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This is all dumb no matter what. Apologies for a stupid ad. Pop Chips are alright. (CNN – Pop Chips) [youtube]DLdobzj_9_I[/youtube]
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Malcolm Cross doodles Ako Castuera’s work. He drew it while waiting for the talk to begin. The face inside it was revealed to be Ben Linus, a character from Lost.
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Ex Charger and maybe one of the greatest, Junior Seau has died. He retired in 2010 and might go down as one of the greatest defenders of all time. You don’t need to be a football fan to know about this guy. (TMZ – Junior Seau)
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Norman Mineta to receive Distinguished Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement and Public Service – the highest honor by the Japanese American National Museum. Frankly, I didn’t know there was such an honor or that there’s higher honors and lower honors, but this is great. For a lot of you, you have no idea who this man is. He’s not in a sex video. He didn’t make a movie or sculpt a vinyl figure. He’s retired but was once the Secretary of Transportation. The single most known incident, he ordered planes to land during 9.11. Aside from that, he worked his ass off for incarcerated Japanese Americans and the San Jose airport? It’s in his name. Check it out. That’s him at the Giant Robot Biennale 2 with myself, David Choe and Albert Reyes. Norman Mineta likes art. We’ll be doing Biennale 3 coming up in September. Norman, you better be there. (Rafu – Norman Mineta)
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Kogi’s Roy Choi is quitting? Yes, he might have single handedly created a new food truck craze which then led to another restaurant craze which then led to millions of overnight food critics on Yelp. The foodista movement began and in it’s wake destroyed as much as it began. Healthy food, no, much of the food trucks out there is rich, oily, buttery and is shit you wouldn’t make or eat at home. Maybe that’s what most people want, but not if you knew how it was made, and maybe not if you ate better versions of it that’s been around much longer. Yes, I’ve interviewed Roy early on for Giant Robot. He is great at what he does. Yet him wanting to not cook, not eat beef, and this is big news? C’mon. It’s a dietary and lifestyle change. His shits will be different, his tastes will be different, and it’s just his own evolution. His commentary on the riot look back? As much as he’s a great guy and does make a point of what’s important today as well – the current youth, it’s a look back at a tragedy. As much as 9.11 was covered again, so is the LA Riots by LA papers. Why not let LA papers re look at the riots? It’s the web, it’s writing and it’s important. If you think he makes sense, then let’s transpose The LA Dodgers? The kids are more important than them as well. (Huffington Post – Roy Choi)
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