Win a custom Mini-Munny from Nerviswr3k

Nerviswr3k has been featured on this site many times... heck we even did an interview with him HERE... but this time around we aren't just featuring his work... we are giving it away! He has donated an awesome custom Mini-Munny for all you lucky SpankyStokes.com readers out there, and I have to tell you that this thing is AMAZING in person, his customs really aren't done the proper justice by pictures... so this is a must for all of you to add to your collection.

"What, Who, How do I win this you ask?"... good question, all you need to do is follow both Nerviswr3k on twitter HERE and SpankyStokes HERE and then RT this message (copy and paste exactly):

Win an awesome custom Mini-Munny from @spankystokes thanks to @nerviswr3k http://bit.ly/ar6knp #SSNERV PLS RT!

It's that easy... The winner will be picked randomly on Sunday, February 14... so get your entries in by then (one entry per person)!!! Also if you want to see more of Nerviswr3k work hit up his Flickr HERE... he is a super cool guy and an amazing artist to boot, so help support his art by entering this contest, and if you want leave a comment below telling him how much you appreciate this contest :-)

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2000 A.D. and 3A First Figure teaser pic's

Months back Ashley Woods and the creators of 2000 AD announced a collaboration for a new line of Figures based off the popular comics. Last night saw the first teaser photo of Tharg the Mighty. Figures will be 1:6 scale with all the attention to detail that 3A is known for but with the classic design style that has made 2000 A.D. a fan favorite for generations. Ashley Wood grew up reading these comics and the love clearly shows through in the design. No word yet on when they will be released or the pricing, but this will be revealed soon!

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UglyDoll "Action Figures" Series 2... coming soon!!

About a week ago David Horvath posted up some pictures on the Uglydolls' Facebook page of the awesome new UGLYDOLL "Action Figures" Series 2. These so happen to be almost ready for store release... infact look for them this coming March, and to note that a box of 12 will include the whole set, awesome for us completionests out there! The whole set includes: Unglyworm, Poe, Big Toe, Trunko, Peaco, Uglyworm and the new Uglydog, which they all look great... all coming in different colorways!

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Love is in the air...Adios & Cia Ciao Mimobots

Simone Legno, creator of the iconic fashion brand tokidoki, has created a special-edition his and hers Valentine’s Day collaboration with Mimoco. Adios and Ciao Ciao, Legno’s beloved pair of cute grim reaper characters, will be morphed onto Mimoco’s MIMOBOT designer USB flash drive platform in romantic-yet-hardcore black and pink colorways. The memory drives are available in 2GB to 16GB capacities and come preloaded with exclusive tokidoki-themed wallpapers, screensavers, and icons.

As legend has it, Adios spent 500 years in fire and brimstone before the devil discovered his good-natured ways and kicked him out of hell. Too mischievous for heaven, Adios was condemned to live forever on earth, in his modern grave-loft with his girlfriend Ciao Ciao. Together, Adios and Ciao Ciao wander the world, sharing with others how to make the most out of this life… A perfect love story for fashion-tech lovers everywhere.

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*ON SITE* New Moon 2010 at MyPlasticHeart

SakiWaki of I Heart Cool Stuff just posted up an awesome video recapping last weekends New Moon show at MyPlasticHeart. This is the second annual event and they had an amazing turnout... not only from the fans but the art that was submitted from all of the artists was amazing! The artist list included: Dino Alberto, Angry Woebots, Andrew Bell, Leandro Castelao, Alberto Cerriteno, Mike Davis, Yoko d'Holbachie, Tristan Eaton, Mayuko Fujino, Leontine Greenberg, Lauren Gregg, Dan Goodsell, Stella Im Hultberg, kaNO, Yumiko Kayukawa, Ken Keirns, Dan May, Martin Ontiveros, Carlos Ramos, Brent Nolasco, Okkle, Lou Pimentel, Reactor-88, Griselda Sastrawinata, Mary Louise Silva, Tom Whalen and others, and you can learn more about our artists by visiting their special "New Moon : Meet the Artists"! My favorite piece, or should I say pieces that really caught my eye were Tristan Eaton's "B-Bot" style characters... great work man. Thanks to Saki and her lover :-) for putting this together for all us West Coasters to see!

