KOZYNDAN at GR2 [Archive]

Eric Nakamura

07-28-2003, 10:41 PM

kozyndan
URBAN MYTHS

august 16 - september 30

art + book signing reception: Saturday August 16 6:30 - 10:30p
we will have advance copies of kozyndan’s new book Urban Myths
performing: Adventure Time (daedelus + frosty)

GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd WLA 90025 310.445.9276 www.gr2.net

giant robot thanks: Red Bull + Altoids

you can read a bit more at gr2.net

we're publishing their first book, which is due to be out in late august.

wonki wonki

07-29-2003, 07:44 AM

note to self: go there before the reception if self wants to buy anything.

acid_squid

07-29-2003, 09:51 AM

also note to self: this WILL rock

djbadmonkey

07-29-2003, 09:53 AM

note to self: get there BEFORE wonki and acid to buy all of the art and then mock them.

5.92

07-29-2003, 12:15 PM

Note to self- I should be there sometime within that timeframe.

I just got an idea...

wonki wonki

07-29-2003, 01:02 PM

further note to self: rob djbm after he buys up all the art and pays for them, then proceed to mock him along with acid.

...

that thing looks awesome on the gr2 website.

acid_squid

07-29-2003, 02:13 PM

note to self: drug everyone, steal everything, move to secret lair on the moon, bomb the earth, have the last laugh.

quietquiet

07-29-2003, 03:11 PM

note to self: devise a cloning machine and clone myself four times so i may be able to attend the gr2 kozyndan opening, the dalek opening at merry karnowsky gallery, the new image art opening and the rilo kiley show at the glass house all on the same night.

filipEMO

07-29-2003, 03:20 PM

dalek too??? rilo kiley?? ahhh fuzzle.... :(

angoraphobia

07-30-2003, 03:01 PM

*shaking head & smiling*

you guys are funny....

08-02-2003, 12:16 PM

this should be great, i love their work.

Eric Nakamura

08-04-2003, 08:31 AM

That night is packed everywhere! kozyndan are holed up working right now for the show. It's in two saturdays! Whoa! We are picking up postcards today that's really cool. And their book should be awesome. Anyways, I'm hoping to see some of y'all there. Dalek rocks too. Check him out as well.

eric

DJ LunchBox

08-04-2003, 09:08 PM

note to socal "flakes". Show up so we can go out and get drunk later. Janet bring *ahem* acertainsomeoneyouknowwho. :D:) and wonki get ready because the pain will be brought.

Eric Nakamura

08-05-2003, 08:48 AM

http://giantrobot.com/page2a.jpg

Pass it on? It's also at gr2.net

thanks

wonki wonki

08-05-2003, 08:53 AM

Originally posted by Aniki
Janet bring *ahem* acertainsomeoneyouknowwho. :D:)
puahaha. one K.O. is enough man. but whatever floats yer boat.
and wonki get ready because the pain will be brought.
bite me. :D

DJ LunchBox

08-05-2003, 11:02 AM

Originally posted by wonki wonki

puahaha. one K.O. is enough man. but whatever floats yer boat.

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

say whut???????

YelloKitty

08-05-2003, 05:37 PM

you lucky poops. daedelus is also performing? don't miss out. do it for those who can't make it. DO IT FOR ME, DAMMIT.

DJ LunchBox

08-06-2003, 12:07 AM

Originally posted by janet
I'll ask but I can't make any promises. Did you try to hook up that night? You should've, I think she is getting macked on hardcore by one of her neighbors.

:( :( :( :(

another one escapes me *sigh*
Can you find out for me though, pleez,pleez,pleez,pleez,pleez,??;)

Anyways, seeing as how i will partake in this event I will be event coordinator. i will need a pm from all who will be going or plan on showing up after, before or during and suggestions as to what to do after(i.e dinner, barhopping, drinking etc.) so that I can post it, figure it out and hand out the according maps and such.

