Posts tagged Filipinos
I copped this today. Now make a Seattle Mariners one, please!
Via Strictly Fitteds:
WIP CAPS collaborated with FlipTop Battle League to celebrate the 1 year Anniversary of the most viewed Rap battle league on the Internet. The dark grey fitted cap features the “Battle MC” crossed microphones logo on the front and the acronym “STFU” on the back. The cap was first seen in December during the special Anygma vs Dirtbag Dan battle but is now available to the public via wipcaps.com. More behind the scenes info on the cap is available on WIP Caps designer Nakayama’s blog. Follow WIP Caps on Facebook for daily updates and product news.
For those not hip to WIP CAPS, they are a fitted hat company in the Philippines. I was lucky enough to pick up their MNL fitted online a couple years ago.
Unlimited Creations: Filipino Mobile DJs of the Bay Area
by Oliver Wang
The photo above is of 3 Style Attractions, a mobile DJ crew founded in San Jose, CA back in the 1980s.1 3SA was one of hundreds of similar mobile crews who began to emerge in the early 1980s from across the Bay Area; besides geography, they also shared this in common: they were predominantly, if not exclusively, Filipino American. To be sure, mobile DJing drew folks of all stripes,2 but in the Bay Area, the Filipino American mobile scene was on some whole next level in terms of size, scope and longevity. These Filipino crews have been the subject of my dissertation-now-book research since the early ’00s. In fact, I really should have spent this week revising my manuscript instead of guest-blogging but since I’ve been slowly, painfully working through those revisions, I figured posting about my research was a way to stay on focus (sort of) and still get a post out of it. Mostly, I find that the more I write about it, the more I remind myself what it is I find interesting and engrossing about this work despite the fatigue of working on it for eight years and running. Quick primer: Mobile DJs provide lighting and audio services for events: weddings, parties, dances, etc. The “crew” phenomenon was produced partially by necessity. By the 1970s, when mobile DJs were expected to replicate the sound and light atmosphere of discotheques, they needed people to help move and set-up heavy, bulky audio and lighting gear. Crews evolved to include the DJs, roadies, business managers, security, not to mention all the hanger-ons who wanted to get into the party for free and kick game to the ladies.3 (Click on each of these cards for bigger arrays)
