Asian and Asian American Studies at Laney College

23rd Asian/Asian American Studies Community Event The Georgia Review Book Art Project23rd Asian/Asian American Studies Community Event The Georgia Review Book Art Project

The 1st EMA @ AAAS For the first time ever! I'm super excited to announce a new AAAS project here in Oakland, California. In the Fall 2018 semester, ASAME 45B students worked in the FAB LAB at Laney College where you can make (almost) anything. http://www.laneyfablab.org/ The students and I signed up to be a part of the FAB CITY to create and design two Japanese wooden plaques called EMA. What is EMA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ema_(Shinto) ... The Laney College students' learning outcomes: They learned Adobe Illustrator. They studied Japanese culture. They wrote their promises, hopes, and dreams for the new year of the Boar 2019. They shared their stories with the class. The wooden plaques were made with fancy equipment such as the laser cutter and CNC milling. (Please see pixs below in case the outlook.office365 link doesn't 100% work right now. It shows at least one pix of FAB LAB guru Kara giving a tutorial on the equipment). (x_x)

The 21st AAAS Online Film Festival at Laney College -- Happy Mothers' Day! In the spring 2018 semester, over 300 students and their friends in AAAS courses (ASAME 45A, ASAME 30, and ASAME 49) learn basic camera work using smart phones, iPhones, Go Pros, iPads, drones, and other digital media devices. They work collaboratively in teams for five weeks inside and outside of the classroom. The first steps are to create an original story board and to find a suitable location in ...nearby Oakland Chinatown. AAAS students produce a one minute media clip on iMovie, Movie Maker, or Final Cut Pro in the F170 lab. This semester, students are playing with 3-D animation such as MMD, Maya, 3ds Max, and Blender. They can choose from a variety of options including a movie trailer, black and white genre, split screen effect, animation, slow motion, and much more. Students review films by master artists such as Akira Kurosawa, Mira Nair, Zhang Yimou, Wayne Wang, Hayao Miyazaki, Bong Joon-ho, Ekachai Uekrongtham, and others for inspiration. After many days of creative work, instruction and deliberation, their projects come together. The final project presentations and in class film festivals were held on Monday, May 7th at Laney College. The media clips are uploaded on YouTube, just in time for the Mothers' Day celebration. Here is the link to our AAAS YouTube Playlist for Spring 2018: https://www.youtube.com/user/aaaslaneycollege/playlists (A few more will be uploaded tomorrow on Wednesday, May 9th, for a total of 72 vids). On behalf of the AAAS students, I hope you will join in congratulating all the extraordinarily fine AAAS student leaders who offer their digital media videos for consideration and for working so hard on their projects! ! Thank you for reviewing and celebrating our student project work. And, a Happy Mothers' Day on May 13th! Thank you for watching!

16th Angel Island Immigration Station Field Trip on May 4, 2018