tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-247582562024-03-18T22:38:29.277-10:00Watermelon Sushi WorldA forum for biracial, blended, interracially involved, mestizo, mixed-race, multiethnic, transracially adopted, and culture crossing folks worldwide.Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-25394566279768486532023-12-31T21:58:00.000-10:002023-12-31T21:58:47.700-10:00Wood Dragon and Watermelon Sushi<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Are you ready to leave 2023 behind while embracing the incoming Wood Dragon?</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While we’re still over a month away from Lunar New Year, we can already feel the excitement of what the Wood Dragon year will bring.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHa1EnAV9sp2KVVy598QwtKcNeAaeyo-Tue9ZJZghOhH72qG27wQbom57opuQUrE2qHxw4Rw8cYgXNnaoI2bMBIYoVkYbRnDaa6Thzn7q2StAgdkpxB77oIOUWxKWSWIpOiVmd_j59YvXj_yuhzcSIu0JeMmCS1mjC6gmKym0o9yp4wevMO0D/s3308/watermelonSushiPoster.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3308" data-original-width="2550" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggHa1EnAV9sp2KVVy598QwtKcNeAaeyo-Tue9ZJZghOhH72qG27wQbom57opuQUrE2qHxw4Rw8cYgXNnaoI2bMBIYoVkYbRnDaa6Thzn7q2StAgdkpxB77oIOUWxKWSWIpOiVmd_j59YvXj_yuhzcSIu0JeMmCS1mjC6gmKym0o9yp4wevMO0D/w309-h400/watermelonSushiPoster.png" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Watermelon Sushi</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">For us, it’s all about <i><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i>. In fact, our Executive Producer, Lowell Douglas Ing, is a Dragon!</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We’re almost ready for editing all the footage that Doug is currently having digitized. Besides adding new hip hop tunes to our decades-old project, we will also be incorporating animation to complete the story.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow us and stay updated. We’re everywhere!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can heck out our website here:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://www.watermelonsushi.com/</span></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And, you can also meet us here on Facebook:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watermelonsushi"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://www.facebook.com/watermelonsushi</span></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There are so many folks to thank for their dedication to this project over the years. Some are no longer with us on this planet. But here’s a partial list:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">b.r. Winfrey</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rob Lee</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">the late Derrick Holmes</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">the late Jaz Dorsey</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Darlene Romero</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Joe Calhoun</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mike Reed and friends</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mia Gonzalez</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Johl Smilowski</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pearl, Jr.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Quie Bwoy</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Miwa Lyric</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Larry Gamell, Jr.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">the late Eric Eugene Doboy Williams</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our late Facebook Friends Jeffrey Daniels and Correnna L. White</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All of our Hapa*Teez t-shirt supporters, although this is an incomplete list:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cassie Hayes</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Eva Abram</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Julia Baker</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Teri LaFlesh</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ejiro</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Z Enterprises</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lisa M. Corey</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Leslie Morishita</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lola Mann Smith</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Corinne D. Spector</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Carol Harris</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">C.A. Harris</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Aja Robinson</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tracy Hatico</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="798" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6VLG5dPVNBPuBx34QH2Z4Hzt3mpNjfzSEYbbv6FZezplbtN77cnyyi3to_poGI12TPzw_H-GlNofrr6LYEXNAhSgNPubrvnPFAQ8HVp-YdUd5a9c8lXbBpWm6pWHS5b47sJlaBhLcrGotZB-P4dY775ZcKMPv1wXB7CPFO7faz0qB3LKucmz/s320/RobLeeHapaTeezcrop-MIX.jpg" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rob Lee</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gbMKE_eFShWNJmXa3_j_HASRTZKEdXhxOMRkYHjJM0dkxwXAGwjiYJ8Ygrjt_DUb85KPnRcOGZNDPXgUgEfh61N5IpOnfqaHOFKSlXScT3diLPPDzBbZ5huwFUeYgZ3paBw1VZc6PyTaghgIMxdGiloe1IRx1cS4SmV2afqmD961jSgR3MR3/s418/EvaHapaNationCcopy1-MIX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="418" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gbMKE_eFShWNJmXa3_j_HASRTZKEdXhxOMRkYHjJM0dkxwXAGwjiYJ8Ygrjt_DUb85KPnRcOGZNDPXgUgEfh61N5IpOnfqaHOFKSlXScT3diLPPDzBbZ5huwFUeYgZ3paBw1VZc6PyTaghgIMxdGiloe1IRx1cS4SmV2afqmD961jSgR3MR3/s320/EvaHapaNationCcopy1-MIX.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Eva Abram</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiufm-9aISBdUl_2FlP058ijtYy4szCK397a44iMqft3JFfhkFWSmSnx8KrAp4Qdda3_Inq79GIV-Dn8Q78sPj9e_eYr9M8p-5Uvf9OIaRvGfO4amX5rLthQKXgFHZUPGt2iXSojHNYPZXK7l1qNsm4-XjJuK0nBYgCjKHg7VhnR9LYzKhbaDl/s2048/ejiroHapateez-MIX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiufm-9aISBdUl_2FlP058ijtYy4szCK397a44iMqft3JFfhkFWSmSnx8KrAp4Qdda3_Inq79GIV-Dn8Q78sPj9e_eYr9M8p-5Uvf9OIaRvGfO4amX5rLthQKXgFHZUPGt2iXSojHNYPZXK7l1qNsm4-XjJuK0nBYgCjKHg7VhnR9LYzKhbaDl/s320/ejiroHapateez-MIX.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ejiro</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1299" data-original-width="1299" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPa6_SKTVrUlL7M6S9oh0NPxGCxPV9NUxFoFPr2nX9zcaTLCDlJ0qvAzWg6v7OZpB4iafQtWXa8PTB3tyEAfiIYTrBWoFgIz8_z49-wejassgkE2cpTfZBuVXWtIjxcpKklxLBIuaz6PNMUkwFqYbed5gxoPufsWKRlYMa8D0fDReY51GHwkNm/s320/JBhapa2-MIX.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia Baker<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="679" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyf1KN7NpTHCsMouFEQPr2-Nn1WC5WzCr-4CfdC4EySUFeGuomcauMaH9DA2VFt571D0rMHjztU5bqf5sxhr26M_reqqx_cixUoMP9Li8okCwatmF8odnEmGndjntKCOxOTnPWk7spElQJagtq0fmT5Qp19RhtPqOQRkjatKq11j91i5aT9I7V/s320/carolWS2-MIX.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carol Harris</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjry8FIpJeRVhtnYWKi5Amd_A3serxJIDPlTeor8K4wkfQi7DoDYfrvy1PDH3cT2bkDjpxfBCYeniOB_zWuPlhn4rP3RXWST_PJzY5QFeayQFD8vsCx1qKqDI0xMZqGSDzdO2ZxeS2xFqoN_ttI50fpdQf9kaB_mexmT10FtymfWnlmW6hK7EW4/s2048/CassieHHHcropped-MIX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="2048" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjry8FIpJeRVhtnYWKi5Amd_A3serxJIDPlTeor8K4wkfQi7DoDYfrvy1PDH3cT2bkDjpxfBCYeniOB_zWuPlhn4rP3RXWST_PJzY5QFeayQFD8vsCx1qKqDI0xMZqGSDzdO2ZxeS2xFqoN_ttI50fpdQf9kaB_mexmT10FtymfWnlmW6hK7EW4/s320/CassieHHHcropped-MIX.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cassie Hayes</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div>Our gratitude also goes out to all the high school, colleges, universities, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, and internet websites and community organizations that have invited us to speak and/or featured us in their publications and other media.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">See you at the end of March when The Dragon will be in full force.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Akemashite Omedettou Gozaimasu, Hau'oli Makahik Hou, Happy New Year!</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Your Hip Hapa,</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Yayoi<br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-44831834499999633702023-09-30T16:00:00.005-10:002023-09-30T16:00:36.276-10:00Autumn Announcements<p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here’s to a Happy Hapa Fall making all of your Autumn dreams come true.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At long last, ours are starting to manifest, and it appears that we’ll be producing our <i><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank">‘Watermelon Sushi’</a></i> film next year.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDAdFbrDU-fG_n_-vJctHdaaYOXitCIhlMUnSXkvSYZwSFzIXjVsqRBe72u70tvIUbif1In6vY495iX5JyazK05g5ePhb9hlFe3JfVxaCBP-BY4-wZlcu8DhszaErmeYrE0MLsmB5o7WP1KKSBb7n5Cjf-8ow5VMBC72kXdPGBbwj2ZAhVs22_/s486/wsTheMovie2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="486" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDAdFbrDU-fG_n_-vJctHdaaYOXitCIhlMUnSXkvSYZwSFzIXjVsqRBe72u70tvIUbif1In6vY495iX5JyazK05g5ePhb9hlFe3JfVxaCBP-BY4-wZlcu8DhszaErmeYrE0MLsmB5o7WP1KKSBb7n5Cjf-8ow5VMBC72kXdPGBbwj2ZAhVs22_/w320-h318/wsTheMovie2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNQtF97YWGn5Ozhv-NwKVRJs2nUr4WSayqVQQSNmzIKwfiytzun1vtsFUBB54zkYgFQRmrGHmdU8wpIJChtmEKPrsfJLn0diQr-Eo7jxtpdODh708EUUqSZdU07ZssmqYDe0p4wBEryocEGoJDP23-Sigd_pCBf0hTlPMVP_a0TbwhnHOTv9y/s500/wsTheMovie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="500" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNQtF97YWGn5Ozhv-NwKVRJs2nUr4WSayqVQQSNmzIKwfiytzun1vtsFUBB54zkYgFQRmrGHmdU8wpIJChtmEKPrsfJLn0diQr-Eo7jxtpdODh708EUUqSZdU07ZssmqYDe0p4wBEryocEGoJDP23-Sigd_pCBf0hTlPMVP_a0TbwhnHOTv9y/w200-h191/wsTheMovie.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Our esteemed Executive Producer, Lowell Douglas Ing, has already begun the process of having our old 16mm reels scanned and digitized for editing. With a mix of animation and other new-fangled editing processes, we'll be releasing a uniquely artistic film. Initially shot 25 years ago, <i><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/">‘Watermelon Sushi’</a></i> will definitely benefit from today’s wizardly technology!</p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></span><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As for Doug, his own film, '<i>Alan @ Work'</i> has been making the festival rounds. Next up for a screening is HIFF, in Doug's hometown:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://hiff.org/events/alanwork/">https://hiff.org/events/alanwork/</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBDtmoJ_Fz0ZSAi6Qw7AprBQLQL64h76qwzQ4mHfCORThy3purs2jvXmHe1pvQx3ZTznLc5OML-eAq_hlcV35rowU-8ZveO7vtrwXFm-tXXjN6kHHSFzbEenzzIvnkf25Skux-N1oUPWqiDdPoKR-AtTPFbwAlZTEK0onnc87zYZhRJyAmyjI/s531/dougIngSea2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBDtmoJ_Fz0ZSAi6Qw7AprBQLQL64h76qwzQ4mHfCORThy3purs2jvXmHe1pvQx3ZTznLc5OML-eAq_hlcV35rowU-8ZveO7vtrwXFm-tXXjN6kHHSFzbEenzzIvnkf25Skux-N1oUPWqiDdPoKR-AtTPFbwAlZTEK0onnc87zYZhRJyAmyjI/s320/dougIngSea2001.jpg" width="195" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />f<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">ilmmaker and EP Lowell Douglas Ing</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVHWakGZVXS-PaswK5xhYJ0mPD2JrHL9DRSEnIu4HZIGiiUa3l9Ylu892X6d_4OqciMgTglF5LfMNWceHHZMATg_H9NZIfX5ATgmnfDcxw69oi3aw3PS_-gUFxxJLs_62IxcEUOZMZ1LEmjB38xrP-hS6hvqB8aYpdOESZtPNoTfPaWZzxzQt/s1157/caOriginalCastBW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1157" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfVHWakGZVXS-PaswK5xhYJ0mPD2JrHL9DRSEnIu4HZIGiiUa3l9Ylu892X6d_4OqciMgTglF5LfMNWceHHZMATg_H9NZIfX5ATgmnfDcxw69oi3aw3PS_-gUFxxJLs_62IxcEUOZMZ1LEmjB38xrP-hS6hvqB8aYpdOESZtPNoTfPaWZzxzQt/w400-h265/caOriginalCastBW.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br />Watermelon Sushi's original cast</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One of our early <i>'<a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi'</a></i> producers is no longer with us, and we’d like to acknowledge his major contributions while promoting us in Japan. <i>Arrigatou gozaimashita</i>, Derrick Holmes!