The Secret to Raising Successful Children

Asian American Theater Project (AATP) Presents:

The Secret to Raising Successful Children

A new play by Deanna Tan

Thursday, May 3, 7:30 pm - Okada Lounge

Friday, May 4, 7:30 pm - Flomo Lounge

Saturday, May 5, 7:30 pm - Roble Theater

Featuring the talents of:

Julie Nam, IJay Espinoza, Jenny Barin, Kenneth Savage, Asia Chiao, Allister Bernal, 

David Fifield, Amanda Le, Catherine Zaw, Daniel Vinh, Ava Lindstrom, Kevin Chow, Heidi Thorsen

Free General Admission.

Click here for tickets, or visit successfulchildren.weebly.com for more information!

Auditions have begun!

Tell your friends to audition! :)

Staff and Cast for the Play!

Production staff and cast are coming together, and the play is slated to take place in early Spring! :) Will provide updates soon -- once the venues are confirmed!

The pictures have been taken and organized and I have begun the painting. Just need to finish the painting and work on the story!

Down With Gravity's Juggling Revolution

Our project is finished, and has already been posted on Stanford's twitter account and facebook page. It has been a great success!

DWG's Juggling Revolution Begins

Our project has officially taken its first steps. Our goal is to create a high quality juggling video, and teach as many people as possible to juggling along the way.

Our thirty new juggling balls came in from jugglingstore.com about a month ago, just in time for our SPLASH classes where we taught fifty middle school and high school students from the area how to juggle, most of whom had never tried before. We also used the juggling balls to hold the first ever joint Stanford Running Club and Down With Gravity event: Joggling! We juggled and ran around campus for about a mile. It is impressive, although perhaps not too surprising, that there is a large overlap in the two clubs; the mentality for both is actually quite similar as they involved a kind of meditation achieved through repetition that is best developed through challenge and practice.

We also got eighteen of the highest quality juggling clubs from the World Juggling Federation's site. The PX3 Deco's are perfectly weighted, and as seen in the teaser video below, they look great as well. The video below is just a small section of the footage we shot a couple of weekends ago. We learned that there are some fantastic places to shoot at around campus, but also that one hour of filming will probably correspond to about one minute of final product. We have a ton of ideas, and are excited to head out for another day of filming and to try out some more ambitious tricks. Enjoy the video below, and there will hopefully be much more material on the way.

Fragments-- Completed!

Hi everyone, I finished my paintings and they're currently hanging in Gallery 160. The project description and images are below:

Project Description

Throughout the Bay Area, mountain lions are predators to deer, pigs, and other smaller mammals; they in turn fall prey to humans who have urbanized the region. Fragments is an exploration of the tension nested within human-mountain lion interaction; it identifies the role of mountain lions both as apex predators and as victims of accidental or unjust interactions with humans.

This series contains six works, from left to right:

Puma concolor, oil on canvas

Mountain lions, also known as cougars and pumas, are territorial animals that prefer low population densities. The average male mountain lion stands 60 to 76 centimeters (2.0 to 2.5 ft) tall, and is around 2.4 meters (8 ft) long from nose to tail, about 80 centimeters (32 in) of which is the tail. They are the fourth largest cats.

Hesitation, mixed media on canvas

The Bay Area has seen a recent influx in mountain lion sightings, and indeed, it seems reasonable that twenty-first century industrialized Americans are scared of these felines roaming near the homes in which young children are being raised.

Fragmentation, oil on canvas

Urbanization in the Bay Area has led to humans building homes and roads through the areas mountain lions once lived. As a result, mountain lion territory has been broken into pockets in a phenomenon called habitat fragmentation. This reduction of habitat size leads to crowding and increased competition, factors which play into species becoming threatened or endangered.

CARNIVORE, oil on canvas

In the Bay Area Puma Project, scientists led by Chris Wilmers are tracking the movement of mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains. They are currently following 15 pumas by way of a GPS collar tracking system named CARNIVORE.

Oops, oil on canvas

Because mountain lions require a large territory, human-induced habitat fragmentation has led these lions to cross roads such as Highway 17 near Santa Cruz in search of more land, prey, and vegetation. Unfortunately, not all mountain lions make it safely across this freeway.

Resolution, mixed media on canvas

One method to counter the harmful effects of habitat fragmentation is to build wildlife overpasses across freeways to connect one side to the other. These overpasses are landscaped bridges for animals to walk across.

Special thanks to Xiaoze Xie and Chris Wilmers. Sponsored by SiCa Spark! Grant.