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Sneak preview shots of GR2′s Uglycon. See the pinata in the background? That’s David on top of the ladder. Check out that Uglyworm. See a bunch more below! Pinatas are cool. I dunno what the heck character that is on the right.
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Susie Ghahremani’s Bird Call show ended this week. It was a blast. Great work, meticulous paintings, and overall, an insane show. Before the birds had to get painted over, I took a bunch of pics. It was nice to have birds all over the shop. I like this last shot, the sun’s getting low, there’s a couple of birds, the legs of a robot and our logo…
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Adding this article… seems like it gives a lot of insight that I haven’t read elsewhere. So what are the do’s and don’t of surviving in the cold?I have no idea, but maybe here’s some things I learned just from watching the news. 1) Burn tires – you might not think about that, but yes burn em. Burn anything you can. But maybe burn em during the day. I’m not sure what the Kim’s did, but I’m pretty sure rubber gives out some dark smoke. I’ve once burned some paper in a backyard, just a little of it, and black smoke rose in a fury. 2) Stay with the car – It’s all hindsight, and who knows who desperate they felt. James is a brave dude with stones of steel. 8 miles in the cold. That’s a tough guy. If you go, I guess you need to be superwarm and will need lots of water for sure. It seemed the news talked a lot about him not having a hat and gloves. Only go if you have a hat. I guess you do have to think about where you’re gonna sleep too if you’re hiking away. 3) If you do hike away, I guess you need to leave markers so you can find your way back. If it snows, then the terrain will look different in a hurry. This is all sounding difficult as I explain it. I’m not sure if I could do this myself… But in a pinch, even what seemed like a guy who couldn’t do it, did it and worked his way through tough terrain. 4) I remember the hunger strike at UCLA, they drank water but no food, I think they went a couple of weeks and I happened to know one guy who said he had no permanent damage to his body. 5) Cell phone. I guess even if there’s no signal, try making calls, it seems like it reaches a tower anyway. That’s how they started locating the Kim’s. Keep that cellphone going. Maybe try it once a day maybe twice. Who knew!? The weird thing is how did the folks flying at 500mph way up in the air in a hijacked plane make a bunch of calls? But you can’t get a cell in rural Oregon. Cellphone technology is confusing. 6) Use the mirrors from your cars to reflect light. 7) I’m not sure if starting a forest fire is a good idea, it’s probably a terrible one, but I think people have done this before when they were lost. 8) Stay on the road? Who knows why Mr Kim left the road, maybe he had to… but try to stay on the road. 9) Maybe tell folks where you intend to go. What roads etc. Trusting online maps, might not be a good idea. I heard the road they took was a logging road. It seemed that not one car went in that path for the week. That’s insane. It’s hard...
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Dogs need blankets and towels. Have any? Here’s an online flyer by one of our friends/copy editor Kim Okamura.
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James Kim. I’ve been following this for days, and, although reports are sort of odd at times, since some reports have said he was alive on tuesday and made direct contact with him, etc… The finality is that he’s no longer with us. I was happy when they found his wife and two kids fine on monday, but as the days have gone by, it started to get more and more grim. I think aside from feeling bad for the family. I think this event which made big news across all media companies, maybe served as a learning tool. As a reporter for CNET, maybe that’s how he’d want this viewed.
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