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The Scion Show Insiders Outsiders and the Middle is tonight. Here's some shots from yesterday. You can scroll through the Flickr photos. I think Ed Trask's gigantic painting gets not enough justice through these pics, but overall, the show's looking good. I wish I could book a place this big with a budget every month. I think I'd do alright.
The Scion Show Insiders Outsiders and the Middle is tonight. Here’s some shots from yesterday. You can scroll through the Flickr photos. I think Ed Trask’s gigantic painting gets not enough justice through these pics, but overall, the show’s looking good. I wish I could book a place this big with a budget every month. I think I’d do alright.
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Yes, they had a sign saying Save Darfur. Lemonade. One cup at a time. The lemonade was .50 cents. It was pretty good. The cookies were $1. I figured it was for them to earn a few dollars to take a bus ride to the beach, or maybe save up and see a movie. But Darfur? Pretty awesome for kids. I like lemonade stands. I bought 2 cookies and those were pretty good too. 
I never did a lemonade stand, I...
Yes, they had a sign saying Save Darfur. Lemonade. One cup at a time. The lemonade was .50 cents. It was pretty good. The cookies were $1. I figured it was for them to earn a few dollars to take a bus ride to the beach, or maybe save up and see a movie. But Darfur? Pretty awesome for kids. I like lemonade stands. I bought 2 cookies and those were pretty good too. I never did a lemonade stand, I guess you can say, I went straight to opening a shop, working on a mag, and so on. There’s something cool about kids doing a lemonade stand. Taxes don’t kick in yet, no heath codes, and so on. It’s all based on work, patience, and trust in a neighborly way. Have extra lemons? Make lemonade. Next, maybe they’ll sell bags of lemons and packets of sugar in a nice bag too. The sad thing is that if they were to do this too often, they’d get shut down. That’s the world we live in. Even a lemonade stand would get taxed and coded.
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It's already just 2 days from opening night at the Scion space in Culver City. The artists are all now in town and installing. It's great to see them all. Noriko Ashino, Nao Harada, Space Invader, Adrian Johnson, Kami, Ed Trask, Shinya Yamamoto, Zariganiworks are all working harmoniously to get their art up and looking good. It's still early in the game but the cool thing is that everything looks...