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frankly i prefer if marilyn showed Apocalypse now and then that Documentary so ppl can get it since the book based itself off of those two movies

Peer Analysis Final

Kevin Nguyen
Marshall/Marilyn
ICS 24
11.11.09
Analysis of Joe-Vincent
Joe-Vincent Estioko made two very fine spoken word pieces: “Sleep to Dream” and Thank You Mom and Dad”. But he chose “Sleep to Dream” as the main one to present with. It is about his feelings and thoughts of Heaven, like how it is to him: “a world of peace” or “where you don’t have to worry about being brutally attacked.” He tried to have emotion and vehemence in his work just as much as Alvin Lau did with his “Asian-American, Where Have You Gone?” In fact, it was this artist that motivated Joe to start his own spoken word in the first place.
The project for him wasn’t too difficult, if not, a discovery. The only problem was figuring out what to write about and memorizing it. Then, the creative piece came to him in an unusual way, “I had no idea what my topic was going to be but one night before I fell asleep, different thoughts were rushing in and out of my brain. Then it hit me; why not talk about a dream.”—and so he did. He basically got it all down within one day; his rhymes, his rhythm, his imagery, his tempo, and his tone were all in the spoken word. An example of his rhyme and rhythm tempo would be when (in his work) he said, “… if your friends have your back, you don’t have to worry about being brutally attacked…” and “…where theres no reason to hurt and no feeling of pain, where friendships are forever and love eternally remains…” Amazing flow isn’t there? But when I asked him what did he wanted to improve on if he had the time, he replied “I wanted to include some alliterations.” and also to “practice more on the movements on the lines.”
His project was pretty good when he first presented it to me and the whole class. His tone was soft, low, and calm—possibly due to his shyness—enough for all of us to hear. Indeed, the beat, rhyme, imagery, tempo, and tone were there, but there was something else, something inside his soul, within the calm tone, there was heart—his heart. Actually, everyone who made a spoken word piece (or any creative project for that matter) included their heart into it, trying to tell us something about something. For instance, Marshall’s spoken word piece about the Asian penis and how everyone kept shunning it away, even from pornography, and treating it differently, was basically a rant-- a rant from deep within Marshall’s soul and belief towards the white world.
I’ve learned quite a lot about social and personal experiences from doing my project and analyzing Joe’s creative project such as how people are not much different from you and that they struggle in the same way as you do. Others’ opinions may be relative for they are another view at the subjective matter at hand. Given the same task, usually there is something that is held in common when many are heading to obtain it. Although he did superb, I believe that Joe-Vincent Estioko’s project was very well made despite some minor mistakes or so he claims. Everyone’s experience may be different but in the end, we all went through something right?

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Okay, What the Fuh...

Im gettin tired of this.....emasculinity and penis talkin..cause..I know that whoever tames the penis..tames the beast..and vice versa.

Today, I just realize Marshall is a complete perv'...I mean..yes, hes Japanese..but really..he seems to derive some sort of excitement and pleasure out of this. Perhaps it has something predominately to do with the lesson and also his biased belief/rant towards the white world. There seems to be a behind the scenes kind of thing about penis's, insecurity, jealousy, and superior dominance going on and Marshall is still fighting all that nonsense-- for one, I am an Existentialist-Realist so you can say it doesnt really matter to me-- just like them old people back then joking and waving around thier dicks and clits.

Clits you say? Well some women have bigger clits than others and does that make them any less hornier? (thats a different topic, I think) But the point here is..the dragon ladys, the female police enforcers and drill sargeants and dominatrixes...what makes them..soo..full of..balls...of steel? No, OVARIES of steel.

Again, all it takes is some female--err feminine i should say--seduction and a way to pleasure the penis and you got yourself some hay rolling and dominance..feh..

A 3rd Opinion...Marshall has some issues alright...i mean he did also a rant spoken word about his penis and his belief and yeah.

And also..today..there was fan service... Patrick and Shane's intimate act and showing how to pick each other up for sex and what not. I dont like this....not cool you know? Mic was smart..showed the ring..but some guys are just..stubborn...and also poor julie...tryin to pick up justin... but either way...there was this..fan service or some kind of stimulant/horniness/excitedness coming from teh girls as I observe them watching..especially Uyen--she was smiling and all excited and Julie..she was just shy but underneath it all..yeah...in fact...all of us...underneath it all...what is there but uncivilized manners? Theres just..something wrong with teh class lately...

The American Dream..(Asian Style)

Who says Asians cant be downright gangster in search of thier own "The American Dream"?

(It's a Pun--a joke-- btw)

But also this Anime is awesome cause it features a main character who is a Chinese student/contractor in his twenties and how he handles his current and past problems. Darker Than Black is one of my favorite animes because of its plot line, action, animation, humor, and past-time music.

Another Interesting Find..

