Head to Pershing Square and start hitting someone with a pillow at 3:00 p.m then at 3:15 stop and leave immediately.
532 S Olive St
Los Angeles, CA 90189
From Yelp
Rules:
1. "Don't talk about [Pillow] Fight Club!" (especially to news media and civic authories)
2. Don't be in location until the exact minute. (set your watches)
3. Hide your pillows.
4. Rush in screaming "PILLOW FIIIIIIGHT!!!!!"
5. After 15mins of excruciating fun, leave.
6. Stay off the road and sidewalk. (don't make this a police issue)
7. Do NOT hit anyone with out a pillow! (this includes but is not limited to people with cameras, bystanders, civic authorities, cars, use common sense!!)
8. "If this is your first [time] at [Pillow] Fight Club, you have to fight."
Well, I tried to ask Mr. Satomi Imai of the JFFLA 2010 PR Tream (yes thats tream) some questions for today's interview. Here's our bizarre first attempt at communication.
Here's today's
I'd like to ask you a few questions about the Japanese film festival for my blog Things To Do In LA. My web-site covers events and places to visit in LA.
1. What are some movies that the good folks of LA can enjoy at this years Japanese Film Festival Los Angeles?
2 Are any directors, actors or crew going to be attending the movies?
3. When was the Japanese Film Festival Los Angeles created and why does it try and promote Japanese cinema?
4. Why no connection to Little Tokyo, it seems you could have shown movies at the theaters their or the downtown independent which is a block away from Little Tokyo.
5.No Evangelion 2.0? There happens to be a big otaku culture here in L.A. . Evangelion was featured last year, why not the second movie in the series? Why no anime as a matter of fact?
Here's he's response.
Nothing
Thanks Mr.Satomi for showing a lack of interest in someone who actually bought a ticket and was trying to promote your film festival.
So no interview today.
hhhhhmmmm, I'll come back to this later.
I love the PR TREAM
Avoid the awful site buy tickets at
these retail Stores
Kinokuniya, (Los Angeles Store) Little Tokyo, Downtown LA
Asahiya Bookstore, (Sawtelle Store), West LA
Asahiya Bookstore, (Gardena Store) in Marukai Shopping Mall, Gardena
Well thanks to lack of announcement or really any press I missed two cool events last week. As did you for I could not blog them.
First of was the Monster Hunter Tri Barbecue at the LA Brea Tar Pits. I just blogged about the ad campaign for it a week ago. Sadly, I didn't hear about it till after it happened.
Wow it looked like fun, and the park area there is so nice and relaxing.
Gotta say great marketing, but terrible gameplay. I got a demo from gamestop. First Wii disc demo I have ever had. The control is simply awful. The character feels klunky and the load times in between worlds break away the fun. I say avoid this game for the Wii. Pick up the much more fun Lost Planet 2. Some secret codes will be released from capcom for a new secret multiplayer demo this week. It's tremendously sad that this game comes out from Capcom when Lost Planet 2, a fun multiplayer game,where you hunt monster bugs also comes from Capcom. It's like Capcom doesn't know whats it doing sometimes cough ... Dark Void.
Now for something not Mathematical, not Mathematical at all.
There was a
Adventure Time Art Show
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Here's some of the work, now if you don't know I love Adventure Time, here's my post about writing to it's Creator Pendleton Ward and getting cool stuff back.
Here's some of the pieces I missed to see in person
It's quite impressive to have a tribute art show for a cartoon that hasn't even officially premiered yet. Check out Cartoon Network April 5th when it does.
Uhhhh. I was actually in Burbank, not 3 blocks away and a had no idea that this was happening.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Only one blog so far even reported this happening. They couldn't report it a little earlier? Even the Adventure Time blog didn't say anything.
No new place to discuss this week, just some secrets to know about LA
1. You can't actually visit the Hollywood sign. It's gated off and you could be arrested for trespassing. People have been known to sneak up anyway to get a neat pic. So don't expect to take a picture if you go all the way up that damn mountain.
2. Going to a taping in LA takes a very long time. Be prepared to wait a good three hours for some shows, sometimes even longer. For some reason they want people there extremely early for tapings of any type of show. I've heard game shows are the worst and take the most amount of time.
-Be ready to wait in line with nothing to do.Bring some friends to talk.
-Studios usually don't provide anything to drink or eat so be prepared.
-Just because your sitting doesn't mean they're starting. They may just want you in your seat, but taping might not start for some time.
-No cells. Sometime they may ask that you leave your cellphone in the car or that it will be held until after the taping. So maybe that plan of using the iphone to avoid boredom just died.
-Actors will sign autographs after the show. Just be nice about, don't try and force them. Sometimes they have to rush for thier own engadgements. Have a pen and whatever you want signed ready. Most actors on shows don't actually carry headshots. If they still do they're probably jerks with huge egos.
3. Our subway closes at night, roughly around 12:30am.
4. We have a lot of strange murders here
5. Don't go up to actors who are out with their families, it's just not cool. If they're reality stars this does not apply as they have sold their souls away for stardom. Why would you even want their picture, though?
Reading the latest Wired magazine makes me believe they don't seem to care anymore. I love Wired. I've been a subscriber for over 5 years and have been reading it much longer than that. The latest issue once again has a bizarre amount of tobacco ads. I really dislike that a magazine that informs and makes you think, I mean articles on cloud computing or maybe even controlling clouds, that so cool, has to get it's money from big tobacco?
