Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
There are some timelapses of the Endeavors journey through Los Angeles, but none will beat Bryan Chan’s from the LA Times. For those of you who didn’t get to see it, but even saw it, but just a bit of the journey, this time lapse answers all of your questions. Great work. It’s at the link. There is no embed code. (LA Times – Endeavor)
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Not a complete new experience in North Korea and the geographical information doesn’t have enough meaning, but it’s a solid trip and nearly fun narrative about a trip to North Korea. It’s not filled with glamour or ridiculousness, it just tells a tale, which might make it more accurate. (Huffpo – North Korea)
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Jeremy Lin, from couch surfing to now playing on the Houston Rockets. The perfect subject for GQ Magazine’s cover. Do people still buy this magazine? We hope so. There also an article about him to go with it. (GQ -Jeremy Lin) The folks at Condenast wrote it and asked if we could take down a couple of the images, so we did. -Eric
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A featurette on Japan’s Kei Nishikori, currently ranked 15 in the world in Men’s Tennis. The article makes mention that his height is 5’10″ and in the current game, players are often 6’2″ or more. For him to compete, he’ll have to make the extra shots that they won’t like sub 6′ player Andre Agassi did until the end of his career. (CNN – Kei Nishikori)
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With the Nobel Prize in Literature going to someone other than a Giant Robot staff writer, we’re now trying to jump on the band wagon and support the actual winner, Mo Yan of China. Yet where does one start? There’s plenty of books and although cinema has always been a strong point of culture in China, it’s literature is lesser known. Some of the great writers novels have become movies. We just don’t know about them. Red Sorghum, the epic film by Zhang Yimou starring Gong Li, yes, Mo Yan wrote that one. The WSJ offers a great place to start with a list of 5 novels. (WSJ – China Novels)
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