This too, also was found at the end of "The Three Anorexic Sumo Wrestlers".

"Take a look at China. They've got 1.2 billion people. Someone over there is doing some serious fucking!" (pardon the language)

Again, it has the same mindset as what I was talkin about. For instance, a family has 8 kids..who in the right mind would think that they had a busy time? (well actually maybe) BUT the point is, that it is sick, even if they had ONE child or NO child at all and living in the same household.. Some would say they have sex all the time..well woop-di-dooh! I applaud at how detail and thorough you are but really, is that necessary?

Anyway, whoever thinks like that must mean that they are looking down on girls and guys alike (maybe more against girls though). And I dont like that. No respect you know?

Big Dicks, Asian Men

This is a pretty interesting story so far. There always seem to be about one or three Asian men involved in different plots and they talk about different things about the western culture and themselves.

But what caught my attention was near at the end of the "Three Anorexic Sumo Wrestlers".

A Tourist Said,"...You know earlier at the toilette? Those guys takin the money, one of them said,'I wonder if shes's fucking him?'..."

This just makes me feel bad on the outlook of humankind and relationships..I mean, only players and the such think this way. I mean, what do you really see when you look at a couple? cute? lovey dovey? beautiful soulmates? or do you see them as fuck buddies--shes only gonna fuck him and hes prolly likin it--and the such(again).

Safe Space

Aha! something else to write about!

I read this...script(?) of the play "Safe Space" and well it was quite interesting.

All of these characters are very well made.

Vikram seems to be the annoying one with so called "good intentions" to unite all Gay Youths. His character is really flawed as the womans.

The woman there seem pretty deep and understanding to me, but they are still ignorant.

There were..a little boy.."Raj"..and it was disturbing how they love picking on him. Raj prolly looks like a cutesy boy or something. And good grief, hes alreaday selling his body!

And then there was this white guy (Gilbert) who was born in India. He was shunned by Vikram, poor him, this just goes to show racism and good intentions dont ridiculously mix well.

Who Says Asians Can't Kick Ass?

I mean, think about it with this VIDEO



AND THIS




You know how the Asian stereotyping of small dicks and what not ( oh gawd, im soo friggin tired of this emasculinity towards Asians) WELL FSCK IT!!

We are strong, smart, and cunning. Deception is our main weapon, just like how Song played as a woman.

The creators of this game are Japanese and theyve done some amazing engineering and shit --gosh im lazy to type write now-- that everyone now enjoys :P

As you can see, Ryu, the main super-ninja character, is very buff and athletic. He mastered the techniques of his Ancient Dragon Clan and has a duty to fulfill: Save the World. He also scored a sexy blonde partner along the way.

Dont get me started with Asian and Asian-American movie stars and real life martial artists..such as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, and Jet Li

ATC 103

Today, we are blogging and trying to get the drafts shown to Marilyn. (btw i sent her an email the last night about interesting things)

What were we spose to blog about agian?

oh right, try decorate and make it more spicy with some images, videos, and whatnots. I assume things should be somewhat relative to class..but oh well.

In fact, I've done that already with Thogger; posting pics, videos, and whatnot.

PeerAnalysis 1st draft

Kevin Nguyen
Marshall/Marilyn
ICS 24
11.11.09
Analysis of Joe-Vincent
Joe-Vincent Estioko made a spoken word piece, well actually two pieces, “Sleep to Dream” and Thank You Mom and Dad”. But he used chose “Sleep to Dream” as the main one to present with. It is about his feelings and thoughts of Heaven, like how it is (to him): “a world of peace” or “where you don’t have to worry about being brutally attacked.” He tried to have emotion in his work just as much as Alvin Lau did with his “Asian-American, Where Have You Gone?” In fact, it was this artist that motivated Joe to start his own spoken word in the first place.
The project for him wasn’t too difficult, if not, a discovery. The only problem was figuring out what to write about and memorizing it. Then the creative piece came to him in an unusual way, “I had no idea what my topic was going to be but one night before I fell asleep, different thoughts were rushing in and out of my brain. Then it hit me; why not talk about a dream.” He basically got it all down within one day. He got some rhymes, rhythm, imagery, tempo, and tone in his spoken word. But when I asked him what did he wanted to improve on if he had the time, he replied “I wanted to include some alliterations.” and also to “practice more on the movements on the lines.”
His project was pretty good when he first presented it to me and the whole class. His tone was soft, low, and calm—possibly due to his shyness—enough for all of us to hear. Indeed, the beat, rhyme, imagery, tempo, and tone were there, but there was something else, something inside his soul, within the calm tone, there was heart—his heart.
I learned

Today the 11th

ugh..soo I'm startin to get tired of all these acting, seriously. Its soo wrong..tryin to get into the mindset of a female...but its good for psychology and deductive reason and all that.

