Generasian is excited to announce our Spring 2013 Launch Party! On top of free admission, we will also be serving bubble tea on a first come first serve basis!
Date: Wednesday, May 1
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: NYU Kimmel Center, Room 909
Admission: FREE!
As usual, we have panelists coming in to speak to everyone. This semester, they come from entrepreneurship, producing, marketing, online news, and journalism industries. Read more about our panelists on our Facebook event!
Hope to see you there!
TIME, in its recent issue, featured the new North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un on its cover illustrated by Tim O’Brien. TIME executives have coined him “Lil’ Kim” as the title so blatantly blasts.
In the cover article titled, “Meet Kim Jong-Un,” information about his early life to his present day situation is covered. Kim is reported as being very smart and reliable, yet that his skills are not necessarily important - simply the ability to keep things at status quo will be enough in order to keep the North Korean regime from collapsing. In addition, the article features little tidbits like how Kim was an avid fan of the Chicago Bulls during his early years studying in Switzerland - so much so that he wore a jersey of Dennis Rodman around. Though this may well be compelling information on this 29-year-old successor, we may very well wonder why such a comically natured nickname such as “Lil’ Kim” must even exist. Isn’t it enough that he is now the leader of nuclear armed nation, capable of initiating World War III? The name-play is punny, but there really is no association (nor should there be) with actual ever-so-classy rapper Lil’ Kim and a dictator responsible for millions of citizens deprived of essential human rights. Also, don’t forget the accompanying words: “A look into the bizarre world,” aka the nation of North Korea.
It may be in our interest to think about what message this sort of cover sends out to those passing by newstands in both America and Europe. The nation is secretive, it’s true, and its leaders have or have had their set of particular interests from basketball to expensive liquor. But, to those of us not familiar with the nuclear arms situation in North Korea or the human rights situation there, this cover may be one of the few impressions we’ll ever have of this “bizarre” nation. Is that really fair?
Food and drinks will be provided, but more importantly, we will be distributing our long-anticipated Fall 2011 issue, hot off the press! Our new issue explores topics such as who you would root for at the FIFA World Cup, what it’s like to be biracial, “RenRen” (China’s Facebook?!), in addition to some exclusive interviews with AZIATIX and JOHN CHO & KAL PENN of A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas… and more!
We have also invited three special guest speakers who work in media, marketing, journalism, and the entertainment industry to talk to us about what it’s like working in these industries. Telly Wong and Ellie Lee of IW Group, Inc., an Asian American marketing agency, will join us to discuss working in their media, marketing and entertainment fields. Fashion reporter David Yi of New York Daily News will speak about what it’s like being a fashion journalist for a prominent New York news agency! See below for bios.
We’d love to see you there, especially if you’ve contributed to our magazine or have been featured! (Even if you did our polls =) you participated!). Peruse through our old issue by clicking Magazine on the top of our Tumblr.
We hope you can make it and if you can, the address to the venue is 60 Washington Square South, Kimmel Student Center (a great big glass building) and the room number is #905, mention to security you are there for Generasian’s Launch Party in #905. Please RSVP here at this Facebook event page.
Thanks for all your support!
Bios:
Telly Wong is the Account Director at IW Group, an award-winning advertising agency specializing in the Asian American market, where he creates marketing and public relations campaigns for Warner Bros. Pictures and McDonald’s. With over a decade of experience, Telly has worked with such clients as Sony, Siemens, Olympus and Miramax Films. In 2004, he was hand-picked by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and September 11th Fund to oversee a multi-million dollar tourism marketing program for New York City’s Chinatown, which resulted in the community’s first-ever local development corporation. In addition to his corporate credentials, Telly’s other credits include serving as a writer for acclaimed filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and co-producing the award-winning Sundance Film “Year of the Fish.” A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Telly has been profiled in the New York Times and MTV.
Generasian is an Asian American Interest Magazine club at New York University with a mission to unify and represent the diverse population of Asian American students across campus, by providing a common forum through which they can be kept informed about social, political, and cultural activities at NYU, as well as those off-campus. We provide the forum for students’ expression, regarding their own thoughts and matters of interest to the student body, especially for Asian American students.
Dear amazing readers,
Editor-in-Chief here from NYU Generasian Magazine! We here at the magazine group need your help!
We are conducting several polls geared towards the Asian / Asian American community that will be part of our fresh new magazine issue this upcoming December. We’d love for you to take barely 60 seconds of your precious time to fill these out!
Please also feel free to leave a comment with your name and email address, which may end up being published as quotes in our magazine.
2. Do you think it’s a good idea for Facebook to allow users to see who has visited their profiles?
4. For Halloween, do you think it’s okay to dress up as a figure of another ethnic background?
Also, if you wouldn’t mind re-posting this on your blogs to encourage your fellow peers to fill out these surveys, that would be a tremendous help. The more numbers we get, the better we can analyze the issues brought up from these questions! Thank you and please feel free to contact us at nyu.generasian@gmail.com if you have any questions!
Best,
Michelle, Editor-in-Chief
Zi, Poll-Maker
It’s hard to believe that a year ago, Generasian was nothing more than a stack of three year-old magazines in a cabinet. In 10 months, we’ve had over 5000 people viewing our blog 16,000 times and gained over 160 faithful followers. With a fresh new look for our blog and new Facebook page, we’re moving forward and solidifying our identity. The new blog theme aims to bring you more of the same great content in a more fluid format. Please enjoy!
So you’ve got your own copy of Generasian but want to share it with friends? Or perhaps you’re one of our non-NYU followers? Well you’re in luck now because our latest issue is now available online! Read in full screen or download for keepsake.
In case you didn’t pick up a physical copy this semester, we’ve uploaded our issue online for your reading pleasure. Please enjoy and send the link to your friends, family, and whoever else!