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5NiKZrCf3yodTiZ1yLfVG6u0q289kW25otFQVSZ9rUpVFl9g6HkD9522JG1rVaeqbyFXCYcmrm6Lk7lt-r3mI7KuHBMN4H2PFd5-bYK6dxDpn-MxyO9QiUnwD-jrmGI0v2Rb1KK3nGsjsz4kTNpbv1h342fBTPMML9gkpMciKNwKsVI6BPeE/s672/AssocProdDerrickH%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="305" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5NiKZrCf3yodTiZ1yLfVG6u0q289kW25otFQVSZ9rUpVFl9g6HkD9522JG1rVaeqbyFXCYcmrm6Lk7lt-r3mI7KuHBMN4H2PFd5-bYK6dxDpn-MxyO9QiUnwD-jrmGI0v2Rb1KK3nGsjsz4kTNpbv1h342fBTPMML9gkpMciKNwKsVI6BPeE/w181-h400/AssocProdDerrickH%20copy.jpg" width="181" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">producer Derrick Holmes</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>Meanwhile, we’re still presenting the <i><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/" target="_blank">‘War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory’</a></i> series at various colleges and universities. The topic of women marrying their former enemies during WWII is always a hot button issue. And, we’ve really enjoyed participating in discussions about interracial marriages and mixed-race kids, too.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can learn more about those films at this link:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/" target="_blank">Gumroad</a></span></i></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><span style="font-family: arial;">There are also Youtube channels for <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WatermelonSushi/videos" target="_blank">‘Watermelon Sushi’</a></i> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@warbridesofjapan/videos" target="_blank"><i>‘War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory’</i>:</a></span><p></p><p></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/videos"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Watermelon Sushi</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@warbridesofjapan/videos"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If you’d like to learn more about our film productions, please visit our websites:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Starwheels</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Watermelon Sushi</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.warbridesofjapan.com/"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ceEBgwZKv8YKTnISkgGF3_nt-in3BVHTFRJIaYs-ZBr0BVNMnAz52ZoZdcG4g38J7GGdFS5gDIHwLWD4OxvDvcAmS-i9hzfBFe6nxeMQvJLozwjNQxhfbaXcyXwU33Aj39b81xzUtPHDycolD3a8uSaU_70yJMuM_sr7DEyIAS1sXDYLt3T2/s564/jpnMomPassportPix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="416" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ceEBgwZKv8YKTnISkgGF3_nt-in3BVHTFRJIaYs-ZBr0BVNMnAz52ZoZdcG4g38J7GGdFS5gDIHwLWD4OxvDvcAmS-i9hzfBFe6nxeMQvJLozwjNQxhfbaXcyXwU33Aj39b81xzUtPHDycolD3a8uSaU_70yJMuM_sr7DEyIAS1sXDYLt3T2/s320/jpnMomPassportPix.jpg" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tokyo Lily</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div>Besides working on <i><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank">‘Watermelon Sushi’</a></i>, we’’re also in preproduction for <i>‘<a href="https://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tokyo Lily</a></i><a href="https://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">’</a>, a film about a Japanese war bride who became a notable artist. The website for that movie should be available early next month. A graphic novel,<i> </i><a href="https://lenastarwheels.wixsite.com/iamartistyuriko" target="_blank"><i>‘Lily Wisteria’</i></a>, will eventually be published, too. And, of course, promo items like t-shirts, stickers and posters will be created and offered.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_Hef_IxzwbRKJ1Fj-yH1UdQ1IqHnmleWA2fQd2Eorx9dbNE9uQaXGYIyOaegLLUgyU3A-ktWCbM1fbCkyDhSstJHYTvz0Ijay3pAHUBr9h35L8nx-sxVA6ZKmMoZCmVi_2PzkI3LVPuwvB-coqcDESkwsLv661tC8bdn4SH-htF0cLOiz-Ak/s888/jpn52YYPssprtCrop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_Hef_IxzwbRKJ1Fj-yH1UdQ1IqHnmleWA2fQd2Eorx9dbNE9uQaXGYIyOaegLLUgyU3A-ktWCbM1fbCkyDhSstJHYTvz0Ijay3pAHUBr9h35L8nx-sxVA6ZKmMoZCmVi_2PzkI3LVPuwvB-coqcDESkwsLv661tC8bdn4SH-htF0cLOiz-Ak/s320/jpn52YYPssprtCrop.jpg" width="203" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br />blogger Yayoi</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here’s where you can read more about <i><a href="https://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com/">‘Tokyo Lily’</a></i>:</span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">heARTwork</a></i></span></p><p></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://lenastarwheels.wixsite.com/iamartistyuriko" target="_blank">iAmArtistYuriko</a></i></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please stay warm and toasty while you’re out there raking leaves. Or better yet, our little mixie fans, curl up with a <i><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/" target="_blank">‘War Brides’</a></i> film or two. We love having your support!</span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your Hip Hapa,</span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yayoi</span> </span></p></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-12904898078357627922023-06-30T23:33:00.000-10:002023-06-30T23:33:04.939-10:00 Summer of Bon<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Aloha, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Hip Hapa Homeez</i><span style="font-family: arial;">!</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Summer will be here in a minute ushering in <i>Obon</i> season around the world. Yes; around the world!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVTCBijI2sUans2UVh2unTdQTSNKAjD9ccxrPqYcFc7VzHa1pkFjegsNy0h5ruhmE0STp_njjU498s6m8ZmbzlMDc-MEHuS1uy5Vun3VJ0ZPEty3JOI8j_7H3sdxDlYcuZWYgA3hT3mTDWRxFEXjHWUu2bxJu_6w_KOJ_FbK0YUadWxYcVmIu/s4599/hawaiiObonDancerNeon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2390" data-original-width="4599" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOVTCBijI2sUans2UVh2unTdQTSNKAjD9ccxrPqYcFc7VzHa1pkFjegsNy0h5ruhmE0STp_njjU498s6m8ZmbzlMDc-MEHuS1uy5Vun3VJ0ZPEty3JOI8j_7H3sdxDlYcuZWYgA3hT3mTDWRxFEXjHWUu2bxJu_6w_KOJ_FbK0YUadWxYcVmIu/s320/hawaiiObonDancerNeon.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">bon dancers</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Even though <i>Obon</i> (or <i>Bon Odori</i>) is a dance event honoring Japanese ancestors, it’s now found in some places where no Japanese expats even live.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Further, some of the music played these days includes modern tunes like the <i>Electric Slide</i>!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You probably know that <i>Obon</i> is held annually at Buddhist temples in commemoration of those who have departed. It’s believed that their spirits return every summer, and family members celebrate by dancing.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Generally, participants dance to old Japanese folk tunes played over a loudspeaker. Sometimes, local <i>taiko</i> (drumming) groups even perform live.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQaD1QsPb2C7mVuFJGJ7LY5NI_k3KrSTkHNMQmwXZ2m_f6U_ymyEt6hzVIDWzkO0uqOzs5QsnsA_lfJbF00TrMQ7O2K4xEnSWe4jYtDY9vAO3EEOXleZb_dexgpZrRQvj8l__XJbzOXetoINz5cKCwYAkg3M9yw87s9l7QgBjnY-ZgwP2HlIY/s4608/obonTaiko.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2232" data-original-width="4608" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUQaD1QsPb2C7mVuFJGJ7LY5NI_k3KrSTkHNMQmwXZ2m_f6U_ymyEt6hzVIDWzkO0uqOzs5QsnsA_lfJbF00TrMQ7O2K4xEnSWe4jYtDY9vAO3EEOXleZb_dexgpZrRQvj8l__XJbzOXetoINz5cKCwYAkg3M9yw87s9l7QgBjnY-ZgwP2HlIY/s320/obonTaiko.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">taiko</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyone can join in the dancing, but there are usually groups of dancers who have practiced at their temple throughout the year. They’re the leaders inside the dance circle performing steps that others can follow.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The theme of <i>Obon</i> appears in our <i>War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</i> films titled <i>The Culture</i>. In <i>Tamales 4 Bon Odori</i>, the interviewee laments that she was not welcomed at her neighborhood <i>Obon</i> as a child because she was not accepted by Japanese Americans due to her father being Mexican.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Well, times are changing. Today, a lot of people at <i>Obon</i> festivals celebrated in the U.S. have no Japanese ancestry at all.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can watch <i>Tamales 4 Bon Odori</i> here on Gumroad along with our other 4 war brides’ films:</span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Gumroad</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, we’re still working on our <i>Tokyo Lily</i> film and <i>Lily Wisteria</i> graphic novel. And, of course, our feature <i><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i>. Come back<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>here for updates.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can also subscribe to our two Youtube channels:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqEFYNo5T7Uqn75pjLRX8ple6AnF5ibwbOzJkaX3zhYTnnqZOO3TqXtiGXHW9380hZL5ogPWwjFmAGTiBnVRBs7_NWue07APyUvuEAkhkWxpJa3tDCyGOxwKrAJcai0nHN15i6ziejdyyNI8L64-5b3eN_y5wuH-KyPG2IvjCUt4xSzrIqYASo/s640/13amelonPop2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqEFYNo5T7Uqn75pjLRX8ple6AnF5ibwbOzJkaX3zhYTnnqZOO3TqXtiGXHW9380hZL5ogPWwjFmAGTiBnVRBs7_NWue07APyUvuEAkhkWxpJa3tDCyGOxwKrAJcai0nHN15i6ziejdyyNI8L64-5b3eN_y5wuH-KyPG2IvjCUt4xSzrIqYASo/w200-h150/13amelonPop2.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/videos"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Watermelon Sushi</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@warbridesofjapan/videos"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And, remember to visit our websites:</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Starwheels</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Watermelon Sushi</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.warbridesofjapan.com/"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</span></i></a></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Happy Bon! Happy Summer!</span></p>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-20042638548100107872023-03-31T00:52:00.000-10:002023-03-31T00:52:47.233-10:00Planting Watermelons And Making Sushi<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>!</span></p><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6qGbLXcwYNOCww9l8hPDkDAvD7vGM2hCaCpHkSxkaX_kcYXY56ddUdECWVdKrdg1l0DwAl7xT2gPVKiKHOmlyWVsGPgicavPtW4ZuRczhwKP1COoQrvyQmHoAESWKOm5K2cm21cZ4dp6pzRkZeE7UFy78XBw6foNfi-vwjAdrKokwxuOubA/s486/wsTheMovie2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="486" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6qGbLXcwYNOCww9l8hPDkDAvD7vGM2hCaCpHkSxkaX_kcYXY56ddUdECWVdKrdg1l0DwAl7xT2gPVKiKHOmlyWVsGPgicavPtW4ZuRczhwKP1COoQrvyQmHoAESWKOm5K2cm21cZ4dp6pzRkZeE7UFy78XBw6foNfi-vwjAdrKokwxuOubA/w320-h318/wsTheMovie2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Spring is in the air and planting season has begun. </span><p></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It’s a good time to get those Watermelon seeds into the ground. And, it’s a good time to eat more Sushi, too, particularly the vegan kind. <i>Norimaki</i> rolled with veggies, anyone?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, those words are not-so-subtle references to our </span><i style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i><span style="font-family: arial;"> feature narrative turned animation.</span></span></div>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As we announced in our last post, filmmaker Doug Ing has come aboard as our Executive Producer. This multi-talented man recently had one of his documentaries accepted by SIFF, a major film festival in Seattle.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>Omedettou gozaimasu</i>, Doug!</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-AjQkA6jJpId0yglnkZkQx8i6Oc8cCm1M0XjL0z8iPH3rPS6dXV-Dds7j0h0gnI1ia1Grf389ZfnDhLNlylyfng1nfWl1Hj6Wwt7kuZpMQmm3ekppakDhidhNNXo0yTT1Klea5ITH0Dn8LcmPCPLqcBytRb_2s0oRH8kww234AfhApWkdw/s1474/waTacMom'sDougIng.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1474" data-original-width="1187" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-AjQkA6jJpId0yglnkZkQx8i6Oc8cCm1M0XjL0z8iPH3rPS6dXV-Dds7j0h0gnI1ia1Grf389ZfnDhLNlylyfng1nfWl1Hj6Wwt7kuZpMQmm3ekppakDhidhNNXo0yTT1Klea5ITH0Dn8LcmPCPLqcBytRb_2s0oRH8kww234AfhApWkdw/s320/waTacMom'sDougIng.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Doug Ing films Yuriko in Tacoma Washington </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihxAZdwX_mkjcBzGgLlVioW911H5chksAdqDcogWyaj785aerrnHYLtLLaETjxd1Zbn9lK7IXOz8hVhPmTwc4cJ0isAxsCsdLe2XYvJOYTFs8BghLhVTLGhkiYRdJw8-TbVAVPV9e19M3n-2ApMAoZO3102hg-Y76prw_DpXNsrPjCf6q1JQ/s822/waDougIngMe2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="673" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihxAZdwX_mkjcBzGgLlVioW911H5chksAdqDcogWyaj785aerrnHYLtLLaETjxd1Zbn9lK7IXOz8hVhPmTwc4cJ0isAxsCsdLe2XYvJOYTFs8BghLhVTLGhkiYRdJw8-TbVAVPV9e19M3n-2ApMAoZO3102hg-Y76prw_DpXNsrPjCf6q1JQ/s320/waDougIngMe2001.jpg" width="262" /></a></span><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We’d also like to congratulate Yuriko-san on her fake birthday today. This incredible artist was actually born a month later, but her father forged her birth certificate so she could enroll in school when the semester began in April--instead of waiting another year.