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.
Well... for those of you who are unable to make it out to New York (myself included) for Audrey Kawasaki's solo show titled "Hajimari" which is going down at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NY TONIGHT, Saturday 12/12/09, one of our SpankyStokes.com correspondents was on site to cover the event live for us, huge thanks to Jesse aka J*Ryu for taking all of these amazing pictures, and as you can see the place was packed, standing room only to get up close and personal with all of Audrey's amazing works. The fine detail and the subtle shading is truly mind blowing and definitely a treat for all of those who made it out to the event!
Tons of fans lined up to just say hello with a little meet and greet session with the very humble artist. Audrey doodled and sketched for all those who waited, and chatted it up with everyone! The opening was a success and if you are able to make it out there, this show is up until January 9th, 2010 @ JLVG so do yourself a favor and go see all these pieces in person! Be sure to CLICK THROUGH for pictures from the opening night in true slide show fashion!
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011
Nathan Hamill just put up his really cool Boris T-shirts on his site, just in time for the holidays, Seasonal Gun Metal on Black, hehehe! These are $15 a piece and are printed on a 100% cotton shirt, and for orders of two shirts or more, the buyer will receive an original Boris sketch as a stocking stuffer. Head on over to his site HERE and pick some up for your loved ones!
We got our hands on the limited edition Winter Holiday Watch designed by Christopher Bettig and is an exclusive from Vannen Art Watches. This snowy-white watch is adorned with abstract fir trees, hearts, ornaments, stars, holly and other year-round reminders of the spirit of the holidays. There are only 100 of these festive limited edition timepieces in existence, and a special "Chase" version of the watch limited to only 10 pieces. These are $75, meaning they won't last long at all! Each watch comes with with a two-color silkscreen print designed, printed, signed and numbered by the artist. This watch just like the rest of Vannen's watches is highly recommended, so stop on by www.vannenwatches.com and pick one up today!
Natural Resources 2 is the second installment in the Natural Resources traveling art show, featuring customized "Neighborwood" and "Average Joe Schmoe" wooden figures designed by Cleveland artist, Mike Burnett, and produced by the great folks over at Bigshot Toyworks!
Hosted by The Satellite Gallery in Asheville, North Caroline, the exhibit will run from December 18th, 2009, until January 24th, 2010. The opening reception will be held Friday, December 18th from 7 pm until 11 pm. Some artists will be in attendance.
Sometime you get sent stuff to AMAZING to pass up a post on, and this was one of those cases. Thanks to my buddy Chris, who found this over on TheFwoosh.com, I was instantly intrigued! I love video games and back in the day Punch-Out was one of the best games out there... and artist Fugazi thought so as well and he took it upon himself to create custom figures of the whole cast of characters!!! Head on over HERE for many more pictures from the series!
From the artist: "Growing up in the Nintendo generation, one of my most favorite games was Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! I wanted to pay homage to a very fond childhood past-time, so i decided to customize the entire cast of characters. these figures were made up from various WWE and Rocky fodder. a lot of time was spent shaving down the existing hair and resculpting a more fitting do. little mac was made from a black spiderman body, gambit boots, sentry head, and his gloves were kindly provided by a fellow customizer (thanks benty!). all of the shorts were sculpted and some of the figures such as bald bull, sodapop, mr. sandman were bulked up with some apoxie sculpt. both of king hippo’s heads and the alt head for bald bull were resculpted."
Now that Designer-Con is over and done with, DrilOne is putting up his left over products in online store for you to snag em' up! Not only are there some really cool larger customs to purchase, but he has these 1" tall custom military Gwins up for ONLY $10! This is an amazing deal that can't be passed up, so head on over HERE now and pull the trigger!
Forget fruitcake, Chia Pets and Snuggies. The paramount gift to give or get this season is the limited edition Winter Holiday Watch Exclusive from Vannen. This snowy-white watch is adorned with abstract fir trees, hearts, ornaments, stars, holly and other year-round reminders of the spirit of the holidays.
