Category: vinyl
Mark Ryden’s YHWH Custom Toy Show at Toy Art Gallery
May 23, 2013The Mark Ryden-blessed YHWH Group Custom Toy Show stands apart in a sea of similarly intended toy art shows because of a) its thoughtfully curated artist roster and b) its somewhat conceptual, somewhat controversial nature. The former is pretty obvious: these … Continue reading
Die Antwoord’s Evil Boy Toy Now Available in Red, Black and Green!
May 23, 2013Last February, Ninja and Yolandi of South African Zef Rap Rave band Die Antwoord graced our fair city of San Francisco. They came to play music and release a vinyl toy, which makes this pretty much the best opportunity ever … Continue reading
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.
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
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
My Bloody Valentine Be@rbricks
March 29, 2013It’s been a banner two months for My Bloody Valentine fans. First, a new album (mbv gets a 9.1 from Pitchfork) after a 22-year hiatus, and now: a pair of 100% Be@rbricks toys from Medicom. Get them in Japan or … Continue reading
Venus Flytrap Kaiju by Dream Rocket x Max Toy Co
March 28, 2013This new Flytrap kaiju from Dreamrocket and Max Toy Co is really rad. Most collectors collect more than one kind of thing (though there’s usually a main collection orbited by several smaller satellite collections), and I have a little collection … Continue reading
Toy Review: Apologies to Banksy
March 20, 2013I can’t think of a toy I’ve written about recently that’s polarized collectors quite like the Banksy-inspired Rude Copper and Bomb Hugger by UK-based toymakers, Apologies to Banksy. After I wrote about the toys here, David from Apologies to Banksy got in … Continue reading
