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Today, I was supposed to speak at CCA. It’s an art school in SF, where David Choe, Deth P. Sun, Rob Sato, and a bunch of other artists graduated from, but I won’t be there. Funny how many think we’re SF based, so in this case, I was supposed to get myself to the campus and do a talk. But after some emails, and maybe some confusion, the talk got cancelled, but not after a couple of months of publicity was done. It’s weird how people think we’re from SF. I have no idea why, and inside of each magazine and on the site, our address says LA. I was willing to do the talk, but then they wanted me to do studio visits throughout the day. Fuck that, I thought. I got a life to deal with and I can’t do private tutoring for students who probably draw better than me anyway. I did get a w-9 for an honorarium, but they never talked to me about that either. I was supposed to get one? I hope they found a replacement to talk about publications, shops, and art. I heard a student recommended me to speak there, I hope they’re not too disappointed that it didn’t work out.
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notcot.com posted about the Murakami show and if you look at the fine print below at who went, I get mentioned in the same sentence as guys like Cindy Crawford, Pharrell... and so on. Of course, this is notcothumor, and I check this site out often. Some of my quick photos made it in, which is cool, and I guess it's quite a story when you add up all the pieces of the entire show. Click on the image...
notcot.com posted about the Murakami show and if you look at the fine print below at who went, I get mentioned in the same sentence as guys like Cindy Crawford, Pharrell… and so on. Of course, this is notcot humor, and I check this site out often. Some of my quick photos made it in, which is cool, and I guess it’s quite a story when you add up all the pieces of the entire show. Click on the image below, if you want to see it bigger.
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I went to the 10th street market in downtown on Central, and guess what? It's owned by a friend from junior high school. I was just kidding around recently with a friend who talked about Derek Strong who played in the NBA. He's 6'10" and ended up with the Lakers. In junior high school, Strong was a 6'2" and skinny and weak. I remember telling the person, "remember Todd Kuwata? he would have posted...
I went to the 10th street market in downtown on Central, and guess what? It’s owned by a friend from junior high school. I was just kidding around recently with a friend who talked about Derek Strong who played in the NBA. He’s 6’10″ and ended up with the Lakers. In junior high school, Strong was a 6’2″ and skinny and weak. I remember telling the person, “remember Todd Kuwata? he would have posted on Strong all day”. Todd was a big dude, even in junior high he was probably about the same size and athletic. Think Asian Barkley. Baseball, basketball, whatever it was, he had power and had speed. He’s a good guy, and the sandwiches there are good too.
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