encounter because of your experiences in the Virtual Forbidden City.
Visit The Forbidden City: Beyond Space & Time program can take part in activities such as archery, cricket fighting, and playing the ancient game of Weiqi.
The Virtual Forbidden City
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Another Asian American site is about to go RIP. Fallout Central is an online space designed to inform, spur dialogue and mobilize Asian Americans against the racism and prejudices facing us in the United States and beyond. Their goal is progressive social change through education, organized action and other non-violent means and methods. They accomplish this through their podcast, services, and blog. This note appeared on the Fallout Central site recently:
Dear Faithful Fallout Central Fans,
The last Fallout Central Podcast (for the foreseeable future) was held on Sunday, 7/20/08 at 2:00pm ET. The Fallout Central Podcast, formerly composed of announcers William Lee, Albert Lim, and John Kwak, will no longer be recorded until an Asian American person steps forward to lead Fallout Central. The historical podcast episodes and news archive will remain intact until I am no longer willing to pay for the retention of the Fallout Central web server which currently houses the podcasts that have been recorded, or until an Asian American person steps forward to pay for the maintenance of it.
If you would like to step up to the plate and take control of Fallout Central, please contact me, William Lee, at william@falloutcentral.com. I would be happy to assist you in either purchasing your own podcasting equipment (I have very detailed knowledge on every aspect of podcast broadcasting, and I can easily teach you how to do it) or give you FREE studio time at the Fallout Central studio in NYC. All of us (William, Albert, and John) would be happy to serve as announcers on the Fallout Central Podcast, but none of us want to invest the time to lead and produce it.
William Lee
Producer
Fallout Central
Here’s Fallout Central @ the 2008Asian Excellence Awards
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