Yin and Young EP61 - Geoffrey Oki - Designer, Creator, New Dad

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Hi Yin & Young listeners! We’re back finally with a conversation with artist, creative director, and new father Geoffrey Oki!

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HIGHLIGHTS:

• James met Geoff at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival years ago and was able to help score him some tickets.

• Geoff was born and raised in Sacramento

• Moved to LA for school, majored in design and worked at different ad agencies as creative director

• Lived in Taiwan for a couple of years in the mid 2010’s for a change of pace.

• Recently lived in Taiwan for a short time and then moved back with his wife and newborn.

• As a college student, it was definitely a big change from Sacramento to LA in terms of the number of Asians.

• Explored his Asian American identity more in LA.

• Helped a friend shoot/co-produce a few movies: Wait For Me, Broken Kingdom.

• Geoff relives how he met his wife in Taiwan.

• What it’s like being a new dad.

• Discussion turns to the Atlanta spa shootings a year ago and anti-Asian attacks earlier this year.

• Thoughts on living in the U.S. vs Taiwan, especially as a new father.

• Geoff likes vintage shirts and has had t-shirt parties in LA Chinatown.

LANGUAGE CORNER (01:20:41):

• Taiwanese: 你是佗位的人？ - lí sī tó-ūi ê lâng? - where are you from?

• Japanese:

  • ばかうまい - baka umai - crazy delicious. (I mispronounce it in the podcast)

  • ホーム - hōmu - platform

  • 班長 - hanchō - team leader. The term “head honcho” is often mistakenly referred to as Spanglish but actually comes from Japanese.

• Mandarin:

  • 婊子 - biǎozi - a spiteful woman

  • 馬馬虎虎 - mǎmahūhū - so-so, not so bad, careless

• Korean: 미국 - mi-gug/mi-guk - America, literally “beautiful country” (美國）. “Guk,” which means country, was used as a derogatory term towards Asians after the Korean war.

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