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Michelle Kwan has been figuring out her new life which isn’t about skating. Her career was long and although the gold medal eluded her, she was a champion. It’s as if she won gold medals. This is a video interview. We’ll be seeing her again in a different arena. (ESPN – Michelle Kwan)
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Nerves of steel and a fighter pilot who meets the same criteria as the men. She’s popular and about to go into space tomorrow. There’s not a lot of info about her except she’s from a poorer area, but perhaps that’s plenty. (MSNBC – Liu Yang)
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giant robot time: 6.15.12 | artwork by: kwanchai moriya THE ART OF LUKE CHUEH *CUSTOM SIGNED* We’re having Luke Chueh in store Saturday June 24th at Giant Robot. Deadline to Order June 24th 10AM. Can’t make it? Its ok! KEVIN LUONG THE CUDDLIEST STAR PRINT Measures 8″ X 8″ – Digital print, Edition of 10, unframed. MEAT BUN DAYTONABOT T-SHIRT MEAT BUN PASSING BREEZE T-SHIRT MIMOBOT X BATMAN DARK KNIGHT RISES USB FLASH DRIVE Batman™ (The Dark Knight Rises Edition) X MIMOBOT®, featuring a brand-new a design inspired by the Christopher Nolan-helmed trilogy of movies. MIMOBOT X HELLO KITTY USB FLASH DRIVE Bring the outdoors IN, with Hello Kitty® Fun in Fields MIMOBOT® designer USB flash drive by Sanrio® and Mimoco! MINI TAPE ROLL PANDA AND FRIENDS Add this adorable panda and his friends to your mundane taping tasks. It’s sure to make your craft projects cuter. TOTORO 10″ PLUSH Straight from Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) this guy is super soft and officially licensed. Game Night 10 Glorkbot’s Mini-Adventure / Tri-Tri-Triobelisk / Samurai Gunn Saturday, June 16, 2012, 6:30–10pm In conjunction with the Attract Mode, Meat Bun Apparel and Angry Bananas, Giant Robot is proud to host Game Night 10, an event that takes place at GR2 about every two months. For this tenth installment, we are teaming up with James Kochalka and Pixel Jam’s long awaited title, alongside Shelby Cinca and Erik Svedäng’s iPad game, Tri-Tri-Triobelisk, and Beau Blyth’s Samurai Gunn. We will set up game stations both indoors and outdoors and in person will be Shelby Cinca and Beau Blyth. Also playable with be Cinca and Sean Chao’s Yeren board game and Beau Blyth and Jeni Yang’s Catburger. Game Night 10 is taking place during the Game Over Exhibition, so it’s a great chance to see video game inspired art alongside playable games. More info. Luke Chueh Book Signing and Print Release Sunday, June 24, 2012, 1–4pm The Art of Luke Chueh – Bearing the Unbearable is a monograph filled with the history of Luke Chueh’s art work. We’re proud to announce the appearance of Luke Chueh at Giant Robot 2 on Sunday June 24th 1-4pm. Chueh will be available to sign copies of his monograph (we’ll have copies) and to release his new print, “Swarm” which was on the cover of Giant Robot 68. More info. Satoshi – The Last Salaryman Figure Exhibition by Yukinori Dehara June 30 – July 25, 2012 Reception: Saturday, June 30, 2012 – 6:30-10pm Artist Talk & Clay Modeling Workshop Sunday, July 1, 2012 3-5pm The Salaryman in Japan, is an underpaid and understated workforce who work long hours and have forged a lifestyle that is strongly responsible for the economic miracle of post World War 2 Japan. Today they wander the streets after their long day, drinking and frolicking until they head home to their family, only to face the same thing the following day. Satoshi is this person but has...
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[Click to enlarge] SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. ~ This week there’s been talk of restarting the Edison International-operated nuclear reactors at San Onofre. Located between Los Angeles and San Diego, the two operational pressurized water reactors there ~ units #2 and #3 ~ have been shut down since January 2012, when an inspection found that new pipes that carry steam to and from the reactor’s generators showed unexpected corrosion less than two years ago after they were retrofitted. Any other time in the atomic age, the public might have just shrugged and accepted all the assurances of the giant utility. “Not to worry, folks.” But it’s only been 15 months since the triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, and three of the Japanese reactors there are still leaking radioactive becquerels and bucky balls of toxic isotopes and a tsunami-shattered fourth reactor building houses some 1,500 spent fuel rods that some say could create another nuclear disaster that will dwarf the one that the beleaguered Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government will be battling for the unforeseen future. The movement against the restarting of San Onofre #2 and #3 is growing. Warnings by the Southern California power companies that the absence of cheap and clean nuclear energy might cause rolling blackouts and limited time for junior on the Xbox don’t seem to carry the same fuzzy feelings as they did BF ~ Before Fukushima. One month after Japan’s triple 3-11 disasters, our friends over at Gizmodo published a timely story entitled “How a Fukushima-Level Disaster Would Affect You in New York, L.A. or Chicago.” The story featured some maps that were chilling then and that are even more compelling today factoring in what we didn’t know about the on-going nuclear mishaps in Japan. Gizmodo notes that while Japan opted for a 30-kilometer or 18.6-mile radius long-term evacuation zone, U.S. scientists tipped their hand last March when they advised any American citizen inside an 80-kilometer ( 49.7 mile) radius of Fukushima Daiichi to leave. If that same policy were applied in the case of meltdowns at reactors near the three top urban populations centers of the U.S. ~ New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, this would be the scenario, according to Gizmodo: ♣In the worst case of an meltdown at Indian Point Nuclear Station in Buchanan, NY, more than 20 million people in the metro area would have to be evacuated, leaving the city deserted, from Long Island to the Bronx. ♣If a Fukushima-like accident were to hit San Onofre, Southern California, although the city of Los Angeles itself would fall outside the evacuation zone, some 15 million souls would be told to evacuate from most of Orange Counnty, Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes to the north; greater San Diego to the south; Fontana, Whittier and Pomona to the east; and Catalina Island and Pacific Ocean to the west. ♣A disaster at either Dresden Nuclear Power Station in Dresden, IL or Braidwood NPP, Braidwood, IL outside Chicago...
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Mimobot Dark Knight Returns. Flash Drive 8gb USB that’s 19.99. There’s been a price drop at Mimoco recently. We have it in stock along with other classic Mimobots! (Mimobot – Dark Knight)
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