Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
We hope into a tiny restaurant in Ebisu and there’s 4 cats inside. The cat pictured above is 23 years old. It’s the oldest cat I’ve ever seen or maybe heard of. When it walks down the main walkway in this tiny restaurant, it’s meowing, I suppose sort of gaining as much attention as she can, literally defining what a “Catwalk” is all about. This restaurant was quite good, and I wonder if the cat’s been getting fed special food. This wouldn’t happen in LA, or in many other places in America, yet, the food was still good, and seemed quite safe and clean. Things like this make Tokyo, Tokyo. The cat does look for attention when walking down the aisle. It’s funny to see how people react to the cats. I love seeing Japanese restaurants do this. They have these bowls of their small veggie dishes out ready to serve. Definitely not proud of this one: but I ate horse. It ends up being pretty good, but in the end, I’m way over it. What’s the difference between eating horse, cat, a cow or a pig? Nothing. We’re all in the same gang – mammals. But I still won’t eat this again. Then it’s back to gyoza. This was amazing and who knows what was in it. ——-
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That’s me next to a Mold A Rama machine. You don’t see many of these, but when you do, rejoice in it. A rare beast, you won’t see any on the westcoast, hardly any on the east coast, and there you have it. It’s something special. The Field Museum has 4 of them and they spit out dinosaurs! A lot of you kids won’t even know what I’m talking about. $2 gives you a cool replica made of wax! I’m holding on in the photo. That’s a stegasaurus in pretty orange. I seriously want one of these machines. Have one for me? It’s amazing how nice they look especially when they have to be something like 30 or 40 years old. These masks are amazing, aren’t they? They’re as creative as the work by the kids who do art today.
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I’ve held back on my photos of this studio, but it’s gigantic. It’s brand new so there’s no furniture just yet. But this is the first official photos I’ve seen released, it just came as a PR and it’s for the Choe show in Beverly Hills (he went to High School there) that’s coming up next week! I’ll be back in town for it. Take a look at the new Juxtapoz magazine. It’s all about David and edited by him too!
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Walking by a display area in Chicago, I also ran into a Puma store. What’s so great about Puma these days? Way understated is their artist line with kozyndan. It’s the second season now, and the gear still looks fun and sort of strange. It doesn’t exactly fit with the entire Puma idea, since in the end, this looks like stuff GR should be making. But oh well. This stuff still looks fun and cool. I still don’t know why Amsterdam is so important for this entire line. I guess a location was important. I guess… Do I see a cigarette coming out of an ass crack? The details are nice. That’s sort of like kozyndan’s style.
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The Nakamura Trio. I’m Nakamura 1, Tad, 2, and Goh 3. This sounded like a joke, three guys who happen to have the same last name on a panel together, but guess what? It worked. We’re spread across different disciplines in a way that’s perfectly apart, yet similar in worlds that we actually mesh. We can answer the same questions in different ways, with our own experiences. I realize that Goh is all about being real and holding not too much back. I try and do the same. Tad meanwhile has a strong ethnocentric view without being boring – much like his films. What an interesting poster! I wanted one, and they gave me one, then it disappeared. Hope I can find one, one day. Anyone at Columbia peel one off the wall for me?About 50 or so came out. ASO Asian Student Organization came out in numbers.
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