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.
Kathie Olivas & Brandt Peters' Circus Posterus group is having an online winter sale that will start officially tomorrow at 2pm EST on Wednesday, Dec. 9 2009! Above is just a sample of the goods they are offering, and not only are there going to be copious amounts of works from them but also from Travis Louie, Colin Christian, and Chris Ryniak. Make sure you stop by and check everything out, more info can be found HERE, make sure you read over the rules they are very specific! Good luck if you are going after some of these pieces, they are all amazing!
New from N.C. Winters and available in limited quantity are prints of his painting “I am Jack’s Broken Heart” are ready to be purchased through Gallery 1988: LA. The giclee prints are on heavy fine art paper, hand signed and numbered in a limited edition of 35, available for $70.00 each.
Take advantage of their holiday sale through Dec. 23rd, and receive 10% off prints when purchased in-store at G1988 Los Angeles, or receive free domestic shipping on print orders over $125.00 via telephone or email. To order a print, please contact the Los Angeles location: (323) 937-7088 / gallery1988@aol.com Or visit in-store at 7020 Melrose Ave., LA, CA 90038.
Valerie just sent over some photos of her custom Qee that she created for the upcoming Genuine Artikle "Qee2Life" custom show going down on 12.12.09. This cool custom is titled "Maneki Kuma, the Luck-Qee Bear" and she used acrylic paint and ink, genuine black onyx, leather, and sculpy to create this Asian inspired custom. Valerie says that "He is my bear version of the Japanese "Lucky Cat," or Maneki Neko." This deffinitly turned out great, and you should check out this piece in person as well as alot of her other customs and creations in her etsy store HERE!
Sam Fout was gracious enough to take some time out from his busy schedule to be one of Argonaut Resins guests on the Artist Crossover Series and whip up a custom resin. Lord Mesa's Kalua Moola in DIY form seemed to be quite a fun challenge and we are seeing some awesome customized versions coming in. There are only a couple left to be completed and when they are completed you'll see them drop on the Argonaut Resin site! Sam's custom Kalua Moola is on sale today for $100 plus shipping in the online store HERE! Source [Argonaut Resin]
"The board was the key to the whole thing—the better your board,the better you were gonna ride." -Wes Humpston
Best known for his work on the original Dogtown boards, Wes Humpston has been involved in skateboard graphics since the 1970's. Still heavily inspired by Zap Comics, art nouveau, and album covers, his designs retain their original Cali-born aesthetic. In addition to appearing on vintage Dogtown Skates decks, his artwork is now featured on the old school decks from his new company Bulldog Skates. Watch the interview from "The Run Up," available for the first time to the public for free, on Walrus TV.
Today Gold Coin announced the release of a cool new item and it’s a long time favorite now reinvented with a modern twist. Buttonz are a collectible series of pin badges. Each pouch of Buttonz includes 4 randomly packaged badges in a silver mylar sleeve with header card. In total there are 10 different Buttonz to collect with two of them being secret versions. Both secret versions will be released in very scarce numbers. Series 1 will be limited to only 100 packs produced. That’s not many, but don’t worry, every season a new series of Buttonz will release along with the GOLD COIN collection. Pick them up in the GC online shop HERE.
We have all seen and loved the figure "Celsius" designed by Rotobox Vinyl Anatomica and produced by Kuso Vinyl, and now just like the header says "A hero is not a hero without a villain"... well meet the villain "Fahrenheit"! This will be based off of the same platform as the Celsius figure but will have a new shaped head as well as accessories. Above is the control art, and the figure is in the factory as we speak looking for a early to mid 2010 release, who else is looking forward to getting one of these, I sure am, he looks great!?!?!
Three years ago Star Wars MIMOBOT Series 1 made its big debut in a limited edition run. They’ve been long gone ever since, but today MIMOBOT is re-releasing the Stormtrooper in a never before available 16GB capacity! Get one while you can! There's only 85 super-rare Stormtroopers in this ltd. edition MIMOBOT army.
Toy2R USA and Origami Skateboards have collaborated to release three DIY inspired skate decks - just in time for the holidays. Each limited edition deck is made from 100% Canadian Maple, 7 ply, and measures 8" x 32". Each design is limited to only 100 pieces and are priced at just $50 each.
Artist and Skateboarder, Bryan Hudson created his "Luchador Kaiju" using the Kaiju Qee Deck, showing just how easy it is to personalize and create your own deck. Available for immediate shipping, just contact either: Apex Trading Company - theapex@apex-z.com Origami Skateboards - info@origamiskateboards.com. these are really cool and if you collect decks these are a muct... shoot if your a Qee fan these are a must :-) Deck the halls with these Qee boards and show off your holiday spirit!
Keith Poon aka Keithing has been a custom making machine and the majority of these they will be up on www.toyqube.com on DEC 11th 1:00 EST. Keith has cut and painted every piece you see above, and he painted them in 2 different colorways this time. He also used the last batch of customs from the "BEWAE OF SHARKY" show, where he painted the toys in rusty metal, this time around they are in sliver and copper. There are 25 sets of the mini Sharky plus 5 bigger figures, the Qee will be not available yet because it is going to the "Qee2Life" show. CLICK THROUGH for a photo slide show of close ups of these figures!
After the Bomb Popped New Works by Matt Stallings December 11th – January 10th, 2010 Opening Reception with the Artist: Friday, December 11th, 6-10pm Live Music in the Courtyard at 8pm by Illuminauts, Treasure Mammal, & Jamuel Saxon
This December, Subtext invites you to come experience a post nuclear world of skewed reality by San Diego’s own Matt Stallings. In After the Bomb Popped, Stallings has conceived an altered world where candy and popsicles have come to life. Icons of pop culture are turned upside down and inside out. Michael Jackson has become a monkey, Mickey Mouse is now a pig, polar bears are hunted for their Icee juice, — there’s even a chocolate Jesus. For his first solo exhibition at Subtext, Matt (interviewed here)has created an all but normal body of pop surrealism at it’s finest.
So if Yeti's love snowflakes, and we love Yeti's... does that mean we love mustard? What does that even mean?!?! 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!
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!
For now, please say Hello to Monster 48. After a few days of animals, it's a return to enigmatic scholars. What is this one up to? What's his field of study? What's his plan? Who are his masters? Who serves him? Who laces up his shoes for him?
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Toy2R USA and Origami Skateboards have collaborated to release three DIY inspired skate decks - just in time for the holidays. Each limited edition deck is made from 100% Canadian Maple, 7 ply, and measures 8" x 32". Each design is limited to only 100 pieces and are priced at just $50 each.
