Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
We’ve come a long way! Not in perhaps Mexico though. Check out the goofy footed skater. Evidently it’s a figure and under the rice picker hat was chocolate. I have no idea what kind. It came in the mail from Scott Wolfson out of NYC. I thought it was the latest attempt at a “Designer vinyl” figure, but I was wrong. Instead, it’s a strange novelty toy and as jokey as can be. Am I offended? No, but will others be? Of course. It’s playing on every wrong stereotype imaginable to an Asian, except, he skates. Scott’s site: Eggsmcmanus. I’m not sure if people get more offended when stuff like this happens on their own soil. Do they give a “pass” when it’s from another country? It seems like it, since values, social awareness, p.c. ness, may be different there. Here’s a link to the product. It doesn’t tell you anything about it, but maybe someone out there knows more. There’s small writing in Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
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Scary magazine predictions, but I don't think it differs from anything else. Magazines, like a car manufacturer, retail store, small business of any sort, all apply.
Andy Cohn from the Fader said that 5 out of 10 mags and papers will close.
-I guess that's the same as 1 out of 2. Scary thought, since what will a newsstand look like if this happens?
Steven Kotok from The Week says: "Lots of things...
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Andy Cohn from the Fader said that 5 out of 10 mags and papers will close.
-I guess that's the same as 1 out of 2. Scary thought, since what will a newsstand look like if this happens?
Steven Kotok from The Week says: "Lots of things...
Scary magazine predictions, but I don’t think it differs from anything else. Magazines, like a car manufacturer, retail store, small business of any sort, all apply. Andy Cohn from the Fader said that 5 out of 10 mags and papers will close.-I guess that’s the same as 1 out of 2. Scary thought, since what will a newsstand look like if this happens? Steven Kotok from The Week says: “Lots of things nobody predicted will occur.”- hope this can mean great things. Dylan Tweeney from Wired: “…2009 will be a very, very difficult year for advertising-supported businesses of all kinds. Anyone launching a publication in 2009 better have deep enough pockets to ride out a year or two of very thin revenues.”- that’s obvious since even a publication that’s been going for years will have thin revenues. Video content seems to hit a few people’s lists. Am I paranoid yet about our future? Sure just a little, but at the same time, the idea is to keep moving. Read many more here at Foliomag.comIt’s interesting to read what people say about magazines (at least for me).
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The mail carriers are doing weird stuff. Who knows how long this was hiding at my front entrance. It's a Choegal. It's nice, wood, and really looks like Dave's works. He even did the spinning faces type of thing, which came from this funky weird vinyl toy that you can buy for almost nothing. You don't get three heads, but you get three faces in one head. The arms are articulated really well, the...
The mail carriers are doing weird stuff. Who knows how long this was hiding at my front entrance. It’s a Choegal. It’s nice, wood, and really looks like Dave’s works. He even did the spinning faces type of thing, which came from this funky weird vinyl toy that you can buy for almost nothing. You don’t get three heads, but you get three faces in one head. The arms are articulated really well, the legs don’t do much, but stand. Yes, you should come to that signing at GR2 on Tuesday. The vinyl toy we have is the same one Dave brought over about a decade ago. We’ve thrown out tons of things since then, but for some reason, this has still made it through a move, and some cleanings.
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