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Editorial

Nov 25, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_12025" align="alignnone" width="790"] Photo on right courtesy of Oliver Seil.[/caption] A few weeks ago, I was asked by my friend James Chu to do a talk for the Art Center Branding Atelier. I don't speak much about my years at Giant Robot magazine these days and branding isn't exactly my specialty. But how could I...

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Oct 21, 2014

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The phone call I got from ABC's Nightline earlier this month wasn't the first time a television producer had contacted me asking if I would provide my take on cosmetic eyelid surgery for Asians. I never asked to be a spokesperson on the topic but I'm pretty sure it started in 2004. A reporter who was...

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Aug 26, 2014

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It was way back in 2002 but I vividly recall driving from my home in Silver Lake to the Giant Robot garage off Sawtelle, listening to KXLU, and hearing what sounded like vintage garage rock from Cambodia. The LMU station is rightfully famous for championing all sorts of great punk rock, post punk, and noise...

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Aug 05, 2014

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Saturday night in Los Angeles was atypical. It was unseasonably muggy all day and eventually it started to rain. Weird but good, especially during a seriously long drought in the Southland. My social calendar was atypical and good as well: I was able to visit three of my favorite artists and friends back to back...

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Jul 29, 2014

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By now you've read about the celebrity hijinks, the sequel and reboot announcements, and the crazy fans who camped in line for hours to enter Hall H. You've seen photos of scandalous or sad cosplay as well as the horrendous traffic all over the city. And it's true that the annual gathering of pop culture...

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Mar 04, 2014

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[caption id="attachment_9785" align="alignnone" width="790"] Lindsey Ingram Photography[/caption] If you watched last weekend's Academy Awards, hopefully you noticed that Rithy Panh's The Missing Picture was nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture. The Cambodian/French co-production is an artful and ingenious retelling of the filmmaker's surviving the Khmer Rouge and its consideration was a milestone for Cambodians around the...

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Feb 25, 2014

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With most record labels struggling to scrape by, a generation of eardrums expecting songs to come free, and a shrinking middle class in music in general, it just keeps getting harder for an independent band to pay the bills through its songs. And so one of my favorite groups, the Cambodian psychedelic rock-inspired Dengue Fever,...

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Feb 04, 2014

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Once a year, the LA Art Book Fair takes over MOCA's Geffen Contemporary space in Little Tokyo. Vendors pay for their spaces but admission is free to anyone who is interested in artists’ books, catalogs, periodicals, zines, and prints from an international array of publishers of all sizes, booksellers, and artists themselves. Of course I had...

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Jan 28, 2014

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I've been lucky enough to have not one but two dream jobs. Helping to start Giant Robot and edit the magazine for 16 years was a great run. How many writers get to work with their best friend and cover pretty much whatever he or she wants every single issue? And being a part of...

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Jan 21, 2014

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I couldn't make it to the Nick Zinner and Malia James photo exhibit in Pomona the other week, but when I saw that the latter was selling a Photographs From The Road zine I immediately hit her up. I love art zines because they're imperfect, fragile, and cheap but made with love. I don't fool...