</span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZtWo42e2-T9hs3YcKSO_AG7ar5hWdCBPKrg4eSdKQZ0pLdguel67bKv9aaJDoLzuz55PGyS7oc9i9m2R2nxq82F3cHhiZsqUtHBrvRF01E8WWyBVHfRU0Eb3Cx5PuHyFSozgq0Pk4xn3d0q-dzP6U4AdHjVOE9aqy16pX9l-LQ1B0LCfyA/s2781/ylwLogoCropped.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="2781" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZtWo42e2-T9hs3YcKSO_AG7ar5hWdCBPKrg4eSdKQZ0pLdguel67bKv9aaJDoLzuz55PGyS7oc9i9m2R2nxq82F3cHhiZsqUtHBrvRF01E8WWyBVHfRU0Eb3Cx5PuHyFSozgq0Pk4xn3d0q-dzP6U4AdHjVOE9aqy16pX9l-LQ1B0LCfyA/w400-h183/ylwLogoCropped.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">upcoming projects</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Anyway, our documentary film about her, <i><a href="http://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Tokyo Lily</a>,</i> will be accompanied by a graphic novel, <i><a href="https://lenastarwheels.wixsite.com/iamartistyuriko" target="_blank">Lily Wisteria</a></i>. The documentary will feature her life story and artwork, while the novel will showcase illustrations of WWII and the Occupation.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">btw, Yuriko means ‘lily’ in <i>Nihongo</i> and her clan name, Naito, has a <i>mon </i>represented by the hanging wisteria plant.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">While we’re tackling all these projects, we’re pumping up our Youtube channels, so please subscribe:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/videos" target="_blank"><i>Watermelon Sushi</i></a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@warbridesofjapan/videos" target="_blank"><i>War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</i></a></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And, for your edutainment pleasure, the five <i>'War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory'</i> films are currently available on Gumroad:</span></div>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com" target="_blank"><i>Gumroad</i></a></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If you need more details about any of our projects, please navigate to our main websites:</span></div>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels" target="_blank"><i>Starwheels</i></a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank"><i>Watermelon Sushi</i></a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.warbridesofjapan.com" target="_blank"><i>War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</i></a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Or, you can drop us a line, too. We’re always on the look out for more mixies like ourselves to spotlight on this blog.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lifting up our fans with love and gratitude!</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Your Hip Hapa,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yayo</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">i</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9aK75RtNpTorfAUddiYf1EGp98GasUOXaySMFcaChm3tkZGar5u8orysdgyT0J9KfHTl7Kjn28JNZsWCDWDLa537fJW36D_wr0I1MEsXu_ZelJybFz3e8XGKtv80l2gAre_UsBMmfpBeBgq63JBaNu7HmAXrXaoPwDtfaxenpAW3Eo201A/s462/1melonSushiNeonRed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="443" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9aK75RtNpTorfAUddiYf1EGp98GasUOXaySMFcaChm3tkZGar5u8orysdgyT0J9KfHTl7Kjn28JNZsWCDWDLa537fJW36D_wr0I1MEsXu_ZelJybFz3e8XGKtv80l2gAre_UsBMmfpBeBgq63JBaNu7HmAXrXaoPwDtfaxenpAW3Eo201A/w192-h200/1melonSushiNeonRed.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-80646216514255108792022-12-31T22:30:00.003-10:002023-03-31T00:53:09.757-10:00A New Year, A New Logo, A New (Old) Film<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>!</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxO-FpYAO99DPHCij3UJM2ScPH2tRLhtoXz5iTMP8bBPZF4EU9CEnga8422w0IVwqjRggmxV28Va8m60adEseG29k-fBWb0UB7SN5ntxKzWRleSX9_p1-7NGTl_p3bqRYcKk3zxPHUn_4tdci75U1LcGj-1zOTJ3DY2bS5uCQX1t0cNkUQjw/s288/WSMovieLogo%20copy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="288" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxO-FpYAO99DPHCij3UJM2ScPH2tRLhtoXz5iTMP8bBPZF4EU9CEnga8422w0IVwqjRggmxV28Va8m60adEseG29k-fBWb0UB7SN5ntxKzWRleSX9_p1-7NGTl_p3bqRYcKk3zxPHUn_4tdci75U1LcGj-1zOTJ3DY2bS5uCQX1t0cNkUQjw/w200-h197/WSMovieLogo%20copy.jpg" width="200" /></a></i></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></i></p><i>Hau’oli Makahiki Hou! Akemashite Omedettou Gozaimasu!</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Best wishes for the happiest of new years to all of our loyal fans.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In our last post, we mentioned having an executive producer onboard to help complete <i><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i>—first shot in 1998. <i>Arrigatou!</i> to the fabulous filmmaker Doug Ing for having our old footage digitized for easy editing.<br /></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Since <i><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i> was not completed the first time (and the performers are now more than 20 years older), we will create an animated version of it. The story is still the same; still about two mixed-race sisters framed by nostalgic 1980’s rap and hip hop.</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9wdCAwdfrZKb_zFoVUvjPaknY7Z0OHKTMZi4sMHGq8mcnI8vCe4BKj-qirqQA2TA90TTewgzcmN_0zvI9OXR9sNPbA8Qf0w-sVsUWz5q9Sbu9hw7X0FhX03Kedw1j5Vl0FNEMNcW2E9WY68kwO2_yz8g5p8lbq7Mbkm63GN__5m7rJq4ng/s1224/wsGirlNewVersion%20copy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1224" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9wdCAwdfrZKb_zFoVUvjPaknY7Z0OHKTMZi4sMHGq8mcnI8vCe4BKj-qirqQA2TA90TTewgzcmN_0zvI9OXR9sNPbA8Qf0w-sVsUWz5q9Sbu9hw7X0FhX03Kedw1j5Vl0FNEMNcW2E9WY68kwO2_yz8g5p8lbq7Mbkm63GN__5m7rJq4ng/w400-h259/wsGirlNewVersion%20copy.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please stay tuned as we produce a new logo in the next few weeks that will spearhead our crowdfunding efforts.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Speaking of new logos, we’re also working on another film, <i><a href="http://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Tokyo Lily</a></i>, which is a biopic of a Japanese war bride who married a Black American soldier and moved to segregated Texas in the 1950’s. Eventually, her family settled in another state where she studied traditional Japanese dance (playing male roles), became a painter and wrote <i>haiku</i>.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Additionally, we will have a graphic novel about the same bride titled, <i><a href="https://lenastarwheels.wixsite.com/iamartistyuriko" target="_blank">Lily Wisteria</a></i>. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/videos" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg/videos" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</a></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can also view the 5 <i><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</a></i> films on Gumroad:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com" target="_blank">Gumroad</a></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For more detailed information, please visit our main websites:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels" target="_blank">Starwheels</a></i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://www.warbridesofjapan.com" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</a></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaHz10izYxpJzB-YheMgtX1hvUtiBzoJoPU4tpyuoo1kqzTcgAQZhvNwCIKy24-e43F296LLbEWEC3aEJa5huj-ASmyHa-jrmT6_Wl7P-r-AfhDAvRfiuFuvY609i9Q7grVaKmZbmGPGcPW4yeqqdi4lAw3Dpeq_CaZ-kv0GxJhnAuF0ebw/s309/4amelonGlassesOriginal%20copy%202.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="309" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaHz10izYxpJzB-YheMgtX1hvUtiBzoJoPU4tpyuoo1kqzTcgAQZhvNwCIKy24-e43F296LLbEWEC3aEJa5huj-ASmyHa-jrmT6_Wl7P-r-AfhDAvRfiuFuvY609i9Q7grVaKmZbmGPGcPW4yeqqdi4lAw3Dpeq_CaZ-kv0GxJhnAuF0ebw/w200-h174/4amelonGlassesOriginal%20copy%202.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Here’s to peace and prosperity in 2023!</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yayo</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">i</span></p></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-9450737765543158652022-09-30T20:34:00.000-10:002022-09-30T20:34:36.276-10:00Falling Forward<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>!</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here we are again, preparing for Fall. But the darker days and longer nights are actually a blessing. It will keep us in our studio where we will spend more time working on our creative endeavors.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For one, <i>Watermelon Sushi</i> (the movie) now has an Executive Producer. In the posts to come, we will name that person and the work they are doing for our film. Soon, we’ll be starting our fundraising campaign!</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9K8-mlp0_br6S92v2_k2apzlqN9P7pCRHMv0I4Msuz31f46x1KZqvlgtwB4yBIlGsHe9vZraoQpVty-tE9FmNHhKA-eVhS5fqHyIM-yEDF2o_0HFlXwQ49-vyLdK_5jsqcwA3Ihrxp2cWt3ZYMDd4iOLXrODvsLP6ucvThGXVcDYqs7m4A/s1776/tacNewsTribuneWatermelonSushi%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1423" data-original-width="1776" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9K8-mlp0_br6S92v2_k2apzlqN9P7pCRHMv0I4Msuz31f46x1KZqvlgtwB4yBIlGsHe9vZraoQpVty-tE9FmNHhKA-eVhS5fqHyIM-yEDF2o_0HFlXwQ49-vyLdK_5jsqcwA3Ihrxp2cWt3ZYMDd4iOLXrODvsLP6ucvThGXVcDYqs7m4A/s320/tacNewsTribuneWatermelonSushi%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Yayoi introduces her family</span> </td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We also have our yet untitled documentary and graphic novel about a Japanese war bride artist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVN8X5z_Lss-OpDc2VRRHwXdZG_YzQR_Cqoz0AWrFZZGtqAkOQWcTm-lx6WHVOIKgDoZN7S2X6sCsKK48_S5wJ1xzFbLHbdWrDErqewklj8ZUn1mekD0f_6IGB7JCop7hsH4w32-8RIsz88qpswFByPhIF-iopswySdfVW3wIteN23Fraug/s445/japanMomStripedKimonoNeon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfVN8X5z_Lss-OpDc2VRRHwXdZG_YzQR_Cqoz0AWrFZZGtqAkOQWcTm-lx6WHVOIKgDoZN7S2X6sCsKK48_S5wJ1xzFbLHbdWrDErqewklj8ZUn1mekD0f_6IGB7JCop7hsH4w32-8RIsz88qpswFByPhIF-iopswySdfVW3wIteN23Fraug/s320/japanMomStripedKimonoNeon.jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a war bride and an artist<br /><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And, we’ll be licensing artwork for both films in the very near future.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Have you stayed updated on our two Youtube channels?</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/featured" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg/videos" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While you’re there, please subscribe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You can also view the 5 <i>War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</i> films on Gumroad:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/" target="_blank">Gumroad</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, here are the links to our films’ main websites:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels" target="_blank">Starwheels</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As always, we’re open to interviewing mixed-race, multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial folks who are making a difference. Please drop us a line!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, our deepest <i>mahalo</i> to you—our fans since 2006—for your continuing support.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Have a beautiful autumn!</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your Hip Hapa,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yayoi<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD-EyjcnkzU2k6xQftJjsuJUjhvCnkLsH4Vfn1QL6uemmuy643bl6g9S4ouUbW82ikPRjD4_lFYtWopxkdI3Xcxu5KxGcgZpUcImo6yhUw2bxZjqFbEFkasaZvv91JPeC29iT9eOOCf-FgHjXPUqh_Vy9kt86eA7aLWtRFK7XqCubloRbOQA/s588/5melonsOriginal%20copy%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="588" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD-EyjcnkzU2k6xQftJjsuJUjhvCnkLsH4Vfn1QL6uemmuy643bl6g9S4ouUbW82ikPRjD4_lFYtWopxkdI3Xcxu5KxGcgZpUcImo6yhUw2bxZjqFbEFkasaZvv91JPeC29iT9eOOCf-FgHjXPUqh_Vy9kt86eA7aLWtRFK7XqCubloRbOQA/w200-h162/5melonsOriginal%20copy%202.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-66862688026763750312022-06-30T13:19:00.000-10:002022-06-30T13:19:31.010-10:00Summer Sun and Fun<span style="font-family: arial;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>! </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>HAPA</i> sunshine! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmbZGsdrw2XgjbzrxODnQD6_-3ULCvQXWqGNW1-YmE8YQnqw0Nn0ek13mZB2bKKAaq3jq3QP3x8_uZX-CQ3gOstgiF7oIjWQa2wiDMV0TFow5Q3qiZXo18dH_hU4IllOw149GuAzChHnMDwc2nKZBIe7zyZfWArKOK4oyJagV7xtV8zGEYQ/s3369/watermelonGobletSushiCandlesCrop%20copy.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3369" data-original-width="1604" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpmbZGsdrw2XgjbzrxODnQD6_-3ULCvQXWqGNW1-YmE8YQnqw0Nn0ek13mZB2bKKAaq3jq3QP3x8_uZX-CQ3gOstgiF7oIjWQa2wiDMV0TFow5Q3qiZXo18dH_hU4IllOw149GuAzChHnMDwc2nKZBIe7zyZfWArKOK4oyJagV7xtV8zGEYQ/s320/watermelonGobletSushiCandlesCrop%20copy.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">cocktail, anyone?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">Summer is here, but we won’t be lazing around in the sun sipping on a Watermelon Sushi cocktail, or munching on Watermelon and Sushi salad either. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Nope. We're going to be too busy creating content for you, our mixie friends. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">First off, we have finally completed our short film, Native Vegan. This project was funded by a grant via VeganFlix Studios, and we are eternally grateful for that. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">You’ll be able to view it at our Watermelon Sushi Youtube channel, once it’s posted early next month:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/featured">https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/featured</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvsdSufXO6R2v5jKK7hTl_qa_Q1tgIeJA5h-ARQ9-RmaWP72ldqCKmKVcPlnrsuh8NXI_5AcoOAH97Sfb6p_lSNc1Mte237hvBpWiKgdAHJWPquOAVV9kynAUhukZa19HbYVYOykX6uIN2LBujTMgYLM6V0Zmef_908DajCksWL9HNak-Qgg/s3332/watermelonPlatesSushiCandlesCrop%20copy.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2431" data-original-width="3332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvsdSufXO6R2v5jKK7hTl_qa_Q1tgIeJA5h-ARQ9-RmaWP72ldqCKmKVcPlnrsuh8NXI_5AcoOAH97Sfb6p_lSNc1Mte237hvBpWiKgdAHJWPquOAVV9kynAUhukZa19HbYVYOykX6uIN2LBujTMgYLM6V0Zmef_908DajCksWL9HNak-Qgg/s320/watermelonPlatesSushiCandlesCrop%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">or watermelon sushi salad?</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">While you’re on Youtube, please check out our War Brides of Japan channel, too:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg/featured">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg/featured</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The 5 films that make up the series are currently available for (cheap) rent on Gumroad:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com">https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, we have onboard an executive producer for the narrative, Watermelon Sushi. This film is about you and me, <i>Dear Hip Hapa</i>, so please stay in touch. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">You can see our updates at our website:
<a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com">https://www.watermelonsushi.com</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And, at our Facebook fan page:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watermelonsushi/">https://www.facebook.com/watermelonsushi/</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Or, Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/watermelonsushi">https://twitter.com/watermelonsushi</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">We can’t thank you enough, our devoted supporters, for your financial and spiritual encouragement throughout these decades! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKD5-IGwsv-0uJtM5D4e7PEIgugU0m8UZCc4QGfmaWa5j0DFvhITaSlSJrrAyiwVT0jOEpVqAyvr6YBO9dTJKKTDJC-C21d3ksc_cZVue07uTeU0Bq_XHnFvJFoQ7D4beGQlnHlNx2eykqu3-oNOWhTPAVUIwtojiY3pbSnX8AyZ6VND9RjQ/s486/wsTheMovie2.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="486" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKD5-IGwsv-0uJtM5D4e7PEIgugU0m8UZCc4QGfmaWa5j0DFvhITaSlSJrrAyiwVT0jOEpVqAyvr6YBO9dTJKKTDJC-C21d3ksc_cZVue07uTeU0Bq_XHnFvJFoQ7D4beGQlnHlNx2eykqu3-oNOWhTPAVUIwtojiY3pbSnX8AyZ6VND9RjQ/w200-h199/wsTheMovie2.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">cool rules!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiztrJh2X6pSvDU_v7_BniTGnqUm3wEvCg95Q6mPkTuNAAGjw3co-WX84JO58lrqWkEF8Jnj43En7waXxNqOUZk_D9VIBd5xDXXc-d9-jJD7xTINsDJZUdd-UAIT6ZU-6YfYLea6TJtYvrtDAZCJU4gLt_uEcA-ONOrNf2QDBKkwds-KUOgTA/s500/wsTheMovie.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="500" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiztrJh2X6pSvDU_v7_BniTGnqUm3wEvCg95Q6mPkTuNAAGjw3co-WX84JO58lrqWkEF8Jnj43En7waXxNqOUZk_D9VIBd5xDXXc-d9-jJD7xTINsDJZUdd-UAIT6ZU-6YfYLea6TJtYvrtDAZCJU4gLt_uEcA-ONOrNf2QDBKkwds-KUOgTA/w200-h191/wsTheMovie.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Watermelon Sushi, the movie</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div>We also have other projects on our plate, like the story of a Japanese war bride artist which will be both a documentary film and a graphic novel. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://lenastarwheels.wixsite.com/iamartistyuriko">https://lenastarwheels.wixsite.com/iamartistyuriko</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com">http://heartworkbyyuri.blogspot.com</a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And, we’re in talks with a producer for a documentary film about the enslavement of African people in the U.S.</span><span style="font-family: arial;">
Please enjoy your multi-culti summer, and drop us a line if you or someone you know would like to be featured on our next blog post. We’re always looking to write about interesting mixies like yourself. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">See you again this Fall. Meanwhile, stay cool because cool rules! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Your Hip Hapa, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Yayoi</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpf-DjTrCLpmWVT1rex3BB2PSGVW04TWgOAszhJMqJRMf7i0UmkiHLl-fz1cz7P7YPpMtEL9C7qRgnPprO36SXtcq2khjFB4-mwYeo6pc_SRZGC1CTP4d4zRW59fjhhULHPRzqb8ZPV93Aj3qxjpCR9TUijAw6lfpASxAb17Ar6a7qcpWP5Q/s309/4amelonGlassesPop5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="309" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpf-DjTrCLpmWVT1rex3BB2PSGVW04TWgOAszhJMqJRMf7i0UmkiHLl-fz1cz7P7YPpMtEL9C7qRgnPprO36SXtcq2khjFB4-mwYeo6pc_SRZGC1CTP4d4zRW59fjhhULHPRzqb8ZPV93Aj3qxjpCR9TUijAw6lfpASxAb17Ar6a7qcpWP5Q/w200-h174/4amelonGlassesPop5.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></div></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-24677738053316332912022-03-31T14:06:00.000-10:002022-03-31T14:06:46.273-10:00HAPA Spring N2 Action!<div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez!</i></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here were are, already at the end of the first quarter of 2022. How’s it going so far in your multicultural world?</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbXco0fu5T8vTy2TVlUSk9yOyqDiY92he5u09E8Qs18RPscwWHPzwidHv_EgzsSDFhDZYtytmAFCBlxo4-GLWX8BADZBTTxDTu6Mlqz3jvaMDlgEjuE56pF6n3pDeqNEg8PNvHI4z5cHpm0oDHwAoB6Qirk_RSsZtbOMLZOgKImyIpi_aW-A/s603/8amelonSushiOriginal%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="603" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbXco0fu5T8vTy2TVlUSk9yOyqDiY92he5u09E8Qs18RPscwWHPzwidHv_EgzsSDFhDZYtytmAFCBlxo4-GLWX8BADZBTTxDTu6Mlqz3jvaMDlgEjuE56pF6n3pDeqNEg8PNvHI4z5cHpm0oDHwAoB6Qirk_RSsZtbOMLZOgKImyIpi_aW-A/s320/8amelonSushiOriginal%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Your Hip Hapa with Watermelon Sushi</span></h4></td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For us at <i>Watermelon Sushi World</i>, it’s been a time of turning out projects like <i>crazy</i>!</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In honor of Women’s <strike>History</strike> Herstory Month, <i>Your Hip Hapa</i> was invited to participate in an art exhibit called '<i>Herstory'</i>. A month-long event at Arts at Mark’s Garage in Chinatown, Honolulu, O’ahu, the exhibit showed off the work of women artists and their powerful visions of women. A fun time was had by all!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwiHJUPnOsM-bEjX0Ua8hE8Rd9iULQ8ShXpMxgZQgV4Ge_ncfMSHD_KTPNmSE7z7GuO9XrD2urOpbEVC_IA2r9cXhbYZ1Nmbk8ngRj1T-04mhTY1a3xpYS50Cxrx-ICNR6Z8kvcAEr3A6024sRImkNXhsgjASeJBPQ33qnh3MPnwRKy3FMg/s4345/rice2SpaceMarksGarage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3859" data-original-width="4345" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwiHJUPnOsM-bEjX0Ua8hE8Rd9iULQ8ShXpMxgZQgV4Ge_ncfMSHD_KTPNmSE7z7GuO9XrD2urOpbEVC_IA2r9cXhbYZ1Nmbk8ngRj1T-04mhTY1a3xpYS50Cxrx-ICNR6Z8kvcAEr3A6024sRImkNXhsgjASeJBPQ33qnh3MPnwRKy3FMg/s320/rice2SpaceMarksGarage.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h4><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Your Hip Hapa's "Herstory: Rice 2 Space" artwork, bottom right</span></h4></td></tr></tbody></table></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As you can see, <i>Your Hip Hapa’s</i> artwork included a portrait of a <i>hapa</i> woman who rises from being a baby on her mother’s back (a traditional Japanese woman cooking rice) to becoming an astronaut. Stay tuned for a whole series of NFT’s based on this subject matter.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, the <i>‘War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory’</i> series is now available for viewing on Gumroad.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Check out these links:</span></p>
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<p style="color: #094fd1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/HERSTORY"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/HERSTORY</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: #094fd1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/theBRIDES"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/theBRIDES</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: #094fd1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/theKIDS"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/theKIDS</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: #094fd1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/theCULTURE"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/theCULTURE</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="color: #094fd1; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/BUDDHISTFRIENDSFOREVER"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://watermelonsushi.gumroad.com/l/BUDDHISTFRIENDSFOREVER</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Additionally, we’re surging forward with two films and three books. Don’t worry, we’ll keep you posted about their statuses.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Do drop us a line if you’re someone who has something to say about being a part of our mixed race world. We love doing interviews with people like you.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your Hip Hapa,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yayoi</span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-52682597902451767892021-12-31T22:59:00.003-10:002022-03-31T13:44:37.066-10:00HAPA New Year!<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Aloha, Hip Hapa Homeez!</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirr9-_iqhJYiBSF32-rSXYszwWeTUIAxPwe5Ieb5OUHzmeFHYLgqgw66vzEF-WJ-zp4gi3Kz0DAloztYz0uvBMiL2Hdt4UvskYoaxcR5s7lnKCzBVpNFWA--jFBdbgsktCjso_KPgyhwdV3yLuhaPGh6fy2PYwtbRr8MXJISn95viXmJjvyg=s591" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="432" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirr9-_iqhJYiBSF32-rSXYszwWeTUIAxPwe5Ieb5OUHzmeFHYLgqgw66vzEF-WJ-zp4gi3Kz0DAloztYz0uvBMiL2Hdt4UvskYoaxcR5s7lnKCzBVpNFWA--jFBdbgsktCjso_KPgyhwdV3yLuhaPGh6fy2PYwtbRr8MXJISn95viXmJjvyg=w234-h320" width="234" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">a hip hapa homee</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Akemashite Omedettou Gozaimasu!</i> <i>Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!</i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hey, <i>hip hapa homee</i>, what are your New Year’s resolutions? Are any of them centered around issues of importance to BIPOC and, especially, us mixies?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Since Your Hip Hapa began this blog in 2006 (and really moved forward with it in 2008), so much has changed in our Watermelon Sushi World.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the old days, we rarely saw any outed multiracial images onscreen, in books, or anywhere public. There may have been actors who were mixed in real life, but they were often forced to play mono-racial characters. Except for a few pioneering films that addressed the issue of being mixed, the topic was mostly ignored.