Art/Design Featured An 8-Bit Tribute to The Big Lebowski, Office Space and Nintendo

December 17, 2010 - 11:08 am

One of the first things you might notice when walking into Giant Robot’s Pixel Pushers exhibit is the big-ass, high-tech car sitting in the middle of Scion Gallery — so clever and kitschy in its resemblance to a Nintendo controller, it’s aching for a test drive. And this is no ordinary automobile; it’s a Famicom Car. Literally, a giant video game system on wheels.

The front headlight projects the game action onto a gallery wall, a giant cartridge fits into the hood, and the seat belts are old school Nintendo controllers, which you use to play Chevy Ray Johnston’s Return of the Quack video game.

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Event Gallery Giant Robot Transforms L.A.’s Best Museum

January 26, 2010 - 11:00 am

Things got a little crazy with Giant Robot at The Japanese American National Museum last week. Between a raucous outburst by punk rockers The Binge, the usual array of bizarre surrealist paintings, transsexual action figures, homemade video games, and of course robots of all sizes, what began as a homemade magazine distributed to friends had officially exploded into a pop culture juggernaut. Eric Nakamura’s 15th GR anniversary featured some of the most inventive and original art by a variety of painters, plasterers, programmers, toymakers, and musicians.

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