Wok this way?

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When I was walking home today, I passed a news stand and saw this on the front page of the New York Post:

I'm more baffled than anything. It's not that this is offensive, as much as it's just plain stupid. The nameless "China Chief" in question is Chinese President Hu, and although he looks exactly like that dude who makes your beef broccoli, he isn't.

I remember when Shaq made Chinese jokes at Yao Ming. He was quoted saying, "Tell Yao Ming, 'ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'" I remember hearing this and wondering what would have happened if Yao were quoted saying, "Tell Shaq that I ain't gon' stand fer his po-dank shit." The fallout would have been outrageous, and rightfully so. Everybody would have been on Yao's ass for being way outa line.

This isn't an issue of how black folk and asian folk get along, it's an issue of how the media responds to being racist. The presidents of two economic superpowers meet and because one of them happens to be Chinese, all you have to report is "Wok This Way"?

So I took the liberty to photoshop my own front page. Just try and imagine - you're walking home late one night, and you pass a news stand, and on the front page of the New York Post, you see:

To be fair, the pun "watermelon you talkin bout?" (what're you talking about) isn't as clean as "Wok this way," but, on the plus side, it does it's job at being just as irrelevant and racist. But I think this is offset by the fact that I named Sharpton by name (mainly because "Sharpton" happened to be shorter than "Afro-American Chief").

Rhizome, P5

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So... I'm interning at where Fran used to be the director of technology - a not-for-profit new media arts organization called rhizome.org. Doing really basic HTML and CSS stuff. And I figure, where else to pick up good coding habits than a geeky artsy computery place like this?

Also, my interest is growing in the P5 glove. Google search to find more about it, but it's a controller that fits on your hand - I think it holds the same pattents as the Powerglove for the NES, but it's for the computer. At any rate, I figure w/ my movement experience (and, moreover, my hand movement experience w/ digitz), I can fenagel somethin pretty cool out of it. Just ordered one yesterday, can't wait for it. They used to retail at a hundred bucks a unit, but they flopped in the market, and are down to twenty + shipping.

I created a portfolio for most of my movement/media work for a scholarship application a class in Colorado called "Responding to Gesture and Bodies: Design for Physically Based Interactive Art." I have no idea what my chances are - whether they're looking for folk more experienced w/ actually getting a curator and whatnot, or if they're looking for a younger folk.

Oh yeah, I joined the Yahoo! Group for the P5 Glove. Check out the geek in that.

My very first art opening

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Okay, so it's not "my" art opening, as much as it's an art opening that features something that I was sort of a part of.

So a while back, I did this dancing gig, you can read about it here. Anyhow, the opening is at Lombard-Freid.

That's me in the photo, sportin the Rocawear shirt that I had to buy from Macy's, cuz that's how l33t thugs roll.

Also, in other news, a week ago I went to the House of Dance Conference, which happens on the first Thursday of every month, where I got to see some really ill poppin and lockin, tuts. I'm workin on my own tuts, and am in the process of building an animation thing (much like my little fingers experiment) with tuts. Don't know what tutting is? Check out YouTube.