Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Giant Robot Pop Up Shop Giant Robot Pop Up Shop at Hotel de Ville in Los Feliz, CA November 21 – December 30, 2011 Hotel de Ville 4646 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90027 (323) 664-1462 Giant Robot pops up again, this time in historic Los Feliz neighborhood inside of the Hotel de Ville shop on Hollywood Blvd. Showcasing a curated array of goods, shoppers will get a feel of the Giant Robot stores on Sawtelle in WLA. It’s a short run for the holidays and we are proud to work with a shop and brand such as Hotel de Ville. Hotel de Ville Vintage Eyewear is a preeminent shop and brand in Los Feliz showcasing eyeglass frames of their own and from makers around the world. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine 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 as well as an online equivalent. Further information: Contact Eric Nakamura / Giant Robot www.giantrobot.com eric@giantrobot.com
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Brokers “egging on” transactions between couples and ova sellers. Young women attending famous universities in Beijing come to a café where couples evaluate the girls and inquire through agents about the girls’ height and blood type. Ovum providers get 5,000 yuan according to an investigation carried out by the Beijing News reporter — that’s about $800. C’mon, Chinese people!
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Giant Robot Store products, new and in stock! Maneki Cat. ($21) will nod it’s head and arm wishing you constant luck and enjoyment. It’ll work by your desk, kitchen, nightstand as long as you have a little bit of light. It’s solar. Mini Colored Pencils. ($4.50) From Japan where tiny items like this make life fun. Yes, it stays nice in a tiny tube. Less than two inches tall and will go well with a Moleskine sketchbook. You never know when inspiration will happen. Cigarette Pencils. ($1.50 ea) Yes, these really do fool people! They’re the exact size of a smoke. We can’t tell you how many people pick this up thinking it’s something they can smoke, and then we can’t explain how surprised people are at how they were fooled.
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[youtube]hJygz3u-ycY[/youtube] Tim Bulkley and Gary Wang, two of New York’s finest musicians humoring me, and singing a doo wop bassline. Amazing. Recorded at Marlborough Farms in Brooklyn, helmed by the great Gary Olson of Lady Bug Transistor more to come…
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Need a deterent to stop chewing tobacco? This is it. South Asians chew especially in England. It’s all about the betel leaf which is something we don’t see in the US. Addicting, but also with “benefits”, in the end, we’re not telling anyone to not chew, but there are problems with it that don’t get told along with it’s long cultural history. (BBC – Chewing is Bad)
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