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Pileus | Web Browsing in the Rain

By Matthew Tsang

When I was a kid, I absolutely despised walking to school in the rain. I don't know exactly what it was, but I think it might have been the miserable greyness, or the icky *squish-squish* sound my boots made in puddles of mud, OR the persistent and aggravating *tap-tap-tap* of raindrops against my drenched "winter" coat that refused to live up to its name. Most likely, it was a combination of all three.

But I digress, because two graduate students from Japan have created Pileus, a super-umbrella (my words) that would have had my 10 year-old self shrieking with joy.

With the goal of "making the rainy days more enjoyable", Matsumoto Takashi and Hashimoto Sho created the prototype for Pileus, which has already been presented in several countries. The creation won the Innovation Prize at Laval Virtual 2007, Europe's biggest virtual reality convention.

The device's handle holds a projector that displays colourful images on the underside of the umbrella. The handle also contains a motion sensor, a camera, GPS, and a digital compass. Rotating the grip allows you to manipulate the actions of the device.

The current prototype has two main functions: photo-sharing and 3D map navigation.

"Not only can the umbrella display photos from the site (Flickr); [but by]using the camera in the handle it can also take pictures and upload them to the Internet via a wireless connection. Pileus users can thus view each other's photo streams. The umbrella can also display movies from the video-sharing site YouTube."

"The other key function of the device is to help users find their way around by displaying 3D maps using Google Earth. The umbrella "knows" the user's location (thanks to GPS) and direction (thanks to the digital compass), so it can show a bird's-eye map of the surrounding area, enabling the user to navigate streets with ease."

Check out the Pileus website for an abundance of videos, photos, and other stuff about their creation... including how it all came about and its future potential!

More: (sources) Pileus, Trends in Japan, Techchee | Video/photos of Pileus under the cut

Posted by Matthew Tsang | August 31, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Japan, Technology

Olivia Cheng and her role in the film, The Rape of Nanking

By KaGeen Cheung, Special Correspondent for Perspectives

Schema Magazine interviews actor Olivia Cheng.

Edmonton-born actor Olivia Cheng got her start as a broadcast journalist on Entertainment Tonight Canada. She recently starred in Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking (2007), a docudrama about the American author Iris Chang and her research into The Nanking Massacre, a six-week period that followed the Japanese capture of Nanking, then capital of the Republic of China in 1937. UBC Perspectives' correspondent KaGeen Cheung recently found time in Olivia's busy schedule for an interview with the rising actress to discuss the relevance of the film, which was the focus of Saturday's Commemoration of the Day of "Peace in the Asia-Pacific."

» Read the entire interview here.

Posted by Claudia Ho | August 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Film, People

Canadian premiere of FOUND at TIFF | Toronto | Sept. 15, 17, 18

By Nikki Reimer

"Souvankham's story is one of many immigrant stories, but what makes it stand out is the sense that we are not supposed to know about this one. " (emphasis mine)

Torontonians, take note: The Toronto International Film Festival will present the premiere screening of director-producer Paramita Nath's FOUND, an impressionistic, and based on the trailer, beautiful, translation of Toronto poet Souvankham Thammavongsa's work. FOUND, the movie, is based on Thammavongsa's book of the same name (Pedlar Press), which in turn is based on a scrapbook kept by her father during his time in a Thai refugee camp. Thammavongsa found the book when her dad threw it away. Huffington Post calls the movie "searing."

Find out for yourself at the following screenings:

15 September 2009: 5:00PM (AMC 2 theatre)
17 September 2009: 6:15PM (AMC 7 theatre)
18 September 2009: 1:00PM (Jackman Hall, AGO)

Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Nong Khai, Thailand in 1978. She is the author of two poetry books. Her first book, Small Arguments won the ReLit prize for poetry and was praised for its "beautiful jeweller's-eye lyrics".

Director Paramita Nath was born in Shillong, India. She is also a painter and has a Bachelor's degree in Music from Memorial University and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts from York University, Toronto. FOUND is Paramita's debut short film.

