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.
Above is Troy Stith's newest Munnsai titled "Ru-To", it's a custom mini Munny "that was actually a lot more work than the original 8" Munny" said Troy, and in case you were all wondering... yes, that is a real rock underneath Ru-To's roots (which are sculpted from sculpey). The idea was derived from the bonsai technique "root over rock", Troy says "when I saw the technique I knew I had to do it. Keeping with different color variations I chose to go with a golden orange this time around." Ru-To will be available Friday, December 18th HERE at 4:00pm (EST) for $150 (plus s&h). Great job Troy, my favorite thus far, I love how you can see the branches through the foliage!
Artist Chris Ryniak took a little time (a ton of time actually) out of his day to answer 66 questions posed to him from the really cool site JUST ANOTHER ART BLOG! You can get an inside scoop into what Chris is all about as well as see some really amazing pieces of art that he has completed recently, so CLICK HERE and get your read on!
The fifth monster titled "Dribbles" a new custom vinyl Marshall from 64Colors went up for sale at in their webstore today. Give this beast of a custom a new home for only $170... pretty great deal for a completely hand painted custom vinyl figure! Once again, super impressed with how great these are... get a move on, this is probably already sold out once you read this!
Just in time for to bring some wintery cheer, The Frostbitten Edition of Cranston Fellows Jr. designed by Lou Pimentel is Here! This limited edition resin figure will be available at myplasticheart.com and in MPH retail stores on Thursday December 17th at 1PM. This just might be my favorite colorway of Lou's figure, right on!!!
Saki Waki from I Heart Cool Stuff posted up some video coverage a few weeks back of the rad group show featuring new works from Pon, Sket One, Mr. Shane Jessup, & MAD. This went down on November 2oth @ Eloquent Delinquents in NY and will stay up until December 23rd, so you still have time to pop on by and see this amazing work in person, thanks for the posted video you two... for those of us living everywhere else but New York... you rock!
Andrew Schoultz is an SF-based artist who uses murals, paintings, installations & drawings to tell stories about everyday life in America, filtering political commentary thought the forms of graffiti, art and underground comics. Schoultz loves doing large multimedia installations as well as murals and various work in the streets of America and abroad.
Does the artist's intent matter if the audience doesn't get what the intent was? Andrew discusses this, his obsessive complusive artistic process and more in this video interview! Schoultz was featured on Scion's Installation 5 art tour and recently curated the Infinity show at their Culver City gallery.
Not else much is known about this new release from Erick Scarecrow... but one can guess that this is going to be another limited edition run of his HUGE 18" Soopa Maria figures. Last time we saw these it was in the limited "Grayscale" colorway (HERE)... more info as soon as I get it.
Today Sket serves us up a second scoop of his iconic Ripple character, and thanks to INFECTIOUS, this time round everyone’s favorite old school ice cream cone comes in a rather special black flavorway. Running Ripple is only available as a limited edition skateboard, which is printed in low quantities. So get ‘em while the gettin’s good.
Also if you’ve left your holiday shopping until the last minute - then do not panic... You still have up until Friday 18th December to get the perfect device skin/art print/skateboard fix for your friends and family. And don’t forget INFECTIOUS is offering 20% off all products. Just type in discount code EGGNOG at check-out (valid until 12/18/09).
Kaiju invaded San Francisco last weekend and set up shop in North Beach at Double Punch's upstairs gallery. Some might say that the Bay Area is already a pretty monster-friendly place, and Mark Nagata whose Max Toy Co is locally operated would agree. Mark was joined by Massachusetts-based invader Matt Walker of Dead Presidents and duel Japanese raiders, Ichimiya-san from SUNGUTS and Yajima-san from Dream Rocket. Together, the talented and wacky quartet filled the small space with brilliant colors, copious customs...and not a single Dunny in sight. All unsold work from the show will make its way to Ningyoushi. Lots of closeups, commentary, what I bought and your opportunity to correct any kaiju-specific faux pas (you know you want to) with the rest of the story HERE.
