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OFF!'s free midnight show at the Echoplex
As it was for a lot of you out there, this wasn’t the easiest year for me and my family. Following Giant Robot’s print magazine going on hiatus at the tail end of 2010, I was unemployed with no job leads or responses to my queries for the first six months. Then, after I got an awesome job out of nowhere, the company my wife worked for was purchased by a competitor and shut down. Fortunately, we’ve managed to get by through frugal habits, a rock-solid support system of family and friends, and the PMA. And yes, there have been highlights. Here are ten of them–some of which has been written about in the blog, others merely alluded to, and a couple of odds and ends–in no particular order.
Matt Furie cover story and FREE VIDEOGAME featuring his artwork
FILM
HK filmmaker Daniel Wu vs. airsoft kingpins RedWolf
MUSIC
Indie rockers turned free jazz freaks Kite Operations
INTERVIEW
Len Higa of Oni Motorworks
Chevy Ray Johnson is FlashPunk
ART
Award-winning illustrator and comic book artist Jillian Tamaki at Comic-Con
ENTERTAINMENT
Old-school Chinese martial-arts actor Bruce Leung
New-sc...
A cover story on Scott Pilgrim comics creator Bryan Lee O’Malley
MUSIC
Free the Robots vs. The Glitch Mob
Hong Kong rocker/Son of Sam Ryan Hui
Beijing punkers from Wuhan, AV Okubo
INTERVIEW
Wrapping up Lost and looking forward to Hawaii 5-0 with Daniel Dae Kim
Free time with North Korean political prisoner Laura Ling
ART
The art, photography, and design of K Punk/Kicking Giant Tae Won Yu.
Hong...
Cover art and lengthy interview with Shintaro Ohata
FILM
Tibet movement documentarians Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
MUSIC
P.K. 14 punks, leaders of Beijing’s Rotten Generation
Strange Boys from Austin
Morning Benders from Brooklyn and Berkeley
INTERVIEW
Daniel Wu vs. Wing Shya and Tony Chan of Hot Summer Days
Aki Takanori explains Figmas, Nendoroids, and the Good Smile Company
ART
Artist Arthur...