Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
I posted this in the lounge... Since I wrote so much, I figured why not, put it in here.
1) I don't think this thread is stupid. I bet if I looked at a random 50 threads, this one isn't near the top. Happy birthday ____ is a stupid thread, but I do like those. Maybe stupid means important since one actually has to think. I'm not sure.
2) Been reading this thread and it's a hard thing to have a...
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1) I don't think this thread is stupid. I bet if I looked at a random 50 threads, this one isn't near the top. Happy birthday ____ is a stupid thread, but I do like those. Maybe stupid means important since one actually has to think. I'm not sure. 2) Been reading this thread and it's a hard thing to have a...
Part 3. 7) How would it have been different if you had launched GR ten years earlier? What about if you had launched it today? Good question. If I launched it today, we’d be a different publication, I doubt we’d start as a zine, and I suppose we’d lose a lot of money initially, but I think we’d find our stride. I think our editorial style and viewpoints are more open than other publications. If we launched it ten years earlier, not sure! I was too young to even care. 8) Your readership actually has a large proportion of non-Asians, how do you think these readers got into GR? And what do you interpret it to mean for your magazine? When you were starting, did you think that GR would have such a hold on a non-Asian audience? They got into GR because we’re not an exclusive club. We come from a different background which I think helps the variation in themes and approach to a magazine. National Geographic can be read by anyone, I’d like to think that GR could have that broad appeal. The other traditional Asian American magazines perhaps not. I like to interpret it as we do editorial better. We have better stories that are more interesting. Why would a non Asian American care about “twenty top Asian American women business persons.” “5 best Asian American lawyers” “Cars that an Asian American should buy”. Etc. That’s all shit. When we started, we didn’t think about who would read GR. We wanted to make a good publication. 9) What direction do you see GR taking in the future? No plans, just to continue on and fight the good fights.
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Part 3.
7) How would it have been different if you had launched GR ten years earlier? What about if you had launched it today?
Good question. If I launched it today, we’d be a different publication, I doubt we’d start as a zine, and I suppose we’d lose a lot of money initially, but I think we’d find our stride. I think our editorial style and viewpoints are more open than other publications. If we...
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7) How would it have been different if you had launched GR ten years earlier? What about if you had launched it today?
Good question. If I launched it today, we’d be a different publication, I doubt we’d start as a zine, and I suppose we’d lose a lot of money initially, but I think we’d find our stride. I think our editorial style and viewpoints are more open than other publications. If we...
Interview Part 2. Interview conducted by Cindy Ko. 4) What factors are important to choosing the next location of a new GR store? If we have time to handle it, that’s the first factor, but otherwise, it just has to make sense financially within the area. 5) Arguably, your largest base is in the Los Angeles area– do you see it influencing the visibility of Asian American culture in LA? How about the Asian American community overall?I’m not sure what gets through to people. But I’d like to think since we’ve been around, we’ve helped shape some people’s ideas of what Asian Americans are about. I do know that there was a time, when I was shunned by Asian American groups, clubs, and organizations. It was as if I wasn’t Asian American enough, when in my opinion, I’m hardcore Asian American. With that, I think GR does what it does, and I think it gave a voice to the folks who were ignored, like me. 6) How do you think that face of Asian American culture has changed, since the start of your magazine? I sort of answered it above. In our world, the outcasts found a niche I guess… and we did it without being part of APEX, and being associated with the many Asian American theater groups, and the many other organizations. We did it ourselves which seems to be fairly unprescendented in Asian American land. At the same time, I’m not shunning these groups, I’m just saying we were cut from a different mold and found a world for that. How we fit I suppose doesn’t really matter, we don’t really think about that.
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Interview Part 2. Interview conducted by Cindy Ko.
4) What factors are important to choosing the next location of a new GR store?
If we have time to handle it, that’s the first factor, but otherwise, it just has to make sense financially within the area.
5) Arguably, your largest base is in the Los Angeles area-- do you see it influencing the visibility of Asian American culture in LA? How about...
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4) What factors are important to choosing the next location of a new GR store?
If we have time to handle it, that’s the first factor, but otherwise, it just has to make sense financially within the area.
5) Arguably, your largest base is in the Los Angeles area-- do you see it influencing the visibility of Asian American culture in LA? How about...