Flat Bonnie SDCC Exclusives & Giveaway

Flat Bonnie x Nathan Hamill have made Octopop Plush! Purchase your new Nathan Hamill Octopup Sofubi for 10$ at 3DRETRO Booth 5049. Lucky buyers will receive an aqua "golden ticket"! Present it to 3DRETRO and you will be gifted one of three 6" Octopup Plush.

Find more info about the Sofubi here.

More Flat Bonnie!

Flat Bonnie will have a limited edition Flat Bonnie x Giant Robot plush available

at Comic-Con San Diego (Giant Robot booth #1729).

Sparq the Baby Dragon, will make his public debut at Comic-Con. Other color variations will be available online after Comic-Con.

-Tasha Zimich

VIDEO: Nerdirt covers Giant Robot's Super Awesome art show at Oakland Museum of CA

Our buddy Jasin heads over to the Oakland Museum of California to check out the fairly epic "Super Awesome" art show curated by Giant Robot (Eric Nakamura), featuring a ton of talented artists that Giant Robot has been working with over the years. Video below:



Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of groundbreaking alternative art and culture magazine Giant Robot, OMCA features the major exhibition, SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot featuring works by 15 contemporary artists who have been a part of the magazine's social and cultural evolution. Co-curated by Giant Robot visionary Eric Nakamura and OMCA's Associate Curator of Art & Material Culture Carin Adams, SuperAwesome presents new or recent works by California and international-based artists affiliated with the influential magazine that brought Asian, trans-Pacific popular culture to mainstream audiences in the United States.

Artworks in the exhibition represent a range of mediums, including mural art, sculpture, illustration, portraiture, large-scale installations, graphic novels, photography, and more. Featured artists include:

Ako Castuera
Sean Chao
David Choe
Luke Chueh
Hamburger Eyes
Andrew Hem
James Jean

Kozyndan
Masakatsu Sashie
Shizu Saldamando
Rob Sato
Amy Sol
Deth P Sun
Adrian Tomine


Over the past 20 years, the Giant Robot brand has expanded to include retail stores and galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, a restaurant, museum and gallery exhibitions, and a popular website. It has also become an important outlet for a generation of emerging artists, several of whom have achieved mainstream success—such as Adrian Tomine, whose work has graced many New Yorker covers, and James Jean, whose is best known for his work for Prada, ESPN, and Atlantic Records.

SuperAwesome connects to OMCA's other spring exhibition Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records through programs and in-gallery experiences celebrating how a range of communities comes together to create shared popular culture.

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Printed Matter show at Giant Robot - GR2 12/17/12 - 1/9/13

The next show at Giant Robot's gallery, GR2, is called Printed Matter. The show is based around the creation of multiples, both in 3D and 2D. In most respects, society owes a lot to the technology behind the original printing press, which allowed the rapid creation of multiples, with regards to Printed Matter. Whether or not this show has anything to do with this thought, I imagine that there will be lots of great art to be seen and purchased. The opening reception for this show is on Friday December 22nd from 6:30-10PM, with the actual show running from December 17th to January 9th, 2013. If you're in the LA area, head on down to GR2 and check it out.

 

A 3D example of multiples from Scott Wilkowski. Based on the Giant Robot Big Boss Robot, Scott Wilkowski once again applies his Infected resin theme to this great little piece.

 Big Boss Robot Infected by Scott Wilkowski

Keep up with events and news at Giant Robot:
Giant Robot Site
Giant Robot Store

- Mark-Anthony

POST IT SHOW 8 presented by GIANT ROBOT

POST-IT SHOW 8 is going to be opening at the Giant Robot Gallery in Los Angeles December 8. Running until December 16th, this one week show is going to have over 2000 Post-Its featuring over 260 artists. Each piece is going to sell for only $25 cash and carry, on a first come, first serve basis. I imagine that this means you take home whatever you purchase. It is also likely, that a patron will only be allowed a max of 1 Post-It per artist, to allow sharing, with no limit on the number of Post-Its purchased. This will allow more people to enjoy all the artists work. A few teasers are posted below.

Colorful Post-Its by Audrey Kawasaki

Post-It by Kano

Sculpted Ghost Girl on Post-It by  J-Ryu

As the show approaches closer, teasers are sure to continue to be shown throughout the week. Be sure to head on over to the Giant Robot Gallery early on December 8th, if you want a better chance at picking up a Post-It by one or more of your favorite artists.

- Mark-Anthony

Big Boss Robot - The Giant Robot blind box figures - Stop Motion

The Big Boss blind-box mini figures by Giant Robot come in 12 different colorways, and they're evenly packed into cases of 12. Buy a full case and get one of each! All limbs are detachable and interchangeable. They retail for $8 each and we can get em so email us if you want a few, or a full case.

Our visit to Alex Pardee's ZeroFriends NYC pop-up shop

The other day Steph and I stopped by Alex Pardee's ZeroFriends pop-up shop, which is located in the old Upper Playground space next to Giant Robot NY on East 9th Street, between 1st Ave and Avenue A. Sweet shop, great Pardee shirts & artwork to be coveted and collected. Two must-see shops right next to each other. Get there before the ZeroFriends pop-up shop closes! If you haven't yet seen Alex's Bunnywith #2 comic book, here's your chance. Hysterical!