
{"id":842,"date":"2009-01-28T08:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T07:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2009-02-13T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:48:09","slug":"shin-tanaka-x-giant-robot-x-scion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/2009\/01\/28\/shin-tanaka-x-giant-robot-x-scion\/","title":{"rendered":"Shin Tanaka x Giant Robot x Scion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='highlight'>When I started to write about this Griant Robot there was not a site for it; now there is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantrobotshin.com\/\">Gaint Robot Shin<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis website is for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantrobotshin.com\/aboutthecontest.php\">contest<\/a>: &#8220;Customize the template with your own designs&#8221;.<br \/>\nBut before you start designing: you need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantrobotshin.com\/images\/rules.pdf\">read the rules<\/a> (.pdf)&#8230;. But to make a long story short: basically you need to live in the USA, which I don&#8217;t do)<\/p>\n<p>But the best stuff is yet to come: the template that are in the magazine can be downloaded form there:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantrobotshin.com\/GR56.pdf\">part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantrobotshin.com\/GR57.pdf\">part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantrobotshin.com\/GR58.pdf\">part 3<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantrobotshin.com\/template.pdf\">blank template<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this contest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicepapertoys.com\/profiles\/blogs\/giant-robot-shin\">NPT<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been asked to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Shin+Tanaka+x+Giant+Robot+x+Scion\">this subject<\/a>&#8230;&#8230; yeah this title is ohhh soooo original.<\/p>\n<p>I though about it for a while (do I really want to make free advertising for a car company or a magazine?), but I couldn&#8217;t resist: <a href=\"http:\/\/shin.co.nr\/\">Shin Tanaka<\/a> is involved.<br \/>\nAnd that dude is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?s=shin+tanaka\">cool<\/a>!!<\/p>\n<p>Shin is featured in an Asian\/Amercan popculture magazine <strong>Giant Robot<\/strong> with a 3 piece robot: this image is the second one that can be found in Issue 57 of Giant Robot magazine.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3348\/3212587783_19fab355e6_o.jpg\" alt=\"Second robot by Shin Tanaka\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buy magazine 56, 57, 58 and you will have this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3257\/3212587519_752bf0123f.jpg\" alt=\"Three robots combined by Shin Tanaka\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>How cool is that!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"update\">I&#8217;ve been looking around in the stores in Amsterdam, but I haven&#8217;t found this magazine (yet). So I can&#8217;t build it \ud83d\ude41 and those who can&#8217;t build, write about it&#8230;. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The same thing about Scion, this brand isn&#8217;t sold in the Netherlands (perhaps it is, but I don&#8217;t know about it, and I have never seen one).<\/p>\n<p>But if Scion is happy with this post, and want to reward me, just give me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scion.com\/#tweaksOfTheWeek_cotw_jeremyC\">xB<\/a> (no, really!!)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started to write about this Griant Robot there was not a site for it; now there is: Gaint Robot Shin. This website is for a contest: &#8220;Customize the template with your own designs&#8221;. But before you start designing: you need to read the rules (.pdf)&#8230;. But to make a long story short: basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[252,34],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-urban-papercraft","tag-giant-robot-magazine","tag-shin-tanaka"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}