Wednesday, November 11, 2009

[Fools Paradise] Series 01 - "Kids" (White Version) RELEASED!!


These cool figures by [Fools Paradise] Series 01 - "Kids" (White Version) Limited 9 pcs only (Each Color) Color - Blue, Green & Pink Size - 25CM (D) x 23.5CM (W) x 29CM (H) Approximately Packing - Black Wooden Box Materiel - PolyStone Price - $180 USD. These are really limited, and if you dig them hop on it and snag one HERE!

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"Adore" by Brent Nolasco


Brent Nolasco just sent over some rad pics of one of his pieces that he is doing for the VIVI VI "Vivisect Playset" show! The title of this piece is "Adore" and he used a Vivisect mashup with some acrylic paint, aves sculpt, and found objects to make this rad piece. Brent has a few more entries for this show,so stay tuned for those! Great job Brent, this looks amazing!

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"Whinnie the Pooh Spider" by Leecifer


Leecifer is one of those customizers that can throw some paint on a figure any figure and it looks amazing, this time around he added a little more than just paint to a figure turning this Yoka bear into a fierce "Whinnie the Pooh Spider". You can check this out next weekend, November 21 at Designer Con in Pasadena, where Leecifer will also be on hand at the SpankyStokes.com Booth#35, where he will have a ton of customs for sale, so stop by and get a sketch and say hello!

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Random Nature @ Designer Con



Random Nature is back and will be debuting their new products at Designer Con. This time around though we get a little sneak peek of both MAD and Frank Kozik's products. The images above have me guessing to what they are, and we will know for sure next week, but until then we get the teasers above. They have huge plans to unroll some other products as well, but just like the previous product time will tell and I personally am super excited for the new products!

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Interview with Spencer and Mikie of Blamo Toys


DrilOne had a chance to sit down with Spence and Mikie of Blamo Toys during the show they threw on 11/08/09 titled "Welcome to Blamoville". this is a really cool interview where the guys talk about what makes their product unique, how the company got started, and what they have in store for the future. If you get a chance you can still see the show up at Million Fishes Gallery, and then it will travel down to Designer Con in Pasadena on November 21st... so there are more opportunities for you to see these amazing pieces in person. Thanks for the video Dril you rock!

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Designer Con Exclusive "WST Celsius"


Wizard Sleeve Toys and SpankyStokes.com are proud to announce the "WST Celsius", an exclusive figure that is going to be available at this years Designer Con in Pasadena on November 21, 2009. This figure, limited to ONLY 48 pieces worldwide, will be available for purchase when the doors open for $100 a piece. This figure stands 7" tall and comes with a full arsenal of weapons including a set of detachable wings. The other colorways were a huge success so don't sleep on this one. We look forward to seeing all of you at our Designer Con booth which is #35... more announcements on exclusives to come!

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"Close Encounters" group art show in Tokyo


Adapta Gallery’s third curated project will be held on November 12th - November 29th 2009, with a show in Tokyo called Close Encounters. The show consists of 8 British-based artists, including Best Ever, Cyclops, D*Face, David Bray, Matt Small, Sickboy, Word To Mother and Vesna Parchet.

The variety of work on show is eclectic, and that is precisely the reason why we chose them in the first place. From D*Face's two-dimensional graphic art to the rich textures of emerging artist Vesna Parchet's styled character-based paintings, a plethora of mediums, emotions and messages are employed for the viewer to digest.

This particular show is very close to our hearts as we are finally able to put together an amazing line up of artists to produce works for our Tokyo readers and Japanese collectors to see in person. We have been interviewing and working on projects with so many talented British creatives over the years and to finally curate our own show in Tokyo for our main audience is a true honour.

On the opening night, we will also have special guests: Usugrow, Jeff Soto, Shohei Takasaki, Yoshiki & Nagayama also showing their works.

