The Ham Ba Ga Show ( JUNE 25)

Our next event is coming up everyone. It's on Saturday, June 25, 2011. 7PM-11 PM.

It's going to be an orgy of art, food and music.

Please don't miss it!!

New work from over 30 artists!! Including but never limited to: Junko Mizuno, Kevin Dart, Elizabeth Ito, Mari Inukai, Yoko Nomura, Pakoto, Robert Ryan Cory, Casey Alexander, Dan Krall, Justin Thompson, Hideyuki Tanaka, Patricio Oliver, Luca Tieri, Glenn Harmon, Andrew Erekson, Nagi Koyama, Jeff Ranjo, Amelie Flechais, Pete Oswald, Jeni Yang, Mayumi Tanaka, Martin Hsu, Pico Pico, Victoria Ying, Riki Takaoka, Nana Aoyama, Jeff Turley, Clio Chiang, Becky Dreistadt, Michelle Romo(Crowded Teeth), Andy Gonsalves, Sean Gallaway, Patrick Awa, Brian Kesinger, Hellen Jo, Kali Fontecchio, Tara Whitaker, Tara Billinger,Nico Colaleo, Leo Matsuda, Fawn Veerasunthorn, Joe Pitt, and more!!

Tune in Tokyo will be on hand spinning some excellent tunes...of course. Greg, Del and the gang never disappoint.

And the Pie N' Burger truck will be here to satisfy all your hamburger needs. You heard right. THAT Pie N' Burger. Definitely come hungry!!! Did I mention pie...YUM!!

We'll also have new shipments from Swimmer and Sex Pot Revenge....so be prepared.

We'll also have a limited edition T-shirt designed by Junko Mizuno specifically for the show. Come early to make sure you get the size you want. Supply is limited. We'll post pics of it soon..It pretty much rocks which is a given when Junko is involved.

Hope to see you all soon!!

Donating...

Q Pop would like to express it's gratitude to everyone who helped or donated artwork for our fundraiser to help Japan. It was such a big success for us.

Our shop has only been open for about 6 months....and we're definitely a small shop...but we managed to raise $9000 total for the evening...Amazing!!!

I also want to stress that we are NOT bragging....this is not our intent for posting the amount. We just wanted everyone to know where their money is actually going ..so I have documented the writing and sending of the check.

After a very long deliberation period, we finally decided to donate to Give2Asia. Located in San Francisco, they funnel the funds to Japanese NPO's currently working and giving aid in Japan. It does NOT go to Red Cross who has come under some scrutiny after their notorious delays and overhead costs.

The capper to all this ...is that we may double this amount soon!!! We'll keep you posted!!

5-4-2011 So it's true. We've officially DOUBLED our donation amount. Thanks to Lauren Faust and her My Little Pony original artwork that she donated...we've brought the total up to about $20,000!!! Thanks again sooo much to those that donated and bought pieces.

Q Pop Help Japan Fundraiser

Less than a week after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, Q Pop held it's fundraiser/art auction in conjunction with our friends at Tune In Tokyo.

It was a great evening of amazing artwork donated from over 100 artists(including but not limited to: Chris Reccardi, Elizabeth Ito, Junko Mizuno, Irene Yuen, Nagi Koyama, Yoskay Yamamoto, Mari Inukai, Patrick Awa, Lynne Naylor, Michelle Romo, Jeni Yang, Bob Logan, Casey Alexander, Kali Fontecchio, Lou Romano, Lauren Faust, Craig Mccracken, Justin Thompson, Dan Krall, Phil Rynda, Brianne Drouhard, Becky Dreistadt, Paul and L. Rudish, Alex Kirwan, Jeff Ranjo, and many others!!) and great music spun by dj's Greg Hignight, Del Martin , Tora, Ally and Leet!! There was also some really moving live music performances from Dig Jelly and Stephanie Yanez. And good food donated by It's Thai and NAGI!!. Artwork and other donated products will continue to be sold in the store to raise money for the victims of the tsunamis and earthquakes in Japan after the auction so please come by and buy something and help out!!

Opening Art

Sorry again for the delay in posts. I'm going to try to get good about posting regularly. In the last post I mentioned the Grand Opening Party and how much fun it was....but I didn't really get to show much of the art that was in the show. We were so lucky to have the participation of some of the most amazing artists from the gallery world and the animation world. Some of the pieces are still available online in our webstore..please check them out here:

http://qpopshop.com/main/?page_id=15

Here's a little sampling ..

One of the most influential japanese artists in the past decade, Junko Mizuno, created this piece and infused it with symbolism from our shop.... Sweet Gouache painting from New Zealand illustrator Becky Dreistadt ...love the tiny deer...cute!!

