English twitter: @kidethnic
KID ETHNIC IS WRITTEN BY:
saleem reshamwla
who is fresh of the boat (that circled the globe).
He makes crazy stuff:
Zombie Rap Videos, Truly Strange Geographic Education Flicks, Micro-Documentaries About Chinese Cell Phone Markets...kidethnic@gmail.com
日本語のtwitter: @masalasoccer
ALSO BY KID ETHNIC:
The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?
The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends
100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
Twitter
I twitter infrequently. But hope we can stay friends.
SEAWEED BREAKFAST
A collection of stories about Japan written while part of the National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents' Training Program.
Video: Masked Mexican Wrestling Returns to Durham · 16 days ago
Video #5: Luchadoras 2, The Return of Masked Wrestling to Durham
This one is a promo for an event benefitting the non-profit N.C. Dream Team.
And Video # 4 was a quick promo vid for the Wounded Warrior benefit at Casbah. With a Hogan Child.
And so the 33 video project continues…
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VIDEO: Something Strange Keeps Happening to Me · 55 days ago
I believe I may have broken my mirror…
Video #3 of the 33 videos I’ll make this birth-year…
Most will be larger, but in this project I feel I must: Keep Things Moving.
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And I Will Make Japan My Living Room · 62 days ago
Or rather, make my living room Japan.
The lovely folks at The Campus Style requested an interview with local rapper Toon. They sent over their questions and said we could shoot it however we want…
So, he came over to my apartment and we shot it with a bit of a Japanese twist. Of course.
Video #2 of the 33 videos I’ll make this birth-year…
Next One: Next Monday.
Incidentally, if you’re learning Japanese, perhaps you’d enjoy A Very Brief Article on Keeping the Love for the Japanese Language.
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New Video: Las Luchadoras! (in Durham, NC) · 78 days ago
The first of the 33 videos I will make this year: a promo for an awesome event at Motorco.
No dolly or crane, so I had to get help from good ol’ rapper and a skateboard.
(And much thanks to awesome director Jason Ho, who taught me how to film cyclists during the shoot for TheTribe & Big Cats’ “Good Life.”)
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And Now Let Us Film Female Mexican Masked Wrestlers in Durham, NC · 82 days ago
And how will we do it? From a skateboard being pushed by a rapper:
More stills from the shoot…
And the world is good.
The first of the 33 videos I plan on shooting this year.
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It is my birthday, it is 11/11/11, those numbers add up to 33, and that's how many videos I'm going to try and make this year. · 86 days ago
So. That’s a neat mathematical quirk. In celebration, this year I’ll try and release 33 videos. However large or small.
Perhaps I need to make a Tumblr for the project? Or maybe just keep it here?
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I Directed My First (Halloween Zombie Hip Hop) Music Video · 97 days ago
Zombies in Durham, NC? Yes yes.
The Real Laww – “Professional Hater (Remix) ft. Toon” : The Halloween Cut
A lot of new projects coming here in the next few weeks… Keep visiting, we don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
Big shoutouts to: Assistant Director Mandy Padgett, The Scrap Exchange (3 dollar bag of overstock medical suplies? Instant hospital!), DJ and Shanni (on Makeup), Aby Rao on all kinds of advice, the whole Durham Zombie Lurch, cameos from Breed the Monster and The Fatboy, and Blackberri for zombie-ing up her whole family.
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Getting Slapped in Minnesota, with Tribe & Big Cats · 98 days ago
Went out to Minnesota to collab with the excellent Jason Ho on a vid for Tribe & Big Cats. We were short on extras, so you get to see me get slapped in the face at the 1:26 mark…
Jason’s got a great write-up over at Dream Nineteen.
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I Woke at 5 and Squared the Sun · 202 days ago
And the sun was right with me.
Shot in the Outer Banks, Duck, North Carolina.
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International Lab Coat Impostors Unite · 258 days ago
Mr. Jason Ho and I just finished up a proposal bid for the Science Museum of Minnesota.
I got to wear a lab coat, but I did not get to carry a bunny. Life ain’t always fair.
Jason (who writes as Dream Nineteen) asks me to bang out a script, I bang out a script. I ask him to hold a rabbit in a video, and he holds a rabbit in a video. And the world is fun and good.
Filmed cross-Pacific, with Jason in Minnesota, and me in front of a vintage store in Japan. Back in the U.S. now, eating my way across America, soon to be in NC.
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