More "Tilt Shift" videos from Keith Loutit...

Hulkamania from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Origin II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Bathtub V from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Looking at tilt shift pictures are one thing, but watching it on video is a whole new beast, and the videos that Keith Loutit makes are the best around. I have been keeping my eye out on his Vimeo site for some time now and posted some a while back (HERE) but this new batch is just amazing. Just an FYI, the way these are shot makes everything look like they are models/fake...this is real world film footage, and not models, keep that in mind while watching these!

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"Yipe! 5 - Attack of Idle Hands" is LIVE!!!

This retro-style RPG for the iphone called "Yipe! 5 - Attack of Idle Hands." has just been launched in the iTunes store and for only $1.99 you can grab it. It is getting rave reviews from Touch Arcade (check it out HERE), and all reviews on in the iTunes store have been super positive.

Urban vinyl artist, Dylan Sisson, has joined up Yipe Software to bring his vinyl character, Idle Hands, into the zany world of Yipe! Mr. Sisson's Idle Hands, is the ultimate bad guy ... and is responsible for creating all sorts of world-jeopardizing problems. Artist, Dylan Sisson, has created all the art for the game, from Idle Hands himself, to the monsters, to even the grass tiles ... creating a game with a unique visual look.

This indie project is the result of collaboration between an artist, a game designer, and a musician. The first chapter of "Yipe! 5" is available NOW for the iphone, so get a copy of it HERE, and let me know what you think!



About Dylan Sisson
http://www.dylansisson.com

About Yipe! Software
http://www.yipesoftware.com

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Save Santa promotion from Delicious Drips

Save Santa, Get 15% OFF, and get a FREE blind box... Christmas is coming and as usual, Santa is slammed with work. Due to recent layoffs, he’s also even more short staffed than ever so he called upon the Delicious Drips team to help fill the wishes of toy collectors around the world. Here’s the deal though: We don’t have a flying sled, so we use the United States Postal Service. We’re not that experienced with filling Santa’s role, so we just figured you guys can help tell us what you want…

Use this coupon (discount code: save santa) for 15% off your order in the Delicious Drips store. With every order you can also pick a FREE blind box toy of your choice (2.5” and smaller). After you complete your order, email your wish for a blind box toy to sales@deliciousdrips.com. Offer expired DECEMBER 20th Midnight (Last day for X-Mas shipments!!)

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"Dunnsais" by Troy Stith

Troy Stith just announced a new series of customs based on the "Bonsai" tree and last seen on his custom "Munnsai". These are the first 3 "Dunnsais" that will be available on December 11th at 3:00pm (EST) for $40 a piece (plus s&h) at his online store HERE. Their names are Doragon(middle), Otaki(top), and Afuro(bottom). Since he used 3" Dunnys, he opted to show more of the toy rather than covering all of it's details like he did with Munnsai. Troy also chose to show varying degrees of foliage color instead of all summer green this time, hence the use of red on Doragon and dark green on Otaki. All of these turned out so great, but if I had to pick one as a stand out I would have to say Doragon, I love the foliage cover and the red is just SICK, great work Troy!

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*On Site* Multiversal Group Art Show

This past weekend, as part of Miami's Art Basel, Mike Franco of Wizard Sleeve Toys and friends hijacked an American Legion building and turned it into a colossal art event. The show was called Multiversal, and that it was: Not counting hallways, entryways and corridors, the event featured 4 rooms. I barely moved from the first room where toy art by Sket-One, Mike Slobot, Bob Conge, Jeremiah Ketner, Rsin, Ian Ziobrowski, Lana Crooks, Josh F+ Pearce, Jon Burgerman x Felt Mistress and our own SpankyStokes dominated the scene. An entire wall of the room was covered inch by inch with art, like 2D pieces by kaNO, 3D work by Nakanari and inspiring canvasses by emerging artists we're likely to see grace the pages of Hi-Fructose...

The second room was a bit of a blur. I'm pretty sure I saw a couple cool pieces by local Helena Garcia among some of the graff canvases and figurative illustrations. Room 3 featured a full bar and the live painting duet of Sket-One and kaNO. If you stopped to watch the artists do their thing, your eyes might have been distracted by the transparent wall into Room 4 where a handful of topless women and men were having their bodies adorned with paint...

