Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
It’s not a big deal to see Giant Robot on eBay, but this one caught my eye. Read what the dude wrote! “I love Giant Robot… Basically, I want to find them a home.” Whoever you are, and whatever’s making you rid your possessions, hope it all works out well. When or if you want to come back and work on that next stack, we’ll be here. Look at that collection. I can see, Issue 6 on top with Chow Yun Fat, Issue 10 below that which is Jenny Shimizu cover, below that I can see a sliver of Issue 13 with a robot, and issue 5 below that I think it’s Tony Leung! Pretty good run of issues.
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CLICK on any of the flyers or articles TO MAKE LARGER!April 10, thursday Eric Nakamura on a panel discussion about Asian and Asian American popular culture at UCLA. UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association presents "Asian American Popular Culture”
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CLICK on any of the flyers or articles TO MAKE LARGER! April 10, thursday Eric Nakamura on a panel discussion about Asian and Asian American popular culture at UCLA. UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association presents “Asian American Popular Culture” Support The 8th Annual SubVerses, a campus-wide event addressing AsianAmerican community issues and providing a forum of expression for acollection of voices. Please join us for a panel discussion featuring Daniel Lee (UCLAFaculty), Jeff Liu (Visual Communications), Eric Nakamura (GiantRobot), and Phil Yu (Angry Asian Man). Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008Time: 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.Place: UCLA-MOORE HALL Room 100405 Hilgard AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90095 April 23, 2008 ChicagoEric and Martin speaking at University of Illinois Chicago. Here it is online.Wednesday, April 234:00 p.m.Student Center East, Room 302Reception Following April 30th Wednesday UCLAWEDNESDAY April 30, 2008Asian Pop Entrepreneurs: Giant Robot Returns to UCLA Careers in Asia talk with Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, Co-Editors of Giant RobotHacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center3:00 – 4:30 pmReception to Follow – so come and eat food.
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This is what the softball picnic throw the ball around and meet each other day looked like. My cousin Mike and Eugenia came later on. The field was taken, but we only had three people, so it became a sit and watch people play tennis, talk about the final four, and eat... That's Bill (he looks like he ate something sour) and Big J. We had pizza, supermarket chimichangas, and diet soda. I had to...
This is what the softball picnic throw the ball around and meet each other day looked like. My cousin Mike and Eugenia came later on. The field was taken, but we only had three people, so it became a sit and watch people play tennis, talk about the final four, and eat… That’s Bill (he looks like he ate something sour) and Big J. We had pizza, supermarket chimichangas, and diet soda. I had to peel the cheese off of the Frankie and Johnnie’s pizza, which is quite great. Later on in the day, I drove by this… What’s up with the tea pots? A lot of them. I had no idea, but this is one of those trippy people’s homes where they just go off on one quirky thing to the max. So the final stop and thought of the day is that, I’m doing the product ordering part of my last of things I want to do. It’s sunday night, sort of late, nearly 2am, the best time since bad movies with one star get shown. Wimbledon with Kirsten. Dunst (which their tennis form blows by the way) and The Perfect Score with Leonardo Nam, Darius Miles, and Scarlett Johansson. I’m going through pages of catalogs, and then poof. I see “chef” (that’s what’s on his ching chong hat in Japanese)… What do the three symbols mean? Crossing Chingchongchingman Flower. I think I get it. I wonder, am I offended? Is this fucked up? Is it stupid? The actual set is the dude, a bowl of rice, soup, and the last thingI have no idea what it is. Do you? I’m not offended, since it’s too stupid and fucked up and too damn small of an object. I know there’s a ton of folks who would be, and maybe are… but it’s a tiny magnet, right? Some might see it probably as yet another tiny chipping away at the general Asian image. Should I sell them? No. Do I work with these folks? Yes, now with a hiss… Imagine if it were a blackface character, some caricature with a bone in a nose, what would be going on? Yeah, maybe I’m guilty of not getting riled up enough. If you want to fight the man on this one. It’s easy. Contact Decor Craft Inc. DCI. 877-947-1577.
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