At the end of my last night shooting a rather grueling project for the French Open, which had built a regulation clay tennis court and exhibition in the middle of one of the world’s largest and poshest open-air malls (The Place), I was looking forward to a...
Dropping 430 big buckaroos at Christmas for a Canon PowerShot S100 (and waiting several weeks stuck in the quagmire of backorder hell), I added the first point-and-shoot camera to my arsenal since 2003, when I bought the very underwhelming Canon PowerShot S50 while...
This was definitely the year to have a wedding. Everyone and their dog got married this year. Which is pretty amazing considering most countries haven’t even legalized dog marriage yet. With my own wedding less than two months away, I had to stand in for my...
Joy and Chris held more of a reception than a wedding at the Westin on Financial Street in Beijing. Their real nuptials had been held in Joy’s hometown in Guizhou a few weeks earlier, but since most of their Beijing buddies couldn’t join the actual...
I met Stephan and Christine while studying at Sichuan University in 2004. And I’d like to say I hung out with them all the time there, but they spent most of their time in and out of the classroom making out with each other and not paying much attention to the...
While visiting my fiancee in Hawaii, one of her good friend’s Li Juan also had her fiance in town visiting. Actually officially they were already married, though they hadn’t had a wedding ceremony yet, nor taken any engagement pictures together. While I...
Recently the University of Hawaii’s monthly magazine Malamalama ran a short article about me entitled “Jay Hubert: Exploring Asia with a camera.” My friend Jason had wanted to submit some freelance articles to them, and thought I would somehow make...
The 9th Annual Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) was held from May 1-9, 2008 in Jeonju, the 12th largest city in South Korea. JIFF is Korea’s second largest film festival behind the massive Pusan International Film Festival. Offering a cozy setting in a city...
I recently returned from a trip to Korea to shoot (as DP) a short film there for a few weeks. It was my first trip back to Korea since I lived in Seoul for two months in the summer of 2006 to study Korean. And it was fantastic. It definitely rekindled my intangibly...
[divider_header_h4]Preface From the Future[/divider_header_h4] Several years ago I was asked to blog about my experiences studying at Beijing Film Academy (BFA) on my friend’s website Asianfilms.org (which has now morphed into AsiaPacificFilms.com, an excellent...
