To all our friends and supporters in the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re bringing ISA to you! You probably already know since we made the announcement weeks ago, but here’s another reminder. The show is Sept 24th, THIS weekend! Tickets are still on sale so be sure to get them soon and bring friends! It’s going to be an awesome show as every ISA concert is. Don’t miss out!

Backstage and VIP tickets sold out w/in an hour of release, but you can still BUY General Admission tickets HERE

Event Information:

Date: Sept. 24th, 2011
Venue: San Jose Civic Auditorium
135 San Carlos St., San Jose, CA 95113
Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Show Starts: 7:00 PM

DAVID CHOI
FAR EAST MOVEMENT
I.AM.ME CREW
KINA GRANNIS
NEW HEIGHTS
ROSHON FEGAN
WONG FU PRODUCTIONS

HOSTS:

KEVIN WU
RYAN HIGA
CATHY NGUYEN

ISA LA 2010 presented by JCPenney was this past weekend. And what a show. From surprise guests like Andrew Garcia and Tim De La Ghetto, and Nick Cannon…to special performances by Quest and Alyssa Bernal’s “Cali Cali Cali”, it was a show to be remembered.

No proposals this time, but what an amazing night. We feel so blessed to have been able to bring ISA so far since the first show almost exactly 2 years ago. And it’s all because of you. Seriously, we’re just guys who make videos, and somehow with good friends and great support, ISA’s 5th show (and its biggest) went off beautifully.

There’s TOO much to recap on right now (FULL photo update will come soon), but for now, here’s a fan cam video of our opening. That’s Cathy Nguyen and David Choi introducing us. =)

Closer…

There’s a lotta videos on youtube already of the different performers, so click around. Jay Park brought the house down, Poreotics was AWESOME (it was my first time seeing them live), AJ had so many great guests, FM closed the show like ISA was a CRAZY PARTY!

Man, what a weekend. Don’t even know where to start…

(thanks to Tony Ma for the photo)

The International Secret Agents Concerts are back for the biggest year yet in 2010. ISA presented by JCPenney and teaming up with MTV Iggy and 4C The Power are bringing this groundbreaking concert series with a line up of industry buzzing accomplished talent to Los Angeles and New York.

Also don’t miss your chance to be our next JCPenney Breakout Performer — visit www.jcpvote.com for more info, deadline to submit is this Thursday — and win a chance to perform with our amazing lineup listed below!

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW — please CLICK HERE to purchase.

ISA LOS ANGELES LINE UP
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
12700 Center Court Drive South
Cerritos, CA 90703

Jay Park ft AOM – Singer/ Dance Crew/ #1 Song in Korea “Count On Me (Nothing On You)”
- http://www.allkpop.com/2010/07/jay-park-to-release-nothin-on-you-ep
- http://www.youtube.com/user/jayparkaom

Far East Movement – Cherrytree / Interscope Recording Artist, Single “Like A G6″ / MTV Iggy 25 Best New Artists in The World
- http://www.fareastmovement.com

Alyssa Bernal – Star Trak / Interscope Recording Artist / 300k + subscribers on YouTube
- http://startrakmusic.com/artists/alyssa-bernal/

Ryan Higa (Host) – All time most subscribed person on YouTube (2.5 Million Subscribers)
- http://www.youtube.com/user/nigahiga

Kev Jumba (Host) – 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube
- http://www.youtube.com/user/kevjumba

Poreotics – America’s Best Dance Crew Season 5 Champions
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poreotics

Wong Fu Productions (film) – Film Makers / 350k YouTube Subscribers / Cannes Film Festival
- http://www.youtube.com/user/WongFuProductions
- http://www.wongfuproductions.com

AJ Raphael + Friends (200k Subscribers on YouTube)
- http://www.youtube.com/user/ilajil

Lydia Paek (Host) – Singer / Quest Crew / Boxchuttaz
- http://www.youtube.com/user/JUUKKES

ISA NEW YORK LINE UP
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Webster Hall
125 East 11th Street
New York City, NY 10003

Far East Movement – Cherrytree / Interscope Recording Artist, Single “Like A G6″ / MTV Iggy 25 Best New Artists in The World
- http://www.fareastmovement.com

Quest Crew – MTV America’s Best Dance Crew Season 3 Champions
- http://www.questcrew.com/

David Garibaldi – Performance Painter, Toured with The Blue Man Group
- http://www.garibaldiarts.com

Ryan Higa (Host) – All time most subscribed person on YouTube (2.5 Million Subscribers)
- http://www.youtube.com/user/nigahiga