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCa4YEGoXyagYBtZTh6Oxicll0s2F14DG4_LI568Gp2QLCi-FwRmyK1Qod3b3yTiChjGwwE3YgChLWBWPjYT78o-j7Zx1hJoeCi2TWQhChufFeVEfc3wngsTzVMlF03DIwn-ChwgANBJXU36BF2EoqgbOVagpPhhkkgwxO2eX7pIGf3rh4BA=s486" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="486" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCa4YEGoXyagYBtZTh6Oxicll0s2F14DG4_LI568Gp2QLCi-FwRmyK1Qod3b3yTiChjGwwE3YgChLWBWPjYT78o-j7Zx1hJoeCi2TWQhChufFeVEfc3wngsTzVMlF03DIwn-ChwgANBJXU36BF2EoqgbOVagpPhhkkgwxO2eX7pIGf3rh4BA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Watermelon Sushi the Movie by B.R. Winfrey</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But 2008 brought a biracial president of the U.S. into the public arena. Although he was “one-dropped” by most media, he also quietly stood apart from issues of ethnic identity. Despite having a white mother, Obama was considered to be a black man by the majority, and he went with it.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Still, there has been so much progress on the planet in the 15 years that we’ve been publishing this blog. We can hardly wait to see what’s coming next. Maybe soon, we might even stop writing this blog because, hopefully, the world will reach a point where there will be no reason to bring light to BIPOC and mixie-related topics.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX45sEcyNmueAxlDtAX3IX8A4-DuVQp2VS4L73YurwzbMgXC5J1tdJ_Vx5DLEWehh_Iksd_O6vFMZvC6C6sVbowIdbgMF7VSLI8ztQq2DuvgiHQdGgcXviYeaRO9MBNZxAq9X2rVZuhOdR6aHutItQDLktjZMZo0rXBxfHdAl9FD22mAHk2g=s1776" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1423" data-original-width="1776" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX45sEcyNmueAxlDtAX3IX8A4-DuVQp2VS4L73YurwzbMgXC5J1tdJ_Vx5DLEWehh_Iksd_O6vFMZvC6C6sVbowIdbgMF7VSLI8ztQq2DuvgiHQdGgcXviYeaRO9MBNZxAq9X2rVZuhOdR6aHutItQDLktjZMZo0rXBxfHdAl9FD22mAHk2g=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">featured family in Watermelon Sushi the Movie</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, our goal for 2022 is to produce two films. One is in homage to a Japanese war bride married to an African American soldier. Her fantastic life includes her work as an artist, dancer, chef, and so much more.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our second film is also a documentary. With major <i>“arrigatous”</i> and <i>“mahalos”</i> to VeganFlix for their generous grant, we are producing a short about Indigenous who were likely vegan before being colonized.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here’s our VeganFlix interview:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://veganflix.com/interview-with-2021-veganflix-video-seed-grant-recipient-yayoi-l-winfrey/">https://veganflix.com/interview-with-2021-veganflix-video-seed-grant-recipient-yayoi-l-winfrey/</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Additionally, we’re finally releasing some of our fiction. One will be a collection of short stories all featuring BIPOC, multicultural, mixed-race and interracially involved characters. Another is a novel about a multi-generational mixed-race family living in the Caribbean in the midst of race-based political turmoil.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">2022 promises excitement, so please stay tuned!</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/featured">https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/featured</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">www.watermelonsushi.com</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">War Brides of Japan Youtube channel:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg"><span style="font-family: arial;">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #535353;"><a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com">www.warbridesofjapan.com</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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Yayoi with war bride daughter, Diana Portugal</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitFwuEI0kEthxW7UoHWfiJdfM2XUAI424NepRO4_lDHQWsdWjnoXoEWWUC5W9dqhgARRvCB7u0U4HmcE-wOyyMoq5vusyR-ha1mNNCGl-BPvDXVNxKy1g93Feiyj_NPvLfopqAMkZwOeIXLgRUKABUPycHhYPw-f6qjG9vtFqK_GvWdiXzWg=s3575" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3575" data-original-width="2847" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitFwuEI0kEthxW7UoHWfiJdfM2XUAI424NepRO4_lDHQWsdWjnoXoEWWUC5W9dqhgARRvCB7u0U4HmcE-wOyyMoq5vusyR-ha1mNNCGl-BPvDXVNxKy1g93Feiyj_NPvLfopqAMkZwOeIXLgRUKABUPycHhYPw-f6qjG9vtFqK_GvWdiXzWg=s320" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">dir. Yayoi with war bride daughter, Roleta</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqOgKxe_PoqRS_dhFTuS2fNPz7KSVlZxbLyi8OsxLJCNGYti5W7N9sZ5IjEkY9g030E6KSQ2A5KXeXhwVIUb8Qf0plVEgFDz7BE9llA7QTumQfgHUk2_zB-ozOpgzj7lCPWo6oXnX6Ho7HPBvKU0Ev17vODGPM4R1atGIgvkLHNIkEbnYnFg=s4146" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3330" data-original-width="4146" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqOgKxe_PoqRS_dhFTuS2fNPz7KSVlZxbLyi8OsxLJCNGYti5W7N9sZ5IjEkY9g030E6KSQ2A5KXeXhwVIUb8Qf0plVEgFDz7BE9llA7QTumQfgHUk2_zB-ozOpgzj7lCPWo6oXnX6Ho7HPBvKU0Ev17vODGPM4R1atGIgvkLHNIkEbnYnFg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">dir. Yayoi with war bride daughter, Yoshi</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Starwheels Productions website:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels">https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4376cc; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">A <i>HAPA New Year</i> to you!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your Hip Hapa,</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yayoi</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #4376cc;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-76551901521959803782021-09-30T23:51:00.001-10:002021-09-30T23:54:40.164-10:00All Around The World<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez!</i></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vjzI0YQ7CgsCqAglSGHmPaHfY1FDhW_r1xRz8oiV_2hvfgr7pjx1TtWdIQiGL7Dkr7mf6x_hAOvHUwb-Si1SMR7Dkl2KZ73agkqiIAcmSBDi9yX_40M7ejBOPGHthDQsAdA7/s640/westSEAylwKitchenNeon.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vjzI0YQ7CgsCqAglSGHmPaHfY1FDhW_r1xRz8oiV_2hvfgr7pjx1TtWdIQiGL7Dkr7mf6x_hAOvHUwb-Si1SMR7Dkl2KZ73agkqiIAcmSBDi9yX_40M7ejBOPGHthDQsAdA7/s320/westSEAylwKitchenNeon.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Your Hip Hapa</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">In case you didn’t know, September 21 was the ‘United Nations International Day of Peace’. In celebration of such a lovely thought, <i>Your Hip Hapa</i> created a music video featuring rapper One Sir Grove. Both of us used to co-host an internet show called ‘Sexy Voices of Hollywood’ and in the video, we pay homage to it</span>.<div><br />
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The music video features a rap song celebrating the differences among us world citizens, from every background, from every culture, from every part of the planet. We all do live here together, after all</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please enjoy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAIF64hP5o" target="_blank">'All Around the World'</a>!</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAIF64hP5o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoAIF64hP5o</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And, please subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/featured" target="_blank">Youtube Watermelon Sushi</a> channel if you like:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We also have our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg/featured" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan Youtube channel</a>:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here at Starwheels Productions, we’re currently working on two films with a multi-cult perspective.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels">https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One is titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KzhZ9_p0zg" target="_blank">'Native Vegan'</a>. It’s a documentary about the Indigenous of North America who have been reportedly vegan before colonization. With thanks to VeganFlix for presenting us with a seed grant, we plan to release the film by summer of 2022. Right now, we’re creating a short, or Proof of Concept, so please stay tuned to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/WatermelonSushi/featured" target="_blank">Youtube Watermelon Sushi</a> channel for updates.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our second project has been worked on for years now, but has taken a new route. This will be both a graphic novel and a documentary about a war bride who was also an artist. If you’ve had the chance to view the Vincent van Gogh immersive this year, then this is close to the style we hope to achieve in displaying her artwork.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEFpjv9P5i4w58K9ZgmeisO_1wSO0DYg0mx2C0RBGmp0PiMWx9QmIegtYyDcw8tn62dYw1flB-HHtG-fKu4wEw5FN8Qm9MHBqMSoFQFIXG_3foBi7m00hbg05O7cAqvQrdKLu/s657/brownWhiteKittenDaisyWatermark+copy+2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="544" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEFpjv9P5i4w58K9ZgmeisO_1wSO0DYg0mx2C0RBGmp0PiMWx9QmIegtYyDcw8tn62dYw1flB-HHtG-fKu4wEw5FN8Qm9MHBqMSoFQFIXG_3foBi7m00hbg05O7cAqvQrdKLu/w266-h320/brownWhiteKittenDaisyWatermark+copy+2.png" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">cafe au lait avec fluer by Yuriko</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVXT_wcTfdupi6bkjbrvbPsYIOtRqJ9JsPM_cw1gwwTX-ImZI3scIbU23zPPE49v-y3gFUdeXbIc7R0Ya3I4RMdEV4rBaXmt7F25VhiK3rA1DPD78adycdZbdV1cayu_sfiCw/s798/siameseWatermark+copy.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="598" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipVXT_wcTfdupi6bkjbrvbPsYIOtRqJ9JsPM_cw1gwwTX-ImZI3scIbU23zPPE49v-y3gFUdeXbIc7R0Ya3I4RMdEV4rBaXmt7F25VhiK3rA1DPD78adycdZbdV1cayu_sfiCw/w240-h320/siameseWatermark+copy.png" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">bratty catty by Yuriko</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: arial;">For updates, please check out our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPemluw0stoTsx8yvz2tCrg/featured" target="_blank">Youtube War Brides of Japan</a> channel as we will be posting shorts, or Proof of Concept videos, soon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, we are back to our format of interviewing mixed-race community leaders as well as anyone who is in an interracial relationship, a transracial adoptee, or crosses cultures. If you fit any of those categories, please drop us a line:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:yourhiphapa@me.com">yourhiphapa@me.com</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your Hip Hapa,</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yayoi</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-64247441211979507662021-06-30T20:21:00.000-10:002021-06-30T20:21:40.818-10:00What Is Watermelon Sushi?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez!</i></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNH5KduL9vhbqXtsP5wDOB0qoPFNuqFXaZdmUpCmqThkhtxVZFl77j2LfVQ5Jmp4szeIldmIU5utUR3hfZhzyquzroKjtqHGSx1VnJ29gJODjvlIovEs0xwmG19MK2TbAjXdWg/s2048/wsTheMovie3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1908" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNH5KduL9vhbqXtsP5wDOB0qoPFNuqFXaZdmUpCmqThkhtxVZFl77j2LfVQ5Jmp4szeIldmIU5utUR3hfZhzyquzroKjtqHGSx1VnJ29gJODjvlIovEs0xwmG19MK2TbAjXdWg/s320/wsTheMovie3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Welcome back to Watermelon Sushi World. </span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BTW, what does <i>Watermelon Sushi</i> mean anyway? I get asked that question a lot. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Actually,<i> <a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank"> </a>is the title of the film we began some 20 years ago in Los Angeles.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Watermelon, of course, is probably the most stereotyped food that's applied to black people in the U.S. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">And, sushi, to those of Japanese ancestry.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the years, many mixies began using different foods served in their households to describe their experiences of being multi-cultural. But when we first began referring to<i> Watermelon</i> <i>Sushi</i> in 1998, a lot of folks thought we were funny and strange.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fbvhfuZGi222vde-1IMAMPFHfmB-_kLv2qakDG4WZ8mfBZ6x8wxfcxxuhkEAXLMtXmcPDcBnEDfArRBMXVBUdI6VlqgVFi7Y0YmQlSU_3HzMAS_QCzYMdQULi8SbtGY6v5EC/s445/japanMomKimono.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="228" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9fbvhfuZGi222vde-1IMAMPFHfmB-_kLv2qakDG4WZ8mfBZ6x8wxfcxxuhkEAXLMtXmcPDcBnEDfArRBMXVBUdI6VlqgVFi7Y0YmQlSU_3HzMAS_QCzYMdQULi8SbtGY6v5EC/s320/japanMomKimono.