Month: September 2011

Design Bureau‘s September/October (1st anniversary!) issue goes inside the minds of creative fanatics, featuring Peter Mendelsund, Norman Reedus, Build, Rad Hourani, and more. For my 5th Toys By

This past July, I drove down to San Diego from the Bay Area for Comic-Con 2011. It was hell on my lower back but great for my trunk.

I find this fascinating. Is there any way this is not OCD art? In 1965, Polish painter Roman Opałka began painting the process of counting – from one to infinity.

In general, I am of the mindset that watching TMZ is almost as bad as bath salts when it comes to voluntarily vanquishing one’s brain cells. However, every

The year was 2002. The place was Tokyo. Japanorama‘s Jonathan Ross walked through a purple curtain and emerged into the toy-stocked studio of Japanese artist, Junko Mizuno. Regarding her

This seems like it could be good news. In a year that’s seen a number of toy art retail storefronts close their doors (see Giant Robot SF, Neon

How to be a Retronaut unearthed just the thing so many of you budding artists have been looking for (but didn’t know you were). Thanks to Jason Liebig,

This is pretty much the best dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while, and I mean that in an endearing way. Japanese “digital masterminds” Deijirogu! inserted fat orange

Mark Nagata & Yo Miyamoto’s Toy Karma opened at Rotofugi in Chicago over the weekend. Now in its third year, the popular Japanese vinyl toy show continues to thrill.

Another scientific study involving cats, another perfect opportunity to make an animated gif… In 1968, Professor Thomas R. Kane used a cat, a trampoline and a trampolinist in