Exhibition venue: Time Out Gallery, Liquidroom
Opening Date: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 12 November, 2009
Exhibition runs: 13 November 2009 – 3 December, 2009
Website: www.ukadapta.com/closeencounters.html

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Stefan Bucher's Daily Monster #60

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:

Monster 60 is much happier than 59. 60 is a bit of a showboat. Do you think this one is compensating for its small stature? Or is it actually a truly big bird? Seems like it's bowing. What performance just ended here? Music? Theater? Oratory? Motivational speaking? I hope you'll let us in on 60's secret.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Cranston Fellows Jr. "Dark Night Edition"


MPHLabs is working once again with artist Lou Pimentel to bring you the second incarnation of Cranston Fellows Jr. this time the evil, yet still lovable "Dark Night Edition". This limited edition hand-detailed resin figure will be available for $80 at myplasticheart.com and in MPH retail stores on Thursday November 19 at 1PM. I soooo want this :-)

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Nakanari's OG Ninja Spiki pre-order


myplasticheart and Nakanari presents a special preorder opportunity for the upcoming OG Ninja Spiki figure from Kuso Vinyl. Ninja Spiki comes equipped with 2 Shirukens and 1 Katana and packed in a nice foam gift box. It will retail for $69. Look for it on myplasticheart.com starting Thursday November 12th at 11AM Eastern time. Really cool figure, make sure you get yours!

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Vinyl "Record" Art by Daniel Edlen


This is a really cool video profile of Daniel Edlen, creator of Vinyl Art, and no not vinyl toy art, the OG vinyl art as most everyone knows as records. Daniel does some amazing work on vinyl records and through this vdeo you get to see the process of how they are created. This video was created by http://rhynomarketing.com. Thanks for the heads up on this Daniel, truly amazing and inspiring art!

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Infectious is now offering art prints



Not only is Infectious offering up art prints, but the prints they are offering are SWEET! These art prints are made from photorealistic grade paper with 8 color Epson Ultrachrome GS ink and a lustre finish and are available in 11x17, 18x24, and 24x36, starting at $19.99! Go check out their selection HERE!

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Mimobot x Infectious Design Challenge Winners


As you may or may not have heard, Mimoco recently partnered with Infectious (the cool guys that make community designed goodness like iPhone & Laptop skins) for the second contest in our community-designed series of MIMOBOT flash drives. We received an astounding 666 (OH NOOO, the mark of the beast) entries this time around and we'd like to thank everyone that entered! The designs were all amazing and it was impossibly hard to chose, but they finally chose the winner and five runners-up!

Drum roll please... TheGrand Prize Winner is GiddyUp by Hila Rosenberg Arazi!

Hila is an Australian artist who was born on the shortest day of the year. Hence, she loves to draw tiny things. We are so glad she entered our Infectious X MIMOBOT Design Challenge because her whimsical dreamy illustration is going to make for a killer MIMOBOT. Hila will receive a MIMOBOT and Infectious Prize Pack, a $1000 cash prize, and her design made into the next community-designed MIMOBOT flash drive! Watch for Hila’s GiddyUp design to be available in MIMOBOT form in early 2010.

The five runners up, who will each receive MIMOBOT and Infectious Prize Packs are, in no particular order:

  • Marvin: The Pirate Flash Drive by jacoporosati
  • Hi, it’s Jimmy Totem! by Aphte
  • Mictlantecuhtli by Julio E Carrillo
  • whoopz!! where’s my head at?? by arief rfirman
  • Pink invader by Patricio Rodriguez Carmona
The winners were narrowed down by voting from the Infectious community and then chosen by a special panel of judges consisting of the great guys at Infectious,the aficionados of cute at FriendsWithYou, and of course the MIMOBOT specialists here at MIMOCO. Thanks everyone for participating, and for making this the biggest and best Infectious design challenge yet. Congrats to the winners!

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"The Hoodoo Voodoozzels" resin figures by Porzilla


Here is the newest Ozzel Colorway created by Porzilla called "The Hoodoo Voodoozzels". Each one of these are handcast in resin and then handpainted. They come in custom handmade window boxes with a handmade pin. These are fantastically priced at only £15 each, and they go on sale, TOMORROW, Wednesday the 11th of November 2009!

The Hoodoo Voodoozzels back story:
"Living in the deepest and darkest rainforests there is a nomadic race of ozzels who are said to have a very dark grip of the voodoo ways and a nasty taste for ozzel meat. ugh! I wouldnt want to look into any rustling bushes while wandering through a forest and coming face to face with one of these little fella's! That would be one scary sight I tell you! With their weird ritual face paint in the style of a skull, skulls of little ozzels or animals they've caught proudly dangling from around their neck's and dont even get me started on the black slime that comes from their mouths!! Heaven knows whats been in there!"

They turned out really great, and for more pictures hit up their Flickr site HERE. Son;t forget to snag one of these up via their store HERE tomorrow, they are limited in quantity and will go very fast!

