tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304957312024-03-07T14:25:14.681-06:00astromonsterThe Unseen World Up ClosealeX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-21806812601761273142014-04-17T11:27:00.000-05:002014-04-17T11:28:55.475-05:00Lesson to Legendary Pictures: "HE HAS TO BE A GUY IN A SUIT!"Chicago cartoonist turned Brooklynite Art Babe <a href="http://jessicaabel.com/">Jessica Abel</a>'s latest post is a look back to the dimly remembered '90s. Read and learn.
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<i><br /></i>aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-77718405348030703642012-06-27T11:24:00.001-05:002012-06-27T11:24:12.621-05:00Emi Ito, RIP<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 22px;"></span><br />
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The Peanuts were also an omnipresent on Japanese television in the 1960s. They made numerous appearance in the U.S. and Europe, as well. Readers might recall their rather odd recurring role as miniature fairies in the Mothra monster movies.</div>
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The Peanuts’ music holds up remarkably well today: terrific harmonies, attractive arrangements, and excellent choice of material. I thought about including a chapter on them in my book, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop</em>, but in the end ran out of time. Maybe someday I’ll get around to writing about them: they are essential figures in the history of Japanese popular music.</div>
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RIP, Ito Emi.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Original 1951 illustration by James R. Bingham for Ray Bradbury’s short story,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em style="margin-top: 0px !important; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">. The story was the basis for the 1953 film with special effects by Bradbury’s friend Ray Harryhausen. After its initial publication in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">The Saturday Evening Post</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> in 1951, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> was renamed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">The Fog Horn </em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">for subsequent anthologization in Bradbury’s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">The Golden Apples of the Sun</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">.</span>aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-39867823128362359092012-04-11T10:47:00.000-05:002012-04-11T10:47:00.818-05:00More Goji Guignol<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoht1Qf4r-7neewzW9fqSNlxu367S3rLRf6GY0n1LACS4Fzc76QGljWjrA-ILoo0yrsNLzViWiDCd6jfZ5D46_BNMSXlbffQma4kGQgz4PwoII_UvG8o4VDKkoS2x07JNgLUp/s1600/nakajima_mosugoji_guignol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqoht1Qf4r-7neewzW9fqSNlxu367S3rLRf6GY0n1LACS4Fzc76QGljWjrA-ILoo0yrsNLzViWiDCd6jfZ5D46_BNMSXlbffQma4kGQgz4PwoII_UvG8o4VDKkoS2x07JNgLUp/s640/nakajima_mosugoji_guignol.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Veteran Godzilla suit-actor Haruo Nakajima poses with a Mosugoji Guignol during shooting of Godzilla vs The Thing (1964).</div>aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-27721536571599119672012-04-11T08:52:00.001-05:002012-04-11T10:02:36.113-05:00Shodai Gojira Guignol!Yamada Masami <a href="http://ameblo.jp/gara999/entry-11212940230.html?frm_src=thumb_module" target="_blank">Blog</a> has an amazing set of photos of the 1954 Shodai Gojira Guignol (essentially "puppet" in the sense of a marionette). Certainly this must be a recreation rather than a perfectly surviving prop from 58 years ago! Go to the link for more amazing detailed photos.<br />
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Running late but running to the finish. More photos soon.aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-31116019500742108952011-10-01T10:43:00.000-05:002011-10-01T10:43:45.900-05:00Garakutagigas UpdateThanks to Kirkland at <a href="http://www.toybotstudios.com/">Toybot Studios</a> for the review found <a href="http://www.toybotstudios.com/2011/09/altelier-g-1-x-alex-wald-garakutagigas.html">here</a>.<br />
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aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-11678154421469318832011-07-27T02:23:00.003-05:002011-09-14T10:18:05.357-05:00Garakutagigas visits San Diego Comic Con, Wonder Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
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Itokin Park, Alex Wald meet at SDCC 2011. Photo courtesy Kirkland Jue<br />
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Garakutagigas, Atelier G-1 Wonder Festival 2011 release painted by Shigeki OkudaaleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-47632283018711559482011-07-26T11:42:00.000-05:002011-07-26T11:42:04.132-05:00Garakutagigas in processI returned from San Diego Comic Con late Sunday night, totally exhausted. Monday, like clockwork, the shipment of unpainted gray Garakutagigas vinyls landed at Astromonster HQ in Chicago. Painting will proceed this week and continue as orders are filled. There are only 9 vinyls not yet spoken for in this first release---if you've been on the fence about ordering, don't wait! To all of you who ordered Storm or Fire, my sincere thanks! I'm very encouraged by your enthusiastic responses. I will post photos of the paints in progress after the weekend.<br />
