Ken Đinh Vũ (he/him/his)

@kenvu.bsky.social

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🔍 Program evaluation & data storytelling 🌎 Nonprofit/public service 🎸 Blues/punk/industrial rock enthusiast 📚 Into history, sociology, & self-help + dystopian, superhero, & tragedies All my work and other social media accounts here - linktr.ee/kenvu

A video of me playing on a four string guitar made of a wood cigar box for the guitar body as I play guitar slide. The song I play is Grammy nominated blues rockstar Samantha Fish's take on Delta Blues player R.L Burnside's song "Shake Em On Down"

A green sticky note with written text that reads,
" To doubt keeps our smarts,
To sprout keeps our hearts,
For you can be wary,
And still be merry"

A picture of a short curly blond haired guitarist Samantha Fish holding a cigar box guitar with a metal slide on her finger as she plays, sings, and strums

A black and white CD cover with photo of a young mid 20s African American man named Robert Johnson smiling while wearing a black tuxedo and holding a guitar. Title of CD is "Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings"

The cover of the CD reads "Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues - Son House" and features a picture of an older African American man aka Son House with his straight face, thin mustache, hat, white shirt, and his hand resting over a metal resonator guitar

A picture of me as the character Deadpool in Detective outfit rubbing his chin where I have a black top hat, red mask with black eye holes and white slits where my eyes would be. I have a tan trench coat with black gloves on, black tie, white dress shirt, black vest, black pants, and black dress shoes.

A schematic of a harp in which inside the harp are several metal cones connected to an apparatus inside a harp body

A detailed schematics of a metal resonator guitar featuring vent holes at top of guitar, three metal cones inside the guitar arranged in triangle pattern connected by a metal bridge forming shape of a T with strings resting over part of the T. Made by inventor John Dopyera

A video of me trying a metal body biscuit bridge resonator guitar by National (which has a metal cone in the middle), a wood body spider bridge resonator guitar by Gold Tone (which has two holes covered by mesh at top of guitar body and a inverted cone inside with metal spider legs going fron middle of guitar to edges of cone, and a metal bodied tricone resonator guitar by National where there are three aluminum cones inside arranged in triangle pattern connected together by a metal t shaped bridge). I play all these guitars in that order where I test each one out by playing the opening riff of the classic Delta Blues song "Death Letter Blues" by Son House on each one

A video of me sitting on the ground playing a metal resoantor guitar with a Cooper guitar slide on my pinky finger. All this done in a wood room full of acoustic guitars at Guitar Center.

A rack of different resonator guitars suspended in the air where while each made of different types of wood and metal, they all feature metal disks at the center of the guitar body

An excerpt of text form the book "Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead and Win" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin where the quote, "As a leader, it's not what you preach, it's what you tolerate," is highlighted in yellow.

On top is a black text reading, "When you revisit a coding language you haven't touched in a while and find that you still remember how to code in it". Below is a picture of the Norse God Thor - a white guy with a long brown beard and brown long hair - smiling with relief and joy as he holds up his hammer and yellow subtitles below read, "I'm still worthy!"

A picture of me with dyed blond hair with my mom and we both wear all black attire.

Me and my mother posing with Vietnamese man and author Việt Thanh Nguyễn, who's holding a signed copy of the book The Cleaving. We all are wearing black

A photo of me a young Asian man with Amanda Nguyen (a Vietnamese woman) as she does two peace signs next to my mom (an older Vietnamese woman) while signing a copy of her book "Saving Five - A Memoir of Hope"

A picture of a green book with outlines of branches with leaves around the corners and a yellow bear with red shirt from behind walking forward. Title reads "A Qalk in the Woods" and subtitle reads "Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh" as at the bottom are the names of the authors "Dr. Joseph Parent and Nancy Parent"

A laptop on a wooden table where the table is located on a sandy hill overlooking a beach during a sunny morning with a clear view of the ocean waves rocking back and forth.