PERSONALDEBRIS  

less and less these days. some would say i have ample excuse, plenty of things that need finishing. yes, no surprise i’ve been busy, and there always seems to be more to attend to.

returned to new york yesterday. socal was great. my last day included surfing at bolsa chica, where there were surprisingly small crowds and fun waist high surf.

and then there are days, like the ones i am spending here in southern california… i love coming home. jonah may have mentioned that we’re here for work, like his panel on “WWAI: How is the Web Growing?” or the special session i am participating in, on Extreme Fashion, and we have a DIY wearable challenge running on monday as part of the Guerilla Studio, but this is not what i was really looking forward to when i booked our flights to california. no, i’ve been more interested in chasing the fleeting images of my childhood, taking in sights and sensations that continue to resonate deep within me no matter where else in the world i might go.

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i am truly overdue for a long-needed overhaul of my other url. so many things that need updating…

lately i’ve been listening to some pretty fey music. i’d be hard-pressed to tell you exactly what, though if you asked, i might. it’s all stuff that i would never have normally taken any notice of, but usually caught while waiting in line at the supermarket or staring out the window as a passenger in somebody else’s car. stuff that gets played in the inbetween moments. maybe it was used as a jingle for a commercial, or part of the soundtrack to a particularly moving, if not genius film. sometimes it was the rhythms blaring out of somebody else’s beat-box as they danced over the sounds of rattling subway cars. always though, somebody else’s music, someone else’s taste. but it stuck with me and made a deep enough impression that playing back those forgotten yet familiar tracks still have the power to transport me elsewhere. and so i’m listening these days to quiet moments before the lights changed at an intersection, the leftover high of having my emotions so easily manipulated by half-competent narratives, and to all the times i found myself waiting and passing through on to something else.

So it’s the second and final day of WIRED Nextfest. I still haven’t seen much of Chicago, but have really enjoyed discussing my project with people visiting the exhibition.

saw the exhibition at BMA today. very impressive. his paintings are stunning. i could have lingered much longer… and usually paintings just bore me.

checked out the trailer for “Lords of Dogtown” a fictional take on “Dogtown and Z-Boys.” i must say i am disappointed that Jeff Ho is not represented in the fictional film. for all the lack of representation and quality parts for asians in film, the part of Jeff Ho, a true individual, innovator, and key figure in the dogtown scene would have been so sweet. (Jeff Ho is a legendary board shaper, sponsored the “Zephyr Competition Skate Team” and was the co-owner of the “Jeff Ho & Zephyr Productions Surf Shop,” headquarters for the Z-boys.) at least Peggy Oki and Shogo Kubo are in the movie.

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via angry asian man… gwenihana, an article in salon that focuses on the increasingly bizarre gwen stefani and her most recent (and to many asian-americans unwelcome) fixation: harajuku girls…

They shadow her wherever she goes. They’re on the cover of the album, they appear behind her on the red carpet, she even dedicates a track, “Harajuku Girls,” to them. In interviews, they silently vogue in the background like living props; she, meanwhile, likes to pretend that they’re not real but only a figment of her imagination.

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found this over at Angry Asian Man… fred korematsu passed away yesterday.