Eric Nakamura

08-08-2003, 04:16 PM

Anyone hitting up any cool stores this weekend in LA? IF you're near the GR store, please hit up the worker (bill!) for a stack of postcards to put down at places. That would be nice. We're trying to hit some, but I know we won't make it everywhere.

eric

DJ LunchBox

08-08-2003, 09:54 PM

I'm all over that with a basebal bat!

wonki wonki

08-10-2003, 07:49 PM

Originally posted by Aniki
Anyways, seeing as how i will partake in this event I will be event coordinator. i will need a pm from all who will be going or plan on showing up after, before or during and suggestions as to what to do after(i.e dinner, barhopping, drinking etc.) so that I can post it, figure it out and hand out the according maps and such.

so what's the plan gov'nah?

DJ LunchBox

08-10-2003, 09:04 PM

I dunno, no one's responded yet. I NEED PM's PEOPLE!!!
Whose going whose not, and suggestions on what to do after. Mine is checking the art and getting our boot on again.

martin

08-12-2003, 11:26 AM

I believe Hazel started making calls yesterday to the smart folks who purchased work by Mr. Deth P. Sun...

knd will be good...

DJ LunchBox

08-12-2003, 06:46 PM

Aight flakes, ya'll suck so just enjoy the art. I might have something in the wings for myself, so ya'll figure out your after party plans, like Rocco's staff i quit! :p

Sethius

08-13-2003, 04:29 PM

hindi tuloy

GRAYmatter

08-13-2003, 04:52 PM

DAMN I wish I was still in LA...
damn you all with my jealousy and envy!!!

GRAYmatter

08-13-2003, 04:52 PM

^Lancaster actually

Eric Nakamura

08-13-2003, 07:17 PM

Yep, the deth work is avail to pick up. Man, you all got lucky on those. They were a pleasure to take down from the wall.

eric

sanjay

08-16-2003, 11:03 PM

it was fun. my wife and i shopped at both stores. tempted to buy the rotating kozyndan pic....

DJ LunchBox

08-16-2003, 11:37 PM

great show as always. missed seeing Randall(you flake), wasn't to keen on the art. Guess I'm just a deth p sun whore.

wonki wonki

08-17-2003, 02:01 AM

all the kozyndan pieces were a joy to look at.

http://images3.fotki.com/v34/photos/6/68399/365195/DSC03161-vi.jpg

http://images3.fotki.com/v34/photos/6/68399/365195/DSC03164-vi.jpg

http://images3.fotki.com/v34/photos/6/68399/365195/DSC03166-vi.jpg

http://images3.fotki.com/v35/photos/6/68399/365195/DSC03168-vi.jpg

in an impromptu gathering sure to shame all future, present & past impromptu gatherings, djbm, aniki, rca, atomicsissors, stryfe, sethius, shoegaze, sugarboots & yours truly & friends got together for food & beer following the show.

others i met and said hello to: sanjay & wife, bjorktress, acid_squid, bijoux (with a fantastic new hairstyle), shampoo, fmstlr & family...

thanks gr for a great evening. brownies were good!

more pictures at: http://public.fotki.com/unje/kozyndan/

wonki wonki

08-17-2003, 02:06 AM

oh yeah, i couldn't afford the canvas pieces but... i did splurge on the kozyndan blank digipak cd-r's. got one of each. pick these guys up! they're sweet:

http://images3.fotki.com/v34/photos/6/68399/365195/DSC03190-vi.jpg

kozyndan

08-17-2003, 02:17 AM

Thank you to each and everyone for making the night so memorable and wonderful for us. Seriously - we were very nervous about our sophmore show at GR - it was literally giving me Hershey Squirts and i had a bad dream last night that at 9PM there were only two people in the whole store shaking their heads in disgust.

Thank you all for not allowing that nightmare to come true...We now need to get some real sleep and do nothing for a day or two before we get back to our other projects. Stay tuned....

