ARCHIVE - A-POP, Don't Stop » Week 9 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/popculture Winter 2014 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:26:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 ARCHIVE - Best Dressed http://blogs.evergreen.edu/purplefairy/best-dressed/ http://blogs.evergreen.edu/purplefairy/best-dressed/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:56:15 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/purplefairy/?p=185 I really wish that I had managed to bring the cultural costumes of other Asian countries into my blog, but I ended up only focusing on the Korean wear. I had originally planned to upload some of my designs and maybe construct one, but time managed to slip away from me and I didn’t finish any of them.

Here’s a great pic of South Asian dresses and I would have really loved to maybe get into some of them. Also, this Tumblr, Asian National Costumes is great to look at various dress types.

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]]> http://blogs.evergreen.edu/purplefairy/best-dressed/feed/ 0 ARCHIVE - From Power Rangers to Anime, and Edge Rock http://blogs.evergreen.edu/purplefairy/from-power-rangers-to-anime-and-edge-rock/ http://blogs.evergreen.edu/purplefairy/from-power-rangers-to-anime-and-edge-rock/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2014 06:12:13 +0000 http://blogs.evergreen.edu/purplefairy/?p=173 So, when I was little my favorite movie was The Power Ranger Movie. My favorite TV show was Power Rangers. My favorite character was Adam Park.adamm202 Johnny Yong Bosch studied various martial arts, mainly Shaolin Kung Fu, and got the Power Rangers role in 1994 and appeared in over 200 episodes and both films. His character was written as a Korean American, which Bosch is. There were occasions where a character encounters a personal cultural obstacle. I remember an episode where he had to protect(?) an heirloom lantern (I don’t know why he had it with him though.) In one of the season finales, the characters were de-aged and thrown into their families timelines. While not acted out by Bosch, his child character was sent to ancient Korea, where everyone happened to speak English. Johnny Yong Bosch was totally my first celebrity crush/idol/obsession as a kid.

Demotivational.Poster.full.1176587After his role in Power Rangers ended by 1997, Johnny Yong Bosch got into anime voice acting. His first role was voicing Vash The Stampede in the English version of Trigun. Now he is most known for voicing Ichigo and Hollow Ichigo from Bleach. He’s also voiced lead characters in titles like Wolf’s Rain, Eureka Seven, and Code Geass. A complete list of characters he’s voiced can be found here, and a full list with photos can be found here.

Currently, Johnny and his band Eyeshine tour the convention circuit and perform at anime fansignings.

The current lineup of Eyeshine happens to consist of 4 Asian and Asian American artists, though it isn’t a part of their image, nor the original group. I happen to love Eyeshine and their sound.

Johnny is the bands lead vocalist, he also play the guitar. 1509024_10152018483951313_1470626827_nCo-founding member Maurice Salmin is a Philipino American and also the groups drummer, pianist, and occasionally a vocalist. Their lead guitarist is from Japan, he uses Polo as his stage name and was born Mastaka Yazaki. Their newest member is Ginny Eck. She takes up the role of bassist, violinist, and vocalist. I believe she is half Chinese, though I could be mistaken.

I’ve included a video of one of their slower songs, it’s more of a homevideo sort or thing than their music videos.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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