editorial Archive
vinyl
Dear Justin: Don’t they teach this in Flipper 101? If you’re going to flip something (quickly resell it at a grossly inflated price), you might want to actually
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sculpture
Conceptual art, like these Banksy animated gifs, is not for everyone. I am now going to quote San Francisco’s Ever Gold Gallery concerning their current exhibition, Get the
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Art
San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery is showing a new collection of confrontational pop art paintings by Australian artist, Ben Frost. In See Inside Box for Details, Frost lays bare the
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vinyl
Just as the UK’s Dudebox announces the creation of its US store, Toy2R, Hong Kong’s longtime purveyors of designer toys, announce the closure of theirs: While the Qeevolution continues,
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vinyl
Dudebox burst onto the UK designer toy scene from seemingly out of nowhere with two (count ’em, two) full sets of blind-boxed artist platform toys, additional larger artist
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vinyl
I woke up to this excellent volley between Godmachine and Skinner about the dual guilt and glory of designer toys. The toy in the picture is a Deadly
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plush
Last night, Chicago-based toy designer and fierce Jewess, Stephanie Baum (aka Steff Bomb), [interviewed] appeared on TLC’s Craft Wars. Host Tori Spelling was away for the episode, so Steff
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vinyl
In August of 2010, London-based duo Paul Delfgou and Daniel Kohn burst onto the designer vinyl scene with Arts Unknown. Despite a depressed economy with lackluster toy sales, they had a strategy.
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Pop CULTure
Wow. It’s wonderful how the Internet cycles topical content. Not being a sci-fi guy, I haven’t read much from Harlan Ellison. However, after watching his 2007 rant about
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Pop CULTure
My love for Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum is no secret, and now there’s a great opportunity for those of you who also love the Mütter, preservation of oddities or skulls in
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