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Tae Won Yu’s Poses, Kicking Giant, and REMAKE: The World In Paper in one awesome weekend

Wendy and I flew into Portland, had dinner with my old college friend and his family, and then rolled up to the Land Gallery where we immediately ran into even more friends: artists transplanted from Los Angeles Souther Salazar and Monica Choy, musicians from Brooklyn Aaron Hartman and Alicia Jo Rabins. Portland may be a small town but I guess the world has become even smaller…

Like me they traveled to Portland’s Mississippi district to attend the opening night of Tae Won Yu’s art show, REMAKE: The World in Paper. As fans of his album cover art for Built To Spill and Versus might guess, Tae’s paper constructions are as whimsical as they are meticulously crafted. Wendy and I couldn’t not buy a print.


The art was amazing but the other reason we flew up from Los Angeles was to see Tae play in his new duo, Poses, with fresh drummer Victoria Salvador. As Paul Weller went from the harder-rocking Jam to the more soulful Style Council before finding middle ground in his solo career, Tae has gone from the art-punk Kicking Giant to the R&B-tinged KG to something in the middle with Poses. Fans will not be disappointed and, yes, he is still a rock ‘n’ roll animal. And who is that setting up in the top right photo?

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aaron hartman · alicia jo rabins · Art · crystal ballroom · girls in trouble · greg moore · kento oiwa · kicking giant · land gallery · lois maffeo · monica choy · Music · MW · News · old time relijun · olympia · portland · poses · rachel carns · remake the world in paper · souther salazar · superchunk · tae won yu · the kg · the maxines · the moore brothers · the need · the northern · the owl and the pussycat · titus andronicus · victoria sandoval ·

Tae Won Yu’s Poses, Kicking Giant, and REMAKE: The World In Paper in one awesome weekend

Wendy and I flew into Portland, had dinner with my old college friend and his family, and then rolled up to the Land Gallery where we immediately ran into even more friends: artists transplanted from Los Angeles Souther Salazar and Monica Choy, musicians from Brooklyn Aaron Hartman and Alicia Jo Rabins. Portland may be a small town but I guess the world has become even smaller…

Like me they traveled to Portland’s Mississippi district to attend the opening night of Tae Won Yu’s art show, REMAKE: The World in Paper. As fans of his album cover art for Built To Spill and Versus might guess, Tae’s paper constructions are as whimsical as they are meticulously crafted. Wendy and I couldn’t not buy a print.


The art was amazing but the other reason we flew up from Los Angeles was to see Tae play in his new duo, Poses, with fresh drummer Victoria Salvador. As Paul Weller went from the harder-rocking Jam to the more soulful Style Council before finding middle ground in his solo career, Tae has gone from the art-punk Kicking Giant to the R&B-tinged KG to something in the middle with Poses. Fans will not be disappointed and, yes, he is still a rock ‘n’ roll animal. And who is that setting up in the top right photo?

