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giant robot time: 1.23.15 | art by: yoskay yamamoto Solvers by Theo EllsworthJanuary 31 - February 18Reception: Saturday, January 31, 6:30-10PMTheo Ellsworth hails from the State of Montana. He's a graphic novelist of Capacity, The Understanding Monster (1+2), and designed...
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giant robot time: 12.13.13 | header: post it show 9 Post It Show 9 Part II December 14, 12:00 PM Enough art is showing up late. Some needed more time and some just wanted to make more art. The list is subject to change and there will be more additions. Event Game Night 17 Saturday, December 14, 6:30-10:00 PM Featuring three games: Hyper Light Drifter: Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with unknown dangers and lost technologies. Inspired by nightmares and dreams alike, Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Irrational Exuberance: A first-person mystery playground at the end of the world, Irrational Exuberance is a surrealist space oddysey. Explore a cluster of asteroids that appear to orbit exoplanet EX-I. Discover hidden beauty and unusual phenomenon that react to your presence. Minimalist controls and UI. Ideally experienced with virtual reality technologies like Oculus Rift. Stargaze. Find hope. About Buffalo Vision: Buffalo Vision is an impossible dream, a company, an alter ego discovered by Ben Vance in 2010. Ben spent many moons engineering strange magic at Electronic Arts before technically & creatively collaborating with 17-BIT & Plush Apocalypse on the award-winning strategy game Skulls of the Shogun. Irrational Exuberance is the first project built exclusively with Buffalo Vision. Perfect Stride: Perfect Stride is a first person skateboarding game exploring a surreal world of 90′s computer graphics through graceful mouse motions & time manipulation. Coming some time soon for PC, MAC, & iOS. Event Giant Robot T-shirts Check out our wide assortment of fun and creative t-shirts, jackets, and hoodies! Giant Robot Hats Keep your head warm this holiday season with a variety of GR hats! Mari Nakamura Handmade Ceramics Perfect for those seeking original and thoughtful gifts. Kikkerland Movie Camera LED Keychains Keychains and cell phone straps fit snugly inside stockings! Yoskay Yamamoto Handmade Pins Turn to us for one of a kind handcrafted goods from artists such as Yoskay Yamamoto. Kozyndan & Heisuke Kitazawa Prints Great economical gifts for the art lover. Including a frame is always a nice touch! Multimatter December 18 – January 8 Reception: Saturday, December 21 An exhibition of Multiples. Multimatter began as “Printed Matter” years ago as an exhibition of prints and now it’s morphed into more. The means of production of non-paper items has improved and with that brings up new types of items. We’ll see prints, but then there’ll be plush, ceramics and more. Aaron Woes, Aiyana Udesen, Ako Castuera, Alex Chiu, Apak, Aya Kakeda, Bert Gatchalian, Bigfoot, Bradford Lynn, Carlos Donjuan, Christine Wu, Daniel Rolnik, Danni Shinya Luo, Darth Rimmer, Dave Stolte, David Horvath, Dean Gojobori, Deth P Sun, Enkyskulls, Gabe Gonzales, Gosha Levochkin, James Chong, Jarrett Quon, Jeremiah Ketner, Jerome Lu, Jesse Tise, Jiyoung Moon, J*RYU, Kaori Kasai, Ken Taya, Kerry Horvath, Kevin Luong, kozyndan, Kwanchai Moriya, Leah Chun, Little Friends of Printmaking,...