The amazing piece above is from the very talented Shannon Bonatakis, and this is her 2nd print titled "Luck is Never Enough" which is now available to purchase! This is a Giclee print limited edition of 50, 11"x14" + 1" white border, all signed and numbered. The original piece was created for a G1988 show based off the movie The Neverending Story. Pick one up today HERE for only $65... this is AMAZING!
The Poster Cause Project just launched with their first poster print by eBoy. This piece is titled " Super Bronco Battle" and it measure 11" x 17" and is printed on 100# stock. This is only $25 and is limited to only 25pcs, and the really cool thing about this company is that 50% of profits for eBoy's print will benefit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, get your's HERE now! Other posters, from other artists, will be printed and sold with proceeds going to benefit a different charity each month, what a cool idea! So far artists on-board are Sket-One, eBoy, Shane Jessup, Friendswithyou and a few more. Stay tuned for the details on those posters at a later date!
I just got word from Galbottoys in Australia that they are working on a new figure for the upcoming year and above is a teaser pic of this new DIY called "the OGLE". He's a type of Pervert Ogre found in the wilds of Scandinavia. This pic was taken from the clay prototype and is very rough, but you can get the gist of it! The figure will be vinyl, 4" inches tall and will come in "surprise" and "attack" Ogles (surprise Ogle is pictured, attack Ogle has arms outstreched.) There will be colorways of hot pink, vomit green and radioactive red, and will have no articulation. Play feature includes "able to be thrown at high velocity" and warning label reads "Cannot be swallowed by small children." ahhahaha, good sense of humor and cool figure... for some odd reason this figure reminds me of H.U.T.A, I don't really know why though :-)
Back in an all new 16GB capacity, and retailing for only $79.95! Get one while you can HERE because there are only 100 super-rare Domo X MIMOBOT in this ltd. edition series! And, don’t forget the Domo animation clips, sound software & more that come preloaded!
NemO just sent over a really cool video he put together that covers the custom Qee show titled "Qee2Life" that went down at Genuine Artikle this past Saturday, 12.12.09! Not only is it well edited, but it really gives you some flavor of what the event was about! Thanks for the video man!
Jack Hankins aka Horrorwood has just released Wave 7 of his awesome Calling All Cars paper craft series. This series includes another 5 amazing designs from some super talented artists, all of the above character can be downloaded HERE (and a new display box). These, just like the rest of the series, all have their own unique characteristics, which makes these super fun to download and make yourself, oh and did I mention it is totally FREE!!!!!
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!
Monster 41 is a dandy one. Just look at the well-tailored sweater and the snazzy pinstripe pants. And 41 knows how to move? Is he a dancer? A racer? A percussionist? Or a grape stomper? And what's with his face? Does he have a great, big laugh? Or a marvelous moustache? A giant nose and beard? What is his story? I can't wait to find out from you! Because you always have the scoop! And you're always nice enough to share it with the whole class! You're so cool! 344 LOVES YOU!
There's something disturbing about this picture that make my bellybutton itch! 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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Today Sket serves us up a second scoop of his iconic Ripple character, and thanks to INFECTIOUS, this time round everyone’s favorite old school ice cream cone comes in a rather special black flavorway. Running Ripple is only available as a limited edition skateboard, which is printed in low quantities. So get ‘em while the gettin’s good.
Kaiju invaded San Francisco last weekend and set up shop in North Beach at Double Punch's upstairs gallery. Some might say that the Bay Area is already a pretty monster-friendly place, and Mark Nagata whose Max Toy Co is locally operated would agree. Mark was joined by Massachusetts-based invader Matt Walker of Dead Presidents and duel Japanese raiders, Ichimiya-san from SUNGUTS and Yajima-san from Dream Rocket. Together, the talented and wacky quartet filled the small space with brilliant colors, copious customs...and not a single Dunny in sight. All unsold work from the show will make its way to Ningyoushi. Lots of closeups, commentary, what I bought and your opportunity to correct any kaiju-specific faux pas (you know you want to) with the rest of the story HERE.
Dead Presidents overview
Sunguts overview
Dream Rocket overview
Max Toy Co overview