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">In the <i><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i> script, the mother is a Japanese national and the father, African American.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When we began the film in 1998, hardly anyone outside of California (and Japan) even knew what sushi was.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But in our family, it was common to have both foods on the table, especially during summers when we loved munching on ice cold watermelon after finishing a meal of <i>norimaki</i> and <i>inarizushi</i>.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In Japan, the word for watermelon is <i>suica</i>, which is also the name of their rail pass. Why, we're not sure.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxaAR1HF2pklyrlp6COpFFTQq6m_jRtmQMjKoQcfFe37PCkq_nVUCan7GluucmT3Yi6xAWxW582EL_IULc1DwShDQDteuJSIcv7BsdLTKWOmAXNl9LRy4nwwnwdabyBp6VsgWw/s2048/jpnYurikoYayoiKimono+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1305" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxaAR1HF2pklyrlp6COpFFTQq6m_jRtmQMjKoQcfFe37PCkq_nVUCan7GluucmT3Yi6xAWxW582EL_IULc1DwShDQDteuJSIcv7BsdLTKWOmAXNl9LRy4nwwnwdabyBp6VsgWw/s320/jpnYurikoYayoiKimono+copy.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">So, yes, <i><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i> is loosely based on my life as a Japanese and black female.</span><p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While we were unable to finish the film, over the years I’ve received so many messages from fans all around the world urging us to complete this important work about the mixed-race experience. Your wishes are at my command!</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzh-6KxAO-JzmMkIhga6XuKBlMH7RZji-7JPZ2OOJMhy9Up8OmwTv7cFDxy0Rj0FMU7QgOYGZkOOyGfSEWmMOc5KL7YJ6hwedB6qVQVDyZdm4v2CaY2Ki7aF2qUwpFTl90VZdQ/s632/germany50WinfreyFamily+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzh-6KxAO-JzmMkIhga6XuKBlMH7RZji-7JPZ2OOJMhy9Up8OmwTv7cFDxy0Rj0FMU7QgOYGZkOOyGfSEWmMOc5KL7YJ6hwedB6qVQVDyZdm4v2CaY2Ki7aF2qUwpFTl90VZdQ/s320/germany50WinfreyFamily+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, we are at the point in independent filmmaking where movies can be made without having to raise huge budgets through outside investors. So, watch for us in the next few months as we launch some innovative and creative ways to finance <i><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a></i>. There will be non-donor based investment opportunities for everyone!</span></p>
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line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please be patient as we update our websites and revamp our line of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBIMaJUljjI" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><i>Hapa*Teez</i> t-shirts </a><span style="font-family: arial;">throughout this summer.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI6a1Wxp7iTSAjICOuvIrlSt9CquhnOxJqvinLoKrmyG5Zv05L6GR0YzGoy1JckWrpri1vcd9dztS1KnV3d7T-mHuyE6Ntfj2DFwu0KI2MOKPPmKxg_no5JF7Vcl_Lk_sawOfs/s500/wsTheMovie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We've also begun adding our numerous film festival awards from two other projects to some of our social media sites:</p></span><p></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uQCUS5f7io" target="_blank">Chickens Playing Chicken</a> </i>(1-minute animated short)</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Because this is a quarterly blog, you’ll likely find the latest info about <a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank"><i>Watermelon</i> <i>Sushi</i> </a>at the following links, especially once they’ve been updated:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi website</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watermelonsushi" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi on Facebook</a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://twitter.com/watermelonsushi" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi on Twitter</a></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hapateez" target="_blank">Hapa*Teez on Facebook</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels" target="_blank">Lena Starwheels website</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yayoi</span></p>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-4360601395561388222021-03-31T12:53:00.000-10:002021-03-31T12:53:48.367-10:00Mixed MessagesAloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>! <div> </div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FiTQrQlKebidOmsBl9w9xmsTSdw7xDCttjQavVNf8QKkpXpHEs-zYwv8Y22eHC8g8YxX4l-855hHmRKsqRv_jGiuNym27EDo8ip_9-aIcN1sNi7DNG99LvupL-TI31H15I2G/s1063/IMG_1020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="842" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FiTQrQlKebidOmsBl9w9xmsTSdw7xDCttjQavVNf8QKkpXpHEs-zYwv8Y22eHC8g8YxX4l-855hHmRKsqRv_jGiuNym27EDo8ip_9-aIcN1sNi7DNG99LvupL-TI31H15I2G/w254-h320/IMG_1020.jpg" title="Sarah with her son Malcolm" width="254" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah with her son Malcolm</span></div><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Lucky us, we’re back to interviewing intriguing <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>. In this blog post, we’re featuring the fabulous Sarah Doneghy who hosts her own shows discussing the plight of us multi-cultis. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can watch her “Mixed Messages Show” at: <a href="https://youtu.be/pbQwx_I-WX8">https://youtu.be/pbQwx_I-WX8</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Sarah also has her “Mixed Nut One Person Show” at: <a href="https://youtu.be/AhZBMyMxLKo">https://youtu.be/AhZBMyMxLKo</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Q: Sarah, please discuss your parents’ backgrounds and how they met. </div><div><br /></div><div>A: My Dad is black, my Mom is white. My Dad is American, my Mom is English. My Dad is Muslim, my Mom is Catholic. They met when my Dad was traveling around the world on his bicycle. The people he was staying with in Germany knew a place he could stay in England. One of the people living at that place in England was my Mom. That’s how they met.
</div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyT7kkeZUEecyfNAoc7_gwR-50zSuDK-PB0a_bOXbGJpgHbXNaqsyYtrqxymKbPzESE_vCuxD5DN4iq8DlBYB4IuVocO9RpeZTBaXwpBxy_Z3sPZxceJ-BIgfympON4lsXDcxZ/s256/IMG_7955.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="256" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyT7kkeZUEecyfNAoc7_gwR-50zSuDK-PB0a_bOXbGJpgHbXNaqsyYtrqxymKbPzESE_vCuxD5DN4iq8DlBYB4IuVocO9RpeZTBaXwpBxy_Z3sPZxceJ-BIgfympON4lsXDcxZ/w320-h320/IMG_7955.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah's mum</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3YxyLQWzdID6kFUGtTsntGJKiOPYqJZAqIms9ImMlwANfiQwS2XK6Qh1y6bhTlAYeRMb2UHcmQplB-JoALQIy1rNzZ-FRWPojP_XCy7onUzKNA6TLJrLEZ_OFasTp165500a-/s2048/IMG_8341.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3YxyLQWzdID6kFUGtTsntGJKiOPYqJZAqIms9ImMlwANfiQwS2XK6Qh1y6bhTlAYeRMb2UHcmQplB-JoALQIy1rNzZ-FRWPojP_XCy7onUzKNA6TLJrLEZ_OFasTp165500a-/w240-h320/IMG_8341.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah's dad</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ISR9APVhuaQHA5-eEknSsPSy2qHhSw4AULxctprCxZiGQEetpecJ5XL9NuXaDZZf54R80L7u3XvlI66dUchCoMKuiPEt1kkyW_eOVkVId1_e65dWSNOypBrTMYPzAEusqtOq/s2048/IMG_8344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ISR9APVhuaQHA5-eEknSsPSy2qHhSw4AULxctprCxZiGQEetpecJ5XL9NuXaDZZf54R80L7u3XvlI66dUchCoMKuiPEt1kkyW_eOVkVId1_e65dWSNOypBrTMYPzAEusqtOq/s320/IMG_8344.jpg" /></a></div><div>Q: What was it like growing up in West Virginia? </div></div><div><br /></div><div>A: A few months ago I looked up, “Most racist state in America”. The answer was, “West Virginia”. Growing up, there weren’t very many black families, and we were the only mixed-race family. There was a lot of racism. </div><div><br /></div><div>The first time I was called the n-word I was seven. I got bullied in school a lot. I remember when I was a teenager being kicked out of people’s houses because I was black or, “colored” or, of course, the n-word. Then there were friends who would ask me to lie to their parents and tell them I was Native American or “anything but black”. </div><div><br /></div><div>My first One Person Show, “Mixed Nut” was a coming-of-identity story. I talked a lot about what growing up in West Virginia was like in that.
</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqb7lxitvQ1iiaPC_XB1NnrT6cqwrvGzCjTXqYsmGCa_AUnl_QxJchS2cCNMyYJrSf7Lxc8sivDhcv9lZTDssCTaMsXb1jtG6dzopiIGeqCR8YXzL8wuLFdIMYFkxlTfFnOS8s/s2048/IMG_6061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqb7lxitvQ1iiaPC_XB1NnrT6cqwrvGzCjTXqYsmGCa_AUnl_QxJchS2cCNMyYJrSf7Lxc8sivDhcv9lZTDssCTaMsXb1jtG6dzopiIGeqCR8YXzL8wuLFdIMYFkxlTfFnOS8s/s320/IMG_6061.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Q: Do you think mixed-race issues are any different now, 54 years after Loving v. Virginia? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: That’s what I’m trying to discover. My Dad grew up in segregation in West Virginia. He was the first black student to attend a desegregated school there. The stories he’s told me about the racism he’s received are absolutely horrible and heartbreaking. I don’t know how he survived it. </div><div><br /></div><div>The racism I experienced growing up is definitely different than what he did.
I think one of the issues that has changed is that people have more freedom in how they choose to identify. There’s more language now for people who are more than one race. They don’t have to choose one race and they also can.
</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s hard to know what is meant by “mixed-race issues”. There are so many mixes of so many different races. I’m not sure if there are mixed-race issues as a whole. I think racism, at least in America, is a big commonality when it comes to what we’ve experienced. But again, that’s what I want to find out.
</div><div><br /></div><div>I don’t know how this issue has changed, but I think every mixed-race person has a coming-of-identity story. They see that their families look different from them and different from each other depending on the situation. There’s always the “Where do I fit in” journey. I think we all have had to ask, “What are you?” of ourselves. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ei-HnDh4dai9vniLPe9A152s55BDChJ0ds8h3wGzLPofXUwB1VzbtAk_LgtgvGPr9ObuJ1kZV3OzcYA73q1VmtoY2zOLTPIk-cn0yjq-FP7td3IcQCcBaF87riFt17gT9Kw4/s1170/C191C24D-C157-4F98-B457-AC8F1A6C7F81.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="1170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ei-HnDh4dai9vniLPe9A152s55BDChJ0ds8h3wGzLPofXUwB1VzbtAk_LgtgvGPr9ObuJ1kZV3OzcYA73q1VmtoY2zOLTPIk-cn0yjq-FP7td3IcQCcBaF87riFt17gT9Kw4/s320/C191C24D-C157-4F98-B457-AC8F1A6C7F81.jpeg" width="320" /></a>Q: Since you’re both black and white, but ethnically ambiguous, what are the most shocking things you’ve heard either race group say about the opposite? </div><div><br /></div><div>A: I dealt with so much racism early in life that I’ve never really been shocked by what people have said not knowing that I’m mixed-race. I’ve been more shocked by what people have said around me even though they do know I’m black mixed. </div><div><br /></div><div>Something happened a few years ago that I am still angry about and hurt over. It was the day of the eclipse and I was hanging out with two white friends—a guy and a girl. These are people I had known for a while. The girl was complaining about a kid she worked with and then called him a “n*gger”. “What?!” I was stunned. I really couldn’t believe what I had heard and then she doubled down. Yeah. That was indeed what she said. I went off on her. “How could you say that? What is wrong with you? You know I’m black!” </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFSYGIQ1CDQJpfIfHr8ZQ4bNpzaxanBgH_JdWxJWKKHTaLL0BD83vL41AN45HM8y8tFYZ_bKvKvkTrsA_fXdFQjuLlfQfPPHL9SZKCE97g-qNGLD0AnjNdfTe6WZjpF89-U9Y5/s1169/D4E9C5BA-4131-46B2-90F0-F72F9E6A9990.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFSYGIQ1CDQJpfIfHr8ZQ4bNpzaxanBgH_JdWxJWKKHTaLL0BD83vL41AN45HM8y8tFYZ_bKvKvkTrsA_fXdFQjuLlfQfPPHL9SZKCE97g-qNGLD0AnjNdfTe6WZjpF89-U9Y5/s320/D4E9C5BA-4131-46B2-90F0-F72F9E6A9990.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>Meanwhile, the guy didn’t say anything. He stayed completely silent. When I confronted him about his silence he said, “She made a mistake. That’s all.” That right there shocked the hell out of me. He got mad at me when I called her a racist. I was the one that was overreacting. I had offended him. And these are people saying, “Black Lives Matter” and “F*ck Trump”. They don’t even see their hypocrisy—their racism—and don’t want to. I haven’t spoken to either of them since.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Q: Why did you create your show, Mixed Messages, and what do you hope to accomplish with it?
