• Henry Chu

    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…

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  • Alice Tong

    last night, ho chie, a couple friends, and i went to cafe la flore in the richmond district, SF, to see chinese-taiwanese-american indie singer-songwriter alice tong perform. she has an absolutely amazing voice; it’s the type of deep, rich, sound that surprises you as it billows out of such a small, unassuming person. watch a…

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  • Ang Lee

    ang lee defies categorization and baffles critics. the taiwanese/american filmmaker has created movies as divergent as sense and sensibility, eat drink man woman, the ice storm, and crouching tiger, hidden dragon, but he’s probably best known as the academy award-winning director of brokeback mountain. yesterday, i got to see ang lee in person as part…

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  • Glamour Overload

    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,…

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  • Ho Chie

    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…

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  • Published

    my photo of will tiao has been published in liberty times. http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2009/new/mar/8/today-fo5-2.htm if you happen to read chinese, you can even read what it says. of course, it’s not actually credited to me, but still, pretty cool. Related posts: Formosa Betrayed, Now Opening Ang Lee Formosa Betrayed

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  • Formosa Betrayed

    my conversation with will tiao, producer of formosa betrayed, last week at duke: will: so, what are you doing next weekend? me: oh nothing. will: want to come be a second photographer for the premiere? me. uh, YES. and that’s how i made my way to the exclusive cast-crew-investors-only screening of the newly finished film….

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  • ITASA Workshop

    i’m not a public speaker (funny, i went into teaching…). so when i got the opportunity to present a workshop at duke, i decided to do as little talking as possible and just have the participants do stuff. create stuff. make cool stuff. interact! these are images from the “gallery talk” station. i provided lots…

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  • Henderson

    henderson rocked it tonight. dan being productive in line the cheer for ridiculously awesome plays. like gerald henderson’s 3 crazy dunks in a row: OH! BABY! OH! BABY! OH! BABY!

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