We did several more plays and I realize...how can this man--this Song-- be a woman for 20 years and all of a sudden show his true self before the Court? Its pretty interesting..he wants to prove the white men--the vast west-- wrong. Asians ain't no bitches..we seem that way but no, we are just humble..and so Gallimard played right into Song's trap...

Today the 10th

We acted each of our own parts and man..Xang was a crazy mofo. He was very...affectionaly touching me (acting only I hope) meanwhile Yong went into complete Homophob.

We wrote stuff on the board and our scene was Act 3 Scene 2 Ending and Scene 3 All.

Then later some people got to present, and well, those who didnt will have to do it some other time. :/

He's a Man, Man..

I just finished reading M. Butterfly and man...to quote Austin Powers, "That ain't no woman! It's a man, man! ..." Hes a man the whole time!

I didnt realize it in the beginning, until everything just came during Act 2. (I find it funny how it aroused some ppl at first btw)

But yeah, in the end, that man--Song-- is a foil to what DHW intended, to cruelly repulse the notion of the East and the West and to reverse and perverse what it all stands for in such a wrong way.

Funny, how all it took was some make up and a way to pleasure a penis.

Joe-Vincent Estiko Project Interview

How you felt when you presented your creative project?
-nevous. dont like public speaking. shy desu.

If you had more time/resources, what would be made better about your project? How?
-made the spoken word longer. practiced more on movements for lines.

What is the most difficult part of your project?
- memorizin the lines and figuring out when to do your movement/forms for the spoken word.
What have others commented about on your project?
-no one really. Marshall's fault -_-.

Have you shown this project to anyone in your family?
-yes, to my cousin and gf.

Why did you chose to do this type of project?
-b.c i was inspired by ALvin Lieu and the class. not good at drawing or filming. spken word is more comfortable(writing not presenting)

How long did it took you?
-a long time since topic was not there. incomplete for weeks. boom. weeks, on and off tho, 10 minutes. thoughts came toegher

Would you like this rpoject to be published?
-yes. this class helped me inspire to do my own artistic work and it will be giving back to the point of thisclass which is asian american literature.

What did you dress?
-Filipino undershirt that can be used for sleeping as well. Basketball shorts too.

What is the easiest part of your project?
-just writing the spoken word. when the thots came, it was just flowing our of the hand.

Did anyone got in your way?
-me

Did anything got in your way?
-procrastination

What form did you wanted for the spoken word?
-i had mostly rhymes and rhythm and temp and alil bit of imagery and tone. wanted to have alliteration.
What movement did you wanted to emphasize?
-emphasized on the fly. whatever i felt like that time.

M. Butterfly log 1

As I started reading the first few scenes, I am amazed that Rene Gillamard's character/role is of the comedian--the joker-- or so I think. But actually, as of now it seems like hes just a man that thinks hes got it all. His fame is only his ridicule by the public. He is living his life out just like the Madame Butterfly play and he is applying it to everything in his life. Obsessive, he is.

Analyze Paper Creative Project

Kevin Nguyen
Marshal/Marilyn
ICA 24
10/31/09
Assess the Physical
In the beginning I had a lot of ideas and questions for this project. What could it be? What should it be? What can I do? Would it be like this? And so on. I wanted to do something with comedy—something like Stephen Colbert, or maybe something philosophical and impactful. But in fact I really haven’t thought about anything much since I had too many ideas.
I started writing down storyboards, scripts, back up plans, and ideas just to un-clutter my head. That helped slightly, except, that it led to several failed brain childs. I tried to include what we’ve been learning in class like the rule of thirds, good audio, and flash clips. At first, I initially partnered up with Uyen and attempted to make a stop motion film, but, alas, the lack of resources held me back (not to mention that Uyen was too busy herself). The story was supposed to be about minorities, but it failed.
Then I started to go solo, thinking up of a better content and a way to film. I was thinking of making a philosophical statement about the Farce of Life and how we don’t realize the broader picture. But then, I realize I had not enough time and so I dropped this to make a manga instead. It is far much easier and less time consuming since I can have full control of everything that is going to be shown. The story is a short one that pertains to my recent experiences at a government physical exam.
The difficulties I bumped into during the project were mostly the editing, the content, the story, the acting, and time. In order to do the video, everything must be placed correctly at the right place and so must be the audio. I didn’t really know how to portray it because I don’t have expert film cinematography—not to mention a staff or the resources. And then there’s the script, I wasn’t able to finish that along with any of the films because of time and lack of ideas. I was busy with midterms and had no idea how to implement my creativity. But the solution was the manga which I can control and envision it better than it would be film since it is much like storyboards.
After all this was over, I felt relieved. I don’t have to worry about the final for ICS 24 anymore but just the remaining work and my midterms and projects for the other classes. The project has taught me a great deal. I am too vast on ideas that I need a focus and not to mention a good use of time. And also I need to plan better at directing story arcs, plot, and script.