Giant Robot Store and GR2 News

I don’t exactly know why, but I love these two photos… I’m actually behind Heisuke, moderating his talk at GR2 for his show. The people, the smiles, and his slides explained his work just a little bit better to everyone. From commercial work, old work, and new work, and finally to the reasons why this show is what it is, I think blew people away. He ended the talk explaining about his daughter who’s growing quickly and he can see it happening, but at the same time, we are growing too and we can’t see it. Then he talked about the shortness of life, and the importance of each day, and he put everyone in their place. If we can make people smile at an art show, then we’re doing a fine job.
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Uh oh, Blogger is back, after two days of being totally numb, here it goes. So this was yesterday at the Papershapers show at the Scion gallery, which might be extended another week. Reuters who normally would cover wars, actually came down and did a video piece interviewing me and Ana Serrano. Gladly, we had a local person in the show who could manage press and she did a great job explaining the...
Uh oh, Blogger is back, after two days of being totally numb, here it goes. So this was yesterday at the Papershapers show at the Scion gallery, which might be extended another week. Reuters who normally would cover wars, actually came down and did a video piece interviewing me and Ana Serrano. Gladly, we had a local person in the show who could manage press and she did a great job explaining the influence of this piece which was from Mexico. Her houses or city of cardboard is quite amazing. Where this Reuters piece ends up, I have no idea, but I’ll update you when I know.
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