Damn, Giant Robot is already ten years old! The California-based magazine started by Martin Wong and Eric Nakamura captured the zeitgeist of a new generation of skatebording, video game playing, indie rock listening, Asian-American hipsters while also serving up fascinating articles on the culture, sounds, flavors and gadgetry of East Asia. The latter gave the magazine instant appeal to slacker English teachers and backpackers of Asia (like me) who were thrilled to see colorful and often hilarious articles on our favorite found oddities. But I think another important reason GR has made the ten-year trip from zine to glossy is that it bursts at the seams with creativity and soul--always eye popping, but never pretentious.