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Kei Nishikori reaches the fourth round. He's from Japan, is 18, and is ranked in the 120s. He'll surely vault higher. He's the first Japanese person in 40 years to get this far at the US Open. Why? In the past Japanese players didn't quite cut it. It's small country, not a lot of courts, and tennis is an individual sport taking up a lot of space. There's also their own game of soft tennis. What's...
Kei Nishikori reaches the fourth round. He’s from Japan, is 18, and is ranked in the 120s. He’ll surely vault higher. He’s the first Japanese person in 40 years to get this far at the US Open. Why? In the past Japanese players didn’t quite cut it. It’s small country, not a lot of courts, and tennis is an individual sport taking up a lot of space. There’s also their own game of soft tennis. What’s that? It uses a softer ball, and who knows why it exists, but it’s been around for a while. He’s in the fourth round and we’ll see if he can win his next match. He’s horrible in interviews so you won’t be seeing him on TV soon. Here’s a clip of Nishikori winning earlier in the year, he beats James Blake! Watch this video about soft tennis, it’s funny to watch some of these folks hit, some are good, but look funny.
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Thomas Campbell's website is now up. I just got a notice. You should definitely check out this man's art. I guess the blog entry is perfect timing with the Beautiful Losers movie. Random! I met Thomas Campbell way back in the early 2000s. He was painting with Barry McGee in a building. I didn't know his work then, but he was living in San Diego at the time (I think). He was doing art, and sitting...
Thomas Campbell’s website is now up. I just got a notice. You should definitely check out this man’s art. I guess the blog entry is perfect timing with the Beautiful Losers movie. Random! I met Thomas Campbell way back in the early 2000s. He was painting with Barry McGee in a building. I didn’t know his work then, but he was living in San Diego at the time (I think). He was doing art, and sitting quietly. He’s always been a nice guy and that’s why we distribute his book Sing Ding a Ling. We’ve had it for a while, and got it into a bunch of shops. Aside from art, this dude makes films, and is sort of a jack of all trades and a master of a few of them. See the book here. Thomascampbell-art.com
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Beautiful Losers the film is opening at the Nuart, just down the street from Giant Robot store. Director Aaron Rose is a pretty good guy. I hung out with him for nearly a week in Madrid, for another art exhibition and have run into him a few times locally in LA. We had some good conversations about Beautiful Losers and at the same time, I'd like to think I brought a different view point to what...