Multiversal featured the full work of the Feminality show, plus a whole bunch more. There was a lot going on here. You could look at it on the whole as being a tad over the top (girls were dancing with silks in the entryway) or exactly the kind of atmosphere that was needed to contrast the precise and precious pretentiousness of some of the other Art Basel affairs. Precious, this was not. For better or for worse, emerging and established artists shared space on table-cloth covered card tables, and canvases competed for eyes with black and white portraits of American Legion heroes. Most people felt this was a nice antidote to the art scenesters they'd been encountering throughout the day. I even witnessed Mr. Franco drop the price of a piece so substantially as to entirely negate his commission when a fan couldn't afford the asking amount. When's the last time you saw that happen in a proper gallery?

Unfortunately, the huge undertaking had to be taken down Sunday, so all that exists of the awesome feat are pictures, memories and no doubt A TON of sweat equity. Multiversal 2? Be sure to CLICK THROUGH for a full photo slide show from the whole event!

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Green "Oh-No Sushi" by Andrew Bell

Mentioned, and shown in our video review of Andrew Bell's "O-No Sushi" (watch it HERE), and now confirmed by Andrew is the much sought after green version of this awesome figure! There are no confirmed dates or price on this figure but expect it to be in the $25-$30 range, and probably releasing in the new year! For those of you out there who are completionists, like myself, this is a must and will look awesome next to the blue and red version.

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Sushibot by PEZ Banana *UPDATE*

A couple of months ago we featured Sushibot designed by artist Jose Pacheco aka Pez Banana on our site (CLICK HERE), and the overwhelming support from the community has helped push Sushibot into the production stage. Now Sushibot, produced by PatchTogether, has already started production, and is estimated to ship on early 2010. People can still order Sushibot at special introductory price (save $5) at PatchTogether's store. Very limited quantities will be made. Help support this artist and snag up one of these rad little figures!

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MUGGLAB custom auction!

Christmas is right around the corner, and what better time to grab a few stocking stuffers than now! Mugglab proudly announces it's first ever Fundraiser series. This is a project that has been a year in the making, and has finally come together just in time for the Holidays. Customs have been donated by their artists, and some by myself, and each feature a custom box created just for this event. These are each one of a kind muggs, and will not be offered again - this is a one time set.

This set features some EPIC customs, including one of Are-Jay's first customs, and Dr.Mugg's very first custom. Please loosen your purse-strings to help a good cause, and take home some awesome customs for your effort!

As advertised, 100% of the proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards site costs. Mugglab first and foremost is a site dedicated to showcasing custom mighty muggs, helping to direct interested collectors or admirers to customizers for over a year now. It is run solely by Dr.Mugg, and what started as a fun project has turned into a HUGE undertaking.

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New production "Stitches" from MINDstyle

Re-imagination has always been one of the central themes of Walt Disney. The Stitch Experiment 626 tour presented a whole new world of ideas and creative interpretations. Just announced is the first of several artist custom figures selected for limited production. Tiki Stitch by Eric Tan is the nearly 10 inches tall (ATC) art toy collectible figure that takes us to where it all started in the Hawaiian Islands, 1st quarter 2010.

Re-imagination continues… Tron Stitch by Scott Zillner; the next in a series of (ATC) art toy collectible figures scheduled to launch at San Diego Comic Tron 2010. I am thourougly impressed that MINDstyle is going to be making these into actual production figures... they will be amazing!

Re-imagination… looking into the future brings us the ever spooky Mr. Ghoulie by Javier Soto. Look for this haunting new interpretation, Halloween 2010. How cool is this going to be, hopefully they are able to hold true to the quality that each artist put into their customs!

Source [MINDstyle]

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"NEW YORK, NEW YORK" at Phillips De Pury & Co.

Saturday December 12th Phillips De Pury & Co. will host another in their new series of Contemporary Art "Theme Sales" and this one's entitled, "NEW YORK, NEW YORK"! 'Art on the trains' was born some 50 years ago and came of age in the 1970's and 80's, finally becoming recognized and and achieving international status as Contemporary Art only a little more than a decade ago.

The emergence of Toy Art exploding onto the world retina has attracted some of the pre-eminent subway tag writers from the 'golden age' to join toy artists in the creation of perfectly faithful scale models of the NY subway trains of this era. COPE 2, GHOST, TKID, EWOKONE and SUCKLORD have created 13 inch hand-painted versions of their masterpieces, some of which heretofore, only survived in photographs. These are original works of art that have found an enduring platform, faithful scale models of the NY subway trains of this era. They are joined by 'Subway Art-ifacts' including the hand-tagged and vibrant, widely collected, authentic NYCTA subway maps of COPE 2 and 'track work' signs of GHOST (stripped from the bowels of NY).