08-17-2003, 10:55 AM

A bit crowded and warm inside, but overall very cool and nice to see an enthusiastic crowd of art admirers (guess we should be thankful we have electricity to enjoy such things!)

Dan, I'm the guy who asked you if you ever saw "Yellow Submarine" since the drawing of the alligator in your new book reminded me of a Blue Meanie (that's good thing, by the way!).

Best to you in your art career.

And kudos to Eric and Martin and GR staff for the food and whatnot (though I did have to splurge on some curried beef nearby afterwards).

Later I went to Cat & Fiddle (bar) in Hollywood and met two other guys through a mutual friend who also went to the show. Small world!

Let's try to coordinate a Robot board poster meetup next time. Would be cool to put some faces with names on here next time.

Over and out....

acid_squid

08-17-2003, 12:10 PM

Great show.
Dan is a complete freak for having nightmares about no one showing up. obviously it was waaaay far from the truth. I picked up the book... did anyone else get it and do you also think it's printed a little dark? It could just be the artwork or my reading light, but it seems like it printed a little darkish.

atomicscissors

08-17-2003, 02:41 PM

Had a great time! I wish I wasn't so po' cuz I loved all the pieces! Great to see all the bots again and meet some new ones to boot! Yay GR!

The HeWar

08-17-2003, 03:50 PM

Kozyndan really is like a modern day Albert Bierstadt. Instead of romantic american landscapes they have dreamy and engaging city scenes both with immense detail that refreshes and stuns you with awe be also pulls you in wishing you had a magnifying glass to grant you closer inspection. Truly Wonderful

djbadmonkey

08-17-2003, 04:00 PM

yes it was nice to see all of you last night.

it was a pleasure meeting some of you all for the first time, and some of you all for the second time and some of you all of the 1000th time, but it was such a beautiful evening, and it was spent beautifully.

sadly i now sing a dirge for bill, but i hope he's enjoying the ripest fruit that life has to offer. Sail on, Silverbear...

souther

08-17-2003, 05:13 PM

yeah this was a wonderful show....congratulations to both of you and gr too. the color blowups stunned from afar and the delicate pencils thrilled from anear. i forgot to ask if you were actually selling any of those kzd hitops, or if they were for eyes on;ly?
anyways--rest up, cuz you deserve it....

Sethius

08-17-2003, 05:55 PM

cool show. finally got to meet djbadmonkey and wonki wonki. props to shoegaze, sugarboots, stryfe, rca. mike, martin, eric, and wendy.

lots of missing bots. are we getting tired of the scene?

DJ LunchBox

08-17-2003, 09:51 PM

I think the "scene" is getting to scenster. Funny thing is, I recognize quite a few non bots from all the other shows.

kozyndan

08-17-2003, 09:53 PM

Originally posted by souther
yeah this was a wonderful show....congratulations to both of you and gr too. the color blowups stunned from afar and the delicate pencils thrilled from anear. i forgot to ask if you were actually selling any of those kzd hitops, or if they were for eyes on;ly?
anyways--rest up, cuz you deserve it....

Hey Souther,

Thanks for coming out to the show. The hi-tops were samples that were sent to us from Japan, they are in production now. Our Japanese Rep. will probably be distributing them in the US in a few months, so hopefully you will be able to find them in a few select stores this fall. We shall see...

fmstlr

08-17-2003, 10:29 PM

Originally posted by Aniki
I think the "scene" is getting to scenster. Funny thing is, I recognize quite a few non bots from all the other shows.

how do you know they're non bots? May be they are the creepy lurkers. Yikes! they are watchin our every post right now.

EK-4000

08-17-2003, 10:48 PM

every step you take, every breath you make...

DJ LunchBox

08-17-2003, 10:58 PM

Naw they non bots. A lot of them are there to hang out at the "cool artsy" spot on Sawtelle so they can tell their friends they went to an art show. pppffftttt... Posers.

kozyndan

08-17-2003, 11:06 PM

That's true. No one would recognize me as a bot if I was seen at an event, although I am one...