Very cool diorama illustration from Bob Logan....Dreamworks animation artist who has worked on the Simpsons and Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs!!...

Excellent pen and ink art from Casey Alexander, emmy nominated story artist on Spongebob Squarepants....

Incredible painting by internationally known Hiroyuki Matsuura, creator of the Windy Bunny doll....

The amazing Kevin Dart(he did the mural in our shop!!)...creator of Yuki 7 did this wonderful digital piece..

A fantastically cute piece from Victoria Ying(she worked on Tangled)The uber talented Elizabeth Ito( she painted the mural on our outside wall)
Shibuya Girls Pop artist Eimi..absolutely one of my favorites..never afraid to use the pink!!
Japanese artists Naoshi...another favorite..it's made out of sand!! seriously....and we have more of her cards and goods in stock ......

and we had many more in the show..over 50 in fact!!!

including Shibuya Girls Pop artists: Shinjuko, Hiroshi Mori, Nana Aoyama , Kaiyo Tamaishi, Ra'yka, Nico, Keiko Ogawa, Anne Imai, Sayaka Iwashimizu, Yuki Takahashi, Marrontic

as well as featured artists Mari Inukai, Phil Rynda, Hideyuki Tanaka ( creator of Super Milk Chan), Minifanfan, Chris Ure, Andrew Erekson, Valerie Nunez, Paul Rudish, L. Rudish, Warren Leonhardt, Anna Chambers, Mayumi Tanaka, Anders Arhoj, Aurore Damant, Cody Cameron, Yoko Nomura, Jeff Ranjo, Robert Ryan Cory, Nagi Koyama, Shin Imanaka, Luca Tieri, Chris Sasaki, Michael Yamada, Doug Gautier, Pete Oswald, Irene Yuen, Riki Takaoka, Dave Bleich,

and Justin Thompson!!! whew!!

Thanks to all of them for creating food for imagination!! and helping us celebrate our opening..

Grand Opening Party

Thanks to all that came and made Q POP's Grand Opening such an amazing success!!

We were so happy that so many of you came out to show your support.

It was a really fun experience and crazy too!! Since it was our first event and exhibition, we were definitely learning as we went. Often times totally winging it...haha..

Festivities started at 7 and the people started to pile in almost immediately.

The Flying Pig Truck was outside , small finger foods were set up from It's Thai, and plenty of beer from Kirin was on hand..

Sounds smooth..but as of 6:45..we didn't even have all the artwork up!!!

AAAAA...craziness..

Thank the maker, our good friends Paul and Leana Rudish came to the rescue and helped hang the show. We managed to get the last pieces up just as people started to trickle in. whew...

But...wait, we forgot tags...or we forgot .....lol..

Irene Yuen to the rescue next...talk about serious multi tasking skills...and what a great photographer too!!! Without us asking, she just jumped in feet first and manned the register...while Nagi helmed the bar...throwing out Calpico, Kirin, and nigori sake to thirsty customers..

By about 8 PM, the place was packed and the line to the register started to wrap around the Q table. People picked up cool new Sex Pot, Algonquins, Super Lovers, and Swimmer items...

It was really just an overwhelmingly positive response and we were so happy to see everyone.

All the walls were adorned with amazing art from over 40 artists from around the world.

Justin Thompson, production designer on the film Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, and also the designer of Q Pop's interior..as well as one of the contributing artists in the show...stopped by to show his support.

Other artists including Kevin Dart, Elizabeth Ito, Chris Turnham, Jeff Ranjo, Denise Koyama, Paul Rudish, Leana Rudish, Riki Takaoka, Cody Cameron, Robertryan Cory, Kali Fontecchio, Victoria Ying, Miles Thompson, Mari Inukai, Phil Rynda, Dave Bleich, Casey Alexander, Valerie Nunez, Doug Gauthier, Mayumi Tanaka, Glenn Harmon, Sean D'Anconia and Bob Logan, were on hand to talk to people about their work.

Some celebrities also showed up, like regular customer Josie Stevens and her husband Steve...

It was quite a fun and diverse mix of people ...from sexy rockstars to dirty scientists, cute lolitas to the wrinkly elderly...

Q Pop welcomed them all!!

We are already planning our next event, which will take place sometime in May, so please mark your calenders!! Let's try to make the turnout even bigger for the next one!!! Hope to see you all there!!

GRAND OPENING EVENT!!!!

It's finally happening...the Grand Opening event. Please come and help us celebrate..look at some great artwork..and shop for fun stuff!!

Opening reception is on Jan 29 7pm-11Pm

There will be refreshments and artists in attendance!!

YAY!!!!

AWW..

We got some shout out from our friends over at Sweet Streets...They really are sweet after all!! HA

http://sweetstreetsla.blogspot.com/2010/12/inside-q-pop.html