Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Young snails tails detach during snake attacks! Awesome find. In areas where there are no snakes and with different snails, the tails stay on and the snails get eaten. Since when do snakes eat snails in the first place?! (phys.org – Snails)
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He took out an ad for Pan’s Labyrinth and enjoys GR. No, really. Thanks much GDT!
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Missed this one a week or so ago. Mile High Masturbation on Cathay Pacific flights as reported by the Taiwanese animated news org, NMA. Hot moist towels? [youtube]4gZdT5HfrJk[/youtube] Supposedly Cathay Pacific is making efforts to censor the video. Here’s a link.
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The only reason why this celebrity baby is “news” is because it’s a living tribute to the work of Giant Robot friend and inspiration J.Otto Seibold. Olive, the Other Reindeer is one of his brilliantly illustrated creations and a “new” holiday classic. His work graces the pages of over a dozen wonderful books – pure J.Otto creations and perfect collaborations with other authors. Barrymore got lucky and had a chance to voice his character, so it’s only fair she name her first born after it in exchange. I just want to see more press about Olive’s *real* creator! We last saw J.Otto at GR2 for Jottobots, an art show and debut of yet another collaboration, a great looking video game created with Kyle Pulver. It was a fun night, and great to have his work on the gallery walls, painted and digitized. J.Otto is always busy creating, community building and collaborating. Bay Area folks can find him at art and book fairs around the neighborhood, and you can keep up with his latest work and appearances by being his friend on Facebook. He’s been rocking an excellent series of sloths lately, sloths not yet ousted by tapirs from the “animals popular with artists” just yet.
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The islands dispute has turned just a moment to Haruki Murakami who wrote an essay about the situation. Basically, from news reports, he’s siding with the logic that the islands are creating a huge conflict in relationships between China and Japan and both sides need to simmer down from their Nationalism and find practical solutions. His books along with other Japanese books are being removed from bookstore shelves in China. (WSJ – Haruki Murakami) Also, director friend, Shunji Iwai, who is among the most popular Japanese directors in China has been vocal through some past tweets which has gathered a lot of views. They’ve been translated and paraphrased a bit. (@sindyeye) Sep/18th We need to think of their situation and know how provocative the actions of buying the island appears. Japan seems to forget they started the strategy war. Sep/18th Over all, the Japanese media is saying too many bad things about their neighboring countries. Children can understand how it’ll feel if someone talks bad about your own grand father or grand mother. There are so many people love Japan and so many Asians visiting Japan. Sep/18th Because in a time like this, I think people who feel the same should get together and get united to protect the peace. Sep/18th Japan tried to invade their neighboring countries, and lost the war with the US, but got an exemption. It is understandable for the country who got invaded to be still mad, It is crazy that Japan has forgotten about it. That is my understandings of the history.
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