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Outside the Lines

Souris Hong-Poretta is the moving-a-million-miles-a-minute mind behind Hustler of Culture, Tiny Iron Fists and is now the proud curator of Outside of the Lines: An Artists’ Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations . A long-time friend and supporter of GR and its artists, Souris has created something that appeals to the kids we have, the kids we know, and the kid within us. Many of the artists featured in her collection of images for re-imagining will be familiar names to GR fans. Souris gathered together the work of over 100 illustrators, painters, street artists, designers and other creatives to fill the pages of Outside the Lines. The range of work in the black and white collection runs from crisp graphic design to intimately detailed illustration, showing those with markers and crayons at the ready that the possibilities for visual genius are endless. GR was able to sneak in a quick interview with Souris about her latest endeavor and its inspiration. GR: Congratulations on Outside of the Lines. Can you tell GR readers a bit about Hustler of Culture? SHP: I worked for Tokion Magazine from 1999 to 2002, and when I moved on I was still regularly receiving invites to events. I wanted to share them with friends and blogging was just really starting. My friends at Typepad set me up with an account and I started posting my invites for the public. In the halcyon years, Hustler of Culture was a hot spot for finding out what was what in New York and LA. However, in the past several years, it’s been neglected due to full-time employment and a kid. When Outside the Lines: An Artists’ Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations goes on sale, I’m going to put Hustler of Culture on hold so that I can focus a bit more on other creative endeavors. GR: How did this project come together? SHP: Outside the Lines came together rather quickly and easily. When [my daughter] Lulu was about one and half years old, I observed that she colored more in her coloring book by renowned artists (Moebius, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring), than she did in her generic coloring books, which she had plenty of. I thought it’d be cool for Lulu to color the work of her artist dad as well as our friends’ work, so I wrote artists I knew about contributing artwork for a coloring book. Within weeks, 70 said, yes! I got a literary agent and book deal pretty quickly after I wrote my book proposal and now, two and a half years later, the book goes on sale September 3! GR: The book features an incredibly diverse group of creators. How did you pull together this line-up? SHP: Many of the visual artists were friends I made during my Tokion years. The other creative contributors have been friends for nearly two decades, well before they were museum-exhibiting artists, hit game makers, or big time music and film peeps. A few others were friends of friends, including some...
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Outside the Lines

Souris Hong-Poretta is the moving-a-million-miles-a-minute mind behind Hustler of Culture, Tiny Iron Fists and is now the proud curator of Outside of the Lines: An Artists’ Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations . A long-time friend and supporter of GR and its artists, Souris has created something that appeals to the kids we have, the kids we know, and the kid within us. Many of the artists featured in her collection of images for re-imagining will be familiar names to GR fans. Souris gathered together the work of over 100 illustrators, painters, street artists, designers and other creatives to fill the pages of Outside the Lines. The range of work in the black and white collection runs from crisp graphic design to intimately detailed illustration, showing those with markers and crayons at the ready that the possibilities for visual genius are endless. GR was able to sneak in a quick interview with Souris about her latest endeavor and its inspiration. GR: Congratulations on Outside of the Lines. Can you tell GR readers a bit about Hustler of Culture? SHP: I worked for Tokion Magazine from 1999 to 2002, and when I moved on I was still regularly receiving invites to events. I wanted to share them with friends and blogging was just really starting. My friends at Typepad set me up with an account and I started posting my invites for the public. In the halcyon years, Hustler of Culture was a hot spot for finding out what was what in New York and LA. However, in the past several years, it’s been neglected due to full-time employment and a kid. When Outside the Lines: An Artists’ Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations goes on sale, I’m going to put Hustler of Culture on hold so that I can focus a bit more on other creative endeavors. GR: How did this project come together? SHP: Outside the Lines came together rather quickly and easily. When [my daughter] Lulu was about one and half years old, I observed that she colored more in her coloring book by renowned artists (Moebius, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring), than she did in her generic coloring books, which she had plenty of. I thought it’d be cool for Lulu to color the work of her artist dad as well as our friends’ work, so I wrote artists I knew about contributing artwork for a coloring book. Within weeks, 70 said, yes! I got a literary agent and book deal pretty quickly after I wrote my book proposal and now, two and a half years later, the book goes on sale September 3! GR: The book features an incredibly diverse group of creators. How did you pull together this line-up? SHP: Many of the visual artists were friends I made during my Tokion years. The other creative contributors have been friends for nearly two decades, well before they were museum-exhibiting artists, hit game makers, or big time music and film peeps. A few others were friends of friends, including some...
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Adrian Tomine in the New Yorker

New Yorker story about Adrian Tomine who’s exhibited at Giant Robot, and whose items we also sell including the new Optic Nerve #13. Adrian Tomine will also be part of the Giant Robot exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California next year (April 2014). (GR Store) read up on Adrian Tomine here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/cover-story-adrian-tomine-crossroads.html#slide_ss_0=1  
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