Kev Jumba (Host) – 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube
- http://www.youtube.com/user/kevjumba

Wong Fu Productions (film) – Film Makers / 350k YouTube Subscribers / Cannes Film Festival
- http://www.youtube.com/user/WongFuProductions
- http://www.wongfuproductions.com

David Choi – Singer / Songwriter / 450k YouTube Subscribers
- http://www.youtube.com/davidchoimusic
- http://davidchoimusic.com/

Jennifer Chung – 120,000 YouTube Subscriber s/ MTV Iggy 25 Best New Artists in The World
- http://www.youtube.com/user/jenniferjchung

Lydia Paek – Singer / Quest Crew / Boxchuttaz
- http://www.youtube.com/user/JUUKKES

BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE!

Mark your calendars!

ISA New York City – August 28th
ISA Los Angeles – September 5th

Venues, tickets, times, performers…all that info will be announced as time gets closer, for now, get excited and pass on the news. Tickets have not gone on sale yet.

This is a really big deal for us. We started this concert series in 2008 with our bros Far East Movement. Never really thought it’d catch on the way it has, but because of your support and enthusiasm to see the artists, we’ve had 3 sold out shows (LA08, SF09, LA09). And now for the first time we’re expanding to another city. In the future we hope to take it to more cities, but this is just our first step. Something else that’s new is this two show format. In the past, we’ve always handled one concert at a time, but this year, we’re planning two concerts two weekends in a row. It’s a lotta work, and stress, but you know that for WF and FM, it’s totally worth it when we see your faces smiling in the crowd and and hear the cheers.

We’re doing all we can to make ISA 2010 bigger and better, so hope to see you there!

In case you don’t know about our ISA Concerts, here are some recaps of 2009′s shows in LA and San Francisco. Trust, you don’t wanna miss it this year.

THANK YOU TO FAR*EAST MOVEMENT, who without them, there would be no ISA. I wonder if people really understand, this whole ISA thing was literally done by the 3 of us sitting down with the 4 of them and creating this show. (Ok that may be over simplifying because we had a LOT of help, that’ll come later). But really, these guys are so hardworking, so true, and so humble themselves that it has been such an honor and privelage to work with them. And for them to look at us the same, equally means so much to us. The night before the show, it hit me… this was our THIRD ISA concert in the past yr (the first one was 9/7/08 so we just made it). From LA, to SF, back to LA… it’s been an incredible year. 3?! that’s not normal, haha. I really don’t know how we did it. which leads us to the next section…

Thank you to 4C the Power for putting on great workshops that we were so glad to take part in. For helping us give back to the community. For being the hands and feet for ISA by finding volunteers and volunteering yourselves. It means so much to us. Support like yours is really what keeps us going.

Thank you DIANA and LINDA for being the masterminds. This time around was soooo much easier on us and FM all because of your hardwork and diligence. Trust us, it doesn’t go unnoticed or unappreciated. You girls are the true stars of ISA before all of us.
THANK YOU, THE FANS AND SUPPORTERS. How did we pull of 3 major, sold out concerts w/in one single year? Yeah, a lotta hard work on our part, but ultimately because you guys bought the tickets. You guys told your friends and spread the word. You guys were in the crowds and online cheering for us. I don’t know if we’ll be able to do another three concerts this coming year, but for sure there will be more ISAs, bigger, better, and outside of CA we promise…haha, as long as we have you out there to fill up the seats and help build this movement.

Alright, enough of the mushy stuff… here are some select photos I went through for all the lazy busy ppl who didn’t wanna sift through the bazillion pics from Shinobi. THANK YOU SHINOBI STUDIOS for your AMAZING work. Your photos truly stand out and give ISA the imagery that propels it forward.

THANK YOU to our HOSTS, Tom Ngo and Lydia Paek. Tom, you are the truth. Period. Lydia, you are such a natural and your personality really brightened the theater. Hope to work with you more!

Clara Chung our JCP Breakout Performer contest winner opening the show with an original song of hers! We drove her to the concert in a limosine.

Then GLP took the stage. They sang some 90s covers which gave them super cool points right off the bat.

G is for Gabe Bondoc! His style is so awesome.

L is for Leejay, the beatboxer of the group who did some crazy stuff…plus he could dance really well as he showed off at the end of the show.

P is for Passion. He was at our last ISA in SF. So good to have him back.