Posted by Alden | August 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Film

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra falls short of depicting All-American Heroes

By Alden E. Habacon

Despite all the bad reviews, and the word-of-mouth buzz (from my 11-year-old nephew) that this was going to be terribly bad, the childhood nostalgia was overwhelming. Through Grades 5 to 7, I lived the G.I. Joe fantasy every day at school. In fact, Sundays were the only day I wasn't wearing camo shorts, or cargoes or sweatpants. My pockets stuffed with paper throwing stars. I didn't love camping in the summer because of the camping, but because in my imagination it was a G.I Joe training camp. In fact, all of this may have contributed to my having enlisted in the army reserve when I was in Grade 11. You have to admit, the trailers were very enticing.

Yes, packed with special effects, and gadgets coming out of the ying-tang. As the movie came to an end, I was very disappointed, but not for the acting (as my nephew warned me). Maybe he read the review on Rotten Tomatoes:

While fans of the Hasbro toy franchise may revel in a bit of nostalgia, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is largely a cartoonish, over-the-top action fest propelled by silly writing, inconsistent visual effects, and merely passable performances.

What was glaringly absent from the entire film was a reflection of a real life diversity in the United States and around the world. For some reason, perhaps because of the diverse cast of Heroes, I thought we might have graduated past this over-simplification of a white and black America. I was wrong. Here are the two things that prevented me from enjoying this film.

Posted by Alden | August 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Commentary, Diversity, Film

Hello Kitty celebrates 35 years!

By Christina Jung

Did you know that Hello Kitty is now 35 years old? While searching through the archives of Schema, I came upon this interesting entry about a brown Hello Kitty (below). Wondering if there were other colours, I Googled "Hello Kitty" and discovered that she's about to turn 35. It's amazing that this little white kitty, with a red bow has managed to gather popularity from all over the world. As an Asian girl myself, I was once addicted to Hello Kitty. Surprisingly, I still remember my very first Hello Kitty item. It was a red diary with a big white Hello Kitty face in the center and a miniature lock to keep any possible human soul away. To me Hello Kitty's skin was always white—no questions asked. It wasn't until I came upon this entry that I started to wonder why I never questioned the color of Hello Kitty's skin. In actuality, Hello Kitty has been other colours, like pink and brown (see below).

In celebration to Hello Kitty's 35th Anniversary, Sanrio is hosting an event in California on October 23rd to November 15th, 2009 called the Three Apples Exhibition. This event is dedicated to all things Hello Kitty. In addition to the event, Sanrio had added new colors to Hello Kitty's bow. If anyone is planning to visit California during the fall, check out this event as it is free for the public.

Posted by Christina J. | August 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Hello Kitty

Launching House of Barbie Shanghai | 2009

By Valerie Chin

From humble beginnings as an idea that made up for a lack of adult bodied dolls in the toy market, Barbie has become a fashion and lifestyle icon for both girls and women alike through the years. Though if you haven't kept track of time during all these years you probably don't know that the gorgeous blonde just turned 50 years old this year! In celebration of her golden anniversary, Mattel Inc. opened Barbie's first global flagship store in Shanghai, China on March 6th, 2009.

The 35,000 square foot store features six floors of interactive displays and activities that realize Barbie's roots in fashion and her special ability to inspire girls to approach the world without limits. While inside, females of all ages will revel the world's largest collection of barbie dolls and lifestyle products, makeup counters, and a pampering spa. But exclusive to the store is the Barbie Design Centre, an interactive environment that gives customers a unique chance to customize their own Barbie dolls, and the Barbie Fashion Runway which lets young girls walk in their favourite Barbie fashions.

According to Hayes Slade of Slade Architecture, BIG ad agency and Mattel "...decided that design should be a central component of the store." The focus of the design concept was to bring out the girl in women of all ages, and so the immediate impact of its entrance is that of the fun and luxury of fashion influenced by white, curving walls and a sensational chandelier above. As customers progress up to the fifth floor flower cutouts on the walls gradually increase in size from six inches to several feet high, in effect allowing young girls to feel they've become "doll-sized" on their way up.