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Urban Criminal Billy from Jure Gavran

We have seen this reported before, and actually did a review of the OG colorway HERE and now Jure Gavran's "Criminal Billy" is finally going to be available for purchase this month. This colorway first debuted at NYCC and now Criminal Billy is out on parole and he’s in the mood to blame u. He’ll be available for purchase in February at collectible shops and online stores, and this figure is a limited run of 250 pcs. and will retail for around $90. Billy stands 8" tall and includes a GID Blamee, collar and leash for the Blamee and gun and bandana. Click HERE to see this figure at SDCC09 as Jure walks us through the design and concept behind this figure

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Toy2R x o.d.m. Qee Collection

Time to check out the newest Toy2R Qee collaboration! O.D.M. and Toy2R have joined forces to release a new collection of fashionable fun watches. Presenting the Qee Collection featuring colorful watchbands and pendant timepieces from O.D.M., one of the world's trendiest manufacturers of fashion forward watches. While each watch sports artwork inspired by Qee, there's also the new 2.5" O.D.M. Qee available!

The collection is being launched through various Hong Kong retailers like Silvercord, LCX and SOGO and will be featured throughout more than 160 fine boutiques in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, France and Italy. Never Too Late with O.D.M. and Toy2R!

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Brent Nolasco's "Good Tidings" for Message in a Bottle Group Show @ Solid Gallery One

SOLID GALLERY ONE presents
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, February 12th 8PM-11PM

The Message in a Bottle is a form of communication ending up wherever currents carry it without an intended destination. Solid Gallery One proudly presents "Message in a Bottle" group show featuring new works by a stellar lineup of over 20 artists. Come to the show, and help the artists' message travel and make new friends! Brent's piece above is a step in a new direction and Brent has been refining his style as of late... this piece is titled "Good Tidings" and was created using acrylic on wood and measures 11"x14".

ARTISTS:
Big Gus, Spurn, Lizzy Lomax, Vyal, Mers, Matthew Ryan Sharp, Crystal Sylver, Selenia Rios, Michael Pukac, Ted Von Heiland, Michael Baylis, 13:11, DukeOne, Deb, Jonathan Baker, Bryce Nadeau, Brent Nolasco, Kevin Quinn, Basia, Michael Rowlett, Robin Perine, Monkey, Mario Munoz, Miss Wendy, Bloodshovel and more...

SOLID GALLERY ONE
334 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

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Letterpress Cursed Twins card by Patricio Oliver

From Argentine artist Patricio Oliver, and now available for pre-order, these awesome limited edition letter press cards are printed in maroon on natural white 110# stock with black envelopes. There are only 500 of these hand-numbered cards, and they come in a set Five cards & envelopes per pack. These features Patricio's awesome character art and are available for only $15 a set... get on this folks!

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Stefan Bucher's Daily Monster #6

Stefan is a super talented artist, and a super cool guy to boot! You can now follow all of his updates via his Twitter profile HERE, not on Twitter yet? Get a move on!

From Stefan's Blog:

I hope you had a lovely, mellow day of sharing good food with good friends and family. I did. In fact, I don't think I've worried about kerning once today. But I did remember to post a new monster for you. It's a turkey leftover sandwich made of ink. Enjoy and know that 344 LOVES YOU

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"Smokey the Lost Bear" by WinterArtwork @TeeFury

Awesome design and concept... I can never get enough Lost!!! TeeFury is an awesome website that sells T-shirts for $9 a pop...the only catch is that it is only on sale for 24hours and then the next T-shirt is posted up! I have seen awesome shirts by some amazing artists on here and the total purchase price is $11. So that is $9 for the Tee and $2 for the shipping...that is an awesome deal that can't be beat! I will try and post the shirts up daily, or you can go visit the site yourself!

Money does go back to the artist and after today, this t-shirt will be Gone FOREVER! Today artist earns $1 for every tee sold. So make sure you get over there if yer diggin the design!

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New contest launching tomorrow...

Hmmmm... what could this be... check back tomorrow for details on how you can add this amazing custom to your collection, courtesy of NERVISWR3K!

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"The Valentines Day Massacre" from Plaseebo

This is an Utra Limited edition of just 10 pieces. This "SVDC Skulloctopus" from Plaseebo is a clear vinyl figure made in Japan, with a custom blood wash over glow in the dark paint, plastic eye inserts, an externally switched internal color changing LED unit and brain inserts visible in the see-through area of the head. Hand painted, numbered and signed by Bob. The Saint Valentines Day Massacre Celebration Skulloctopus will be available this Friday 2/12 from the Plaseebo web store for only $110.

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Horrorwood's "Skull King" paper craft

Jack Hankins aka Horrorwood has released a very special paper toy recently, this amazing piece titled "Skull King" is special because it was a free gift distributed with issue 8 of "I Want Your Skull" art magazine. Jack made 5 different colorways (see in the pic above) that are distributed randomly with each issue... not to mention Jack has an interview in the magazine as well! There are only 250 copies available and the magazine can be purchased directly from the IWYS homepage. This figure turned out awesome, and for those of you unfamiliar with IWYS... time to familiarize yourself :-)

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On Valentines Day, tell someone you love them throug one of Frank Kozik's smorkin characters...