Kina Grannis graced the stage next, singing a couple of her songs. I think the whole theater got chills. She’s sucha sweet girl… who you miiiight be seeing in a future WF short! oops, leaked.

Quest Crew was up next and…they were just phenomenal.

Victor Kim doing the unthinkable.

There’s a reason we put Quest right before intermission. It’s because no one could follow them. They had the whole audience on their feet, and this is just halfway into the concert!! I’m so glad we were able to bring them back this year… we had them at the first ISA, before they were the ABDC champions! So proud of them.

KevJumba took the stage next. Yup, in the flesh. The crowd went crazy for him and his antics.

Tom and him did a little skit, looks like they’re getting angry!! haha. In the back you can see Derrick…he’s the one that made the amazing ISA trailer. We flew him in from Seattle as our way to say thanks. Kev brought him on stage as an added bonus.

David Choi, what else can I say that I didn’t already. Did you read my last post. I still get a little emotional when I watch the clip of him performing and everyone sings along.

And to close out the show the way no one else can…the one and only Far*East Movement. I can’t believe how far they’ve come in just the past year. Since the first ISA, they’ve done some amazing things. Song top 4 on the radio, national mainstream radio play, performing at Powerhouse with BEP, Pitbull, and JAY-Z! Truly a blessing to see them still so humble and driven.

KevNish

J-Spliff

Prohgress

They brought everyone back out on stage for the finale song “Girls on the Dance Floor” and everyone was just rockin out and celebrating on stage. It was truly a grand finale to the whole night. For an even more indepth look at the concert and what happened before and after, check out FM’s recap. 

Oh yeah…and these guys.

Mission accomplished. This was a loooong post. I’m spent. One last Thank you. This past week has been epic. …to be continued.

FM, David Choi, and us getting ready to meet the fans. Check out the awesome posters behind us. Those were submissions for the “Best poster contest” The winner got tickets to ISA.

Got the assembly line going, but even though we’re only meeting them for just a few minutes, it still means a lot to us. 

FM is touring with LMFAO right now! (I’m in Miami). These rockstars. Their song “Girls on the Dance Floor” is getting sooo much play around the nation now. They’re newest single was released on LA radio last week. Check it out!

Our homie David Choi. We got a couple collabs in the works right now…you’re not ready =P Cathy Nguyen also stopped by. lalalaOMGit’sCathyNguyen!

There were a few eating contests to win tickets. California Roll contest, Yogurt contest, and here a Boba drinking contest. Each person had to chug TWO LARGE boba drinks. Wes participated, but didn’t really try, he just wanted the free drink. haha

There was also an epic Chubby Bunny contest for two Backstage passes (which are sold out). I don’t think these girls won, but seems like they’re just having fun, which is better than choking on marshmellows just to meet us and others at the show, lol.

We also had our new tshirts and merch on sale, available for the first time to the public. Oh shoot, did I just accidently leak the new designs? Ted is working suuuuper hard to get the new store live…it’ll be up realllyyyy soon guys, I promise. Then you can get your own “Pew Pew” shirt!

Shoutout to Jonathan Chang for setting this all up.

Prohgress from FM wild n out. Final give away of the day. And the winner is……

YOU! It was a really fun day. Even if you weren’t there, we know you got our back from afar. If you made it out and we got a picture together or something, it was great to meet you. Wes, Ted, and myself are constantly asking ourselves why we have such amazing supporters and acknowledging how lucky we are. We’ve got a few more ticket tour stops left. ISA is right around the corner! Get your tickets now, they’re gonna be gone soon. Summer’s coming to a close. I can feel the seasons changing.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Click here to buy now! There are 4 ticket types! General Admission ($20), VIP Pass ($50), VIP Pit ($50), and Backstage Pass ($95). Be sure to read the description of what each type of ticket gets you!

AND…Check out this line up!!

KevJumba

Bruno Mars

GLP (Gabe Bondoc, Leejay, Passion)

David Choi

Kina Grannis

Quest Dance Crew

Wong Fu Productions

Far*East Movement

Hosted by: Tom Ngo and Lydia Paek

Is that not the craziest collection of all your favorite ppls in one show? We did our best to have a variety of different acts so that you get a taste of everything in the show. Tickets have been on sale since Saturday, and they’re already starting to go fast (I’m not kidding). Be sure to get your tickets sooner than later! Hit the jump for some top secret information.

