Three Taiwanese-American Female Singer-Songwriters It was an epic meeting as three Taiwanese American female singer-songwriters converged upon Berkeley and were introduced to each other for the first time. From left to right: Cynthia Lin from New York, Alanna Lin from Los Angeles, and Alice Tong from San Francisco. I was lucky enough to enjoy performances…
As promised, here are some more photos from the New York trip thus far. To start things off, we go to Central Park. My first reactions to the city: 1. it’s dirty. 2. there are too many people everywhere. I suppose these things make for a place with “character” that you can’t find anywhere else….
I seem to have let myself get backlogged with all my daily adventures! These images are from last week when actor Henry Chu came up from Los Angeles to do a second photo shoot with me. I met Henry over Thanksgiving dinner at Jon Lee’s; Henry’s one of the killers in Formosa Betrayed– Taiwanese American…
as i mentioned in the previous post, TAFers converged on the bay area last weekend, and we had a rather ridiculous photo shoot, inspired by jon and howard’s taiwan glamour shots from five years ago. for those of you who have never experienced asian glamour shots, it basically goes like this: they dress you up,…
ho chie tsai. regular everyday superhero, taiwanese american celebrity. he founded taiwaneseamerican.org; knows pretty much every taiwanese person on the face of this planet; oh, and being a doctor at three different sites is just his day job. lucky for me, i’ve known him since i was 10, a brand new camper at TAF. in…
Check out Henry’s website: www.henrymchu.com
back in cincinnati and back with catharine, looking beautiful as ever. i just love how warm these look. you’d hardly know wintry ohio was lurking outside those windows.
it was a beautifully sunny day in columbus– except i had forgotten what windy 3° weather actually feels like. but not to worry, i finally got to meet and work with caroline in person. we stayed warm and took over weigel hall at ohio state. here’s a bit of what we came up with.
begin: east oakland. norcal suburbia– speedy highways and lots of strip malls. south bay– gas fillup, trader joe’s and starbucks. gilroy and such– agricultural california. lots and lots of cows. very garlicky garlic town. pancheco– driving through gorgeous hills, cutting across to the 5. I-5– 200 miles of highway, highway, and more highway. farms, nurseries,…