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...Gardener series?are unique. Even the factory-produced pieces of the 10 series he's designed so far have limited-edition runs of 500 to 1,000. That's part of their attraction and accounts for their soaring value as collectibles. When Lau released a punkish kid called Tatto in 1999, it sold for $19.20. Today at Toy Tokyo in New York City, it goes for $500. "Lau has a distinctive, original style that no other toy designer in the world has," says Peter Kato, the shop's assistant manager...
...Rose Tattoo" is one cut that effectively showcases this combination. Co-written by Byrne and W. Colon, "The Rose Tatto" is set to a Bomba/Mozambique beat with somewhat depressing Spanish/English lyrics that reflect on the impossibility of dreams and humanity: "And they were imagining Roses/As if life itself were a dream/Is a gift not a reason for living?/Not enough, not enough, so it seems." The chorus then switches to Spanish with the refrain: "Brinde a la Rosa/Y al hombre que no vive/Perdido en un sueno/en un atmosfera imposible," reflecting again the hopelessness of illusion...
Stanford thought enough of the young breaststroker to offer him only the second full swimming scholarship given in the school's history. A graduate of Cupertino High School, Hencken, whose early years in the sport were supervised by Tatto Yamashita at the Berkeley YMCA before the family moved to Snata Clara, followed in the foot-steps of Brian Job, another of Haines' proteges. Job, also a breaststroker, received that first full swimming scholarship given by Stanford...
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