art, comics, design, travel, video games (Work Time Fun, Guitar Hero, DDR, Lumines I and II -- it's like crack -- Locoroco, SSX, Me and My Katamari, SIMS)
Music
Utada Hikaru, mink, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dog, Usher, l'arc~en~ciel, No Doubt, Miriam Yeung, shinwha, Se7en, Rain, PuffyAmiYumi, Nelly Furtado, Fort Minor, Anushka Pop, Seriously, The Veronicas, Timbaland
Movies
Shaolin Soccer (basically anything with Stephen Chow), Spirited Away, The Incredibles, Pride & Prejudice, Dry Wood Fierce Fire, He Was Cool, Amelie, Roman Holiday, Love Undercover
Television
Kitchen nightmares w/ Gordon Ramsay, no Reservations w/ Anthony Bourdain, The Office (!!!), 30 Rock, Man Vs. Wild, and a whole lot of Korean/Japanese/Hong Kong drama, PBS
Books
American Born Chinese by Gene Yang (best damned book I've read in the past two years!!!), The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe, Manga: Masters of the Art, The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder, The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
Heroes
Stephen Chow, Charles Shultz, Hiyao Miyazaki, Sanrio, Bill Moyers, Gordon Ramsay, Anthony Bourdain
Massachusetts College Of Art
Boston,Massachusetts
Graduated: 2006
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Illustration / Communication Design
2002 to 2006
University Of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst,Massachusetts
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Journalism
Minor: Chinese
Clubs: Asian American Students Association
The Daily Collegian
1995 to 1999
Boston Latin
Boston, MA
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: String Ensemble, Anime Club
About me:
By day, I design MIMOBOTS and everything that go with them (packaging, print & web ads, le website -- crap version 1 and kick@ss version 2 coming soon -- trade show signs & banners, desktop wallpapers, avatars, and icons); by night, I am the comic artist of "ah-Lin!", which is published bi-weekly in Boston's Sampan Newspaper; and, during the weekends, I work on magazine editorial illustrations and thinking up my next big art project. Art totally rocks!
Who I'd like to meet: The high school art teacher who rejected me from the Art AP class.
On a more positive note: comic/graphic novel artists, Mr. Shintaro Tsuji (President & CEO of Sanrio), Tetsuya Mizuguchi (creator of Lumines), Brad Bird (of The Incredibles and Iron Giant), and Tony Carrillo (aka The Genius behind F Minus)...for now.
KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror.
Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic. If you really want to know why on the Japanese horror movies is written 18+, take a look at the next issue of Otaku Magazine. Nevertheless, is our duty to warn you that all who looked inside certain pages of this issue have disappeared shortly after. Still, it might be just a story to send the children to sleep for good.
hey Lillian! thanks for finding us. you guys @momobot rock :) and your illustrations are definitely awesome. keep up the amazing work ;) cheers from roma, massy&sonia