The massive scale, design, and innovation of the global flagship store certainly is a contemporary interpretation of the Barbie brand. Already a hit and only the first establishment in the global market, the direction of future Barbie stores is imaginably limitless into the future....So while she may be getting old, her future remains young.

More: Official Barbie Shanghai Website, DDI Magazine Cover Story, Archdaily.com article, Barbie Media Press Release, House of Barbie Documentary

Posted by valerie.chin | August 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Design, Fashion, International

Ciao | Yen Tan | at the 2009 Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Gloria Wong, Film Festival Editor

For 11 days each August, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival brings the very best in queer independent cinema from around the world to Vancouver. Now in its 21st year, this celebrated event brings people together to watch incredible films, talk to filmmakers and artists, engage in scintillating discussions, experience unexpected performances and paint the town pink!

This year's program features a spotlight on Asian filmmakers, a host of international documentaries and an unprecedented number of youth programs. Following Schema's tradition of covering ethnic cool film festivals, we are including pre-/reviews of our favorite festival picks for 2009. One of the most popular gay films this year is Ciao, directed by Yen Tan.

Ciao
Yen Tan | USA | 2007 | 87 min

Andrea is an Italian graphic designer planning to meet his internet romance Jeff in person for the first time. But when he writes him an email regarding his itinerary, Jeff's best friend Mark answers - Jeff has died in a car accident and Mark has been dealing with details like packing up the apartment and answering emails. He signs off with an apology for the inconvenience. Thus begins Malaysian-American filmmaker Yen Tan's spare and occasionally insightful new feature Ciao. For reasons unknown to himself but wrapped in the guise of a polite gesture, Mark encourages Andrea to come for his visit anyway. Perhaps equally curious about Mark, Andrea accepts, and the two men spend a weekend driving around Dallas and talking about a range of things while the spectre of their departed mutual friend looms like a deep-seated bruise.

Like Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, Ciao is the story of two strangers who meet through happenstance then agree to spend a small window of time together. But where Linklater's film was unabashedly seductive in its youthful optimism, Ciao is an adult story layered with tension, tenuousness and grief. These characters are in the uncomfortable situation of knowing very private things about one another without having shared them. The way they do and don't explore aspects of this vulnerability makes for an unusually intimate experience, even when the dialogue veers toward the bland. A remarkable piece of minimalist filmmaking.

Wed August 19, 2009 | 9:30pm | Cinemark Tinseltown

www.queerfilmfestival.ca

Posted by Alden | August 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Film, Queer

Shamim Sarif's "I Can't Think Straight" | Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2009

By gloria wong, Film Festival Editor

In Queer, South Asian/South African/British filmmaker Shamim Sarif's debut film I Can't Think Straight, Tala (Lisa Ray) is celebrating her fourth engagement with a decadent celebration thrown by her extremely wealthy Jordanian family. Everyone is hoping this one will stick. And it looks like it will—until Tala returns to her business in London and meets Leyla (Sheetal Sheth), a Muslim from a good British-Indian family. Having been raised in both a strongly religious family and reserved English society, Leyla is immediately offended by Tala's forthright opinions. But Leyla soon finds herself drawn to Tala (she IS Lisa Ray)—even though she has a perfectly serviceable, mom-friendly boyfriend in Ali and Tala has a perfectly nice, 'open-minded' fiancé in Hani. How the two manage to get together, break-up, get together and live happily ever after makes up most of the film's plot, though there are several amusing side characters that fill the frame.

Based on Sarif's own novel, I Can't Think Straight is a predictable but breezy and enjoyable romantic comedy helped enormously by its gorgeous and likeable cast. There is a casual ease with which Sarif mingles all the different identity politics at work between the characters (religion, culture, nationality, gender, class) but even this can feel a tad timid for the 21st century.

I Can't Think Straight kicked off this year's Vancouver Queer Film Festival and is playing again August 18th at Tinseltown Theatres. Visit www.queerfilmfestival.ca for more information.

