Anti-Smoking PSA's (Project 6)

Chinese girl [Guangxi girl - dodolook] "No Smoking" -17



Jeremy Fisher - "Cigarette"

Extending Our Reach Conference

Extending Our Reach conference registration begins mid-July; New youth TV campaign to be unveiled The under-development 2007 youth prevention television campaign is scheduled to be unveiled during a “Sneak Preview” event at the Tobacco Program’s conference in September.

The Extending Our Reach conference, September 24-26 at the SeaTac Marriott, will also feature Cheryl Healton, CEO of the American Legacy Foundation, delivering a keynote address, and 18 workshops and trainings presented by experts from around the state and the nation.

The first day of the conference will be devoted to contractor trainings on topics such as relation-ship building, tribal policy, and evaluating community programs.

The second day of the conference will feature Healton, Secretary of Health Mary Selecky pre-senting the Selecky Awards, 12 workshops, and the “Sneak Preview” event at 5:30 p.m. The movie-themed event will include popcorn, peanuts and Cracker Jacks in addition to heartier fare that could substitute for dinner.

The final day of the conference includes a seminar on the CDC’s updated tobacco best practices and a special presentation on leadership and innovation by Sam Magill, a highly acclaimed con-sultant and speaker from the Seattle area.

A ‘Katalyst’ For Change

Kirby Grey uses beats, rhymes and hip hop shows as a catalyst for positive change in her community. Aa Solid Ground JustServe AmeriCorps member, Kirby serves this year as Prevention Program Coordinator for the Washington Asian Pacific Islander Families Against Substance Aabuse (WAPIFASA).

She’s teamed up with red hot local hip hop artists from the Mass Line label to create the Katalyst Pproject — training youth in the Hip Hop arts as a meaningful alternative to violence and stagnation through personal expression.

Kirby came to WAPIFASA through Solid Ground’s JustServe AmeriCorps program. A recent graduate of Seattle University, she was active in a number of student organizations there.

“But I felt like I was really disconnected from the community as a whole,” she says. “In the end I didn’t see how being connected to the school community could help me in the future. My goal is to be connected to the community that I am a part of and to work in that community.”

Kirby learned about WAPIFASA from her college advisor, who served on its board. Well known in the API community since 1990 for their counseling and treatment programs, the agency sought to launch a substance abuse prevention effort as well. They were in the process of applying for a JustServe member to launch the project and found Kirby’s skill set, interest in youth and immersion in hip hop culture to be a perfect fit.

“Without Kirby we would not have been able to do a lot of the programs we are doing this year,” says Greg Garcia, WAPIFASA’s Executive Director. “JustServe has meant everything to help us get this program started.” For most of her AmeriCorps year, Kirby has worked part time while completing her theology degree.

She oversees the Youth Lounge/Leadership Council drop-in program as well as the innovative Katalyst Project, funded by a City of Seattle arts grant.

“Kirby connected us to Mass Line,” Greg says. “She provided a lot of energy to our youth and built good relationships with the Leadership Council. I see our youth being more interested in the community. They used to just hang around, make graffiti. Now they are going to protests, working on videos and getting engaged.” Read More

Lunch 2.0: Guy Kawasaki Interview, (Project 4)

Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures and the former chief evangelist of Apple.

Lunch 2.0 Seattle:
Wednesday, September 12- Cardomain.com
Friday, September 21- Adobe
Friday, October 12- TBA


Truemors is a web site with two purposes. First, from a reader perspective, it puts you “in the know” about the latest news, rumors, and happenings. Second, from a “citizen journalist/editor” perspective it enables you to “tell the world”—within the bounds of good taste and the law anyway.

Free Hugs: Project #3

Juan Mann Interview- You Tube sensation


Free Hugs, SEOUL, Korea.


Free Hugs, Seattle

ASIAN HIP HOP SUMMIT SEATTLE

What is Happeness?

The Resident is an online and on-TV talk show that offers an alternative viewpoint on pop culture and current events through interviews, on-the-street fun, and vlogs.

Asia's alternative television

Asia's alternative television: "An Asian broadcasting network run by young professionals focuses on social and environmental issues

To a first-time visitor it might look like a journalism school or a college campus. Walking along the corridors of Young Asia Television Network’s (YATV) headquarters in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, one can find youngsters in casual clothes occupying newsrooms and studios.

In Asia’s vast and expansive electronic media world, YATV may sound like one more television company trying to be successful with entertainment-only programmes. Not so. The network’s young crew is putting together entertainment programmes based on Asian cultural and social values, environment and sustainable development.

“YATV is a network for Asian youth. Our motto is ‘infotainment and edutainment’. It is a combination of education and information with a lot of entertainment,” says Hilmy Ahamed, managing director of YATV network."

Photographers become multimedia news producers | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

Photographers become multimedia news producers | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA: "There’s a revolution going on in the way America’s newspaper news-rooms do visual storytelling. For most of my time in the business the heart of our visuals has been still photography. In the past two decades, the introduction of increasingly sophisticated print and online graphics has enhanced and altered how we tell stories.

Now it’s online video that is changing everything. We’re interviewing finalists for a photography opening on our staff. We had more than 200 applications and have boiled the list down to half a dozen. A key element is how versatile they are.

They must be world-class still photographers, skilled at composing dramatic and telling images on the fly and processing them with the latest software.

But we’re also seeking photographers who can record sound and build captivating online photo galleries that have compelling narration and “live” sound.

And they need to be able to shoot and edit video."

AP Ending Its "asap" Service in October

AP Ending Its "asap" Service in October: "NEW YORK The Associated Press will be ending its highly-touted 'asap' service in October, E&P has learned. Staffers were notified this morning about its October 31 demise as a stand alone. It's not known if any layoffs will come. About 200 newspapers subscribed to the service. It was launched in 2005 as a response to the growth of blogs and so-called youth tabs, and had 24 staff members. It offers a variety of packages and reports (including a lot of video and photo galleries) targeting a younger and/or quirkier audience than the standard AP report. Elements of the service will be incorporated into the regular AP report. ASAP Editor Ted Anthony declined to say why the product was being disbanded, but said part of the reason was an effort to take the approach and weave it more within other AP services."

i-CAUGHT: Virtual Celebrity

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Fame isn't fleeting on the Internet. Uploaded videos ensure instant celebrity. (August 8)

Asian American Experience Questions

1) What is your name and heritage? (Who are you?)
2) Where were you born?
3) Talk about growing up in America.
4) What languages do you speak?
5) What food do you like to eat?
6) Do you belong to an Asian American Club or organization?
7) How do you identify yourself in terms of your culture?
8) What is your definition of an Asian American?
9) Struggle?
10) Image of Asian Americans?
11) What are the challenges of being Asian Americans?
12) Segregate yourselves?
13) Are Asian Americans political?
14) Do you vote?
15) Say good-by in your native tongue
16)

Shots:
Still shoot just looking into the camera. (smile, no smile)