Showing posts with label auction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label auction. Show all posts

2.22.2023

A24 is Auctioning Off (Almost) Everything from Everything Everywhere All At Once

Online charitable auction featuring original and iconic props, wardrobe, and set pieces.



If you're an Everything Everywhere All at Once superfan like me, you can't get enough of Daniels' multiverse jumping sci-fi action adventure comedy. But how about owning an actual piece from the movie?

A24's online charitable auction platform A24 Auctions is offering fans a chance to own a piece of movie history. Starting Thursday, February 23, 12:00 PM (ET), you can bid on the original and iconic props, wardrobe, and set pieces from Everything Everywhere All at Once. How about Jobu Tapaki's bedazzled Elvis costume? Hot dog hands? Racacoonie? The Auditor of the Month trophy? Yup.

100% of each of the auction's proceeds will be donated to one of the three charities that filmmakers The Daniels selected: Laundry Workers Center, Transgender Law Center and Asian Mental Health Project.


5.04.2015

Japanese American National Museum to acquire internment artifacts from canceled auction

Collection features artwork produced by incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.


Oil on canvas by Estelle Peck Ishigo.

The Japanese American National Museum announced that it has acquired a collection of more than 400 pieces of historical art and artifacts created by Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Plans for the items to be put up for public auction were canceled after widespread community outcry.

Japanese American Museum Acquires Internee Artifacts

The museum worked through Rago Arts and Auction Center in New Jersey and the consignor to acquire the private collection, which includes painting, sculptures and photographs produced by Japanese Americans who were forcibly moved into internment campus during the war. Actor/activist (and museum board trustee) George Takei reportedly was instrumental in convincing the auction house not to go forward with the sale.

4.15.2015

Auction house drops plans to sell internment artifacts

George Takei will act as an intermediary between Rago and Japanese American community institutions.


A watercolor by an unknown artist at Tule Lake War Relocation Center.

Pressured by community outcry, a New Jersey auction house has dropped plans to sell hundreds of artifacts crafted by Japanese Americans while they were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II.

The Japanese American History: NOT for Sale Facebook page has announced that lots 1232-1255, which contain artwork and crafts created in ten different World War II internment camps, will be removed from the Rago auction on Friday. According to a company spokesman, George Takei has agreed to act as an intermediary between the auction house and Japanese American community institutions.

"We have withdrawn the lots from the auction," said Guy Benthin, the phone bidding coordinator for Rago Arts.

4.13.2015

Japanese American History is Not For Sale

Rago is auctioning off hundreds of historical crafts and artifacts made by Japanese American internees.



A New Jersey auction house is offering hundreds of artifacts made by Japanese Americans while they were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. These items are now up for sale to highest bidder. Does that sound right to you? Concerned community members are speaking up and taking action.

The Japanese American History is Not For Sale Facebook page is protesting the auction of 450 historical crafts and artifacts made by Japanese Americans while confined in ten World War II concentration camps. The items will be auctioned off this Friday, April 17, by Rago auction house in New Jersey.

9.03.2014

Ex-Apple employee Sam Sung sells business card for charity

Sam Sung's eBay auction raises $2,653 for The Children's Wish Foundation



Sung. Sam Sung. You've probably seen the business card of the former Apple employee, who happens to bear the name of Apple's biggest rival. Funny. While the image went viral in 2012, Mr. Sung recent put his notoriety to good use by auctioning off the now-infamous card and raising more than $2,500 for charity.

Ex-Apple worker Sam Sung's irony nets $2,653 (for charity)

Sung, a former employee at an Apple store in Vancouver, auctioned off his business card on eBay and raised $2,653 ($2,907 in Canadian currency) to help benefit The Children's Wish Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with serious illnesses.

1.03.2014

Asian CineVision 2014 Charity Auction

Bid on items from playwright David Henry Hwang, producer Janet Yang and photographer/journalist Lia Chang



Asian CineVision, the excellent organization behind the Asian American International Film Festival in New York City, is kicking off the new year with a Charitybuzz auction featuring some awesome items from Asian American media/entertainment/art icons Janet Yang, David Henry Hwang, and Lia Chang. Bid on some very cool opportunities for a great cause. Here's some more information on what you're bidding on:

12.04.2013

Anybody want to buy Bruce Lee's Game of Death jumpsuit?

Iconic movie memorabilia goes on the auction block



Bruce Lee's most famous movie outfit is arguably almost no outfit at all -- I'm thinking shirtless and sweaty, with three bloody scratches across the abdomen, in the finale of Enter the Dragon. But perhaps his second most famous outfit is the yellow jumpsuit worn in Game of Death. And now it can be yours for a pretty price.

Got $40,000? Buy Bruce Lee's Shrunken Yellow Jump Suit

The real thing, that is. The iconic yellow jumpsuit, one of two Lee wore in his final film Game of Death -- with matching nunchucks -- is up for auction along with other Bruce memorabilia in Hong Kong this week.

It's got a broken zipper and some shrinkage -- it's over forty years old, after all -- but the yellow one-piece, designed by Lee himself, is expected to fetch somewhere around $32,000 to $39,000.

11.26.2013

Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai is in need of help

Comic book creators organizing benefit auction to assist with Sharon Sakai's medical expenses


A legendary comic book creator is in need of help. Can you lend a hand?

Writer/artist Stan Sakai, the prolific creator behind Usagi Yojimbo, is in need of some financial assistance. His wife Sharon has been battling a debilitating illness that has included a long hospital stay and convalescence. She is home now but needs 24-hour care and several costly medications -- more than their insurance covers.

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