Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
For the bunch of you who went to the Biennale 4 and didn't examine the Giant Robot Store Installation. Here's one angle of it. There are tons of details within so I'll make an effort in the next few days...
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New Yorker story about Adrian Tomine who’s exhibited at Giant Robot, and whose items we also sell including the new Optic Nerve #13. Adrian Tomine will also be part of the Giant Robot exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California next year (April 2014). (GR Store) read up on Adrian Tomine here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/cover-story-adrian-tomine-crossroads.html#slide_ss_0=1
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New Yorker story about Adrian Tomine who’s exhibited at Giant Robot, and whose items we also sell including the new Optic Nerve #13. Adrian Tomine will also be part of the Giant Robot exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California next year (April 2014). (GR Store) read up on Adrian Tomine here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/cover-story-adrian-tomine-crossroads.html#slide_ss_0=1
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“Where I was in Brooklyn, I don’t think I would have even known that there was a major storm happening,” says Adrian Tomine, the artist of next week’s cover, “Undeterred.” He continues: So I spent the whole night glued to the Internet and watching everything unfolding, just being shocked that this kind of dramatic destruction was happening just miles outside my home. And I started thinking about how it would affect the election. This is a first for me in terms of doing [a cover] that’s topical with a quick turnaround; and somehow, these two significant events just came together into that one image for me. Tomine adds: For all its really horrible effects, I feel like the storm has made real a lot of issues in the election that were hypothetical, that were thrown around as debate topics—global warming; and “Is Obama enough of a leader to handle a natural disaster?”; and do we need FEMA? It’s really interesting, and in a way useful, to see a lot of these things become actual issues that are right at hand. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/11/cover-story-sandy-and-election.html#ixzz2B73WkdWx
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Adrian Tomine talks about his comic, Optic Nerve #12. The latest installment. He talks about the changes in his own life and the changes in his new stories. Some thing you can’t run away from even when he tries to make things different. Tomine mentions that his stories might be him spread throughout the characters and not just the one who looks like him. He talks a bit about Shortcomings and also the new characters. (Optic Nerve 12) (scpr – Tomine)
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