Mr. Misang: All Consuming Capitalism

Lee JuYong aka Mr. Misang 미상씨 (KR)
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    Anyong Haseyo, Art Addicts! Prepare to wallow in complete excess.

   Mr. Misang is a Korean illustrator who constantly criticizes the overstimulated, overcrowded, total gluttony of modern urban life by over-stuffing his artworks with signs, symbols, machinery & pop culture references. He creates visual cacophony reflecting the oppressive emotional effects of living in South Korea, which is like a corporate culture pressure cooker because of it's relatively small size & rapid rise to the upper tier of the global market economy. Despite this, JuYong gets hired by numerous magazines & brands to illustrate posters, covers, animations, etc.

ART: Sketch Master Kim JungGi

JungGi Kim (김정기) - (28 Images)
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   Master Kim JungGi loves drawing & seems to never stop sketching. He draws just about everything, as I have presented in these past posts; Ancient Asia, War & Holidays. 

   In this collection, I've gathered JungGi's sketches about sketching. These are less fantastic & more based on his actual surroundings; observing his art students at AniChanga, the art & animation school he co-directs, in the car with his family or just waiting around in a park.

HAIKU Art Review: Jung-Gi Kim

Freehand sketch master
Eraserless perfection
Divine fish-eyed view

See 17 more JungGi drawings in Sketches of Ancient Asia

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ART: Sketches of Ancient Asia by Kim JungGi (김정기)

JungGi Kim (김정기) - (17 Images)
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   The argument over artistic talent vs effort ends with Kim JungGi. He is a uniquely gifted master artist who draws sprawling wide-angle murals, in ink with no references, relying only on images in his mind & without making any mistakes. His most recent accomplishment was setting the Guinness World Record for longest & fastest fish-eye art illustration at Odeon in Penang, Malaysia.

HAIKU Art Review: Jung-Gi Kim

Freehand sketch master
Eraserless perfection
Divine fish-eyed view

   To fully understand Jung Gi's genius, watch the drawing performance he did for Christie's Auction House. He travels all over the world performing his art. Typically, he works for 2-3 days on a large mural while cameras record his progress, then the time-lapse video gets upload to his YouTube channel.  

JungGi Kim's Drawing Performance for Christie's

VID: Eating Dog in China (& beyond)

Vice: Dining on Dogs in Yulin

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   A common stereotype & joke, the fact is eating animals, all kinds of animals & all their various organs is part of Asian culture. In white culture, many of these animals &/or parts are considered taboo, in this case, dog meat.

Viewer Discretion - Graphic depiction of market realities such as butchering meat, in this case dogs.

   Level & objective coverage of the Dog Eating Festival in Yulin, China. Even though the reporter clearly has a bias, she's a dog owner. She manages to show articulate arguments on both sides of this hyper-divisive issue, going as far as sampling the cuisine at a family celebration. 

   Southern China has always had a tradition of dining on dogs, despite becoming more prosperous in the 1990s, Yulin has maintained the unique tradition of holding a canine banquet every summer.

 Where do you stand? 

 Would/Have you eaten dog?

"People from other parts of China joke that, Southerners will eat anything with legs but the dinner table."

Take the Meat Eaters Challenge below.
My number's 24, what's yours?

DANCE: World Order - Genki Renaissance

World Order - Genki Renaissance
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HAIKU: World Order by Yellowmenace

Fit in 2 stand out
Synchronized cyborgs in suits
Genki renaissance

Produced & Directed by GENKI SUDO (須藤元気)

The Asian Male Stereotype

"I could also feel the way people wanted me to fit into an idea of the type of Asian male they were comfortable with. Both sides made it hard to be myself. I was often described as quiet, studious, easygoing, book-smart but not street-smart, and some of these descriptions stuck in a self-fulfilling way."

- Matthew Salesses from PSY THE CLOWN VS. PSY THE “ANTI-AMERICAN”

PSY's Popularity Based on Expected Asian Stereotype?

"PSY fits right into the mainstream-friendly role of Asian male jester, offering goofy laughs for all and, thanks to PSY’s decidedly non-pop star looks, in a very non-threatening package."

- Racialicous (reprinted from init_music): “PSY and the Acceptable Asian Man.”