The Adventures of Kon and Nathan

The above video has some nostalgia for me personally because it was back in '07 with my friend Nathan chillin and just talking bout goals and things. If you listen, I spoke about going up to New York (back when my ambitions were a bit selfish) but nevertheless a bit nostalgic. I do hope you enjoy this video and getting to see me back before I legit started to make videos :)

-Kon

As a Choreographer...

its an awesome moment when you hear a song, and instantly your heart rate increases and the amount of hype in your imagination is suddenly lifted. For me, I love hearing music that I can use to get people hyped about the Word.

If you're a fan of Hip-Hop but aren't familiar with @Lecrae, he's someone you should definitely check out alongside his newly released Gravity album.

Download on iTunes now: Gravity by Lecrae

Author?

So it is 2:30am and I have this urge to write. Essentially to write out this love story I have in my head. But, I need to let my MacBook cool off and I need to take my lil bro to school in the morning.

I will say it deals with fatherhood in such an unusual way but I hope it's a lil different in a good way. Def will keep you updated :)

New Video Schedule (Incomplete)

So while I'm uploading this new video at the moment, I want to inform that I now have a new upload schedule.

Every Thursday will be a new video (ranging from talking about a topic, rants, random, reactions, etc).

New vlogs are TBD

and I am planning to make Flashback Joints every 3 weeks? (definitely not set in stone but I wanted to inform that I do plan on making new videos on a more consistent basis :)

Change

It never fails to amaze me the cowardice that the internet encourages through the ability to be anonymous. So I did a collab regarding AMBW videos for a friend's channel and a troll (as they have come to be known) appear in the comments. I am for free speech however, the fact that the video was meant to be informative and encouraging while this person views were derogatory was just another reminder.

Change doesn't come without a few feathers being ruffled. People want better, someone is upset. People want different, someone is upset.

All I can personally say is God Bless these weak-minded individuals. God Bless them indeed...

(btw, I just found some random gif to go with it :P)

Pet Peeves with the GF

just a fun lil video to make. Enjoy :)

@OfficialKonTV @OfficialKon

Fear

I don't know if its a personal fear of never reaching beyond my comfort zone to possibly be successful or the fear of failing completely but I believe its all a choice...

Identity Beyond Ethnicity: Asian.

It occurs to me that I've never really identified myself as asian out of all honesty. Now this is not a bash on this continent of Asia nor the cultures that it is comprised of but I've always seemed to never see myself as asian.

Now I can chalk this up into personal experience. Examples, such as:

-being seen differently by my own "brothers and sisters"
-being treated differently
-not being taught the language of my heritage (Thai)
-nor being raised in traditional customs and/or cultural environments

I can chalk this up also from feeling like the person on the outside looking in as well.

Is this the reasoning behind the way I view people? Debatable indeed.

I can remember seeing a group of asian people and feeling uncomfortable in my own skin, whereas if I were to see a different, mixed, or diverse group of people, I would feel more akin to join.

As I am typing this, I honestly do not know the intent behind this nor do I know whether anyone can relate to such a post but I feel that all angles of thought in regards should be explored no matter how irrelevant it may seem.

I do wish that even though we are people, we are weak and vulnerable people at best. Acceptance doesn't seem to fit within this context to end such an obscure post but yes, we seek some measure if not from others but rather ourselves...

New Video Addiction (5/7/12): Church Clothes by Lecrae

Dance Studio Session Throwback Video

Check it out now on my second channel.

The Twitters:
@OfficialKon @JazzyShow

KonTV Facebook Page

So you've may have seen the title KonTV at the bottom of several videos and Kon, being the name I predominately use online, KonTV on facebook will serve as an update page for future videos, previews, concepts, collabs, etc. on both my primary page and my secondary page.

Go like the new KonTV Page :)

N.V.A. (New Video Addiction): I'm Good by Trip Lee feat. Lecrae

@TripLee116 @Lecrae @ReachRecords

New Video: "KonTV Presents: Working Out @OfficialKon"

Youtube Partner

If you can tell by the amateur screenshot above, I am now officially a Youtube partner (btw you should check out my youtube.).

I do plan to make a thank you video on the channel and post then, in the meantime, I do want to say thank you to all the viewers and fans for the support since officially signing up on youtube January 1, 2009.

As a thank you gift, here is the very first video that I ever posted, please note however that there is a huge timegap between this video and my first "vlog" so some of the stuff that I said, I didn't really keep to. Again thank you and much love from your favorite asian, Chrispy AKA Kon.

The Blasian Narrative

So as much as I love to give my two cents on certain issues through youtube and occasionally on here, there are times when I occasionally have to bite my tongue simply because you lovely viewers may not be able to relate or may be alienated by my words (which is never my intent). So with this post, I would like to announce that I am now a writer for the Blasian Narrative which deals more so with issues relegating to the Asiatic and Black community. So my posts are going to sound much like the video below.

I truely am blessed to be able to contribute to that blog and I would highly recommend that you check it out and subscribe to the posts as well for some insightful information as well as some entertaining hoopla as well (lol hoopla).

Click Here for my first post :)

Your favorite asian,

Chrispy AKA Kon

@OfficialKon

If you would like for me to contribute to your blog, please contact me on facebook and/or twitter. We can then proceed from there in regards to details, information, topics, etc.

The same applies for any collaborations on youtube. Please contact me through the above sites if interested.

God Bless.

New Job

So I've gotten a second job (soon to be my primary job) working at my church as a 'Youth Director' and I am already feeling the pressure. Normally I don't talk about my faith but for those that follow me or watch any of my videos on youtube (look up KonOfficialYT), I'm a pretty open person. I don't have much to hide and I'm particularly unashamed of my life thus far.