</div><div><br /></div><div>A: I made this show first and foremost for us. I wanted to create a space for us to have these discussions. These are conversations that need to be had and stories that need to be told. I think it’s important for people to know about mixed-race experiences. People need to hear from us and we need to hear from each other. There are so many similarities as well as so many differences. I am really interested in people’s stories. I’ve learned so much already. </div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXi_pos9Z3VaUA6EPfXO6XSQMO75b-krXplEtpIcJV6bfwOulzxQr42hGE9j0WI5eWSCPbQBvBG0RTkUx2GArmSqJWbVHLIXY4N9rnXPIa7CE0XMN-5d04o5RUN96Wmutw2kx/s1537/C3BFBAF8-DB88-445E-80EB-31D624E48567.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="1168" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXi_pos9Z3VaUA6EPfXO6XSQMO75b-krXplEtpIcJV6bfwOulzxQr42hGE9j0WI5eWSCPbQBvBG0RTkUx2GArmSqJWbVHLIXY4N9rnXPIa7CE0XMN-5d04o5RUN96Wmutw2kx/w243-h320/C3BFBAF8-DB88-445E-80EB-31D624E48567.jpeg" width="243" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah with her sister</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uHEpmOmHYSnw2UBukCnVYEH7JKWXzC5wyPbtMvWBEXAOnDlAzEA2df0HS9tK-LzMFdKKu-0HrKXMBbUDhyphenhyphenAeiBeigujM0lnJLKMpeCFcNq9A5ABO0tKfEyvsgkoiYG9Wpgu9/s2048/IMG_2429.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uHEpmOmHYSnw2UBukCnVYEH7JKWXzC5wyPbtMvWBEXAOnDlAzEA2df0HS9tK-LzMFdKKu-0HrKXMBbUDhyphenhyphenAeiBeigujM0lnJLKMpeCFcNq9A5ABO0tKfEyvsgkoiYG9Wpgu9/w320-h240/IMG_2429.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah with her brother</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>In the first episode, Marcus talks about how his mom is racist. I didn’t know how common that was in mixed-race families until people wrote me saying how much they related to that. I’m privileged in that I never had to deal with that in my family. Marcus facing racism in his home was one of the things a lot of viewers couldn’t believe and, sadly, so many could. </div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUoDLI0ML0huqdO4_9mKqxtb49WmNQh-z483_seHrlQgDRT8Jw88FeK30xG_3HwYEwDlitTtaln6j365hVZaEo0GGuMlAjwlnyARqtZZo5gCDLWfLQ2ee0lyhpLM3UIX18Heq/s1553/CF72A48B-6E9D-4A00-A5F5-5DCA21ABA1EC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1553" data-original-width="1169" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUoDLI0ML0huqdO4_9mKqxtb49WmNQh-z483_seHrlQgDRT8Jw88FeK30xG_3HwYEwDlitTtaln6j365hVZaEo0GGuMlAjwlnyARqtZZo5gCDLWfLQ2ee0lyhpLM3UIX18Heq/w242-h320/CF72A48B-6E9D-4A00-A5F5-5DCA21ABA1EC.jpeg" width="242" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sarah with her brother</span></td></tr></tbody></table>I’m really excited to meet new people and hear different narratives. There’s something about getting together with someone and knowing that you don’t have to explain things. We already know. We’ve all been on a racial identity journey. And it’s often one we continue to travel. That’s unique to us. Every mixed-race person has the racial identity discovery story. I think it’s fascinating and fantastic. I want to hear as many of these as possible.
</div><div><br /></div><div>If you are interested in being a guest on Mixed Messages, or have a topic you’d like to see discussed, please email Sarah at:
<a href="mailto:mixedmessagestheshow@gmail.com">mixedmessagestheshow@gmail.com</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>And, don’t forget to watch: </div><div><br /></div><div>Mixed Messages Show: <a href="https://youtu.be/pbQwx_I-WX8">https://youtu.be/pbQwx_I-WX8</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>Mixed Nut One Person Show: <a href="https://youtu.be/AhZBMyMxLKo">https://youtu.be/AhZBMyMxLKo</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>, we’ve been struggling to keep our websites updated. As you may know, our “War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory” 5-part series is currently on hiatus. But there are numerous trailers and interviews you can watch on Vimeo and Youtube. </div><div><br /></div><div>Here are our top performing websites: </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan</a> </div><div><a href="https://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank"><br />Watermelon Sushi</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://yourhiphapa.wixsite.com/starwheels" target="_blank">Lena Starwheels A Free-Spirited Filmmaker</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>Until June 30, I am very much </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Your Hip Hapa, </div><div><br /></div><div>Yayoi</div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-44129019177023859142020-12-31T23:46:00.001-10:002020-12-31T23:49:02.336-10:00New World Vibes: Mixies Everywhere!<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Aloha, </span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Hip Hapa Homeez!</i></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-K7kabqjOHy9J_osX2E2k5ajewU7XcBHz7JdqIOZX3okw2Mi_aKgl9XRsiMj-QMec1ogKNPovCNDUqLT-16csPgBS4g01-yIyPgagtoHGzhzuZ9q2JfjBYr9Pt29k16uLg8rb/" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-K7kabqjOHy9J_osX2E2k5ajewU7XcBHz7JdqIOZX3okw2Mi_aKgl9XRsiMj-QMec1ogKNPovCNDUqLT-16csPgBS4g01-yIyPgagtoHGzhzuZ9q2JfjBYr9Pt29k16uLg8rb/w293-h220/13melonPop+copy.jpg" width="293" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">watermelon</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;">It seems like mixed-race people are much more prominent these days with so many from our community thrust into the spotlight.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Besides tennis player Naomi Osaka, who is Japanese Haitian American, there are new mixed-race families being created—like (another) tennis player Serena Williams and her husband German Armenian American Alexis Ohanian producing their daughter, Olympia.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There’s even a mixed-race marriage within England’s royal family—Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And, so on. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll get to the point where no one will care who anyone else marries and/or has children with.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQin4vrTw3za4zlCuRR_AKlbAYoVLkiuBBO3iTzaad9S-Svblc_VcP9W31vHmOFhQG7OjKV-w3c-pQqC9f2dJMp2x2VgWBJegJFHj3ogfCAk_o_eteLm1ZpJGsDBHMm8MbSj/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQin4vrTw3za4zlCuRR_AKlbAYoVLkiuBBO3iTzaad9S-Svblc_VcP9W31vHmOFhQG7OjKV-w3c-pQqC9f2dJMp2x2VgWBJegJFHj3ogfCAk_o_eteLm1ZpJGsDBHMm8MbSj/w266-h200/12bmelonSushiOriginal+copy.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">watermelon sushi</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Hopefully, this new world vibe will lead us towards getting our film <a href="www.watermelonsushi.com">“Watermelon Sushi”</a> onto the movie screen. In any case, we’re planning to fundraise for it in 2021.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Meanwhile, we’re also working on an (as yet) untitled <a href="www.warbridesofjapan.com">"docu*memory"</a> about Japanese war bride and artist Yuriko, as well as a graphic novel about her life. Here’s Yuriko’s website along with her quarterly blog.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Your Hip Hapa,</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yayoi</p><div><br /></div>Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-53943931374120386402020-09-30T16:32:00.000-10:002020-09-30T16:32:23.633-10:00Now Serving: Watermelon Sushi<div class="separator"><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #535353; float: right; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="603" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7sE2Z8v54QM5fYvsrFhHti4slGoJX7tWZGqZAc2piLPQongckJR6WCX4ZAQR4iLtj1ptALhYQD9In23TFxynpGXhOKWjmiG3VXOM7en30kJoLv_GMCouJopCBT65oGtQXCQy/w320-h237/8amelonSushiOriginal+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></p></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Aloha, </span><i style="color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Hip Hapa Homeez!</i></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What could be more delectable than a serving of tart <i>sushi </i>rice topped with sweet flavorful watermelon? Yes, we know! You’ve been waiting decades to view this film full of family drama, art, hip hop, Japanese culture, rap music, and more.</p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And, it’s coming!</p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now that we’ve completed our 5-part <a href="www.warbridesofjapan.com" target="_blank"><i>“War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory”</i> series</a>, we’re ready to move forward (actually backward for retrieving) this tale that everyone can relate to. After all, who doesn’t have a dysfunctional family?</p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Please check us out at these links:</p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com">www.watermelonsushi.com</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/watermelonsushi/">https://www.facebook.com/watermelonsushi/</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/watermelonsushi/">https://www.pinterest.<br /></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/watermelonsushi/"><br /></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-1WsHrBK_HPweLusiwAT7sAH3LnuLc50unPVpbdrYzTziXiPuojiNc7thMqpqqAMvTw_2_6m6AHny9DBDr6X0nW25veu0YmlK9A0cUn08o3w_oBEwcbgfMvzkDDzg444Huyk/s463/1melon1SushiStraightNeon2Neon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="463" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-1WsHrBK_HPweLusiwAT7sAH3LnuLc50unPVpbdrYzTziXiPuojiNc7thMqpqqAMvTw_2_6m6AHny9DBDr6X0nW25veu0YmlK9A0cUn08o3w_oBEwcbgfMvzkDDzg444Huyk/w200-h194/1melon1SushiStraightNeon2Neon.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We hope that this year’s end will bring the best news yet for our long-time fans.</p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Until December 31, I will always be…</p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #535353; font-family: Arial; 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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Here’s wishing you and your loved ones the best in health and circumstances during these turbulent times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you’d like to participate in discussions about today’s world's state of race, please join us on Facebook at <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>. We began this group in 2008 as a way of sharing our thoughts about being multiracial, multicultural, interracially adopted, culture crossing, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">These days we’re more focused on the subject of racism as it grows more pervasive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The good news is that the 5-part award-winning <a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" target="_blank">‘War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory’</a> can still be viewed on Vimeo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wbojbffsvod">BFF’s; Buddhist Friends Forever<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">A shout-out to our donors can be viewed on our website:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">(Scroll down to ‘our Donors’)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Now, we’re finally circling back to <i>Watermelon Sushi</i>, the narrative. We’ll soon be announcing our fundraising campaign to get this movie made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Meanwhile, artist b.r. Winfrey has been busy creating items to accompany the film. There are several scattered across this blog.</span></div>
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Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-57274637200324105702020-03-31T15:36:00.000-10:002020-03-31T15:36:34.358-10:00Alexa Kang: What’s Write in the World<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Q: Alexa, what is your background? Where were you born, raised, and how did you grow up?</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A: I am a WWII historical writer from Boston. I’m Chinese-American, born in Hong Kong and grew up mainly on the East Coast. Before I repatriated back to the USA three years ago, I lived and worked for ten years in Asia, and traveled to many parts of the world. My travel experience, and experience living overseas, has helped me greatly in writing stories set in countries where the war took place.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A: I never aspired to write. This all started because of the Japanese manga “Candy Candy”. I grew up reading the “Candy Candy” manga and watching the “Candy Candy” anime, which was shown around the world in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s (except in English-speaking countries) and was super popular. The story “Candy Candy” was written by Japanese writer/poet Keiko Nagita (a/k/a Kyoko Mizuki). The manga and anime had ceased publication and broadcast in the 1980’s. But due to its popularity, “Candy Candy” gained a very dedicated global following of fans, especially in Latin American countries, but also in France, Italy, Spain, some European countries, and many East Asian countries. Many fans who are now adults have connected together since the emergence of the internet. I’m one of them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem with “Candy Candy” is that the main protagonist, Candy White, was separated from what many fans believed to be her one true love, Terry. Their separation traumatized many of us for thirty years. A lot of fans kept writing fanfics to try to fanfix this problem.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then came the good news in 2010, when Keiko Nagita published “Candy Candy Final Story” (“CCFS”), an updated version of the story “Candy Candy” in a two-volume novel format with a lot of new information not previously told in the manga, anime, and earlier novels. In “CCFS”, Nagita wrote that Candy White was now a woman in her thirties, living with her husband, whom she referred to as “Anohito”, without naming the identity of Anohito. After analyzing all the new details in “CCFS”, many fans concluded Anohito is Terry, and Candy finally reunited with him. I believe the same. But because “CCFS” did not tell how Candy united with her Anohito (i.e., Terry), I wrote a fanfic that told the story how she and Terry got back together. The story was just bursting in my head and I had to write it down. I shared it with other “Candy Candy” fans online. My fanfic was very well received, and it was subsequently fan-translated into French, Italian, and Spanish.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A: Initially, I had no aspirations to write books about WWII at all. After my “Candy Candy” fanfic, I was besieged with an urge to write a love story between the children of some of the “Candy Candy” characters. These children are entirely my own imaginary construct, and did not appear in any way in the canon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem here was that “CCFS” ended in the mid-1920’s. That meant the story of these next-generation characters landed smack in the middle of the war! So if I were to write this next generation story, I would have to write a full-on WWII historical fiction. It was a very daunting goal at the time, as I didn’t really know much about WWII except what I learned from history classes in high school and college.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But these characters came alive in my head, and they wouldn’t let me rest in peace until I told their stories and put their stories into words. So I had no choice but to go ahead. Their story became the “Rose of Anzio”, an epic four-book series. When I began, I wrote it as a fanfic. Each week, I would write a new chapter and share it online with “Candy Candy” fans. They loved this new story and gave me a lot of support. We had a lot of fun like that for more than a year. When I came to the end of this long series, I realized I could share it with a wider audience. From that point forward, I began working with publishing professionals to turn the series into a polished set that would appeal to readers beyond the “Candy Candy” fandom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A welcomed surprise from this experience was that I learned so much about WWII from doing research for “Rose of Anzio”. Thereafter, I continued writing WWII novels, and I try to bring something different to the genre through my books.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Q: Your stories often feature cross-cultural characters. Is that an important element of your writing, or in your own personal life?</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A: I think writing cross-cultural characters is inevitable when writing WWII historical fiction, because WWII was a global war. Back then, most people never traveled far from their homes either. The war created a situation where massive numbers of men were transported to countries and continents where they otherwise would never have been. So I would say it is an important element of my writing as a matter of fact.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is my personal choice though, is my recent venture into writing WWII novels set in Asia. WWII novels about the Pacific front is rare. I think my Asian language skills and personal experience of Asian cultures give me a unique ability to bring to readers stories that can offer them a more authentic experience of WWII Asia.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, from my observations, multicultural characters are now much more accepted and even welcomed in entertainment media. In my last series “Shanghai Story”, I wanted to see how an interracial romance between an Asian man and a Caucasian (Jewish) woman would strike my readers. I was very wary when this series debuted, but it turned out to be a great success. There seems to be a hunger on the readers’ part to want to read more about what happened in Asia during WWII, and the interracial romance was well-received, too.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My website page for "Candy Candy" fans: https://alexakang.com/home/candy-candy-fans/</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My author page on Amazon: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alexa-Kang/e/B01AXTLTS4"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 99, 193); font-kerning: none;">https://www.amazon.com/Alexa-Kang/e/B01AXTLTS4</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, <i>Hip Hapa Homez</i>. You have to admit Alexa Kang is pretty amazing!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, don’t forget our 5-part film series, <a href="https://vimeo.com/watermelonsushi/vod_pages" target="_blank"><i>‘War Brides of Japan, a docu*memory’</i> </a>is available for rent on Vimeo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a MWAH! to all our donors listed at our website:</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please note that our trailer titled, <a href="https://vimeo.com/285660140" target="_blank">‘The Chase’</a>, has won several film festival awards:</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, as soon as we can, we’ll add the latest winning film festival laurels to our Screenings page:</span></span></div>
