Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Giant Robot New York. It's a nice long hallway of tons of products, art, and more. You should definitely stop by. There's so many cool things there. That's Mark walking down the hall. Mark also walked a block and picked the below up for me which I was skeptical of. Sometimes, the flavoring is awful.
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One of the first things I wanted to see was the new Cooper Union building. When you see photos of it, it seems like a giant building. From each angle, it has a special look, but the weird thing is it's not as huge as you think. It's actually quite quick to walk around this building. The architect is Thom Mayne who's won tons of awards, did the Cal Trans building in LA, and now this. I wish I understood the language of architecture it's speaking since it's sci-fi, complicated, and artistic.
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R.I.P. John Wooden. I got to meet Coach when I was a student at UCLA, and he was as down-to-earth and engaging as everyone says… Too good to be real.
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A while back, my friend Thy gave me a children's book called That's Why We Don't Eat Meat. She thought it might be a cool book for me (as a person who doesn't eat meat) to read to my daughter Eloise, and it is. While there are some scary moments involving factory farms, the main way author/artist Ruby Roth explains why vegans and vegetarians eat the way they do is to help foster compassion for livestock. She not only compares farm animals to pets, but shows them to be members of their own families, and illustrates how they share feelings and needs with humans. Yes, it shows the ecological benefits of eating low on the food chain, too. The verbiage is a little wordy for my two-year-old, although she likes the pictures. However, her six-year-old cousin was quite stricken by it. Check out Ruby and her book for yourself at http://www.wedonteatanimals.com/.
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We love Dehara and Yoko, and they love the Lakers. It's been a full-on love fest as we visited Staples Center (the site of last night's dismantling of the Celtics) before preparation began for tomorrow night's Dehara art show at GR2. Are you ready for the Jizo? Are you ready for Kobe to get his fifth ring? Ready or not, here they come…
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