Starting August 15th we’re doing to go on a ticket tour around the LA area. FM and us will personally be going to some special locations where you can meet and chill with us, get some cool new FM and Wong Fu gear, and also buy your tickets in person. The first stop will be in Hacienda Heights at Whimsical Yogurt on Saturday Aug. 15th in the afternoon. There’s gonna be giveaways and contests so don’t miss out. Check here for more event info! We wanna see you there!

2nd…JCPenney is sponsoring this next ISA, and we’re working with them to put on a really cool contest where you could win plane tickets to LA so that you can be in the show on Sept 6th! Here’s some secret info to give you a head start before we even launch the contest. We’re looking for a “breakout performer”. First, go to JCPenney and pick out something to wear in the video from their Back To School line. Then make a video of yourself showing off your talent. It could be anything (singing, dancing, juggling, yo-yo-ing, drawing). You’ll hafta submit the video and then get votes. More details to come, but thought I’d give you the heads up so you can start working on your videos NOW! If you win, we’re bringing you out to the show to perform for everyone!

Ok, that’s it for now. Secret transmission…Out.

1000 fans and supporters + Palace of Fine Arts + two FAT spotlights + artists = SUPER AWESOMELY SUCCESSFUL ISA CONCERT

1 GreenRoom Pass =  1 autographed poster = AP
AP x ~80 + 30min til doors open = sore hands

WF + Passion^awesome talent = possible collab in future?

(Tom Neezy + WF x awkward )  + much love/respect = FM’s intro

ISA – Far*East Movement = nothing

Jin^legendary + WF + on stage callout = future music video!!

Paul Dateh + FM + WF + FM street team + Hungry stomachs x 30 + after show + Mel’s Diner on Van Ness = post concert delicious meal

Todd Angkasuwan ^pro mv director + WF + Jin + FM + “Millionaire” + Green Scree / mamaD = new music video production

Day after ISA / (4C the Power + 5 workshops / 1 video production + 10 students + WF) = WF’s first “class”

WF + FM + Jin + Paul Dateh + Passion + (Tom + Jessi Malay)/hosts + (Della + Meme + Glenda)/dance + Linda + Jane + Diana + [(Soompi + AllKPop + AngryAsianMan + ChannelAPA + SlantEye + more) x awesome]/support + 1000 glow sticks + you reading + NG girl in front row = inspiring

After some mixup with the rental car (ISA seems to be plagued with travel mishaps) Linda and us hop in our packed Chevy Equinox in the late afternoon. Ted drove the first leg, I drove a bit of the middle, and Wes brought us home. It was a pleasant trip and it helps that I especially enjoy driving CA during the spring because the hills are all green with grass instead of the typical yellow, and all the wild flowers are blooming (CA poppies are our state flower) as you can see in the first pic.

The next day, the work begins. It was the day before the show and there were some things to take care of. First, a charity event at the Cameron House, a youth and family center in SF Chinatown (any of you from there?). Through one of the sponsors, Verizon, we donated some tickets to this org for the kids. They took us to their rooftop basketball court which happens to be the one that they shot a scene of “Pursuit of Happyness” on. Remember? Yeah, it’s this court!

high depth of field = basketball hoop that looks 20 stories tall. But man, amazing view huh?!

Anyway, we do the “ceremony” up there with FM and the Stereotypes, and then stick around to play some bball on the infamous court. Knockout was the game of choice. In fact, if you wanna see a video clip of the game, click HERE. I made it pretty far, but ultimately lost to one of the girls. Yeah, I said it…I don’t mind! <buries face> The winner is one of the guys from the Stereotypes…so not fair. =P

After the Cameron house we had a nice relaxing meal with FM in Chinatown, grabbed some dim sum, and then headed to check some ppl into the hotel where we continued the work by assembling badges and tickets lists.

Cathedral Hill Hotel..not too shabby.

Finally Wes, Ted, and myself head back to Wes’ to do some last minute editing for the concert we had in 15 hours. Of course, we get distracted and procrastinate by going onto BlogTV at 1am. We really like doing these random shows. It was a lot of fun, I think us being tired made us extra…weird amusing. Make sure to follow us on Twitter so you know when we go on, or subscribe.

Ok this was a long on. We’ll continue on another day.

In front of Cameron House…From Wes’ twitter.

THANK YOU to all those who came out to the show. We really hope you had fun. THANK YOU to all those who couldn’t make it but supported and sent us happy wishes from afar, they definitely reached us. This second ISA concert was truly monumental. I feel like I was just typing up the completion of the first ISA, I can’t believe I’m sitting here concluding the second. Wow. It couldn’t have happened without each of you. More to come in various ISA related posts…