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...
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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As of a couple days ago... there's still great Post-Its. I'd guess a bunch of these might be gone, but we're talking a week later, tons of people coming through, and this much talent left? Not bad. That's how the Post It show works. I'm digging the Vanessa Davis pieces. The "big big" names, yes, they're gone, but there's still a bunch left from other "big" names.
