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Xiao Wang in Surface Magazine, March/April 2012
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CABIN IN THE WOODS  →
CABIN IN THE WOODS is an interesting film. On the superficial level, you are impressed at the film’s postmodern self-awareness and its deft deconstruction of horror genre conventions. Then, you realize that, like all reactionary (conservative) texts, it actually has an extremely cynical worldview and is perpetuating the very things it’s appearing to make fun of, or even chastise.  I...
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publicnoticedesign: Public Notice’s first big project is complete! We are proud to present our directorial debut for the song “Moon Shoes” for electronic musician DATALOG. Enjoy!
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Porn aesthetics
I don’t have the time or patience right now to search through nasty porn images for this argument, but someone needs to write an essay about how porn aesthetics has infiltrated all media from Entertainment Tonight’s lighting to HD TV aesthetics to Megan Fox to commercials about shoes and yogurt. It’s horrifying.  
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publicnoticedesign: The Dogs of Pompeii
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My small design experiment →
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Dashing Through the Weed and Blow: A Very Harold &...
  The third installment of the Harold & Kumar franchise is a playfully rude and inappropriate jaunt through Christmas traditions, high times, and race relations — as such, it will be sure to satisfy diehard fans. The performances are terrific, but ultimately, the film is an escapist and superficial attempt to confront clichéd masculine anxieties about aging and fatherhood. Nevertheless,...
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I’m back from Europe and still super jet-lagged. I don’t have much to say right now. I just learned of some horrible news about one of my female cousins in China who was violently assaulted and left for dead. I’m so angry, but really I can think of to say is that it’s become clearer and clearer to me all the time why there is a need for public feminism. Feminism has...
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November 2011
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Exhausted!
I recently escorted a Fifth Generation cinematographer for a two-day trip up to San Francisco. He drank beer in the backseat, burped sans apology, and lectured me about the importance of understanding ancient Chinese literature. It was fun. And also stressful. My boyfriend and I joked about not waking up our middle-aged Chinese son who had just fallen asleep in the backseat.  He also talked...
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My review of "Buddha Mountain"
Buddha Mountain embraces the rise of the millennial Chinese urban slacker. A departure from her highly-controversial and censored Lost in Beijing, Buddha Mountain illustrates director Li Yu’s growing complicity with the PRC’s strict censorship code, and yet Li proves that complicity does not equal artistic compromise. Unlike Richard Linklater’s apathetic suburbanites, this film’s unlikely...
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Back from the San Diego Asian Film Festival!
The above is from the best of the four films I caught at the San Diego Asian Film Festival this past weekend. It’s a Korean film by Hong Sangsoo called The Day He Arrives and it evoked Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarrettes (as my boyfriend pointed out) and a more experimental Groundhog’s Day (as my friend and festival programmer pointed out). This film shows that there is...
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