Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
I get a call inviting me to Takashi Murakami’s unveiling of his new line of Louis Vuitton bags, Monogramouflage. It’s made appearances at the Brooklyn Museum, and yesterday June 16th, it made a one day appearance at the Louis Vuitton in the Wynn Hotel. A line formed outside, of course, they were checking credentials, and at the same, I saw a Wynn K-9 unit probably there to sniff out bombs. It was 6pm, and the scene inside was mellow. A DJ, bags, people, drinks, snacks, and people buying bags. Some of the designs are on denim, like the above. I preferred the more solid, leather looking pieces. I did hear them say it was coated canvas. Sort of like a retro aviation jacket. Alexander got a roller bag The scarf looks nice. That little thing is an iphone or ipod holder. Yes, it’s limited. Look for it more widespread on July 1st. This is the Speedy 35. If I were getting a bag, this would be it. It was strange, no one recognized Takashi for a while. We were hanging out talking for a while, then once one autograph happened, a quick line formed. Sayonara bro! He got mobbed. That too is the Speedy 35 Steve Wynn, Takashi Murakami, and Dennis Hopper! That’s why the K9 was there first. That’s Steve Wynn’s wife in the dots. At SW – a restaurant in the Wynn. Guess who’s place this is? The chopped salad was quite great. Takashi’s film showed on the white screen/waterfall. It lights up, there’s a lake in front of it, and it has a crazy Hollywood Bowl feeling. It was only a 12 minute piece, but it was quite grand. Two screenings and a short opening speech. Takashi’s been to Vegas years before, he told me it was 8 or 9 and liked the crazy theatrics at the hotels. Keep in mind, the footage is only 10 seconds, just to show what it looks like, but keep tuned in and watch the rest of the weird stuff they projected afterwards. I hope people didn’t think it was work by Takashi… 20oz bone in rib eye. Steve Wynn was a few arm’s lengths away. I almost hit him up for suggestions on what to get, but didn’t need to. Thanks for dinner Mr Wynn, or was it Takashi… I didn’t know who to thank.
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One of the nicer guys around, is Spencer Hansen. He's from Idaho, lives in Oakland, and does a fashion line and makes these toys. I'm not sure if toys are the right word for it. But they're super nice, exclusive, and hand crafted. His items are sort of the line between art, craft, and designer vinyl figures. 
They look great together, as if they're part of a family.
One of the nicer guys around, is Spencer Hansen. He’s from Idaho, lives in Oakland, and does a fashion line and makes these toys. I’m not sure if toys are the right word for it. But they’re super nice, exclusive, and hand crafted. His items are sort of the line between art, craft, and designer vinyl figures. They look great together, as if they’re part of a family.
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"Hello Angels." That's what I thought when these three rolled up. But I didn't hear the "Hi Eric" response. Janet Yang, no relation to Margaret Yang from Rushmore, Kelly Hu, no relation to the late King Hu (look him up if you don't know who he is), and Lisa Ling. They showed up to see the Picturehouse / Giant Robot - Mongol screening, the film starring Tadanobu Asano, which is quite rad. Imagine,...
“Hello Angels.” That’s what I thought when these three rolled up. But I didn’t hear the “Hi Eric” response. Janet Yang, no relation to Margaret Yang from Rushmore, Kelly Hu, no relation to the late King Hu (look him up if you don’t know who he is), and Lisa Ling. They showed up to see the Picturehouse / Giant Robot – Mongol screening, the film starring Tadanobu Asano, which is quite rad. Imagine, a Japanese actor on the culty side getting cast to star in this epic movie about Genghis Khan done by a Russian Director and actually done in Mongolese! He was great, and was the perfect person for the role. It was sort of hard to believe he did this project. It seems almost too good to be true. That’s the Donutman, Jim on the right. I heard he eats 4 donuts a day. (Yes he gets high on his own supply) I couldn’t believe he came. It was nice to see him. Donutman, the best in the business. Back to the film, imagine the epic nature of what this film has to be like. The history, the time span, the stories, it’s a tough one all together. It’s over two hours, but imagine… this is the first of a trilogy! Beau Sia is deep. He walked up and said conversation got slow, and got a mag and went back in. He’s a nice guy. I wanted to hear his voice break the sound barrier like it can. Whoa Margaux in the house. She does the ads in GR. They got glowing smiles. That’s me, and filmmakers Ham Tran, and Stephane Gauger. Those two are probably 25% of the box office sales in all of Vietnam. Stephane is a tower. Ham isn’t, but he caught one of the shirts I threw into the audience. Funny shot – Imagine the owner of the restaurant got mad because of the extra side of meat. Every time she came to the table to speak Vietnamese to the dudes because she was mad, and the order wasn’t right, and so on, Cate would duck her head into the bowl and eat like it was the greatest pho she ever had. She should act. We went to PHO 4000 on Western. I’d suggest it.
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