Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Magnetic Anomalies artist – Jesse Balmer Interview. Jesse Balmer will be showing at Giant Robot SF, along with Jesse Fillingham, Nick Arciaga, and Leslie Winchester.
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If you haven't picked up a copy of GR 67 from a newsstand or your mailbox, then you aren't a good friend at all, AND you're totally missing out. GR 67 has tons of great stuff in it, including my photo essay of highlights from my trip to Mongolia this past Spring. I have a few thousand pictures and some video from the trip, and I've FINALLY got it all up on my Flickr page. There are a LOT of photos, since I had a LOT of adventures in 20 days. Consider them a supplement to the mini-stories in the magazine.
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I've been working a bit on trying to make a new t-shirt. One thing that's hard about shirts are the color combinations. How do you pick? The colors you get on your computer don't exactly translate to inks on shirts. Does red really show as a nice red on black cotton? Does red and yellow look good together or is it too USC? Will people buy that forest green t-shirt? In the end, I tend to make shirts, either black, dark grey, white, navy blue, and brown. What else is there? White? bright Green? Maroon? With shirts, I've learned that you have to play the percentages and hope for the best. We'll see what happens from computer to final print job. (I'm not including a photo for this thought, since what looks good right now, might look like crap an hour from now).
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Guess what? Pixel Pushers! Mark the date November 13th at the Scion Art Space in Culver City. We'll be debuting the Giant Robot Art Car, which you have to see to understand. More info to come.
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Art Center visit to Giant Robot Los Angeles. Mark Todd, artist, illustrator, and overall do it yourself type of guy actually pitched a class that's about illustration and advertising. Sort of crossing some lines which are already crossed in the real world of artists trying to make it, this is a class that actually is pushing these young artists to think and create. The kids who came showed us their wares, and the overall level of creativity, conceptualization, and even the marketing ideas were exciting. Maybe this should just be a major. Each person showed us their projects and I can't wait to see some of them. It's also a great honor to have a group of students who are paying up the yin yang for their education to spend some time with us. I'd like to think we offer insight and more into the actual market they want to hit – whether it's the type of shop or even the clientele. In some ways, I wish a class would visit us every week. It's actually as refreshing for me, as I'd hope it is for them.
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