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[nggallery id=48] Bwana Spoons at Giant Robot New York, January 12 – February 13, 2007 Reception: Saturday, January 12, 6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009 grny.net (212) 674-GRNY Giant Robot is proud to present How to Dig a Hole, an art show by Bwana Spoons. Spoons is a Portland-based artist whose freewheeling style was developed under the influence of underground comics, ’60s rock posters, and Japanese rubber monster movies. Starting out with stapled-and-folded zines like My Friend the Micronaut and Ain’t Nothing Like Fucking Moonshine in the early ’90s, Spoons has become a regular in the Northwest street art and indie music scene. Endangered animals caught in mid-thought, kung-fu wizards with gravity-defying eyebrows, and swirling psychedelic backgrounds are only some of the elements found in the well-composed anarchy of his paintings and sculpture. He is also involved in the Grass Hut art collective and gallery. Although the show is called “How to Dig a Hole”, the new paintings, illustrations, and sculptures by Spoons actually address how to get out of one. “What do I fill it with?” he asks. “Blood, guts, tears, dirt, love, and paint.” Giant Robot has been promoting new art and artists since 1994, first with a magazine and then in galleries. The publication celebrated its 50th issue in 2007 with an art show at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Currently it presents art shows on a monthly basis in its L.A., San Francisco, and New York City locations. A reception for Spoons will be held from 6:30 to 10:00 on Saturday, January 12. For more information about the artist, GRNY, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact GRNY.
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Almost forgot about this. I was scratching my head a little on this comment from a little while ago. What’s up with this? Anonymous said… Racist responseThis was how I used to respond to racist anti-asian epithets. Most of these examples I thought up when I was 10 years old. Yes, I was born a master. If it was Jew I would say: The whole world hates you. They all tried to kill you and they still want you to die. Now I see why. If it was a Black person I would say: What do you mean this is your country you stupid fucking slave? Here are your choices Go make cheeseburgers at McDonalds or Go hate white people! Damn you are a stupid fucking monkey. They’re the ones that fucked you over. If it was a hispanic person I would say: You are ghetto. You were born in McDonalds and you’re gonna die in McDonalds. You’re just a stupid nigger that speaks spanish. If it was a white person: Depends. If I didn’t get into a fight or threatened raping their family with a machette war of words etc. etc. I usually would ignore it and look down on them as I took the high road. And besides you can only fight so much. Why? There are too many of them. Might makes right. Look at Rosie O’Donnell. It’s only now that Asians realize that the American dream is about consolidating power in a political group- a political identity. Look how I said Asian and not Asian American. No one says Jewish American. They say Jew. No one says Black American. They say black person. And so we are simply. Asian. Here’s a joke for you: If asians were powerful enough to cause wars, like Mel Gibson pointed out and have power over the media, than no one would say racist things about Asians but maybe they would think it. Like some people hate jews but you can’t say those things in public. And the ones that don’t hate jews watch Seinfeld and Shindler’s List all that Jewish propaganda. We need to sell our image better like the Jews do. The Asian community needs propaganda and political power too. We need to wake up and follow the Jewish model minority example or we will end up in camps one day. As far as Blacks are concerned we need to follow Jesse Jackson’s example and shake down companies for major cash money bling bling. I am not a racist. It is a political game. What really annoys me is that people, especially Asians, don’t see this simple fact. What can you do to those you can’t reason with? You use unreason.
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Almost forgot about this. I was scratching my head a little on this comment from a little while ago. What's up with this?
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Racist response
This was how I used to respond to racist anti-asian epithets. Most of these examples I thought up when I was 10 years old. Yes, I was born a master.
If it was Jew I would say: The whole world hates you. They all tried to kill you and...
For relaxing times… Scul..p..e.y…Argh, still thinking about it! This is what our softball team looked like tonite.
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For relaxing times... Scul..p..e.y...Argh, still thinking about it! This is what our softball team looked like tonite.