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giant robot time: 9.16.11 | art by: deth p. sun
Giant Robot




Robots
A Benefit for GR2
September 24 - October 12


Giant Robot will host a “special” art exhibition for the benefit of Giant Robot 2 – the gallery space.

Giant Robot 1 retail space began art exhibitions including Ai Yamaguchi and kozyndan. The space was limiting and art as we know it today was a limited world that was just beginning to bubble.

Opening in 2003, Giant Robot 2 or “GR2″ has hosted exhibitions by well known, soon to be well known and new young artists. The first exhibition in the space was by renown artist David Choe. Following exhibitions included Saelee Oh, Deth P. Sun, kozyndan, Barry McGee, Souther Salazar, Eishi Takaoka, Masakatsu Sashie, and many others who exhibit at many locations around the world. We’ve since worked with new waves of artists who’ve also moved forward at a rapid pace as well. Then yet another wave, and so forth. Giant Robot 2 has often and free exhibited young artists at an expense. In the end, who pays for the promotion, rent, staffing, etc? We do.

We’re not like many other establishments who force artists into contracts. We try and nurture artists so they can have their freedom. At times it works well. Our track record is powerful. But again, how does this get paid for? The hindering economy leaves us with less options, and a benefit show featuring our artist friends will carry us for a healthy amount of time and we hope to have your support. The goal for GR2 is for the space to be self sustaining as an art space in 2012 and on. We’ll release more news on our plans, soon.





MEAT BUN POP UP SHOP AT GR2
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 7-10PM


GR2 is proud to host the Meat Bun Pop Up Store at Giant Robot 2. For one month, the latest Meat Bun clothing line will be available in all styles and sizes. Meat Bun is a Southern California based company featuring video games graphics fused with a creative and thoughtful energy. Their t-shirts often use a graphic that’s inspired from a game that’s been recreated into an aesthetic more inline with an artistic work. Their new line of t-shirts promises to be their best yet.
 



DIRTY HANDS THE ART AND CRIMES OF DAVID CHOE - DVD SIGNING
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2-4PM


CAN'T MAKE IT? SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE ONLINE

Giant Robot will host a DVD signing of Dirty Hands The Art and Crimes of David Choe with director Harry Kim. David Choe will be a possible guest.

The film is an original portrayal filmed over nearly a decade of time and it’s now available with extra commentary of Choe’s own mother to a bonus disc of footage. Director Harry Kim began this project as a USC film student and has travelled the world with Choe with both the film and with their web series “Thumbs Up”. DVD’s will be available for sale.





 
Spend $25 and you get a little form that you send in, and  you get? Cookie Chef Babo. It’s an insane deal and smartly, the Uglydoll folks and David Horvath and Sun-min Kim have created a way to get people out to the shops. Get out, come see us, get in, get a form. Once we run out of forms… that’s when the offer expires. We’ll see if we can get more!
 
Addendum: no Chronicle Books products,  Bossy Bear, or Qee or Toy2R products. We like them, but they don’t count. Tax doesn’t count either. One household can receive up to 3 of the of plush.
 
We extended this online. We’ll mail you the certificate. You need to at 4.95 shipping, it’s a 12″ doll. The products need to have a barcode, so the buttons are too small! Internationals, you’ll probably have to wait. Limit of 3 per household!



SMOKE AND MIRRORS
NEW WORKS FROM DETH P. SUN


   
ARTIST FRIENDS SERIES - RAY SATO
By ERIC NAKAMURA
  PODCAST - BEAU SIA
By GIANT ROBOT NEWS
Ray Sato is the owner of Balconi offee Company in West LA. He’s known in the area as a shop that offers siphon or “syphon” coffee which was once prevalent in America decades ago and lives on strongly in Japan and Taiwan.   In our talk, Beau Sia explains his past work and where it comes from, hip hop, current projects, insecurities, and his future. His words are thoughtful and his explanations are detailed.
     
 
9/11 IN JAPANESE POP CULTURE
By BRETT FUJIOKA
  C'MON CHINESE PEOPLE!
By ED LIN
A decade has passed since Al Qaeda’s attack on the World Trade Center. Multiple news sources have commemorated the event as a moment of self-reflection in which America and the world have evolved–for better or worse–in the Post-9/11 world.   This is Sichuan Province’s way of promoting good citizenship — dress up your local nubile volunteers as skanky cats and unleash them in the subways.

 
     
 
INTERVIEW: SOOYOUNG PARK ON TOUR
By MARTIN WONG
  NEW GR/EATS MENU
By GIANT ROBOT NEWS
The trio of Sooyoung, Jon Fine, and Orestes Morfin hasn’t played since 1989 but is rehearsing for All Tomorrow’s Parties “Nightmare Before Christmas” and a handful of other gigs in support of their deluxe remasters.   We refreshed the menu and it's better than ever. gr/eats is located directly adjacent to Giant Robot 2 on Sawtelle Blvd. We hope to see you soon.




   
THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF DAVID CHOE [DVD]
Directed By HARRY KIM

Meet David Choe, degenerate gambler, insatiable sex addict, and compulsive thief who sprays paint on walls at night. He is eventually jailed and serves time in solitary confinement. Choe returns to the world with a new faith, full of hopes but fails to turn his life around. Instead, Choe pursues his newfound success, as a seven figure artist that gets paid to keep his man-boy adventure alive.

Includes over 3 hours of bonus footage
- Interviews with Sasha Grey and Eli Roth
- Video Commentary with David's Parents
- David shows all his collected art throughout his childhood
- Art gallery
- Zine by David Choe



BROUGHT TO YOU BY
MICHELLE B.
HELLO KITTY 70'S PLUSH KEYCHAIN DELFONICS - ADDRESS BOOK
 
As the manager of the Giant Robot stores, she has the low-down on what's hot in the shops. She's rocking a GR X MTN MTN T-Shirt above.
 
Adorable Hello Kitty Plush keychains that come in a variety of colors.
 
Wonderfully designed and simple items. The Address Book comes with tabbed line ruled pages with a heavy duty cloth hardcover.
YOSHITOMO NARA -
IN THE DEEPEST PUDDLE
MEAT BUN X GIANT ROBOT T-SHIRT KAIJU SALE - DAVID HORVATH'S UMA CHUPACABRA
This book is an import and we're one of the few to have this. His artwork is iconic and was featured on the cover of Giant Robot Issue #20.
 
The Meat Bun pop up shop will launch in conjunction with Game Night 6!
 
Wonderwall's Kaiju For Grown-ups series continues with a figure designed by David Horvath of Uglydoll notoriety.

     

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