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giant robot time: 12.13.13 | header: post it show 9 Post It Show 9 Part II December 14, 12:00 PM Enough art is showing up late. Some needed more time and some just wanted to make more art. The list is subject to change and there will be more additions. Event Game Night 17 Saturday, December 14, 6:30-10:00 PM Featuring three games: Hyper Light Drifter: Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with unknown dangers and lost technologies. Inspired by nightmares and dreams alike, Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale. Irrational Exuberance: A first-person mystery playground at the end of the world, Irrational Exuberance is a surrealist space oddysey. Explore a cluster of asteroids that appear to orbit exoplanet EX-I. Discover hidden beauty and unusual phenomenon that react to your presence. Minimalist controls and UI. Ideally experienced with virtual reality technologies like Oculus Rift. Stargaze. Find hope. About Buffalo Vision: Buffalo Vision is an impossible dream, a company, an alter ego discovered by Ben Vance in 2010. Ben spent many moons engineering strange magic at Electronic Arts before technically & creatively collaborating with 17-BIT & Plush Apocalypse on the award-winning strategy game Skulls of the Shogun. Irrational Exuberance is the first project built exclusively with Buffalo Vision. Perfect Stride: Perfect Stride is a first person skateboarding game exploring a surreal world of 90′s computer graphics through graceful mouse motions & time manipulation. Coming some time soon for PC, MAC, & iOS. Event Giant Robot T-shirts Check out our wide assortment of fun and creative t-shirts, jackets, and hoodies! Giant Robot Hats Keep your head warm this holiday season with a variety of GR hats! Mari Nakamura Handmade Ceramics Perfect for those seeking original and thoughtful gifts. Kikkerland Movie Camera LED Keychains Keychains and cell phone straps fit snugly inside stockings! Yoskay Yamamoto Handmade Pins Turn to us for one of a kind handcrafted goods from artists such as Yoskay Yamamoto. Kozyndan & Heisuke Kitazawa Prints Great economical gifts for the art lover. Including a frame is always a nice touch! Multimatter December 18 – January 8 Reception: Saturday, December 21 An exhibition of Multiples. Multimatter began as “Printed Matter” years ago as an exhibition of prints and now it’s morphed into more. The means of production of non-paper items has improved and with that brings up new types of items. We’ll see prints, but then there’ll be plush, ceramics and more. Aaron Woes, Aiyana Udesen, Ako Castuera, Alex Chiu, Apak, Aya Kakeda, Bert Gatchalian, Bigfoot, Bradford Lynn, Carlos Donjuan, Christine Wu, Daniel Rolnik, Danni Shinya Luo, Darth Rimmer, Dave Stolte, David Horvath, Dean Gojobori, Deth P Sun, Enkyskulls, Gabe Gonzales, Gosha Levochkin, James Chong, Jarrett Quon, Jeremiah Ketner, Jerome Lu, Jesse Tise, Jiyoung Moon, J*RYU, Kaori Kasai, Ken Taya, Kerry Horvath, Kevin Luong, kozyndan, Kwanchai Moriya, Leah Chun, Little Friends of Printmaking,...
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SPRING SALE SAVE 20% IN-STORE // SAVE 25% ONLINE APRIL 6 – APRIL 22, 2012 Online checkout code: grweb25. Artwork excluded from offer. THEY ARE US NEW WORK BY AKO CASTUERA APRIL 7 – MAY 2, 2012 Ako Castuera often shows at Giant Robot in group exhibitions. This will be her first solo effort at Giant Robot. Castuera’s work involves a look into the past which has brought us into the present. Along with her sweeping watercolor hills and valleys are dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Castuera relays their significance as a dreaming point as well as their contribution in our ecosystem. Also in this exhibition will be sculptural work also depicting prehistoric animals captured in a modernistic style. Castuera’s work is colorful, dreamy and captures a concept that explains who we are and where we came from. I AM FINE EISHI TAKAOKA SOLO EXHIBITION MAY 5 – MAY 30, 2012 RECEPTION: SAT, MAY 5, 6:30-10PM Eishi Takaoka’s work is coming back. Although the sculptures of Eishi Takaoka all portray the same serene expression, their outwardly calm façade belies a world of bottled-up emotions. With nowhere to go, these intense feelings manifest themselves in outlandish formations that sprout out of the top of each figure’s head. The uniquely sculpted heads of Takaoka are rooted in a personal fantasy world that is fueled by the emotional ups and downs of daily life in lower-middle class Japan. He instills his frustration with life in Kagoshima and feelings of isolation into each of the pieces, which are comprised of carved wood painted with raw mineral pigments placed atop empty glass medicine bottles. Takaoka’s pieces have been seen in group shows in Tokyo and New York, one-person exhibitions at Giant Robot New York and GR2 in Los Angeles, and on the cover of novelist Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. For this exhibition, Takaoka will create 34 sculptures at Giant Robot 2 in Los Angeles. He is currently attending school in his hometown of Kagoshima, Japan and will not be in Los Angeles for the opening. PAUL ROBERTSON*SIGNED* PRINT Fresh from our Diversions! art show at the GR2 gallery. Paul Robertson’s 8-bit style prints are available signed by the man himself. Inspiration for his work is found in popular culture, video games, animation and nostalgia. DOMO 2″ QEESERIES 4 FIGURE New series featuring everyone’s favorite character Domo Kun! These blind boxes have an awesome array of styles that are more rare than the next! JAMES JEANXOXO POSTCARD SET GR contributing artists James Jean has released this wonderful set of postcards featuring images of his much talked about paintings. 30 postcards in the set! JAMES JEANKINDLING A poster book featuring 12 brand new, never-before-published paintings by award-winning artist James Jean. Each of the 11″ x 16″ pull-out prints is bound into a paperback portfolio and features a full-color painting on one side and intricate sketches on the opposite side. ED LINONE RED BASTARD In One Red Bastard, Ed Lin’s thrilling sequel to...
