Day of Remembrance

I wound up doing the graphics for this event again. Being that I did the graphics for two years prior, I thought I'd let RT do it this time since I did it mostly for the benefit of JTA. It's best this labor be spread around.

So...RT and LS came up with this design:



A graphic with RT's face in it...hmmm...I guess that's not what JH had in mind. When asked to re-do the thing with this image supplied, RT and LS got upset and walked away from it.



So...who else to ask. Me.

JH wanted this photo because it really shows the event thirty years ago. I came out with this graphic which they like. It's for the postcard.


Next was the flyer and poster. I just took the image and extended the sky. I placed the copy in the sky and added a gradient in photoshop. Hey...it looks pretty good. I should've did it that way for the postcard! It would've been a lot less complicated.



Then came the brochure cover which was a lot more easier. Less copy on the cover. They wanted it to be printed in monochrome. No prob....

Now why couldn't RT and LS do that! This time not for JTA.

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I went to check out the event at the Sundance Kabuki. Here are some images. I'm loading it last to first. That's how this blogger thing seems to work.











..oh, what is Day of Remembrance. It's an occassion where they remember the decision to pass an executive order which resulted in hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans being forcibly uprooted from their homes and incarcerated in detention camps for the duration of WWII for the crime of being of Japanese descent.

I feel that this type of feeling still prevails to this day as I have seen with public opinion during the olympic torch events. There is still this underlying of this Yellow Peril and Anti-Chinese feeling. Using issues like Free Tibet to vent their anti-Chinese feelings. A few years prior to that, when an American spy plane was detained when it had to make an emergency landing in China, there was a lot of anti-chinese talk that came to surface.

With the 9/11 attacks, many Muslim Americans are targets of frustration.

The Japan bashing that was going on when our country realized that the auto industry was dominated by Japan.

It's still there.

Photography and Graphics for Eric Mar

Eric Mar is running for supervisor of district one. Chris Chow arranged for me to do Eric's portrait. Chris said it's for free. Gullible me said yes....hey...I support the brother. We need more A's in the board of sups.

I wonder...what if Chris had his family business Chow Associates do free work for Eric. I think he'll get into deep doody with his OL if he did. So...I did the photo shoot. It was in my living room. Simple softbox, reflector, twist flex background... not expecting nothing for it. But Eric told me to go ahead and bill the campaign committee for it.

A few days later they needed this flyer for the kick off campaign. It was a last minute thing too. So I tore ass and did the flyer. Only told to change thing everything. This went for five times. It involved five drafts! That's a lot of time for each one.