What’s funny is that in the newest issue a tobacco ad is on one side of a page and on the other an article on a machine that tests how bad cigarettes are
(pages 29 and 30 of the April 2010 issue). The article doesn't actually say cigarettes are awful, but tells that the machines tests what poisons are in the cigarettes. It's not good either the article ends with the line "Pick your poison!" Is the editor secretly giving a FU to tobacco? Or is it just human error. If I was big tobacco, I'd think about leaving Wired.
Next the Troll Power article by Brian Raferty. He wrote about the Troll 2 documentary. I have seen Troll 2 as it may be king of all B-movies. No, wait it isn't even a B-movie more like well, I think my friend once told me the Director spoke Italian and no one else did on set so yeah.
The first time I saw a clip from it was at a special Halloween Stand up night at the UCB theatre here in LA. The Halloween show was for the worst horror movies comedian could find and then make fun of. As a film student it's amazing to see a movie with some many continuity errors get made. It's great for a party with friends. Raferty writes about the documentary and how it was done by the star of it who at the time of filming Troll 2 was a child. The child is a man now, he revisits the other actors and crew and called he's film Best Worst Movie (great title).
Now the problem I have with the article is this, Raferty wrote
"The film will premiere as part of a double feature with Troll 2, which will finally get it's due on the big screen."
that’s all he wrote though, he doesn't indicate a when and where, two essentials of journalism Mr. Raftery.
I'd like to know when this is happening or where. Maybe give a website.
Also it’s wrong because that documentary has come out already at different engagements over the country so I don't know what he's writing about. It already has premiered before. It looks like he didn't really do he's research.
I guess they don't understand what premiere means okay Raferty I'll let that second part go. For some stupid reason they're listing their re-release of the movie as premieres?
It's extremely perplexing when the site itself writes We’re pleased to announce that BEST WORST MOVIE will be returningto LosAngeles’ Landmark Nuart as part of its Theatrical run!
SCREENING: Friday, May 21 Screening time TBA Landmark Nuart Cast & Crew in attendance! The film will continue to play at the Landmark Nuart for at least a week following the premeire.
Which is cool for us here in LA. I don't think you can purchase tickets yet, try the Nuart website in April.
I would have links to the articles, but strangely it seems wired no longer puts current issues up. They are put online after the next magazine comes out. I don't like that, I can understand why, but I'm quite sure in the past they had current articles up.
This Doctor Who ad in wired sucks. Not Wired's fault, but the marketing guy or gal behind this is not terribly creative.
With this image ad previously online (below) it's strange they went with such a boring ad in Wired, just look at it and compare
Looks at the old ads for Doctor Who, still better than that crappy one in Wired. They couldn't just think about it for five seconds.
The March issue of Wired did have this great little
on Cloud Gaming where another computer handles all the work your machine would require and streams it back to you.
Lastly, if you've read Wizard Magazine lately you've noticed it's terrible format change. Every article is numbered and it looks like a blog. It looks horrid. The design and layout, just looks terrible. I know the blog here doesn't look great, but I don't have sponsors. Plus it seems like the magazine has gotten thinner and has less content. I fear Wizard maybe ending publication soon.
That was the wrong laslty, EGM was suppose to come back this month. I haven't seen it or heard any news lately about it coming back. Will EGM pull one last Aprill Fool's Joke for which they were renowned for.Is it all hoax and they're not coming back?
In celebration of the new GOW3 game, Nucleus is inviting everyone to join us for another great launch event.
Some features include:
-$2 admission at the door = (1 raffle ticket and $2 off any store item)
-(5pm - 6pm) Meet the artists and designers behind the game (Q and A panel)
Andrew Kim
Andy Park
Cecil Kim
Izzy
Jung Ho Park
Scott Seeto
-(6pm - ...) "Art of Book/Strategy Guide" signing. Get your book signed by the artists.
-(6pm - 9pm) Live painting of a GOW concept piece!
-Plenty of raffle and free giveaways (posters, strategy guide, art, toys, GOW 3 game, and more) Plenty of chances to win every hour.
-Playable demos of the new game!
-Gallery will feature original concept art from the new game.
The Main reason I post this is because of the Samurais race competition. That’s right fully-clothed samurais on horses riding around. The first 1,000 people to show up get free t-shirts. How could you not miss Japan Family Day? That’s why they’re having the Samurai race. The Santa Anita race track will be having Japanese family activities. I’m sorry but some of their explanations of activities are very funny by how boring they are
No, I’d say two huge, fat dudes wage a war in a tiny ring. The first one to knock the other out of the ring wins.
Bonsai
Wow, no Bonsai Love. Bonsai is a type of tree you cut to fit you sense of sytle and shape. It’s a small little tree you take care of that helps center and relax oneself
March 28th, 2010
Cinespace
Doors at 7:00pm - Show at 7:30pm
Channel 101 feature 5 minute shorts that are voted on by a audience. If a show doesn't get enough votes it fails, but if it does get enough votes it becomes a montly fixture, at least until next month. Tim and Eric and Sara Silverman and other strange comedians frequent the event for fun.
I can't wait to see Suits and Everything, yes thats a title of a show.