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PRINTED MATTER 10 PRINTS FROM ARTISTS JANUARY 11 – JANUARY 25 RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 6:30-10PM The Giant Robot 2 (GR2) remodel happening at the beginning of January will transform the location into a larger gallery, creating MORE wall space and utilizing all of the existing walls. We’re shrinking the retail capacity of GR2 and focusing in on the art that we’ve loved sharing with the world there! We’ll begin with a large print show, “Printed Matter 10″ as we’ve done in the past at GR2, GRNY and GRSF. We’ve had numerous installments of of “Printed Matter” and this is the 10th. The print show will begin January 11th with an opening on Saturday the 14th. Participants include: Apak!, Chris Bettig, Jude Buffum, Burlesque Printing, Louise Chen, Shawn Cheng, David Choe, James Chong, Dutch Door Press, ENFU, Ines Estrada, Jesse Fillingham, Hilary Florido, Matt Furie, Gabe Gonzales, Kio Griffith, Seonna Hong, Kerry Horvath, Michael & Pearl Hsiung, Martin Hsu, Mari Inukai, Jeremyville, Kaori Kasai, kozyndan, Jesse LeDoux, Little Friends of Printmaking, Bradford Lynn, Dan McCarthy, Gary Musgrave, Masato Nakada, Saelee Oh, Martin Ontiveros, Panorama Press, Sidney Pink, Albert Reyes, Jay Ryan, Jessica Seamans, Ryan Jacob Smith, Dave Stolte, Diana Sudyka, Deth P. Sun, Jesse Tise, Aiyana Udesen, Justin Wallis, Jing Wei, Kent Williams, Aaron Woes Martin, Sashiko Yuen NORWEGIAN WOOD BOOKBY HARUKI MURAKAMI PROMOTIONAL OFFER Get a copy of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood for free at the Giant Robot Store along with a Movie Promo Postcard with a $40 purchase while supplies last. We’ve given the movie an emphatic thumbs up. We have only 4 copies left! The offer applies to both in store and online. Norwegian Wood Opens in US Theaters starting January 2012. See the website for show times and theaters. norwegianwoodmovie.com IN PRINT APPAREL ACCESSORIES TOYS HOUSEWARES + MORE NEW AND FEATURED FOR JANUARY… DAVID CHOE X GIANT ROBOTSWEATER SKATE DECK GAMA-GOCUPCAKEYS KEY COVERS In commemoration of Giant Robot’s 15th anniversary artist David Choe collaborated once again for two new skate decks. Edition of 150. These tasty cupcakes fit atop your keys! So cute, so sweet. The purple one with the eye patch is going on my car key. Gotta check those blind spots! FREE STYLE SCRAPS 08PIXEL BOOK BLACKBIRD FLY35MM CAMERA The latest in graphic inspiration from the Freestyle Scraps series by the wizards at BNN. Over 1000 illustrations from a wide range of themes, all based on the ubiquitous pixel. The Blackbird Fly is a twin-lens reflex camera: one lens is used to expose the film, while the other is used like a viewfinder. It’s a famous style of camera whose history stretches back to the 1920′s. STINCKERS STICKER SHEETJOHNNY RYAN UGLYDOLL X FUNKOOX VINYL FIGURE Gross out comic master Johnny Ryan’s collection of classic characters grace this Stincker sheet. Signed by the artist. Limited edition. Uglydoll and Funko have collaborated to release these unique vinyl figures. Their heads can rotate and provide a cool accessory for your desk or display...
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