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Sunday in Japan was Wonder Festival and Atelier G-1 sold a short run of unpainted red Garakutagigas. I've requested an order of red vinyls too and waiting to learn from Mr. Okuda how soon he can fulfill the next order.aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-46239610038868670902011-07-20T00:46:00.000-05:002011-07-20T00:46:17.234-05:00Garakutagigas Order InfoJuly 20, 2011<br />
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Garakutagigas colorway no. 2 is gray vinyl with red, black, metallic green, silver and gold.aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-74120412533955770602011-07-19T11:07:00.000-05:002011-07-19T11:07:40.073-05:00Garakutagigas Orders Open TonightColorway no. 2 Fire was painted last night. Photos are still in preparation. I will post photos of both colorways and order info tonight at midnight, July 20.aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-16770659114956844322011-07-16T01:40:00.000-05:002011-07-16T01:40:25.173-05:00Garakutagigas: Storm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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The test shots are here. Behold, Garakutagigas—naked came he into our world. Paint planning is in the works. Preorder announcement soon! Astromonster Garakutagigas brings the heat this summer.aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-53875115126031280202011-06-15T01:07:00.003-05:002011-06-15T01:12:52.769-05:00Atelier G-1 X Astromonster Garakutagigas — First Color versionOkuda-san has posted a series of shots of Garakutagigas with a paint job that references the Kaiju Comrades 2 color print that started it all.<br />
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<b>Preorder announcement coming soon. There will be 10 each of two new color versions this summer from Astromonster.</b> Then in the fall, the alternate eye sculpt will go on sale at <a href="http://www.kaiyodo.co.jp/wf/" style="color: #0098ff; text-decoration: none;" target="blank">Wonder Festival</a>. The Astromonster editions for US sales will always have colorways different than the <a href="http://www.todoland.co.jp/G-1/G-1.html" style="color: #0098ff; text-decoration: none;" target="blank">Atelier G-1</a> editions. Ballpark price for the US will be $125.</span></b></span></span><br />
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「くず鉄破壊大怪獣 ガラクタギガス」<br />
ソフビテストショットは、今週末くらいに上がる予定です。<br />
問題なければ第一期カラー版7月初旬には先行販売出来ると思います。<br />
販売方法は、7月1日に作品SHOPにて予約開始します。<br />
先行販売分は30個で、1~5日までの応募受付で第2週くらいにリリースとします。予価は¥9800です。<br />
オリジナルだし、いつものような数は読めないのと、今回ご紹介の第一期カラーデコマスが最初なので気合入りすぎて塗装にかなりの手間がかかりそうなので、出来る範囲の数としました。もちろん先行分掃けてくれればよいのですが、予定個数に達しなかった場合は、WFに回します。WFではゴーグル違いの初期イラスト版も販売予定です。<br />
一番最初のイラストカラーに近づけましたが、エアブラシと筆塗りの使い分けでかなり派手な色使いとなりました。熱帯に棲んでいるオウムのようですね。<br />
普段は渋い塗装が多いのですが、こんなんも塗ってて楽しいものです。<br />
ソフビ版もこれに準じた塗装となります。<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Osaka, 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">via <a href="http://green.ap.teacup.com/g-1okuda/409.html" style="color: #0098ff; text-decoration: none;" target="blank">http://green.ap.teacup.com/g-1okuda/</a></span></span></span></b></span></span>aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-2555181631262079522011-06-13T11:28:00.000-05:002011-06-13T11:28:00.472-05:00How to Make a Mechanikong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.geocities.jp/cyberkids1954/_gl_images_/mechanikong_chara001053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="http://www.geocities.jp/cyberkids1954/_gl_images_/mechanikong_chara001053.jpg" t8="true" width="467px" /></a></div>aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-3290995949439030622011-06-10T01:25:00.001-05:002011-06-10T01:28:17.042-05:00Ultra Seven Makes Dreams Come True<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tER9k8aytp_1Ac6BTPIilQ6Dcls8eZT5CxvMxoko-um_KVjdoY4Bcqyb1cRUR5OYJsiHMm6oyvAUYAhUjbQ33RDn-U7RWb1HZ61D4M2FzXF6aNqO_DqlhWuM5uyuP5Eocvo6/s1600/ultraseven_rocket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tER9k8aytp_1Ac6BTPIilQ6Dcls8eZT5CxvMxoko-um_KVjdoY4Bcqyb1cRUR5OYJsiHMm6oyvAUYAhUjbQ33RDn-U7RWb1HZ61D4M2FzXF6aNqO_DqlhWuM5uyuP5Eocvo6/s400/ultraseven_rocket.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><h1 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</h1><b>Doctor becomes space superhero / Astronaut Furukawa had childhood dream of emulating Ultra Seven</b><br />
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<div style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;">Tatsuya Kimura / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer</span></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan—Flying into space like the superhero Ultra Seven. It was a childhood daydream of Satoshi Furukawa, today a 47-year-old surgeon-cum-astronaut. He made this dream come true Wednesday after waiting for 12 years, when the Soyuz spacecraft carrying him and two others was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">Family, friends and acquaintances in his hometown and at the launch base cheered at his successful flight and wished him fruitful days at the ISS.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">“When he was a child, he always talked about Ultra Seven,” his mother, Hiroko Furukawa, 74, recalled while watching the launch at the base.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">“Ultra Seven” is one of Tsuburaya Productions Co.’s famed “Ultra” science fiction TV series. “Ultra Seven” was the third series after “Ultra Q” and “Ultraman.” Ultra Seven, the title character, is a superhero from the imaginary Nebula M-78.