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Luzinterruptus Installs Mutant Weeds in Madrid
April 4, 2012While the DEA and the IRS raided herbal pharmacies in my hometown of Oakland this week, a continent away in Madrid, Spanish street art collective, Luzinterruptus, set up an herbal pharmacy of their own. Mutant Weeds is their latest installation to … Continue reading
CrappyCat Meets Rat Fink In Crap Stink Splasher Toys
April 2, 2012Van Beater channels Ed “Big Daddy” Roth with the first in a lineup of small run CrappyCat mini-figures. Getting drunk and making waves, the Crap Stink Splasher will binge for days. This CrappyCat.com exclusive is an edition of 125 two-piece sets. … Continue reading
Popular Puppets on Being Green
March 30, 2012Kermit The Frog is still bellyaching about being the color green, but Oscar The Grouch, in this Instagram pic found here), seems to know what’s up. (And for conspiracy theorists out there, the YouTube embed code for the video above had … Continue reading
Greenbutts: Cigarettes for Guerrilla Gardeners
March 21, 2012Full disclosure: I’ll click any link with “greenbutts” in the URL. Luckily, rather than Irish pornography at www.green-butts.com, I found biodegradable cigarettes filled with wildflower seeds. Greenbutts are cigarettes “made from all-natural materials using no chemicals or synthetic binders”. Seeds are embedded in … Continue reading
Cannabis Customized Toilet Seats
March 12, 2012Michigan-based etsy seller, FunkyJunky, has sold more than twenty custom toilet seats embedded with pot leaves. Each seat is hand-cast, sanded and polished by FJ, who notes that the leaves contain no THC. This is probably pertinent info if you … Continue reading
Unintentional Product Demographic
March 12, 2012Green Air is a concept for a product designed by Wang Yi Peng, Fan Xu & Zhu RB. They describe it as a “mass of greens that you plant atop your monitor and use it as a frequent reminder to … Continue reading
My Little World by Toy Architects
March 9, 2012There are some designers whose artwork simply makes me smile. Mathias Bax (better known as Toy Architects) from Edermunde, Germany is one such person. When I interviewed Mathias (in 2010 for SpankyStokes), we talked about the design inspiration for his … Continue reading
Wolyner Forest Warrior by Gary Baseman
February 16, 2012Somewhere between a pint of Chozen ice cream, Gefilte fish neo-kaiju toys and this just-announced Buckingham Warrior, it was decided that Gary Baseman is, in fact, a Super Jew. And I salute him. If you need more proof of his Super Jew … Continue reading
Fake Grass Flip Flops
January 16, 2012An Australian brand called Yashin decided to make magic in flip flop form, and when the last bits of that special brownie cleared their system, the Kusa Grass Flip Flops were born. Love the feeling of bare feet on freshly … Continue reading
Leprechaun Humphrey Mooncalf Available NOW!
January 7, 2012Attention fellow Verdants: this is a Green Alert! Doktor A’s Leprechaun Humphrey Mooncalf (limited to 70 pieces worldwide) is available now here. If you’re reading this alert from America, chances are you really had no idea what I meant yesterday when … Continue reading
