Last year I had the honor and privilege to sit down with him in conversation while he was on a speaking tour in San Francisco. You can watch the interview here.

Tainan, the oldest city in Taiwan, cute but fast, quaint but modern, an amazing place to make movies.

Typhoon Nanmadol was coming our way, but it turned out we needed sunscreen, not umbrellas.

The video is only the first two hours of what was another super-packed and amazing day.

SparkJam (www.sparkjam.net) - the culture and news blog founded in San Francisco - announced today that founders Yussef Milburn and Ian Thomas were selected to visit Taiwan this summer to blog about the island's centennial events.

Artist Nadia Plesnar beat a Louis Vuitton copyright infringement lawsuit yesterday for her use of the luxury brand’s bag in her painting Darfurnica. Plesnar made Darfurnica to raise awareness of the Genocide in Darfur, Sudan and much of the global community’s the lack of response to it. A court in The Hague, Netherlands found that [...]

Four years ago I visited New Orleans to report on various aspects of how the city was recovering after being devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the subsequent flooding of 80 percent of the city. The trip was important to me as I had also come to New Orleans as a volunteer a few [...]

Jeez, Louis Vuitton just can’t get enough of Dutch Artist Nadia Plesner’s work. In 2008 Plesner’s depiction of a Sudanese child holding an iconic Louis Vuitton bag on one arm and a chihuahua in another was used on a T-shirt to raise funds for Darfur Genocide victims. LV apparently didn’t like the image, so they [...]