Funny Outtakes from What kind of Asian are you?

There was so much funny footage of actors Stella Choe and Scott Beehner from our shoot for What kind of Asian are you? that I decided to upload some funny outtakes. I laugh harder at this video than the original one, but maybe that's just because I have watched the original so many times. We have even more funny footage from the shoot, but I guess I can't spend all my time editing blooper videos. Yesterday Scott and Stella and I shot a video of them reading some of 14k youtube comments from the video. I hope to put it up soon.

Where are you from? What Kind of Asian are you? Piracy

Shortly after I put up my video "What kind of Asian are you" up on YouTube for Youtube's comedy week, it started to go viral. By the next day it had several hundred thousand hits which was a very nice surprise for all of us who made the video. Around that time, the video started to be copied and pirated versions were uploaded all over. The most popular one was a poor quality version uploaded to Facebook. They changed the name to "Where are you From?" and failed to list any info about the video. That one quickly became popular and had about 150k shares in a few days. I started getting messages from many of my viewers telling me about this and sending me links. Finally I asked the person on Facebook to take it down and he agreed to. But copies of his pirated version then began to spring up all over YouTube and other areas. It's very frustrating.

I uploaded this version to my second channel kentanakajapan in the hopes that it would come up in searches when people went looking for the removed "Where are you from?" video from facebook. There are still about 10 new fake ones a day uploaded to youtube. Jacob the Happy Rabbit told me I should ignore them. I know that rabbit gives great advice, but it's hard for me to ignore.

What kind of Asian are you? goes viral.



I co-wrote this video with David Ury (my long lost twin brother), and co-directed with David (Takeo) Neptune and with the help of John Coyne doing sound and some of the camera work. Scott Beehner and Stella Choe are the talented actors who brought this idea to life.

The video has now appeared on Reddit's front page, Huffington Post, MSN, and many other blogs and sites.
Thanks to all of you who have shared this video. I am very flattered by all the nice messages and comments I have gotten from people who have experienced this type of situation in some context. I would love to hear your personal stories. The comments page on YouTube has been taken over by a nonsensical debate on race, so if you have a story you'd like to share, please comment here instead, where nobody will call you names :-), and your comment won't get lost in a sea of very angry people.

I love you.

Ken

How to say Panda and "it's Bread" in Japanese.

This is lesson 5 of How to Speak Japanese. Or maybe it's lesson 6. I lost track.

The very handsome Remi and I teach you how to say Panda and "it's bread" in Japanese.

It's important to learn these two words. You don't want to make the common mistake of putting butter and jam on a panda bear.

It can make them angry and their furs get very sticky.


I painted the panda toast with white and black acrylic gesso. It's the best medium for painting panda toasts. I checked in all the art books.

I scanned the piece of toast in my scanner. It was the first time I'ver ever put bread in my scanner. I did scan some pudding once though. Pistachio.


This video was done with Remi February. She is very handsome. This is art of our how to speak fluent Japanese series. Other episodes include.