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Swanicornatopia Resin Toy Art by Daniel Fleres
May 11, 2012In 2011, Northern California artist, Daniel Fleres, went searching for the mysterious Swanicorn. After a year of investigating, researching, and exploring, Fleres succeeded in discovering the Swanicorn. He saw Panda Swanicorns, Fine China Swanicorns, Flamingo Swanicorns and even the incredibly-hard-to-locate, Camouflage Swanicorn. Tomorrow, Saturday, May … Continue reading
Speaking of Japanese Cats…Meet King Negora from Max Toy Co
May 11, 2012If you enjoyed that last post about 520 Japanese Lucky Cats, here’s another one for you. King Negora is a big version of Max Toy Co’s previously cute Kaiju Negora. This piece is a celebration of our friend, the feline … Continue reading
Imagine a Stadium Full of Lucky Cats
May 11, 2012If I was really rich, maybe I’d buy this installation of 520 Maneki Neko (Lucky Cats) by Boris Petrovsky. Everyone knows you can’t buy love, and we’ve all seen those E! True Hollywood Stories about lottery winners whose lives turn … Continue reading
How The Other 1% Lives
May 10, 2012Thanks to Instagram, I’ve recently become fascinated by the lavish lives of custom clothiers and jewelry makers, who largely serve a clientele of rappers and young Hollywood. They seem to have no moral qualms sharing photos of penthouse suites, expensive … Continue reading
O-No Sushi Wasabi Custom Toy by VISEone
May 10, 2012Germany’s VISEone has recently updated his Behance portfolio with a plethora of tubed critters and comic-stripped customs. Yes, I don’t normally profile custom toys on this site. No, Hell has not frozen over. I just think that VISEone’s Wasabi treatment of … Continue reading
Edvard Munch’s The Scream Sells for $120 Million. Ad Firm Does it with Colored Pencils
May 10, 2012For a Faber Castell ad campaign, Ogilvy & Mather used colored pencils to recreate Edvard Munch’s famous painting, The Scream. Vincent Van Gogh’s work was also given this spin on pointilism by the Singapore-based firm. More here. In semi-related news, an original pastel version … Continue reading
Keep Calm and Kickstart BearyCalm!
May 10, 2012Two absolutely adorable artists have designed what is essentially a totem in the form of a toy. The asymmetrical BearyCalm was “born from the friction of lead, paper, and two creative minds that live 8,917 miles away from each other”. … Continue reading
New WolfGirl Resins from FrankenFactory
May 9, 2012Remember these fantastic WolfGirl2.0 resin “Jello Shots” by FrankenFactory? Meet Deathly Cold (1/15) and Orange Blossom (1/5). Character design, original sculpt and paint app by Shea Brittain. WolfGirl took fate into her own hands and defeated the beast. Now she … Continue reading