From my experience GR events have always had the lowest concentration of scenesters of anything around, particularly as far as art shows go.

Also they could have been all our artist friends, who are not scenesters, but are actually part of this "scene" as it were and are coming out to support us. (To them, the bots would look like the scenesters. it's all relative maybe?)

If anyone else has pictures from the opening (besides wonki wonki) could ya send us some? Kozy and i didn't take a single picture the whole night - doh!

DJ LunchBox

08-17-2003, 11:21 PM

oh, so instead of posers I was around artsy people. Am I cool now Iago? :p

kamenriderv3

08-17-2003, 11:27 PM

yeah iniki....stop labeling those people...you categorizer. :)

remotecontrolalligator

08-18-2003, 09:01 AM

Originally posted by Aniki
Funny thing is, I recognize quite a few non bots from all the other shows.

I saw a good friend from high school that I hadn't seen since at the show. It was a neat suprise.

vegAsian

08-18-2003, 10:06 AM

http://images3.fotki.com/v34/photos/6/68399/365195/DSC03161-vi.jpg
homeboy's happy.

wonki wonki

08-18-2003, 10:17 AM

it's a candid, i swear!

Zaius

08-18-2003, 10:33 AM

Hi-tops?! What?! Do you mean KZD editions of chucks or what? It'd be rockin' to have KZD shoes but I can't rock the chuck's no more, bad for the feets.

kozyndan

08-18-2003, 11:42 AM

That's a good question. They sure look like Converse All-Stars, but the samples we have had no indicia on the inside of any kind, so they could be knock offs for all we know at this point. They are being produced by a women's clothing store in Tokyo called Cher and will be limited in quantity, but I know little beyond that at this point.

wonki wonki

08-18-2003, 12:15 PM

^ uh, you in la man?

drahcirual

08-18-2003, 11:24 PM

i missed this show, that's not right

TypeFiend

08-19-2003, 10:20 AM

It was my favourite show alongside the Ai Yamaguchi exhibit way back. The small pencil illustrations were just ace, and some the new larger works were the bees knees. I was guilty of having a huge, goofy grin like the photo above after seeing some of the hidden gems in the pieces. Kozyndan for California State Governor!

Only complaint is that the people looking at merchandise should scoot away from the walls so we all can get a look...more than once I was being blocked cuz someone wanted to go thru a whole magazine or book (without buying it!), right in front of several of the gallery works.

The photo of Bill behind the counter was bittersweet.

kozyndan

08-19-2003, 10:24 AM

Bill Poon for california State Governor!!!

TypeFiend

08-19-2003, 02:32 PM

Originally posted by kozyndan
Bill Poon for california State Governor!!!

Even better! A candidate who can make a difference...at any chinese buffet!

cellout

08-20-2003, 03:19 AM

Originally posted by Aniki
I think the "scene" is getting to scenster. Funny thing is, I recognize quite a few non bots from all the other shows.

you should start using esoteric board trivia as the litmus test to see if they're scenesters or poseurs or OGs.

QUICK, WHAT"S THE LOWEST NUMBERICAL THREADID OF A LOCKED THREAD?
uh, uh, 8309 ?
No, 3695! get out of my airspace, maggot

PRETENDER, RIDDLE ME THIS! WHAT IS RYAN'S TITLE?
senior ro- uh, VOLTRON PILOT
well met, fellow bot *air guitar solo*

YelloKitty

08-31-2003, 09:24 PM

Originally posted by kozyndan

Hey Souther,

Thanks for coming out to the show. The hi-tops were samples that were sent to us from Japan, they are in production now. Our Japanese Rep. will probably be distributing them in the US in a few months, so hopefully you will be able to find them in a few select stores this fall. We shall see...
please please please let us know when and where we can pick these up. and please have small sizes! do you have any pics of 'em?