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Posted by Alden | August 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Film, Queer

Why Asian snacks have my heart | Food

By Jordana Mah, originally published on Being High Maintenance, not Bitchy

Be prepared for some serious food pornage. When it comes to snack foods, Asian snacks will always be my preferred choice. There are such a huge variety and originality to Asian snacks. If you're a sweets person, there are sweet things, and similarly if you're a salt person. Unlike western snacks, the flavours in Asian snacks are also very diverse. You may find snacks with flavours from anything ranging from plain Jane apple, to mango, to chicken, to octopus! Finally, Asian snacks can be healthier than western snacks, by offering healthy options like roasted seaweed and peas, dried fruits, and pickled vegetables! So next time you've got the munchies, veer away from the chip and chocolate bar aisle, and head to your Asian food aisle or grocery instead!

Shrimp chips: I literally grew up on these babies and could eat them endlessly. Crunchy and with a slight shrimp flavour, these made me super popular at lunch in elementary where I was that lone Chinese kid with the strange, yet delicious, snacks.

Roasted green peas: a good source of fiber, these roasted peas come in spicy and non-spicy flavours.

Check out the rest of the goodies here »

Posted by Jordana Mah | August 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Food

Savvy businesses setting sights on Canada's '1.5 Generation'

By Joanne Lee-Young, excerpted from Vancouver Sun

Shopper Linh Walji (left) chats with Aritzia sales associate Debbie Bui at the company's Robson Street location. The company's focus is on 'hiring women ... that [customers] can relate to,' Aritzia's marketing director says.
Photograph by: Stuart Davis, Vancouver Sun

When the research group Environics recently highlighted Canada's fastest-growing consumer segments, the online seminar about Chinese and South Asian shopping habits was so popular, it had to be run twice. And earlier this year, Ipsos-Reid launched a new 3,000-member multicultural research panel of "new and ethnic Canadians," telling marketers that they "cannot afford to see these groups as small niche segments."
Increasingly, for richer insight, information about Chinese and South Asian consumers is being cross-cut with the length of time they have been in Canada. One study pinpointed how long an immigrant woman might cling to the Pantene shampoo popular in her homeland before giving it up for Head & Shoulders, L'Oreal Vive Pro, or Clairol Herbal Essences. Chinese women, for example, make the switch after 11 years in Canada, according to Environics.

This slicing and dicing of how first- and second-generation Canadian consumers spend differently is revealing a hard-to-define but interesting new subset known as the "1.5 Generation." These are Canadians who were born abroad, but immigrated as children and grew up here.

Continue reading article on Vancouver Sun »

Posted by Alden | August 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: News

IRON ROAD | Part 1 Airs tonight 8:00 PM on CBC

By Alden E. Habacon

The much anticipated 2-part mini-series bringing the history of the Chinese migrants who sacrificed their lives to build the Trans-Canada railroad hits prime time television tonight. IRON ROAD airs Sundays August 9 and August 16th 8:00 - 10:00 PM, on CBC Television.

Despite there being screenings all across the country, this is the first time the Canadian public will watch the full 2-part mini-series. As the most recent China-Canada co-production in the last 25 years, two versions were created: a 90-minute theatrical release and a 180-minute Canadian television version with deeper character development, and more story-lines. According to Chinese Canadian communities from coast to coast, this must-see film is has the potential to significantly change the public's perception of this part of Canadian history.

It took from 1881 to 1885 to construct the Canadian Pacific Railway, a Herculean task undertaken by thousands of labourers, including 17,000 Chinese workers, many of whom lost their lives. But it took even longer to get Iron Road - a glossy CBC miniseries about the building of the railroad, airing tomorrow and next Sunday - from script to screen.
Producers Barry Pearson and Anne Tait got the ball rolling in 2000, securing the rights to a 2001 opera of the same name by Chan Ka Nin and Mark Brownell that combined a complicated interracial love story with a saga about the CPR's creation. The resulting $10-million production, starring Sam Neill and Peter O'Toole, took nine years to make it to the small screen.

