by Jay | Dec 18, 2012 | Film, Photography
My good friend Dagny Looper is a 2nd-year film student at NYU. This month she shot her pre-thesis film ‘The Lipstick Stain’ in NYC and Upstate New York. Originally she had planned to shoot in Arkansas just before Christmas, and I told her that if I was...
by Jay | Dec 6, 2012 | Asia, China, Photography
With the Western world inundating China with the best and worst it has to offer these past few decades, it’s no surprise that eventually even Big Bird would make a migrational trip over the Pacific to visit the Middle Kindgom himself. His inaugural visit was...
by Jay | Sep 5, 2012 | Asia, China, Hawaii, Photography
The 2012 East-West Center Alumni Conference in Beijing wouldn’t have been complete without a field trip to climb the Great Wall of China. And climb we did! After a rainy conference morning which looked like it was going to put a damper on our climbing fun, the...
by Jay | Sep 4, 2012 | Asia, China, Hawaii, Photography
Every two years the East-West Center, a Honolulu-based Asia-Pacific research institute that funded my M.A. studies in Hawaii, holds an alumni conference biennially somewhere in Asia. Having served as the official photographer for the last three conferences (Hanoi in...
by Jay | Jul 22, 2012 | Asia, China, Film, Photography
AFD (Agence Française de Développement), known in English as the French Development Agency, is a French international development agency that does a lot of good work in China (as well as in many other countries). In fact, they were the top foreign donor to the 2008...
by Jay | Jul 15, 2012 | Asia, China, Photography
One week after the semifinals cut the number of contestants in half to only six lucky survivors, Rock the Web held the finals of their inaugural season singing competition. Following different rules than the semifinals, this time online votes from friends and...