Also offered is Bob Conge's glowing 'embraceable caution', the Indian Point Nuclear 'mascot' from his Night Gamer series rendered in a soft mauve vinyl with an exposed lighted reactor brain. Bob's particularly vast wasteland of imagination aided and abetted like the worst of criminals by an overactive, born-again type need to create and replete with talents that scare the uninitiated and thrill the connoisseur have produced just for this NEW YORK E-X-P-O-S-E a most mischievous-looking one of a kind gremlin.

Check out the "NEW YORK NEW YORK" auction catalogue at www.phillipsdepury.com - the toys are in the 'caboose'."

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"Shaun of the Dead" munny by Jon-Paul Kaiser

Jon-Paul Kaiser creates some amazing custom figures, and he has just completed an amazing commission piece featuring "Shaun of the Dead" as an 8" Munny. Now his style is so simple yet complex at the same time using one black ink... but this time around he wanted to swith things up a little bit with a splash of red, which adds to the figure immensely. The customs also comes with a really cool cricket bat, great work Jon-Paul, and keep the great work coming!

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Ganmetall Celsius Tribute to Gundam RX78-2

Rotobox Vinyl just sent over some pictures of a new custom, this is their 4th Ganmetall Celsius Tribute Series featuring the awesome mech titled "Kidou Senshi Gundam RX78-2"! This is actually really amazing and it is in an edition of 3 pieces, so more than one lucky collector has a chace at owning a fabolous custom, and those people are lucky because these are already SOLD OUT!!! Super sick!!!!

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Sad Dragon "Black Edition" out now...

The "BLACK EDITION" of VISEone's Sad Dragon is limited to 10 pieces for $80 each, and they are only available at THINK-PINK-CELLE, a German vinyl shop! Also very soon THINK-PINK-CELLE will offer the exclusive colorway "SMOOTH PINK" - limited to 10 pieces as well. For preorders you can contact them via their website at THINK-PINK-CELLE. All the colorsways of this figure look amazing!

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1/1 Graff Kings from 2PR on Sale

3 All new style Graff Kings (All Scratch Built and hand painted) 1/1 customs By Liam of 2PetalRose. these are all retailing for £75.00 GBP each plus postage of £5.00 UK and £9.00 Outside UK, and you can snag them from their store HERE!

"King of Clubs" includes: Custom Figure, Stand and Wall backdrop (original art print), Visor Cap, Golf Club, Mini King of clubs card, Spray can and Bling.

"HomeRun" includes: Custom Figure, Stand and Wall backdrop (oiginal art print), Baseball Cap, Wooden Baseball bat, Spray can and some Bling.

"Kid Wicket" includes: Custom Figure, Stand and Wall backdrop (original art print), Beanie, Cricket bat, Headphones, Large Clock and a spray can.

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NERVISWR3K's customs for Multiversal...

All of the customs by NERVISWR3K never cease to amaze me, and with each one completed they get better and better. He just finished up 2 new Munny's for the "Multiversal Group Artshow" that went down at Art Basel in Florida this past weekend... and I have to say they turned out amazing. Above is just a teaser and if you want to see many more pictures, visit his Flickr HERE! Great work man!

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Time Lapse Tara McPherson & Buff Monster painting live at Art Basel 09

Art Basel was this past weekend, so look forward to some posts about it here in the near future, but to satisfy those cravings, above are some really cool videos shot and made by Aleloop.com. The first being in real time, and the second is a time lapse, featuring artists Tara McPherson & Buff Monster collaborating "live" for the Multiversal group art show, really cool!

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Super 7 serving up San Diego...

5&A Dime in San Diego used to carry a ton of vinyl toys but in recent years they have moved from that genre, but still getting exclusives here and there, now they will be carrying new releases from the Super 7 line and catering just to the locals. These toys will be available only in store so be sure to call or keep an eye out on their blog to see some of the newest releases.

5&A Dime
701 8th Street
San Diego, CA 92101
619.236.0364

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"Little Man" by Oiseau on TeeFury

Skeletons in top hats...FTW! 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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Stefan Bucher's Daily Monster #49

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:

Right now, please meet Monsters 49a and 49b. Despite their somewhat dire dental situation they seem happy. Too happy, perhaps. There is something a bit unsettling about them. I can't quite put my finger on it. What do you think these two are up to? Are they scheming? Dreaming? Merely beaming? Are they, perhaps, pulling each others finger just out of frame? Or do I have them all wrong? Are they discussing the latest advances in nuclear physics---a subject of which they may have personal experience? I know you have a theory! Will you please let us know about it?

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