Artist Transforms Bananas Into Works Of Art | Bored Panda

for everyone who knows our story about the great banana case war
Artist Transforms Bananas Into Works Of Art | Bored Panda

virtually V3con 2014

so pleased to discover I was at V3con afterall, albeit virtually! Thanks Tamiko Wong for the photo!

First 10: A Moment With Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | V3 Digital Media Conference presented by AAJA-LA

First 10: A Moment With Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

V3con is happy to highlight the First 10 People to Register for the conference on August 24-25 in Los Angeles. Prominent blogger Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is one of our Top 10. She is a second-generation Chinese American from California who now divides her time between Michigan and the Big Island of Hawaii. She is a contributor for New America Media’s Ethnoblog, ChicagoistheWorld.org, PacificCitizen.org, and InCultureParent.com. She was the arts and culture editor of IMDiversity.com Asian American Village for many years, and she now team-teaches Asian Pacific American History and the Law at the University of Michigan and University of Michigan Dearborn. Check out her two blogs RememberingVincentChin.com and franceskaihwawang.blogspot.com.
Lets get to know her better:

click on link for more: First 10: A Moment With Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | V3 Digital Media Conference presented by AAJA-LA

V3con is the evolution of the Banana Asian American bloggers’ conference: Visibility. Vision. Voice. | NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog - GIL ASAKAWA'S JAPANESE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON POP CULTURE, MEDIA & POLITICS

Hey, that's me in Gil Asakawa's photo! And great video too. I'm so looking forward to the new and improved V3con (Vision. Visibility. Voice.), the Asian American Digital Media Conference.

Click on link to see Gil Asakawa's article and video: V3con is the evolution of the Banana Asian American bloggers’ conference: Visibility. Vision. Voice. | NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog - GIL ASAKAWA'S JAPANESE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON POP CULTURE, MEDIA & POLITICS

Fire Performance by Zero Kazama at Aeon Blaze | 8Asians Events

My friend Zero Kazama just invited me to a rave?!!! I feel so cool. He is organizing this electronic music event as a benefit for kidspeace.org, and will be performing...with fire. He is so cool. If you're in the LA area, check it out.

From 8Asians: Fire Performance by Zero Kazama at Aeon Blaze | 8Asians Events:

Zero Kazama is a Japanese-American actor best known for hosting the MTV game show Silent Library. He has also been on many other prominent television programs such as Lost, Chuck and Deadliest Warrior.

Zero is trained in Kung fu, Tae Kwon Do, Karate, fight choreography, and firedancing. Check out a rare firedancing performance by Zero at Aeon Blaze, an Electronic Dance Music Event to benefit a great charity for kids, found at www.kidspeace.org and Dance For a Cause!

Bringing BANANA 2 to You!: A diaCRITIC’s Report from the Second Annual Asian-American Bloggers Conference | diaCRITICS

just found this.

Calling all bloggers, twitter and fb users, all internet savvy folk! diaCRITIC Jade Hidle gives us the insider’s scoop and an in-depth view of the BANANA 2 Conference.

click on link for more Bringing BANANA 2 to You!: A diaCRITIC’s Report from the Second Annual Asian-American Bloggers Conference | diaCRITICS

ADVENTURES IN MULTICULTURAL LIVING--One perfect day with my professor: real connections with real people - NAM EthnoBlog

On the first day of my Philosophy of Mind course my junior year of college at UC Berkeley, Professor John Searle picked me out of a crowd of 200 undergraduates and gruffly barked, “You look troubled. Come see me in office hours.”
I was scared to death, but I dared not disobey. With the help of all my friends, I managed to come up with some passable questions worthy of asking this very famous philosopher. Then — for reasons I still do not fully understand — he took me under his wing and taught me philosophy.

click on link for more ADVENTURES IN MULTICULTURAL LIVING--One perfect day with my professor: real connections with real people - NAM EthnoBlog

AArisings - Thoughts on the BANANA 2 Conference

AARisings.com Nelson Wong's take on the Banana 2 APA Bloggers Conference. Read to the end for a good laugh. (For a glimpse of what he's talking about, check out my twitter favorites http://twitter.com/#!/fkwang/favorites)

Thanks for the play, rides, and photos Nelson! and Congrats on the lifetime achievement award!

click link here: AArisings - Thoughts on the BANANA 2 Conference

Adventures in Multicultural Living: One perfect day with my professor: real connections with real people - AnnArbor.com

On the first day of my Philosophy of Mind course my junior year of college at UC Berkeley, Professor John Searle picked me out of a crowd of 200 undergraduates and gruffly barked, “You look troubled. Come see me in office hours.”

I was scared to death, but I dared not disobey. With the help of all my friends, I managed to come up with some passable questions worthy of asking this very famous philosopher. Then — for reasons I still do not fully understand — he took me under his wing and taught me philosophy.

For the next two years, I spent nearly every day walking with my professor to cafes and bookstores and lecture halls, learning how to ask questions, how to extend arguments, how to analyze the structure of thought and action, how to search for logical inconsistencies, how to fight intellectual battles like a prizefighter.

Under his tutelage, I was thinking a mile-a-minute all the time. I loved philosophy, and I loved being a philosopher.

I had no idea how special and rare this sort of teacher-student relationship was. I thought it was normal.

click on link for more One perfect day with my professor: real connections with real people - AnnArbor.com

Social Media for Social Change, Recorded on 2/26/11 banana-2 on USTREAM. Conference

Here is a video of our Banana 2 APA Bloggers panel, on social media for social change, about which Angry Asian Man live-tweeted: "This panel on activism is pretty darn awesome. #banana2" (and more:). Panelists include Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Fatemeh Fakhraie, Jehanzeb Dar, Cynthia Liu, and Marissa Lee. Keith Kamisugi was the moderator. Eddy Hong organized the panel.

Social Media for Social Change, Recorded on 2/26/11 banana-2 on USTREAM. Conference

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12963184



Social Media for Social Change, Recorded on 2/26/11 banana-2 on USTREAM. Conference

Politics Talaga?: What We Face, and What We Can Do

Additional thoughts I wrote to answer an unhappy audience member’s comments on social justice activism and social media after the Banana2 Conference on the Politics Talaga blog: What We Face, and What We Can Do

http://politicstalaga.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-we-face-and-what-we-can-do.html

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10 Reasons You Should Attend Banana 2 Tomorrow | DISGRASIAN™

The title says it all. From Disgrasian:

10 Reasons You Should Attend Banana 2 Tomorrow | DISGRASIAN™

But if that doesn't convince you, how about this photo? The bloggers are congregating! JapaneseBallplayers.com Daigo Fujiwara, Nikkei View Gil Asakawa, Angry Asian Man Phil Yu, Adventures in Multicultural Living Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AARisings Nelson Wong, Dad in a Strange Land Jason Sperber, Joz Joz Joz!