R.I.P. Archive
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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customs
Way back in 2008, before I became increasingly (2010) jaded (2012) on the direction of custom/DIY vinyl toys, I had an unlikely love affair with a series of
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Art
LIVE (I See Dead People) was a tumblr by Jean-Marie Delbes and Hatim El Hihi that currently appears to be as dead as its subjects. But for one clever,
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Pop CULTure
Beloved author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, passed away today of complications from a recent stroke. He was 83. I grew up loving (and living) Sendak’s classic children’s book,
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action figures
Very, very sad news this morning. The Global Grind has confirmed that Adam Yauch, better known as The Beastie Boys MCA, has succumbed to cancer and passed away
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sculpture
I wonder how quickly artist Jason Mecier began crafting this portrait of Whitney Houston after news broke of her death? In the genre of pop art, you’ve got
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sculpture
Artist Mike Kelley is dead, and I never got a chance to see his work in person or write about it on this blog. The closest I came
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resin
I worked with San Francisco’s Neon Monster for the end of 2009 and a chunk of 2010. When it was good, it was really good. When it wasn’t
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vinyl
Not shocking, but sad nonetheless: San Francisco’s Giant Robot will close its doors in the Upper Haight on April 26th. I’d been in there a couple times recently when
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