Frank Kozik teamed up with Kidrobot to spread some holiday cheer... and this time around it keeps on spreading with some really cool VCards. Show you care and send someone who gets you smorkin’ a VDay eCard featuring characters by Frank Kozik! Click HERE and get sending!

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"Carnies" Mini Series from Brandt Peters

The skies darken, the wind howls, and you’re drawn to the eerie carnival inhabited by the Carnies, created by Brandt Peters. Reminiscent of retro animation, each of the 13 carnies in this nightmarish mini-series, including the two chases, stand at 3-inches and are colored in grayscale. Retailing for $9.95 each, Carnies arrive at Kidrobot stores, kidrobot.com, and select retailers on March 4. So the quality of these does look pretty suspect from the OG pictures up on the KRonikle... and I am hoping that they are just the test shots and not the final product because you can see some very prominent seam lines and messy paint on these figures... other that that they are really cool and I dig that the whole series is grayscale!

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Joe Ledbetter talking about his cover art creation for "Motion City Soundtrack"

Above is a pretty cool video from the band Motion City Soundtrack, and how they came across paths with artist Joe Ledbetter to ask if he would design the cover art for the most recent album release "My Dinosaur Life". Sit back and enjoy, and congrats Joe... well deserved!

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David Foox releases My Heart: The Ultimate Valentine's Day Gift...

For that very special someone, artist David Foox has created a work of art that is limited to a very small number of pieces. His own heart painted using heavy duty acrylic (hand mixed from powder to liquid by the artist,) on top of an X-Ray of his chest. The number of pieces are directly related to the amount of radiation he is able to withstand in a year and are done for this year's Valentine's Day. "I hope I don't get sick and need any more X-Rays, cause according to my doctor I am not allowed any more radiation!", says FOOX describing his Valentine's Day special series of Hearts.

With his heart broken so many times, FOOX has decided that his heart would be best kept in the possession of someone else. "Since it keeps getting broken and stitched up while in my care, I thought it best to hand over to the next guard," says FOOX of the motivation to create this work of art for Valentine's Day.

In addition this series addresses the immediate and pressing concerns of today's healthcare demands on society and acts as a bell weather for the changing state of US healthcare. Artists like making statements about society and here FOOX says "Don't ignore the issues of US Health Care, deal with them head on and make a difference!" He continues in his lilting Kiwi accent. "You can't give more than your heart to someone - and this is as raw as it gets"

Each piece comes framed in a backlit box and exudes a very spooky and personal quality about it. "Imagine having your very own heart painted on top of an X-Ray of your body," continues FOOX in talking about his work. This project is limited to only eight X-Ray films, each hand painted and unique. If you are interested in giving one of these to your true love, move fast, they may already be sold out. With a price tag of $3,000 per Heart, they're nothing to sneeze (or cough) at.

PS: FOOX reports that as soon as he is able to withstand more radiation, he will do a 4th of July series of eight back x-rays with the spine painted. “America needs a little back bone right about now,” says FOOX.

Title: My Heart: The Ultimate Valentine's Day Gift
Edition: 8
Dimensions: 20" x 17" x 3"
Medium: X-Ray Film, Acrylic, Light Box

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Fiberglass "Log Stool" from Amanda Visell

Looks like Amanda Visell got axe-happy. Her magnificent Log Stool stands 17-inches tall, 14-inches wide, and features a KR + AV engraving on the back from its pre-stool days. Made of fiberglass and retailing for $300 and limited to only 100 available worldwide, Log Stool will be available at Kidrobot stores, kidrobot.com, and select retailers on March 4. This is pretty cool indeed, first it was the Labbit stool now this... the shape kinda resembles the drums that hippies play while sitting in a circle :-)

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SpankyStokes X Brand New Intention Contest - Win somethin'

Hello SpankyStokes readers! We have something special lined up for you in cooperation with Brand New Intention. BNI just released some new t-shirts & a contest with talented illustrator Jared Nickerson! You can go HERE to if you want to see the shirts and get your chance to win a skate deck, laser etched sketch book, or logo tee!

We need YOUR help to get the word out, so were going to give away some of our extra stock to pay you back!

The first 50 people to help us create some twitter buzz by tweeting the message below will receive one of the shirts below for FREE + shipping and handling ($5 in the US - $15 International) While sizes last of course... and as a bonus if you can prove through a trail of Retweets that you were one of the top buzz makers we'll have a little something extra for you!

Tweet this message(copy & paste):
Please RT! @spankystokes @brandnewint BUY TEES - WIN A SKATE DECK http://is.gd/7vHBd

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