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K-TOWN HOTTIES

arowanafilms — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:28:58 +0000

TGIF peoples! New shit from Arowana Films studios. Fresh off the boat/plane/cutting room floor. Starring Danny Cho, Chris Nguyen, and Sunn Wee. This is for all you K-Town Hotties out there.

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LOCAL POLITICIAN

arowanafilms — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:44:45 +0000

Here’s another installment of Arowana Friday, where every Friday we feature either a brand new or an old video we’ve done in the past and give it the back story just for you guys. Today we want to feature “Local Politician” made in 2008 during the CRAZY election times.

The San Diego Asian American Film Festival was having a video contest “Reel in the Vote” to see if someone could make a 30 second PSA to help encourage Asian Americans to vote. Of course, every election there was always an issue of Asian Americans never having a voice because we never bothered to vote. (we, as in the younger generation) With Obama and Hillary running for Democratic Election and then the Presidency, there was an obvious need for us Asian Americans to REPRESENT! So we decided to send a message to HIT very hard to that target audience, young Asian Americans who just don’t give a f@%$! And so this video was then created by that inspiration.

Turns out we didn’t win the contest. We didn’t even get an honorable mention. But we guess it makes sense since it’s a little touchy and not everyone understands satire, sadly. Also, the SDAFF probably couldn’t pick this to represent themselves. BUT DAMN IT, its a great video! But like when you learned as a kid, winning isn’t everything.

P.S. Thanks to everyone for all the love and support from our featured youtube video, Kim Jong Il Eharmony. Watch out for the blog which will feature all the racist comments that got deleted.

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HANDS UP BY ESTAIRY

arowanafilms — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:00:45 +0000

Arowana Friday! This music video was done by our camp a couple years ago. The artist, Estairy, is a long time childhood friend. We wanted to create a reality that combined both urban structures with elements of the natural world. The decision to use old footage from the movie, Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, was made because of two basic reasons. One to incorporate a beautiful background space for the tone of this project. And the other was to make a general statement about Hip Hop. Hip Hop’s roots were founded in the sampling of old music and remixing them so that they make for a modern tone and perspective. This music video was done in that same theory-to sample old footage and remix it. We wanted to incorporate a different perspective and re-introduce this amazing work to a new audience. The video starts off in the urban environment that we know so well and then travels to the environment that many of us don’t know so well-nature.

For more info on Estairy, his myspace site is HERE. He also has a new music video out, Independent Hustle. It’s always a great pleasure to collab with long time friends. Have a great weekend Arowana Life readers!

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PISCES PROJECT CONTINUATION

arowanafilms — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:13:20 +0000

Its Arowana Friday BOYEEE! Every Friday we feature some work we’ve done in the past or projects we want to launch. Kinda like our own film festival. But we also talk about the making and the behind of the scenes of it. For a special treat, we got two new videos for you this Friday. About a month ago, we showcased the Pisces Project to you. Something experimental and cool since shooting fish is soooo easy to do. But to try and convey a story with them is the challenge. Here’s the first video we did.

So here are two more films for the Pisces Project. These are our resident pets. We still haven’t named them, but maybe you can give us some cool names for the couple. They do love their feeders. I know it may be a bit graphic, but this is what they eat. Basically this is their only source of food. We eat fish too, but ours are just dead first. But damn it, these fish eat good. A bag of feeders could be a nice dinner at IN N OUT but of course, pets are people too.

We installed this 200 gallon tank into our living room behind our projection screen. Of course, we built our own stand for it to fit the entertainment center and the other 50 gallon tank as the filter. But most importantly, we had to reinforce underneath the floor in the basement. We love to build crazy things in our house, cuz damn, when else will we be able to do this kinda stuff.

At first, the tank was empty but finally we ordered some fish and it came by mail, OF ALL WAYS! The box read, LIVE FISH. I didn’t know we could order fish via snail mail. So our new Peacock Bass is the new edition to our Arowana family. If you have suggestions for names, let us know.

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