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celebrated Chinese New Year with AC at her Harvard friend's apt, her mom made piles of food & I discovered this great whisky called Caol Ila...which got me a slight hangover but was worth it.

getting over some kind of flu...was in bed all day yesterday. Tonight I'm going to finally scan some of the piles of slides & photos I...
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I had my first conflict between SG and my real life this week...I put up a video I was hired to edit by this non-profit and one of the overseers I'd worked with stumbled on it through a Google search. She herself was a fan and former SG member even...but she said her Christian boss had an unrealistic view of how the web worked and...
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I've been the lamest SG member...but hey, I've been busy.

For anyone who's interested, here's some online output of mine, a video I shot and edited for Asian American Arts Alliance of their summer concert SoundFest:



I've chained myself to my home editing suite editing my doc...so I'm near-mute on SG these days...feel free to message/chat me up at aderkon@yahoo.com!

I always feel like I'm barely catching up on this blog:

The trip to Ohio was amazing, I was apprehensive about putting my grandma on camera again but she was game and told me a lot of stuff I didn't know before, like how my grandfather Hiroshi took lots of pictures for the Army. He was in a regiment that had a lot of Japanese...
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Here in Cleveland with AC visiting my grandma on my mother's side.

She's also a subject in my documentary, which is told from my POV as I find out how the U.S. government's rounding up of thousands of Muslim immigrants in the name of the "9/11 Investigation" was an inhuman, racist sham.

My grandma Toyo spend World War II in an internment camp in Utah,...
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Kind of a complicated holiday season for me. Trying to get away to see my grandma between Xmas and New Year's.

Sending presents late, because one of them is a family video set of my Katrina video Family Edition and another home movie-documentary on my girlfriend "AC" & I in search of my ancestor John Moss (wrote about this before).

It's gotten into this elaborate...
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Wacky but amusing T-day at my girlfriend AC's Taiwanese folks' household out in the Long Island town of Hewlett. My mom actually came this time which was a breakthrough because in the past she's had all these mental and circumstantial complications about coming to the folks' house for thanksgiving.

AC's bipolar sister was manic which made things livelier than usual, though pushed things a bit...
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Waiting for a friend to come by. He's actually the son of the late main character in my documentary Enemy Alien. He also is in the documentary, we share some hair-raising encounters with counterterrorism agents in the story. He's had a tough few years, his dad imprisoned for two years by Homeland Security, then his dad dies three months after being released.

He has some...
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insomnia again. Sometimes I wake up way early. At least this time I got 6 hours.

I have more pics and video from the Moss quest I'm dying to post. It takes time to edit though.

In the meantime to my new friends who haven't seen it here's a clip from my fateful encounter with Katrina:



Have a lot on my mind but don't want...
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