» Read the whole article by Fiona Morrow on Globe and Mail

Part 1 Trailer | Part 2 Trailer

More: IRON ROAD | Vancouver screening and youth response | July 16, 2009

Posted by Alden | August 9, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Media, TV

Louis Gong & Custom First Nations Vans

By Tamiko Ogura

Nurtured by his paternal Chinese grandfather and his Nooksack grandmother between Ruskin, B.C., and the Nooksack tribal community in Washington State, Louis Gong is both a cultural activist and an emerging artist. Blessed with a mixed heritage of Nooksack, Squamish, Chinese, French, and Scottish, Louis Gong is the president of MAVIN Foundation, a leading American organization for mixed heritage people and their families; serves on the Executive Committee for the Washington State Native American Higher Education Consortium (WSNAHEC); as well as custom designing First Nations designs on Vans shoes at 8thGen (Eighth Generation).

On day in March 2009, Louis Gong started decorating his plain grey Vans with a sharpie: "My cultural influences just came out." His Coast Salish art-inspired Vans has now formed a popular following, with Gong receiving kudos from Steve Van Doren, son of Vans founder Paul Van Doren, and Sam McCracken, Nike's Native American business manager.

MORE: Louis Gong & 8thGen | Old world meets new: First-Nation fashion melds the past with the present by Janine Falcon @ Metro Canada | Off the Wall: All Things Vans | Multiracial Americans surge in number, voice @ msnbc.

Posted by Tamiko | August 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Aboriginal, Art, Culture, Design, Diversity, Ethnic Cool, Fashion, Race

GENERATION MOVEMENT: COLLABORATION & COLLECTION

By Alden E. Habacon

GENERATION MOVEMENT: COLLABORATION & COLLECTION
Helen Pitt Gallery (148 Alexander)
Artist Talk: 6:00pm, August 6th
Artists Cindy Mochizuki and Rafael Tsuchida and curator Lyndsay Sung in attendance.

In Generation Movement, contemporary artists Rafael Tsuchida, Cindy Mochizuki, and Kaori Kasai work with non-artist members of their own families to produce works based on the concept of intergeneration. Seeking to overcome misunderstandings between generations, Generation Movement brings the non-artist older generations into the folds of the contemporary art world. Curated by interdisciplinary media artist and curator Lyndsay Sung. The exhibition runs until August 14.

Posted by Alden | August 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Green Leap Forward!

By Alden E. Habacon

Many of us at SCHEMA have been wondering when our two passions for diversity and the environment would intersect. After all, Schema is all about being "more than ethnic"—and living in Vancouver means most of all (actually all of us) are big environmentalists. Rather than just complaining about the lack of places to recycle your empty containers while on vacation, join us at a special screening of GREEN LEAP FORWARD and panel discussion about frogs, the earth's diagnostic system. This special event will give you an opportunity to find balance between your inner ethnic cool and inner green side.

Green Leap Forward! a multi-cultural, multi-media eco evening.

Saturday August 22, 2009 | 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Richmond Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Gate
Richmond, B.C. [map]
Free (limited seating)

Following the very successful 2nd Annual New Asia Film Festival in May of this year, Cinevolution Media Society have again partnered with the City of Richmond and other strategic community partners to present an evening of information and viewer interaction, Green Leap Forward! As this is a conscious effort to reach and inform Chinese speaking communities.Chinese translation will be available throughout the screening.

David Wong, a Vancouver born Architect, a most vocal community activist with a very long list of community and public service accomplishments (and life-long lover of frogs!) will make a multimedia presentation on ... you guessed it, frogs!

Posted by Alden | August 4, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Environment, Events

Food Porno : Powell Street Festival 2009

By Alden E. Habacon. Photo-essay by Kim Ho, originally published on I'm Only Here for the Food!

I call this "food porno" because like Internet porn, you CAN'T touch it, taste it, smell it, or ... even have it. All you can do is lust it. Well, not until next year's Powell Street Festival anyway. I was actually looking for pictures of the above shaved ice dessert I can't stop thinking about (Uji-Kintoki), and sure enough I found one in Kim Ho's photo-essay on her Vancouver-based food blog, I'm Only Here for the Food! We're there for the ethnic cool factor too. But you have to admit, because of this year's heat wave, you have to really love the food to wait in those gynormous cues.

