Pervasive Persuasion Review & Photos from Marhem
Reader Marhem attended the Pervasive Persuasion event at MOCA in Los Angeles, CA with her husband on Saturday. The event included a panel discussion moderated by Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot and live artmaking “inspired by the pervasive work of Takashi Murakami” by artists Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, and Simone Legno.
The artists painted both on their own canvases and on a mural that everyone in the audience later got a chance to add to. Everybody got to bring a piece of the artwork home with them. Marhem was lucky to snag the sushi portion of the mural before the MOCA people were instructed that they were not supposed to cut specific parts and that the artwork was supposed to be given blindly (in a box).
The event wasn’t an official signing, but Marhem managed to have Simone (who had the longest line waiting to meet him) draw a Sandy for her. Simone’s girlfriend also gave Marhem and her husband three stickers and two tokidoki uchiwas, which made them feel quite special. 
And here are Marhem’s smile-worthy final thoughts: “Simone is the nicest, most humble, most accommodating and most appreciative famous person I know. After meeting him at the Mobius signing and last night at Moca, it just makes me like him more and patronize tokidoki more because he appreciates us and acknowledges that if not for us, his line would not be successful. I hope he continues to keep his feet planted on the ground despite his success. Way to go, Simone!”
These are some of the photos that Marhem took at the event. I added a closeup detail of the Mozzarella keychain that Simone had hanging out of the pocket of his tokidoki jeans to the first one. The guy in the center of the last photo is Oguri of Body Weather Laboratory doing a dance while Tim Biskup DJed and Simone and Gary Baseman painted.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Wow,
I wish I could’ve attended this event. && I can’t wait for the keychains to be up for sale! esp a Mozzarella one!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I too wish I could’ve attended
How long is the exhibit for? Nice to hear that Simone’s still humble even after all his success. I’ll definitely support him for years to come!
January 14th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
wow whats going on in that 4th pic o0
This sounds liek a really cool event, Simon is just so cool, any one who came up with the awesomness that is tokidoki simply cant be anything but 100% super uber nice, its just like impossible =P
January 14th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I love the paintings!!!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
There should be tokidoki boxers! Okay that maybe a little random, but sleepwear! ^____^
The event looks awesome! Simone Legno is one of my favorite artist! He has my support for anything!
I wish he could visit MN T_T
January 14th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I lovvve Simone’s paintings!
and that guy is really.. naked.. xD
January 14th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
ok… everything is great with tokidoki and Simone, but seriously, what is on everyone’s mind is WHO IS THE MAN IN THE THONG? AND WHY IS HE IN THE THONG?
January 14th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Simone’s so awesome and Woah! O.O those paintings he did are really, really cool! I really wish there were poster versions of them ^^
January 14th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
my favorite painting is of the girl with the tiger tattoo on her leg. I like the nighttime city background.
I want that tan PG dolce and OP denaro that’s in the display.
Yes, the thong disturbs me.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Hahah that is sooo me to the right of the painting with my Tutti Gioco on the 4th pic!!!!!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Reynaldoc…you’re the guy i met there…haha …he was the one who started the signing as he really wanted to have his Tutti Gioco signed…you got home ok?
The almost naked guy,OGURI is quite disturbing… so was his dance… more like slow motion movement. At the start of his dance, I was like… what the? …and in the middle part … and the end… I stopped taking pictures because there was this woman with Oguri who creeped me out… she was so convincing as a crazy lady talking to herself… i had to get away..haha… there was also another guy who was a wearing a trenchcoat who stripped down to boxerbriefs… goodness! Far cry from the band I expected … the flyer said a live performance by OGURI… guess should have done my research.
But enough of that, I forgot to tell Stephanie That I asked Simone when the Tokidoki Hello Kitty was coming out… he said around March in Japan and maybe April here in the US ! Yay! Can’t wait !
January 15th, 2008 at 12:21 am
i sooo want the all over print hat on top of the inferno gioco!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 2:30 am
I really wanted to go but had a committment- I am glad you went Marhem and thanks for sharing and thanks to Steph for posting!
I cannot wait for the HK line!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Simone was in good company, because all three of those artists are terrific. I’m gaga about Murakami, too. I wish MOCA was on the east coast! It sounds like such a fun event. Thanks for the details!