My personal worries are leading a passionate and potential filled group of young people in the right direction. My only hope would be that they would see their talents and passions as an extension of themselves in not only showing themselves creatively but possibly God in the same manner...

Life is always more challenging when your choices affect beyond your own being.

"Living is never a single person's own affair" -Jet Li in Fearless (english translation)

Note: This post is merely to inform, not in any intention to convert or offend any reader.

For a century, underground railroad ran south - Yahoo! News

By BRUCE SMITH | Associated Press – Sun, Mar 18, 2012 

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction.

Stories of that lesser-known "railroad" will be shared June 20-24 at the National Underground Railroad Conference in St. Augustine, Fla. The network of sympathizers gave refuge to those fleeing their masters, including many American Indians who helped slaves escape to what was then the Spanish territory of Florida. That lasted from shortly after the founding of Carolina Colony in 1670 to after the American Revolution.

They escaped not only to the South but to Mexico, the Caribbean and the American West.

And the "railroad" helps to explain at least in part why the lasting culture of slave descendants — known as Gullah in South Carolinaand Geechee in Florida and Georgia — exists along the northeastern Florida coast.

"It's a fascinating story and most people in America are stuck — they are either stuck on 1964 and the Civil Rights Act or they are stuck on the Civil War," said Derek Hankerson, who is a Gullah descendant and a small business owner in St. Augustine, Fla. "We have been hankering to share these stories."

Because there are few records, it's unknown how many African slaves may have escaped along the railroad. But the dream of freedom in Florida did play a role in the 1739 Stono Rebellion outside Charleston, the largest slave revolt in British North America.

Slaves likely started fleeing toward Florida when South Carolina was established in 1670, said Jane Landers, a Vanderbilt University historian who has researched the subject extensively. The first mention of escaped slaves in Spanish records was in 1687 when eight slaves, including a nursing baby, showed up in St. Augustine.

Spain refused to return them and instead gave them religious sanctuary, and that policy was formalized in 1693. The only condition is that those seeking sanctuary convert to Catholicism.

"It was a total shift in the geopolitics of the Caribbean and after that anyone who leaves a Protestant area to request sanctuary gets it," Landers said.

That promise of freedom played an important role in the Stono Rebellion, when a group of about 20 slaves raided a store, collecting guns and other weapons, in September 1739.

Mark Smith, a historian at the University of South Carolina, said the slave leaders were from what is now Angola in Africa. They were Catholic, because their homeland was at the time a Portuguese outpost. And they are thought to have been soldiers in their native land.

They would have known about the rumor of freedom in Spanish Florida and decided to start the revolt on Sept. 9, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

"They have a white flag, which is not a flag of surrender. It's a flag of celebrating Mary, and they shout 'Liberty.' They are not revolting just as slaves, but as Catholic slaves," Smith said.

At least 20 whites were killed in the rebellion. The militia later caught up with the slaves and 34 of them were killed. Some who escaped were found and executed later, although some apparently made it to safety in Florida because there are reports of more slaves arriving in St. Augustine in the ensuing days, Landers said.

Gullah creole is still spoken in churches in northeastern Florida, Landers said.

Hankerson, who grew up with stories of the Underground Railroad, said escaped slaves got help from American Indian tribes including the Creeks, the Cherokees and the Yemassee. They also advanced deeper into Florida and found refuge with the Seminoles.

Except for about 20 years when the British held St. Augustine between the end of the French and Indian War and the end of the American Revolution, the Spanish policy of sanctuary remained in effect until 1790 when Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson convinced the Spanish crown to end it. Many runaways escaped amid the chaos and violence of the revolution, and keeping that corridor open could have drained the Southern colonies of slaves, Landers said.

Unlike the Underground Railroad going north, the early network was more informal: Neither the slaves nor the indigenous tribes that helped them left written records, and there was no church structure like the Quakers organizing the effort, Landers said. It's unknown exactly how many stayed among the American Indians or how many died.

The British saw slaves as property and labor for their plantations and offered rewards for their return.

By contrast, Landers said, "the Spanish believe the indigenous people and Africans could be converted and as such were humans and had families and souls to save."

Vlog #32 is here :)

@OfficialKon

#StopKony

#stopkony

Thoughts and Updates (2/18/12)

Here are some thoughts and updates about some current events and where I've been recently.

1st.
Much love to Jeremy Lin and congrats on all of his success with the Knicks. I'm even more happy that all of his humility is rooted in his faith and that alone speaks louder than words.

http://www.twitter.com/JLin7

2nd.

RIP Whitney Houston

I can't speak I was directly moved by her passing because in all honesty, I'm not familiar with her as an artist nor as a person but I do know that when someone passes from this world, we should all have respect for the recently deceased. Much love goes out to the families and friends around her and to all of those that have already jumped on the bandwagon of insensitive jokes, don't worry. Karma will pay a visit real soon.

Finally 3rd.

I know I have to apologize to those that follow me online through my youtube, twitter, facebook, etc for not updating things as consistently as I'd like. School, work, as well as other commitments are currently taking up a good bulk of my time but I do want to again give you all love for the support. I promise to try to update all my sites as much as possible. 

With love,

Kon

Ladies, Respect and Love Yourself.

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word

Let Love Reap Love

There is so much hate out there. Especially for those that try to better themselves.

Where does this hate come from?

Where does it start? Where does it end?

In this life, it is so easy to spread hate but it takes so much more strength to devise love unto others.

Hate reaps Hate.

Can Love follow suit and do the same?

Let Love Reap Love, by spreading love within ourselves exuding that intention to those around us...

With Love,
Kon