Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
That’s Ayako Fujitani working on a small section of a script with Shunji Iwai. I got to be the other “reader”. Even with nearly very little lines, I’d still mess up sometimes, throwing off everyones timing. This is why I don’t act. Read more about Shunji Iwai.
Continue reading
Albert Reyes checks out the Biennale space. Good job of having too much fun. You should have heard his speech. He promises an installation and art. Will it pass the tests of public safety? We’ll see.
Continue reading
Sept 21, 2007 is when our friend Lance Hahn from J Church passed away. We won’t forget him. Here’s a blog post from Martin about Lance and the moment we found out. We were thankfully hanging out in Hawaii eating shave ice… Then the call came. It’s been 2 years already. Time flies and all that. Martin’s blog.lancehahn.org
Continue reading
I open an older copy of SLAM magazine and see this ad. Interesting. Characters and burgers and the line, Japanese Technology, Big American Taste. WTF? What campaign was this? How does anything tie into each other to make sense. Did Japan invent burgers? Did they shrink them down into sliders? Did Sliders exist already? WTF? Try finding information about this campaign. I found none. I’m sure it failed. Even the characters aren’t drawn well enough to be real.
Continue reading
Remember this project? RE-CUT. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunsets movie screening at iD Film Festival Check out the FACEBOOK page. October 1, 20098:00 p.m. Japanese American National MuseumNational Center for the Preservation of Democracy111 N. Central AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90012janm.org(213) 625-0414 link to JANM site. The 2009 iD Film Festival is scheduled to open with a rare screening of Sunsets, the first feature by filmmakers Michael Aki and Giant Robot’s Eric Nakamura. Premiered as part of the Class of 1997 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival over a decade ago (along with works by Justin Lin, Rea Tajiri, and others), the film has never been shown outside the festival circuit or been commercially released. Shot on grainy black and white 16mm film, the very medium of rebel cinema, Sunsets chronicles the ennui, drunken bouts, and petty crimes of three young men, a white guy, a Hispanic, and a Japanese American (played by Aki himself) growing up in the small town of Watsonville, CA. The film is very much a coming-of-age story that is compelling in its purity and rawness. Understated, honest, and funny, this little-seen film shows a rare slice of Asian-American cinema that had never been attempted before. A critic has asserted that the film is “smarter and more credible than anything Gregg Araki has come up with.” The screening will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 1, followed by a reception for the filmmakers at 10:00 p.m. For more information about Sunsets, the iD Film Festival, or Giant Robot, please contact: Eric NakamuraGiant Robot Owner/Publishereric@giantrobot.com(310) 479-7311 ###
Continue reading