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Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-53301159973838647232019-12-31T22:31:00.001-10:002020-03-31T14:17:46.373-10:00Ringing Out the Old Year with War Brides of Japan<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">At long last, all 5 of the short films that comprise ‘<i><a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" target="_blank">War Brides on Japan, a docu*memory’</a></i> are available for rent at Vimeo OnDemand:</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Meanwhile, we have plans to resurrect our <a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com/" target="_blank">Watermelon Sushi</a> project—either as a feature-length animation or narrative—next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When we meet again on March 31, 2020, we should finally have another mixed-race, multi-cultural, </span>transracial adoptee or <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">culture-crossing interview for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Hau’oli Makahiki Hou, Akemashite Omedettou Gozaimasu, Happy New Year!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Is this finally <i>the</i> week? Will the 5 short films that make up ‘War Brides of Japan, a </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">docu*memory’ go on the market at last?</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In September and November 2016, I interviewed 13 different individuals along with many of their family members. Thus, I was left with over 13 hours of footage. In an effort to give every single person a voice, I cut the footage into 13 short films. Then, I edited them again into 5 short films—pairing them according to similarity of subject matter.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A: Four years ago, I met the Japanese designer Takafumi Tsuruta from the brand Tenbo completely by chance. He's promoting diversity through his clothes for disabled people, so they can mingle with others and allow the world to progress. He asked me if I wanted to become a model, to parade for his brand, and I accepted.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A: Japan has always been my greatest passion. When I met Takafumi Tsuruta, I already had plans to go there, because it was my life project. But it was his proposal that got me started. It was complicated for various reasons, but I was able to go to Tokyo a few months after talking with him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A: I hope more generally to be able to encourage all people who feel discriminated or uncomfortable in their lives. Nowadays, unfortunately, people believe that you cannot do certain things on arbitrary criteria (the color of your skin, your disability, your sexual orientation, etc.). I wish I could be the example I would have liked to have had a few years ago. Back then, I was lost myself and, everyone around me was trying to dissuade me from doing artistic work because "you're in a wheelchair, so you can't!".</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A: I have been to Japan twice. So far, nobody looked at me in a bad way, nor did anyone say anything bad on this subject. Japanese people appreciate what I do. They encourage me a lot, especially through the Internet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">A: Is it too much if I say I want to change the world? Ha ha. Anyway, I hope to be able to contribute. We're in 2019. And yet, in my opinion, diversity is not well represented in the media. It does not push people into meeting each other, since they have the impression that people who are in a situation such as mine are exceptional cases, when in fact it is not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />The <a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan docu*memory</a> we’ve been working on for several years is just about ready for release. Our first platform will be Vimeo, so please stay tuned.</span></span></div>
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<br />Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-67325933105435675862018-09-05T17:36:00.000-10:002018-09-05T17:36:40.560-10:00War Brides of Japan in Post-Post
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;">First, the bad. We still haven’t released our docu*MEMORY, </span><a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: medium;" target="_blank">“War Brides of Japan”</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;">, because we’re still tweaking it.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">At last, we’re nearly at the end of our long journey in producing the documentary <a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" target="_blank">War Brides of Japan.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Recently we had the pleasure of meeting Kristine Ohkubo, author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Will-Rise-Again/dp/1540747956" target="_blank">“The Sun Will Rise Again”</a></i>. Your Hip Hapa has been reading this historical account of Japan and WWII, and was blown away by Ms. Ohkubo’s detailed reporting. So, we asked her…</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A: My inspiration for <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Will-Rise-Again/dp/1540747956" target="_blank">"The Sun Will Rise Again"</a></i> came from my travels in Japan and conducting research for my first book, <i>"A Blogger's Guide To Japan".</i> During my travels, I realized that there were facts that were previously unknown to me having grown up in the U.S.—facts which were omitted from our history books. Further, when I began publishing my travel blog (which is defunct now) and sharing stories about places like Manzanar, for instance, I received comments/messages from my readers thanking me for the information and telling me that they were unaware of the facts included in my blog posts. Some encouraged me to write a book, which seemed daunting at first, but I followed through with it anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A: I have always loved writing and considered it one of my strong points. One of the things which turned me off about a majority of the historical material out there was that it was very academic. I wanted to write to appeal to everyone, not just the researchers and historians. I felt it was my duty to share this information with everyone so that it would serve as a lesson for present and future generations. Effective communication is not about how educated one sounds, but rather how clearly one conveys his or her thoughts and, through the process, educates others. That has always been my focus when I write. I suppose it came naturally and through lots of practice. Further, in the process of writing, I always ask others to read through sections of my manuscript to determine if it makes sense, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A: I have always had a love for Asian culture (Japanese in particular). When I was small, I would always draw pictures of women wearing <i>kimono</i>. (My current artwork is still influenced by my love of Asian culture.) Later, I learned through genetic testing that I was 25% Asian, so I believe it was natural for me to be attracted to the culture. I have been traveling to Japan almost every year since 2007 and have approached each journey with wide-eyed enthusiasm. I look forward to exploring and learning from each visit. It is a natural hunger inside of me to discover all there is to discover and perhaps learn a little about myself in the process.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A: Asia once again! This time I cast my net out beyond Japan and include China as well. The third book is also historical in nature and will explore the Western influence on Asian culture and its contribution to Asia's subsequent modernization. So, please stay tuned!</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Until we meet again in September,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I remain…</span></div>
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<br />Yayoi Lena Winfreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631925672577796670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24758256.post-88234873358056928922018-03-07T12:04:00.001-10:002018-03-07T12:04:28.288-10:00War Brides of Japan HEARTS Our Donors!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aloha, <i>Hip Hapa Homeez!</i></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although it seems that this Watermelon Sushi World blog has been hijacked by the <a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/">War Brides of Japan documentary</a>, neither one could happen without the other.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Before we could tell the story of two mixed-race sisters in our narrative film <a href="http://www.watermelonsushi.com/">Watermelon Sushi</a>, we first needed to explain how they came to be. So we reached back to tell their mother’s story in <a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/">War Brides of Japan</a> and, in our telling, discovered many other women like her—Japanese women who married American servicemen during the Occupation of post-WWII Japan.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">To keep the momentum going until we complete post production of the documentary, we’d like to show off some of our donors. If you’re a donor and would like to see yourself here, please email us a photo.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Meanwhile, we offer our readers a peek at the beautiful people below without whom we could not be making this film.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">By the way, we're still accepting donations at our <a href="https://fromtheheartproductions.networkforgood.com/projects/15778-documentaries-war-brides-of-japan">Network for Good page</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And please check out our War Brides of Japan links following these photos.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vera Zambonelli, Hawaiian Women in Filmmaking in Honolulu</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">writer Gil Asakawa, right, with his wife in Honolulu</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">artivist Lenore Chinn in her San Francisco studio</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">jewelry designer Janet Sorrentino in Kirkland</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tekkie Eric Gould, right, in Pioneer Square Seattle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tekkie Kareem Hadee in Pike Place Market Seattle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silvia Benton, left, at Peanut Sauce in Tacoma</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2016/8/1/war-brides/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">discover nikkei</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-learned-forgive-love-enemy-yayoi-l-winfrey" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">how they learned to forgive and love the enemy</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><a href="http://warbridesofjapan.blogspot.com/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">on the road</a></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">While the big news for mixies globally is the upcoming wedding of biracial American actress Meghan Markel and Britain’s Prince Harry, there are other brides in the news, too. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;">One year after we completed Principal Photography on our </span><a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-size: small;">War Brides of Japan</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;"> documentary, we found ourselves in California once again.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">In early November, documentary participant Elaine invited us to the elegant birthday party of special <i>blasian</i> lady, JoAnna, in Long Beach. Surrounded by her lovely female friends, we took dozens of photos and later marveled at how many of us had Japanese war bride mothers and African American military fathers.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">blasian beauties: top row, left to right: Emma, Michi, Naomi, JoAnna, Yayoi, Joan. seated: Elaine, Floria.</td></tr>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Later on in our travels, Elaine, who's been one of our staunchest supporters, hosted a fundraiser for our documentary. Yes, we’re still in need of funding, and will likely launch a campaign soon so we can pay our amazing composer, <a href="http://www.lacat.biz/">LA CAt</a>, what she deserves to have. Meanwhile, you can donate here: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">But back to the fundraiser, a good time was had by all who participated at a Torrance karaoke bar where Elaine handed out Coach bags as prizes in several raffle drawings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elaine calls out winners of the raffle drawings...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and, a lucky winner is Emma!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">but Floria wins, too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and, so does Patty!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">karaoke was kraaazy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floria and Patty were clearly moved by Emma's performance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan and Emma singing, 'STOP in the Name of Love!'</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sadly, while we were in California, we also lost one of our favorite friends in entertainment. Rhoda Robinson Hicks was an energetic writer and performer, and her son David promises to carry on her legacy.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David as a child actor with Frankie Muniz, Hollywood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">an all grown-up David meets with Your Hip Hapa at the American Film Market, Santa Monica</td></tr>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />While we’re still busy editing <a href="http://www.warbridesofjapan.com/">War Brides of Japan</a> for an early 2018 release, we invite you to visit the links, down below, that provide more info about the film.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We thank you for your continuing support and encourage you to donate to our cause if you haven’t already. Every penny is 100% tax deductible. We do appreciate each and every one of you and send a big <i>ARRIGATOU!</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We’ll see you next year in March 2018 just in time for <i>sakura</i> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7354346/?ref_=ttmi_tt">War Brides Of Japan</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Here are links to the film:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: white;"><br /></span><span class="s1" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">War Brides of Japan videos:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPPNf_-zR1s" style="text-decoration-line: none;">youtube 88.1 FM interview</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPgc9fk4FU" style="text-decoration-line: none;">youtube behind the scenes production trailer</a> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://vimeo.com/194948020" style="text-decoration-line: none;">vimeo behind the scenes production trailer</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKOvPPv2nBo" style="text-decoration-line: none;">youtube pre-production trailer</a> </span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://vimeo.com/169397930" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">vimeo pre-production trailer </a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNSEUkT2N4E&feature=plcp" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">youtube v.2</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJkujn1iek&feature=colike" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">youtube v.1</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span class="s1"><span style="color: red;">War Brides of Japan websites:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://warbridesofjapan.com/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">warbridesofjapan.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://warbridesofjapan.weebly.com/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">weebly</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;">j<a href="https://warbridesofjapan.jimdo.com/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">imdo</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span class="s1"><span style="color: red;">War Brides of Japan in the news:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/dift-diversityinfilm/filmmaker-yayoi-lena-winfrey-presents-the-documentary-film-project-war-brides-of-japan" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">DIFT</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/war-brides-japan-take-focus-new-documentary-n625761" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">NBC</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.iexaminer.org/2016/07/the-stories-of-the-war-brides-of-japan-need-to-be-told/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">international examiner</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.iexaminer.org/2016/09/films-tunnel-a-true-life-horror-war-brides-of-japan-hits-the-road/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">international examiner 2</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2016/8/1/war-brides/" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">discover nikkei</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span class="s1"><span style="color: red;">War Brides of Japan on Facebook:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WarBridesOfJapan" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">fan page</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span class="s1"><span style="color: red;">War Brides of Japan on LinkedIn:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-learned-forgive-love-enemy-yayoi-l-winfrey" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">how they learned to forgive and love the enemy</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-love-war-yayoi-l-winfrey" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">making love, not war</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1" style="color: #666666;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/those-bad-ass-brides-yayoi-l-winfrey" style="color: #436590; text-decoration-line: none;">those bad ass brides!</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span><span class="s1"><span style="color: red;">A War Bride's artwork:</span></span></span></div>
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