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February 13, 2010 0

Giant Robot Needs Our Help!

By nel in Graphic Design, cuteness, fashion, food, handmade, illustration, literature

I think in this day in age, we’re starting to see a serious decline in the print industry. it’s sad to say but, print is dying. with the invention of the internet and popularity of blogs, many people no longer feel the need to purchase magazines or continue their subscriptions.

Giant Robot has grown to become a cultural icon, with it’s long run publication and their gallery/stores across the country. Although the focus of their magazine was Asian/Asian American Pop Culture, the content of the magazine touched on a range of topics that could appeal to anyone regardless of your background. I remember hearing about them in high school and came to really adore them in my first year of college. I remember I, along with my friends, Nisa and Tiffany dreamed of one day creating and owning an establishment like Giant Robot. GR has had an influence on me and had a hand in making me the person I am today.  They introduced me to Kozyndan‘s insane panaramics, Twinkie Chan‘s food scarves, and Barry McGee’s alterego Ray Fong. They had a huge influence in developing my love for art and design.

And now, they’re in trouble. We’ve already seen I.D. Magazine announce that they’re folding back in Dec. 2009. How many more extraordinary magazines must we see disappear? I really do no want to see GR go under in my lifetime.

Help them out with a donation! With your support, they can continue producing this amazing publication.

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October 3, 2009 0

Kombucha Baby!

By nel in food, tea

So this week, I finally found flavors of GT’s Kombucha that I can actually enjoy. My favorites right now are the Mango and the Strawberry.  Kevin’s been wanting to grow his own kombucha for a while. it would save us so much money, considering a bottle of store bought kombucha is about $4 for 16oz. He read somewhere that you can actually grow your own kombucha mother (the culture used to make kombucha, looks like a giant gelatinous mushroom form) using tiny bits of kombucha mother that are floating in some store-bought bottled kombuchas. So we used the bits of mother I saved from my Strawberry flavored kombucha and a whole bottle of 100% kombucha and this is how much it’s grown in the past few days. And the rest of the liquid is brewed tea. I believe Kevin used some oolong.

We were extremely surprised at how fast it’s grown considering it literally started as bits and strands. So far it’s formed a nice layer over the top of the liquid. There’s some bubbly chunky island-like forms in there but it’s probably from the original bits we put it. We’re really hoping that this works and that the kombucha doesn’t die. We’ll just have to wait and see.