Category: Toys
It’s April 20th, 2013
April 20, 2013It’s 420, friends. Go outdoors and be with your buds. Revisit last year’s Top 10 Posts About Art and Pot and see the dopest green toy of 2013: Joe Ledbetter’s Spaced-Out Mr. Bunny.
Grumpy Cat Toys from Plastic Foundry
April 18, 2013Like many people who look at stuff on the Internet, I’m just wild about Grumpy Cat. The dour-faced feline appears on all manner of merchandise (I was helpless against buying this Hipster Animals shirt), but Grumpy Cat had yet to … Continue reading
Foldable.Me for the Fine Art of Papercraft Portraiture
April 18, 2013You can’t spell “origami” without “I.” And you can’t pronounce “origami” without “me.” So drop the modesty and embrace your effigy…with Foldable.Me! The nice folks at UK-based Foldable.Me got in touch and hit me where I’m very vulnerable: things from … Continue reading
Yum Yum London Toys on Fab.com
April 15, 2013Hey, remember those Yum Yum London vinyl toys? You know, the granny, the zombie and the cactus, as well as the homicidal hotdog and the movie theater nudist? When I wrote about them last May, the figures were only available … Continue reading
Artful Monsters: A Neo-Kaiju Creature Feature at Toy Art Gallery
April 11, 2013Last weekend was an excellent one for next level toy art openings. The Midwest got hands on with Squadt Assembly at Rotofugi and the West Coast channeled the Far East with Creature Feature at Toy Art Gallery. Creature Feature brought together the talents of Mutant … Continue reading
Squadt Assembly Will Split Your Ass!
April 4, 2013This is the antidote to today’s arid array of art toys. It’s the panacea for prosaic plastic. The elixir vitae for vapid vinyl. The therapeutic treatment for tedious toys! And now that I’m done showering you with alliteration, it is, quite simply, Squadt … Continue reading
New Govra Eclipse and Zenith from Sergey Safonov
April 3, 2013As an endnote to 2012, Sergey Safonov released a stark new figure, Govra, (the deity of the end). Well, it’s a new year (2013) and a new conference (Toycon UK), and Govra has returned in new (equally and delightfully minimal, but … Continue reading
Alex Pardee x Kidrobot Black DigesTED
March 29, 2013Picture it: San Francisco, January 2009. A pre-skinny Alex Pardee had just opened an atrabilious art show entitled Letters From Digested Children. The concept: Missing children who’d been eaten by monsters were being slowly digested while they waited for salvation. Alex collected the children’s missives … Continue reading
