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My Famicase Exhibition opening in LA ⊟
My Famicase Exhibition, the gallery of imagined games displayed as Famicom cartridges, will come to the USA for the first time in 18 years tomorrow. Traditionally hosted by Tokyo game shop Meteor, the annual exhibit will open with a special Los Angeles show at the Capsule Corner gashapon booth and art gallery (located in the Hive Gallery & Studios).
“253 original cartridge designs will be on display from artists, illustrators, designers and creators from over 29 countries! … Visitors of MY FAMICASE EXHIBITION - LA will have an opportunity to cast their vote for USA’s favorite Famicom design as is tradition in the Japanese exhibit.”
The exhibit runs from July 1 to 24, with an opening reception for the first three days that you can RSVP for here. Capsule Corner will also feature works by Froyo Tam, Mel Haasch, and Nelson Wu at its gallery.
If you can’t make it to LA this July, you can view the Famicom cartridge designs virtually at Meteor’s site, or purchase a print catalog collecting all 253 entries through Capsule Corner’s online shop. There’s a killer commemorative sticker (sized at 4"x3.5", shown above) illustrated by Billie Snippet that you can pick up, too!
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Thymine’s [SELECT START: Harmony] haunts us with Game Boy ghosts, slimes, and devil girls ⊟
LA micro-gallery Capsule Corner is hosting another collection by Thymine with 30 custom cartridges (new designs plus reprints from last year’s show) and two painted Game Boys featuring her original artwork. A lot of her artwork for this round are ghosts and slimes, two of my favorite things!
From Thymine’s artist statement:
“I think my art is overall usually seen as cute, but it touches upon darker, bittersweet themes sometimes. Some of the carts are bright and silly, some sad or scary, and some that are inbetween. With this show I wanted to have fun with the carts and this idea. I also wanted to have it as a reminder that with the bad comes the good (and vice versa), & that the darkness and light need a balance of eachother and work in harmony.“
Most of them are sold already, but you can still buy a handful of Thymine’s framed Game Boy carts for $50 apiece – otherwise you can see them all online at Capsule Corner’s site or in person at The Hive Gallery and Studios. The [SELECT START: Harmony] exhibit will run there until July 10.
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Enamel pins are still good ⊟
It’s tempting to swear off them completely with a dozen new pins appearing in the timeline every day, but that just means you have to be more discerning with the ones you spend your money on and wear. You want to pick out a pin that actually means something to you, like a floppy disk that says Sonic Porn, a 3DS Ambassador badge, or, I dunno, maybe a tiny cartridge.
And there’s this great tribute to candy cabs at Japanese arcades. Melbourne-based RGB Club is selling the painted brass soft enamel pin for $10, as well as one based on the Famicom Disk System’s mascot. I spotted this photo posted by Dan Clarke, who shares a lot of well-designed stuff on his feed and who we’ve featured a number of times for his Arkotype projects.
While I’m throwing out links to pins and cool people, let me direct you again to Capsule Corner, the "capsule machine-based micro gallery" in downtown Los Angeles. Even if you’re not in the area, you can purchase a virtual token to have a random prize (e.g. pins, keychains, iron-on patches) shipped to you.
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Select Start to Continue: Thymine brings bittersweet Game Boy carts to Capsule Corner tonight ⊟
Just earlier this week, I raved about Thymine’s moving concept for Meteor’s My Famicase Exhibition in Tokyo, and now I see the artist has a solo show dedicated to similarly sentimental designs, except this time on Game Boy carts!
Opening tonight (7PM) at Capsule Corner – the “capsule-based micro-gallery exhibit” located at Downtown LA’s Hive Gallery & Studios – Thymine’s Select Start to Continue exhibit features 20 colorful hand-painted Game Boy cartridges with custom labels for titles like Selfcare and Everything Is OK.
“Using a piece of childhood nostalgia as the medium, Thymine portrays a juxtaposition of both light and dark that everyone experiences in life as they grow beyond those formative years. Presenting a wide breadth of emotions, some lighthearted and cute yet others heavy, dark, and solemn. These themes presented in the work are all results of experiences, and interests that have made the artist who she is through out the years – present and past.“
The cartridges will be sold for $45 apiece. You can preview a couple of these touching pieces after the break (Capsule says the show will run until June 13, and all pieces will be posted online after the opening.).