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">read more at</span> <a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110608005566.htm">Yomiuri Shimbun</a> illustration found at <a href="http://deroli.tumblr.com/post/6072929615/yahoo">deroli</a></div></div>aleX waldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18380420239057489833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30495731.post-42550465050485293722011-06-08T23:08:00.000-05:002011-06-08T23:08:19.428-05:00Come TogetherThese are the wax castings for <b>Garakutagigas</b> which go into the making of iron molds. Molten metal. . .<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">pictures via: <a href="http://blog.goo.ne.jp/kadomiumtank/"><span style="color: magenta;">Sofubi Blog Kadomiumtank</span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://garamania.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Garamania</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"></span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">TBS: You mentioned Garakutagigas is a Junk Giant, a golem of garbage and industrial waste. What is his relationship to Garamon if any? He looks like a junkyard version of mecha Garamon.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AW: There is a core element of Tilsonite in the composition of Garakutagigas--the element that composed the Garadama meteor that brought the original Garamon to Earth. This rare substance has a number of strange properties; it may house a living intelligence that can exert a creative or organizing force over its surroundings. So when a metal reclamation yard was built over an ancient Tilsonite impact crater... I have enough notes to make a fairly decent story. I started to rough it out, thinking it would be cool to have a mini-comic with the toy but soon realized I didn't have enough time to get one done for the first release. It will happen eventually...</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCPgjU_2is1QmzJ2d8z7Zwd95wXkmYaPHy1tSEXRWCwy2Vonh8r1nUYLwwQk2GUeARXg0sbx3PpxHnTOpu5PMMGUCNFUOg4S9YkAdr3vaTVsHoMFKnPN3M_Tmy3nC1A4nTxii/s1600/supefes56_Gara_CU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCPgjU_2is1QmzJ2d8z7Zwd95wXkmYaPHy1tSEXRWCwy2Vonh8r1nUYLwwQk2GUeARXg0sbx3PpxHnTOpu5PMMGUCNFUOg4S9YkAdr3vaTVsHoMFKnPN3M_Tmy3nC1A4nTxii/s640/supefes56_Gara_CU.jpg" width="532px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">TBS: Is there any social commentary related to your design? </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><i></i></span><br />
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<div style="display: inline! important; text-align: left;"><div style="display: inline! important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AW: Actually I'm very interested in the relationship between what we call art and what we call junk--dialectically opposite but really it's very much a matter of perspective. The lines are not at all fixed--what one culture considers junk, another calls art. Our society produces and venerates much that we condemn as "junk culture," we may know it's unworthy, mediocre or substandard but we love it just the same. And then there's the issues of salvaging the colossal waste our society produces as an unavoidable byproduct to progress. These concepts came flooding in to me as I drew the earliest pieces that evolved into Garakutagigas. I've been to a few junk yards, there's a pervasive atmosphere of doom to an auto graveyard. And I love the idea that all this waste, this useless garbage, is carefully guarded by men with guns and ferocious dogs.</span></i> </span></div></div><br />
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He conceived the pollution monster Hedorah in the early '70s when great debates raged about pollution and ecology. The following years have seen Hedorah resonate even more strongly in society. The collector's world we're familiar with is a tiny niche society with a million fragments--by now there must be nearly as many renditions of Hedorah as there have been of Godzilla. I don't know the statistics...it might be interesting for someone to take a census...</div><div style="text-align: left;">TBS: Was he shiny and brand new like Mecha Godzilla at one point and then fell into disrepair?</div><div style="text-align: left;">AW: Oh no, "baby, he was born this way!" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQn_7w-lRAQgCoDQ5TuMcKclU6EUKyZzVQNcczlLGoAvzfxWM2oT_yM8KjwO5Kz_6IR_nRLamBf5J5nrhs4HnXyHlh6LCJdgWusLTnkhEZTgx-N4vDk4nTjgOoepVjw0jFmYTC/s1600/261f76dfe5a3d94d84634f6ab3a627a2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQn_7w-lRAQgCoDQ5TuMcKclU6EUKyZzVQNcczlLGoAvzfxWM2oT_yM8KjwO5Kz_6IR_nRLamBf5J5nrhs4HnXyHlh6LCJdgWusLTnkhEZTgx-N4vDk4nTjgOoepVjw0jFmYTC/s640/261f76dfe5a3d94d84634f6ab3a627a2.jpg" width="492px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">TBS: If you could pick another one of your illustrations to be made into a vinyl toy, which would it be?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">AW: Mr. Okuda and I have discussed the possibility of another design. I'll decline from identifying it at the present out of deference to him. But I have a number of other designs on my astromonster blog and in my Flickr sets. I'd like to get back to sculpting some originals as well---I haven't made sculpture in a very long time....</div><div style="text-align: left;">TBS: Would you like to design more toys in the future?</div><div style="text-align: left;">AW: Oh yeah! That this is happening at all is totally a dream come true---I still can't believe it. In addition to my other drawings and images, I have many designs for specific toys. My sketchbooks have been full of them for years!</div><div style="text-align: left;">TBS: wow..! Thank You Alex... Looking forward to this toy. We can hardly wait. 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