Culture Breach (2010-2013)
The road to full-time employment is paved with good intentions and internet startups. Chi Tung and I were the CB of Culture Breach, a website we put together to collect our musings on film, sports, music, new media, and ethnicity from the perspective of critics with silly streaks. This was a year before Grantland, and if Bill Simmons and ESPN couldn’t make it work, we quasi-employed cultural trespassers sure as hell didn’t stand a chance. We did, however, put out some pieces that we continue to stand behind. Our biggest feature was a five-man blog-a-thon on Jeremy Lin featuring us, Hua Hsu, Oliver Wang, and an up-and-coming critic named Jay Caspian Kang. As I forgot to renew our domain one year, we lost most of the site. Archived here are some of our more venerable efforts.
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This post was written partly to put YOMYOMF on blast. But above all it was a reaction to the sheer lack of media criticism in the Asian American YouTube space. New media, especially with an Asian American face, was riding a wave of momentum when the YOMYOMF channel debuted in 2012, and the idea of
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More gracefully and more effortlessly than any film I’ve seen, Olivier Assayas’s Summer Hours, newly released on DVD by the Criterion Collection, captures the spiritual tug-of-war between France’s formidable aesthetic tradition and France’s place in a networked world economy. Three siblings deliberate the fate of their inheritance – not money, but objet d’art in a
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It seems critics are incapable of writing about Bong Joon-ho without talking about genres. Sometimes he’s called a master of genres, other times he’s praised for reinventing them, mixing them, or transcending them. Critics love to count them off: to date, there’s the quirky comedy (Barking Dogs Never Bite), the police procedural (Memories of Murder),
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