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Vivisect VI "The Final Payset" @ G1988 Los Angeles


Gallery1988 Los Angeles and Luke Chueh are celebrating the opposite of life on 11/27/09 which ends up being the day after Thanksgiving aka "BLACK FRIDAY". The Death is of their collaboration that started in 2003, The Vivisect Playset, which is an annual group art show curated by artist Luke Chueh, which thematically focuses on drawings of the dissection and reconstruction of animals to demonstrate human emotion. This time around Luke invited: Adam Alaniz, Alex Pardee, Amy Sol, Angry Woebots, Anthony Ausgang, Brandi Milne, Brent Nolasco, Dan May, Daniel Elson, Daniel Valenzuela, Dave Pressler, Dia, DrilOne, Ewelina Ferruso, Ghost Patrol, Irma Rivera, Jimbot, Kamala Dolphin Kingsley, Leecifer, Luke Chueh, Mari Inukai, Mark Brown, Motorbot, Paul Barnes, Peek-A-Boo, Persue, Peter Gronquist, Rachel J. Wong, Roland Tamayo, Scribe, Travis Louie, Walt Hall and others, to participate in this momentous occasion, the last time this show will run. So mark your calendars for November 27th from 7pm - 10pm for this amazing group art show.

Gallery 1988 (Los Angeles)
7020 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA. 90038
http://www.nineteeneightyeight.com/

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Jamungo's BUD Series 3


Jamungo just posted up another awesome shot of their upcoming designs for BUD Series 3. In the pictures above you can see the amazing quality and detail of the designs by featuring the works from MAD, Jesse Ledoux, Yuck, Jon Burgerman, FERG, Superdeux, Aesthetic Apparatus, VanBeater, Pedini, Kenn munk, saurkids, Jim Koch, Frank Kozik, Brian Morris and Muttpop. Really amazing work from all the artists in this series, and the expected release is this month, November 2009, so get those wallets ready to "Collect and Destroy"!

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DesignerCon Exclusives from DD


This year at DesignerCon, DLi$h will be unveiling several Mini Munny exclusive figures. The Oxidation Series captures the metallic color transition as precious metals become exposed to the elements.To some, this is when the metal begins to come to life, and for this very reason, these figures have lots of character without having a face.

While you see this custom shown in three color ways here, there are a total of six colors available at $50 each. These mystery colors will be unveiled by request only when you go to the Delicious Drips booth at DesignerCon with the code “yellow submarine”. DLi$h has also put together a little video to teach YOU how you can get that rustic oxidized effect…

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"Freak Mechanique" by Doktor A. @ LIFT Detroit


"Freak Mechanique" by Doktor A.
Saturday, November 14th 7-10 PM

This highly anticipated show features twenty-seven new works of framed and toy art by Doktor A in his largest solo exhibition to date. If you are in the area, please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, November 14th starting at 7PM. LIFT will have hors d'œuvres, drinks, door prizes and a sneak preview of the new exclusive 5" MAD*L designed by Doktor A. and available only from LIFT. Unfortunately Doktor A. is not able to hop the pond and attend in person due to family commitments (something about protecting a baby from men in white coats). However LIFT is working on setting up a retrobotic video feed so that attendees can interact with the good Doktor during the show.

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Cupco loves XENU & Show at Metropolis



CUPCONIANS! Bow to your new god: Cross-dressing XENU god of Scientology. When you possess XENU you can exert control over all Scientologists (i.e. Tom) living and deceased! Comes with a removable yoke, bomber-girl keyring and stickers. This also has a detachable head so you can buy other CUPCO dolls and swap the heads for more fun! This doll is CUPCO WEB SIZE: 16 cm W (6.5") x 30 cm H (12")

Cupco - December 4th - 31st 2009 • Australian-based artist Cupco (Luke Temby) makes his first US appearance here at Metropolis - though he has already developed a near-fanatic following in the states for his one-of-a-kind soft sculptures. As recently featured at Christies Auction House in their Pop Cuture auctions, Cupco has created a universe of morbidly hilarious characters, taking a cartoonish swipe at world religions, pop culture and politics. Reminiscent of underground comix pioneers such as Gary Panter and Charles Burns, Cupco's soft sculpture pieces marry mythology to Pop Art through the lens of a demented children's show. To be added to the preview list for this show, please contact Metropolis.

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"Where Every Alien Knows Your Name..." by Tom Spina on Teefury



Hidden Star Wars references... yes please! 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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