Yup, yet another summer festival! After being disappointed with the Caribbean Days Festival last week, I had higher expectations for this weeks': The Powell Street Festival! As for the festivities, according to their site, it is to celebrate the arts and culture of Japanese Canadians and Asian Canadians, to encourage Asian Canadians to take a leadership role in the development of the arts in Canada, and to foster community development through cultural events. However, I will have to say it is not that much Asian but mainly Japanese. Not complaining here! Enjoy this photo essay.
(from: I'm Only Here for the Food!)

LUST OVER MORE of Kim's photos from PSF 2009 HERE »

Like porno, there are specialties. If you were looking for more shaved ice, macha, red bean dessert too, this flickr hive mind is for you. If you are really into the Uji-Kintoki, and cannot find a shaved ice machine anywhere, you can try to find some uji-kintoki milk kitkat Yes, that's kitkat, the chocolate bar.

Posted by Alden | August 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Food

The "Invisible Man" Artist

By Matthew Tsang

If you're strolling down the street in Beijing, there's a good chance that you may not even notice when Chinese artist, Liu Bolin, is standing right beside you.

I was in awe when I first saw these photos. I could not even begin to imagine the time and patience it must have took to create these masterpieces. I must admit, the first thing I did was look at all the photos, which you can find right under the cut. However, his art became all the more fascinating when I discovered the deep connection he has to all his work. I'll summarize it for you:

Basically, in an attempt to peacefully protest against what he feels is an unjust system in Beijing, the 36-year-old camouflage expert uses his entire body as a blank canvas to "disappear" into his surroundings. He describes his work as something to "remind people what the community [he] live[s] in really looks like, and what kind of problems exist."

His inspiration began with "a sense of not fitting in to modern society".

"The situation for artists in China is very difficult and the forced removal of the artist's studio is in fact my direct inspiration of this series of photographs, Hiding In The City."

Liu explains that his work, as expected, requires a ton of patience. Although he works with an assistant, it can still take more than ten hours of posing to complete a single portrait. I must say, the result of ten hours of work definitely shows in the final product, and the message he wants to deliver only makes it all the more powerful.

"I am standing, but there is a silent protest, the protest against the environment for the survival, the protest against the state."

More: Pictures of the Invisible Man under the cut | Story and Pic Source: Mail Online

Posted by Matthew Tsang | August 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Art, People

Afghanistan's Ethnic cool at the MET

By Leah Yin

Pair of pendants depicting the "Dragon Master" (Tillya Tepe, Tomb II), 100 BCE-100 CE. Gold, turquoise, garnet, lapis lazuli, carnelian, and pearl. National Museum of Afghanistan. Used with permission. ©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet

Rarely is "global village" used to describe Afghanistan these days but dig past the media clips of military warfare, the Kite Runner, and that unforgettable National Geographic magazine cover of the Afghan Girl with mesmerizing eyes, and you'll discover the rich cultural history of a country that flourished as a critical trading center along the Silk Road. Within this ethnically diverse environment, the Afghan people birthed their unique sampling style that remixes East Asian, Nomadic and Roman sensibility in the products they created. As Omara Khan Massoudi, the curator of The National Museum of Kabul puts it, "The history of Afghanistan is one of receiving the arts of others, and then turning them into our own way of expression." Sound familiar doesn't it?

From now until September 20th, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is exhibiting Afghanistan, Hidden Treasures From the National Museum, Kabul. This show gives visitors a rare opportunity to view remnants of Afghanistan's heritage and history and uncover the miraculous account of how the relics were protected from war and looters. Seeing past the "bling" (as in pure gold objet d'art- and there are lots of it), this exhibition attempts to spark a earnest conversation with the public about how and why a national identity is interdependent with a well-preserved cultural heritage. The UNESCO motto, "A nation stays alive when it's culture stays alive" echoes as a hopeful mandate throughout the show, challenging viewers to envision a new Afghanistan, beyond this country's recent war torn identity.

Listen to a preview of the exhibition Audio Guide on www.metmuseum.org.

Posted by Alden | August 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: Afghanistan, Art

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