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Giant Robot 68. Luke Chueh. One of the first things he said to me was, do you know how long I waited for this? I'll have to say, it took a while, since he sent his own zines to us long before he moved to LA and long before he started making paintings. One thing refreshing about Luke is the fact that he tells it like it is. He won't hesitate to just say how things really are. He's not trying to protect his own career, image, or vibe. And before he does that? I'm sure he has less to worry about except making more and more paintings. His imagery is becoming iconic and his time for us is now!
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Giant Robot X Scion makes Pixel Pushers. The name is something that's ubiquitous with anything digital, but we used it anyway. Our last exhibition, Paper Shapers did well, so we thought the naming mojo should be consistent. The show features great artists. Zach Gage, Kohei Yamashita, Len Higa, Shawn Smith, Jude Buffum, Nullsleep, Daniel Rehn, and more. It began a year ago with the making of the Famicom inspired car. I got the green light to design it and Len Higa fabricated it. Adam Robezzoli helped with the gaming aspects, and off it went.
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It's perhaps unfair to compare two books, yet you can't help but think of the differences between the Laura Ling / Lisa Ling book, Somewhere Inside and the Euna Kim book, The World is Bigger Now. In case you're oblivious to their names, both, Laura and Euna were captured by North Korea and imprisoned for five months, mostly apart.
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Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Asian Fest 2010. The kids are alright. That's what I have to say. You might not think about Waco, Texas for any reasons except for negative news in terms of mass destruction, or perhaps the greatness that's Britney Griner, the 6'8″ basketball player, but where there's students who have a positive attitude and who make the best of where they're at, then it all works out great. I'll admit I had a little apprehension in going to Waco. Where is it? What's there? Aside from personal disasters before hand which made me late for everything – and this rarely happens, I also missed the connecting flight in Dallas, Texas. This was out of my control. My talk was at 7:30, I was supposed to be picked up at my hotel at 6:30 and I was supposed to be there much earlier, but here I was in Dallas being driven to Waco at 5pm. It's about a 2 hour flat land ride which means, I get there right before my talk. 7pm, I'm at the hotel trying to get situated. My brain was still twisting from the last 12 hours of mayhem.
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The work looks amazing, and I'm proud to be the host of this show. There's a set up at Flickr. It looks like a hot show and his prices are fair and the effort he puts into each piece is quite nice. No piece is too big and no piece is too small, even when it's tiny in size. Here's the link.
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