The watch was designed by internationally renowned artist Christopher Bettig, who incorporated traditional holiday colors in such an intricate and alluring way that the watch is completely wearable beyond the month of December. Chris also designed the “snow globe” packaging - a clear poly-bag filled with non-toxic artificial snow and decorated with snowflakes.
There are only 100 of these festive limited edition timepieces in existence, and each one comes with a two-color silkscreen print designed, printed, signed and numbered by the artist.
And as if the opportunity to own one of only 100 pieces isn’t exclusive enough, Vannen has made 10 super-limited Winter Holiday Watches.... The Snowflake chase/variant! This version is made from the same fashionable Christopher Bettig design as the Winter Exclusive, but features silver snowflakes printed all over the straps and crystal, and it's packaging is individually signed - and doodled on - by Chris. These mega-special watches will be sent randomly to 10 lucky individuals that order the Winter Holiday Watch.
So we just received some great pictures from the setup up of "DECK THE HALLS" a skateboard deck art show to help raise funds for Kenny Brimer as he battles Leukemia. The show consists of 30 artists who will design custom one of a kind skateboards that will be sold at the event. All proceeds to help Kenny pay his medical bills. Hosted by RedBull Skateteam members Brandon Biebel, Ryan DeCenzo, & Stephen Webb. The rad pictures are from John Hook aka Contra808, and he does an amazing job of capturing these amazing pieces of art in the showroom, and I guarantee the event was awesome!
Lightsleepers presents DECK THE HALLS Friday December 11, 2009 @ The Manifest (32 N. Hotel St. Honolulu, HI 96817) 9PM-1:30AM Free 21+ (All Ages welcomed before 8pm)
It's been a while since the last video by artist NREAZON, but this is an update of what she has been up to and she shows off some new customs, some new apparel, prints, painting and all kinds of other tidbits, so sit back and enjoy this short video, and after watching visit here site HERE and check out all the goods!
Kidrobot is opening up to something new this year... a type of online awards where your votes and nominations count for the highest honors Kidrobot can bestow: The Robos!
Each of five general areas: Toys, Apparel, Artists, Geek, and Culture include prizes in several categories, and we need you to nominate worthy candidates for The 2009 Robos. Nominations open today and go through December 12. After that KRonikle readers vote, we’ll tabulate the scores and announce the winners!
We posted up not to long ago (HERE) the really cool blind box vinyl series of Miss Cupcake designed by Olive47, and now they are available as a DIY version. These 3" tall vinyl figure are ready for you to sink your "artistic" sweet tooth into and start designing. These are going to retail for only $8 a pop and can be found soon using our sponsors links on the site!
To celebrate Christmas and the last month of 2009, Minty Fresh will be handing out the coupon code above and it will get you 9% off all their products until the 1st of January 2010. Be quick with this one though because they are only offering it to the first 50 customers who use the code! Head on over HERE now and start shopping!
Kuso Vinyl is having a BIG holiday sale, where many items in the sale section are over 50% off, they got some awesome kaiju from Real X Head, Kaijin, Gargamel X Super 7, as well as some pieces from Joe Ledbetter, Brandt Peters, Ewok and so much more. Head on over to to their sale section now, and stock up on some good this holiday season, because deals like this don't happen all the time so take advantage!
Super7 Florida and RealxHead are happy to unveil an exclusive new collaboration, just in time for the Holidays! Classic RxH figures Mutant Chaos, Mutant Head, and Mutant Evil, inspired by a classic Hawaii vinyl, the Bullmark Angilas. These looks amazing and if you know anything about these pieces they are very sought after, and will go very fast. Each figure is offered for sale at $60 each, TODAY, Saturday December 12th, 11am Pacific, at Super7 Florida, Super7 San Francisco, and online.
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!
Sadly, there is nothing sweet about Monster 45. Monster 45 is a pig. No doubt about that. But is it a nuclear space pig? A hydroelectric boar? A hybrid? A porcine submarine? A fiendish Monster millipede that has merely disguised itself as a pig? I can't wait to see the first stories of the New Year! Please rest assured that this year 344 LOVES YOU EVEN MORE!
So who wouldn't want a picture of a dinosaur appear to be ripping out of your chest cavity, I mean come on!!!!! 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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