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Realized forgot to post Part 2 of the Game Over exhibition! 140 pieces is a lot (see the art in the shop)
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Thanks Kotaku for the post on Game Over.
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Tru Nguyen works at Giant Robot and we’re proud to say that she is a public transportation rider. From the KCET website Tru Nguyen, 27, Retail worker How do people react when they find out that you don’t even have a license? People reassure me that driving is easy and it just takes getting the hang of. My sister likes to say that if it were hard then there wouldn’t be so many stupid people driving on the road. A couple of people have told me that they can’t believe that anyone walks in L.A. but in my opinion drivers just act like there is no such thing as pedestrians. Do you want to learn to drive? Not particularly, I only got my first driver’s permit last year. I’ve been meaning to schedule driving lessons but it isn’t a priority of mine. On the other hand, my siblings got their permits and licenses as soon as they were old enough. Meet my friend Tru from college! How do you think your life would be different if you owned a car? I’d have more flexibility regarding where I can live and work. When I moved last year, I wanted to be within a 30-45 minute bus ride of work with no more than one transfer if necessary. This meant I had to dismiss certain neighborhoods to live in. Getting home at night can be an obstacle since some buses run less often or change their routes at night. If I had a car, things would be easier if I wanted to drive somewhere on a whim or had an emergency.When I travel less familiar routes and neighborhoods I have to do a fair bit of planning so I don’t become stranded. It is a nice way to get to know the lay of the streets. It amazes some of my friends that I know the downtown area and Chinatown so well, but I’ve been taking long bus rides there since college (was an hour from UCLA/WLA) to check out bars to party or restock my Asian groceries. I’m no help in finding freeway on-ramps or remembering which streets are one-way there though. What’s great about being carless in Los Angeles? When I am on the bus I love watching the neighborhoods change as I ride through them: glossy boutiques and fancy iron gates give way to cozy ethnic storefronts and everything in between before I am swallowed by the soaring buildings of downtown, and eventually, even those give way to strip malls. I feel like I see more of the city rather than being forced to go around it by taking the freeways. You used to be able to see a little bit of L.A.’s character in the old murals along the freeway but many of them have been painted over rather than maintained. To me, the freeway is just a crowded expanse of asphalt bracketed by sound dampening walls. When I’m on foot in the neighborhood I can focus on...
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[youtube]j_xjkItFszY[/youtube] Thanks, Carlos “Angrybananas” Lopez. Here’s a link to the GR YouTube page.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Game Night 10 at Giant Robot 2 Game Night 10 – Glorkbot’s Mini-Adventure, Tri-Tri-Triobelisk, Samurai Gunn Saturday, June 16 2012, 6:30 – 10:00 p.m. Giant Robot 2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90025 gr2.net (310) 445-9276 In conjunction with the Attract Mode, Meat Bun Apparel and Angry Bananas, Giant Robot is proud to host Game Night 10, an event that takes place at GR2 about every two months. For this tenth installment, we are teaming up with James Kochalka and Pixel Jam’s long awaited title, alongside Shelby Cinca and Erik Svedäng’s iPad game, Tri-Tri-Triobelisk, and Beau Blyth’s Samurai Gunn. We will set up game stations both indoors and outdoors and in person will be Shelby Cinca and Beau Blyth. Also playable with be Cinca and Sean Chao’s Yeren board game and Beau Blyth and Jeni Yang’s Catburger. Game Night 10 is taking place during the Game Over Exhibition, so it’s a great chance to see video game inspired art alongside playable games. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based publication about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles. Game Night 10 will take place on Saturday, June 16th 2012, 6:30 – 10:00 p.m. For more information about Game Night, GR2, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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