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New Yorker story about Adrian Tomine who’s exhibited at Giant Robot, and whose items we also sell including the new Optic Nerve #13. Adrian Tomine will also be part of the Giant Robot exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California next year (April 2014). (GR Store) read up on Adrian Tomine here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/cover-story-adrian-tomine-crossroads.html#slide_ss_0=1
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New Yorker story about Adrian Tomine who’s exhibited at Giant Robot, and whose items we also sell including the new Optic Nerve #13. Adrian Tomine will also be part of the Giant Robot exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California next year (April 2014). (GR Store) read up on Adrian Tomine here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/cover-story-adrian-tomine-crossroads.html#slide_ss_0=1
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“Where I was in Brooklyn, I don’t think I would have even known that there was a major storm happening,” says Adrian Tomine, the artist of next week’s cover, “Undeterred.” He continues: So I spent the whole night glued to the Internet and watching everything unfolding, just being shocked that this kind of dramatic destruction was happening just miles outside my home. And I started thinking about how it would affect the election. This is a first for me in terms of doing [a cover] that’s topical with a quick turnaround; and somehow, these two significant events just came together into that one image for me. Tomine adds: For all its really horrible effects, I feel like the storm has made real a lot of issues in the election that were hypothetical, that were thrown around as debate topics—global warming; and “Is Obama enough of a leader to handle a natural disaster?”; and do we need FEMA? It’s really interesting, and in a way useful, to see a lot of these things become actual issues that are right at hand. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/11/cover-story-sandy-and-election.html#ixzz2B73WkdWx
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