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Last week in his Asian Pop clumn, Jeff Yang talks to the reigning rulers of air guitar to find out why Asian Americans dominate the rising sport of championship air guitar: Unstrung Heroes. (In issue 5, we asked MiRi "Sonyk-Rok" Park to teach us the basics of how to air guitar.) It's a pretty fun read:
Asia Pacific Arts has an interview with Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, a cultural history of the hip-hop generation, which we also featured in issue 5.
August 8, 2006
Air Guitar, Hip-Hop
Today is things-that-have-been-featured-in-Hyphen-in-other-news-outlets day!
Diddy, Sonyk and the Monster were in Finland repping more than just the red, white and blue; they were also scoring glory for the yellow. Because like competitive eating and women's golf, air guitar is a sport dominated by sons and daughters of the East.
Why? Maybe because no one expects us to.
According to Park, that's one of the keys to the Asian domination of Air Guitar Nation: "No one expects us to be able to rock out, so we have the element of surprise on our side."
I love that in the profiles, Yang goes into their backgrounds, finding out that C.Diddy, like many Asian kids, had been pushed to study music. Of course. Hell yeah. Messing with stereotypes, one head-banging, gyrating, invisible-instrument performance at a time.
Posted by melissa at August 8, 2006 9:52 AM
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The national championships of speedcubing were held in San Francisco this past weekend. Leyan Lo, a member of the Cal Tech club we featured in issue 9, won top honors with an average of 15.50 seconds over 5 solves. Toby Mao, younger brother of Tyson Mao (founder the Cal Tech club) set a new world record solving the 3x3x3 in 10.48 seconds.
How cool is cubing now? Check out this table in a clothing store in Paris, France.
What the hell is an Air Guitar? Is that chick Cassie Asian? she looks like it
Dude, the air guitar rocks! Just found some footage from an Air-aoke party held for the new documentary "Air Guitar Nation". Kinda cool---these folks know how to rock it out! Watch the footage here:
http://www.iklipz.com/Movies.aspx?MovieID=317a07fb-4914-4360-811a-3b20ee94343b
the air guitar is gay and the dude that was playing it is gay to