This website is about any and everything that sparks the creative genius in all of us. By profession I am a Graphic Designer, and enjoy all aspects of design. From traditional to urban from resin to vinyl, these are all great mediums and deserve to be explored. On top of that everything from music to movies from guns to graffiti.
A group of dedicated toy collectors and artists in Bandung Indonesia just launched a concept store called Lou Belle Toys, that has, vinyl, resin, designer clothes, books, and everything else you can think of to feed your creative need! They also have a small gallery to support local artists. This shop is located in Bandung City, Indonesia. For the opening they had music performance from Mocca, Bottle Smokers and Olive Tree. And an exhibition by Eunice Nuh a.k.a PinkGirlGoWild (paintings, toys and sculpture) which are on display.
They opened up this store and mini-gallery to support the local art scene and to introduce designer toys to a wider audience in Bandung. Most of the people there didn't understand the value of designers toys and clothes. This shop looks like it has it all, and if you are in or plan on visiting Indonesia, this shop is a must to visit!
Twitter: loubelleshop Facebook: lou belle shop Site:www.loubelleshop.com (under construction)
Lou Belle Jl. Dr Setiabudhi #56 Bandung - 40141 West Java - Indonesia P / F +62 22 203 8668
Well above are just a few of the many entries for the Lil'g Mini DIY Boombox giveaway that we are doing in conjunction with Jasin Dollin. Basically all you need to do is download the templates HERE, customize them, email them to spankystokes@gmail.com by this Sunday, October 25th... that's it... oh and cross your fingers and hope that you win :-)
Prototype and 808orbit presents the debut urban art show "Feed My Tummy" at Prototype Ala Moana on December 1st from 6:00-9:00pm. The December 1st evening launches the worldwide premiere of Indonesian artist Marine Randamhi's Jouwe Tummy urban designer vinyl figure. The resin art figure is the first of it's kind in Hawaii, and for the first time ever, people from Hawaii and beyond will have the opportunity to view these works of art up close and personal at the "Feed My Tummy" show.
A number of worldy-known group of artists will be customizing Marine's highly limited special edition 10 inch resin Tummy figure. The customized Jouwe Tummy urban designer figures will he on exhibit for the month of December.
Artists include:Angry Woebots (Hawai'i, USA), Arkiv (Indonesia), Brent Nolasco (Pennsylvania, USA), CKaweeks (Hawai'i, USA), Jonpaulkaiser (Leicesters, United Kingdom), Kat Brunnegraff (Ohio, USA), Leecifer (California, USA), Lou Pimentel (New York, USA), Newkon (Hawai'i, USA), Pancho Abalos (Hawai'i, USA), Peekaboo (Washington, USA), Phu (Singapore), Scribe (Missouri, USA), Squidnik (Nevada, USA) and 2H (California, USA). Marine, is a 34 year old artist from Bundag, Indonesia. His Jouwe rhinoceros and ant hybrid characters first started appearing in 2008 in Indonesia and have since crossed over into the states, and from canvas form, they are now taking three dimensional form in vinyl and resin.
Urban vinyl is a type of designer toy, which is commonly made of vinyl. Urban vinyl first made it's debut in the 1990s in Hong Kong by artist Michael Lau. Lau's efforts have since then branched off to a number of different artists, many of them which are graffiti artists, DJs and designers, taking their canvas and street art in three dimensional form in the hip hop arena and beyond. More recently urban vinyl has branched off into different medium including plastic, wood and resin. The process of making resin urban figures is more labor and time intensive, and are made in more smaller numbers in comparison to it's vinyl counterpart, thus making these works of art highly collectible.
Tokyoplastic returns with the latest colorway of their popular Koguma figure produced by mphlabs. The black edition features the classic Koguma in a monotone black and grey with matching chair. The chair measures in at 8.5 inches and lounging Koguma at 3 inches. These are going to retail at $75 a piece, and can be found at anyone of the sponsors on this site!
Info from the very great, and amazing DKE Toys. For Wholesale Inquiries about this awesome product please contact www.dketoys.com.
Before we saw OsirisOrion's submission (click HERE to watch) for Phetus's Concrete Immortalz comic release that went down at Big Apple Comic Con, last weekend Oct 16th-18th 2009 @ Pier 94 in NYC! Now we get a look at what Mike Mendez aka NemO did for this show... AMAZING to say the least, this guy should be working in Hollywood, his sculpts are simply mind blowing, and this piece just takes it to a whole other level!
NemO says that " I've always been into original creatures, sci fi, horror type stuff, that's pretty much how I got started sculpting, it was GARAGE KITS back in 94 .If your NOT familiar with this, it's basically what all these dudes are doing now with the DIY RESIN pieces except back then it was all about realism, Movie characters, creatures ect... the only way to see and get into the hobby was to go to the CONVENTIONS, CHILLER THEATRE, MAD MODEL PARTY,S AN DIEGO COMIC CON... this was WAAAAY before McFarlane started doing shit, he saw the shit that was happening and then brought it to the mainstream with the MOVIE MANIACS stuff, that blew everything the fuck up from there cuz a RESIN garage kit, which you had to PUT TOGETHER yourself and paint would cost you at least $100, when McFarlane came out with his shit, it was a PRE-FUCKIN painted piece for like $30!!! shit man ,the garage kit scene was hurtin for alittle bit, but out of that came alot of ORIGINAL creative sculptors and artist, the GARAGE kits are coming back in a BIG WAY, or I guess they NEVER LEFT,LOL, but anyway I've always been inspired by alot of Japanese creature core artist like TEKEYA, NIRASAWA and sfx artist like JORDU SHELL..."
Now if that does not shed light onto the creation of this amazing piece i don't know what more you need... thanks so much to Mike for shining some ligt on where he draws inspiration from, and essentially letting us all know tat he has been sculpting for a LONG time now, so don't get discouraged when you see his amazing work :-) Keep rockin Mike, your work is top notch!
To mark the launch of the Scooter & Jinx webstore and to celebrate the the arrival of Vannen Watches on these shores, they are giving you a chance to get in on some seriously exclusive action. Up for grabs is one of the ultra limited edition Dirty Donny Halloween watches. It's one of only 150 worldwide and if that wasn't enough, this bad boy is signed by the artist. And that's not all, this little prize pack comes all tricked out with a bunch of extra treats and spooky surprises, but they are not letting the cat out of the bag!
So you're asking yourself, how do I get in on some of that action?!?! Head on over to the Scooter & Jinx webshop between now and midnight on Halloween and make an online purchase of £5.00 or more (excluding shipping charges) and you're automatically entered to win, that's all there is to it.
Bob Conge of Plaseebo just sent over a great video of his late(check it HERE)st creation the "2009 Halloween Night Gamer"! Now we put up a post earlier this week of just the photos of this custom creation, but now seeing the video with the flashing LED lights inside just takes it up a notch! This edition will be available from the PLASEEBO'S website store http://plaseebo.net/ on Thursday, October 22nd around midnight. $150 each plus shipping.
Posted up on Brent's Facebook page was this great picture of his upcoming production figure titled "Gordo" and produced by mphlabs. Brent goes on to say that it is time to paint all of these... which seems like a ton of work, but that is what makes all of these releases so special... each figure is hand painted with love by the artist! I do look forward to seeing one finished, the sculpt is amazing!
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