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.

Ling and Walt's Wedding

I did this wedding a few months ago. I finally delivered the album to them.

Ling is a writer for Times Asia and Walt works for Cisco Systems in Hong Kong. They both grew up in the bay area.

They had a beautiful wedding and reception at the Los Altos Community Center. They were a pleasure to work with. Being that Ling is a journalist, she really wanted a natural timeless journalistic approach in the photography. Something I can do so naturally.

It looks like I got the sequence reversed here. I am still trying to figure out eblogger here. I guess to load photos in sequence, you start with the last photos first.

green street mortuary band

Green Street Mortuary Band
The Green Street Mortuary Band is a band that does regular gigs almost every weekend at the Green Street Mortuary. Led by Lisa Pollard, aka Sax Lady, leads the band through the streets of Chinatown for many years. What a group of dedicated artists! She and band members John Coppola have played with jazz luminaries like Duke Ellington, Red Holloway, Charles Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, etc. As an artist I can really appreciate their commitment to their art. They have not sold out and became a playground director like someone I know. Their dedication to the craft really shows when the play for these funerals when they really get into it.

Here's a couple of images I did a few weeks ago. I'll try go back a couple of more times to get more in depth pictures. Maybe do a photo documentary of this band.

I wonder if they do dixieland style music...that's the way I want mine to be. Hope to photograph more of this band.

Clement Street Merchant

Clement Street Merchant, originally uploaded by Eric Mar for Supervisor.

one of my pictures I took of Eric Mar.

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