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Dec 08, 2015 Going Overground presentation at OTIS College of Art and Design
The other week, our daughter came home and asked Wendy and me if my brother-in-law could speak to her class. Her teacher was trying to line up speakers for the second-grade Community Heroes unit, and Eric is a pediatrician. Doctors, police officers, fire fighters--the list of speakers was excellent and a lot like a Playskool...
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Dec 04, 2015 Making Bricks Out of Heavy Air Pollution
A 34-year old performance artist from Shenzhen named "Nut Brother" walked around the streets of Beijing with a vacuum cleaner at his side. He told Quartz through his performance art, he wants people to think more about environmental protection and better understand the “relationship between human and nature”. For 100 days, Nut Brother vacuumed China's...
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Dec 01, 2015 Save Music in Chinatown: The First Two Years zine revisited
Sharing ideas and aesthetics through the printed page was an awesome experience, especially since my friend Eric and I had started off with the most humble form of journalism--the zine. And for our publication to push a subculture and build a community whose impact would trickle up into the mainstream was never anticipated or even...
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Nov 26, 2015 Happy Thanksgiving from Imprint!
Happy Thanksgiving from the Imprint team! We are thankful for your support and reading our blog posts. Here are some deals from our incubees and partners going on during Thanksgiving break. Have a safe and wonderful weekend everybody! Each $50 Knock Box contains at least 4 pairs of sunglasses (1 Premium, 1 Fort Knocks,...
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Nov 24, 2015 Season of the Force at Disneyland
The holidays have been a big deal at Disneyland for a long time now. It's a Small World has been decorated with Christmas lights since 1997 and the Haunted Mansion has had a Nightmare Before Christmas seasonal makeover since 2001. Just a couple of years ago, the Jungle Cruise boats have been rechristened with festive--and...
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Nov 19, 2015 Live After 5 Circus Edition
Last week’s Live After 5 event was pretty cool. Every second Thursday of the month, bands and performers take the stage and put on a show for the public in the heart of Downtown Long Beach. This event was across the street from our office at the Promenade parking lot so getting there was...
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Nov 17, 2015 Optic Nerve’s Adrian Tomine and TVOTR’s Tunde Adebimpe at Skylight Books
Last week, my wife and I walked over to Skylight Books in Los Feliz to see Adrian Tomine read from his new book, Killing and Dying, and chat about his work with Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio. We're longtime fans of both Tomine's Optic Nerve comics and Adebimpe's band, so how could we...
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Nov 10, 2015 Notes from the Underground: Censorship Now!! by Ian Svenonius and Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Is it because no one pays for music anymore that so many members of my favorite bands are writing books? Or maybe they're simply Renaissance people who can't stop creating art or sharing ideas with supporters like me. I'd like to think the latter. Last Sunday, I wasn't able to attend Ian Svenonius's reading at my...
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Nov 09, 2015 8 Questions with: Yoskay Yamamoto
Yoskay Yamamoto is a distinguished self-taught artist from Toba, Japan. He moved to the U.S. when he was a teenager and is currently living in Los Angeles. He curated his most recent exhibition at GR2 called “81 Bastards” and currently has an installation piece at the Japanese American National Museum for Giant...