about camiondepompier 100 trexis for the library custom show (dec 20)

fresh off the success of their October CustomToyShow in Montreal [tagged, Olivier Petitpas of camiondepompier is set for a second custom show, this time featuring Play Imaginative's new Trexi platform-blanks [blogged] - titled: 100 Trexis for the Library!

WHO: This is an invitation to everyone, designers, animators, graffiti artists, sculptors, students, and doodlers from 3 to 133 years old to wield their brushes, markers and scalpels and customize a hundred 3" Trexis. participating artists will also be eligible to win prizes:

First prize: a Marsh Mellow by Christopher Lee (value: 100$)
Second prize: a 6" Tinpo by UNKLbrand (value: 50$)
Third prize: a Trexi 2+ by Touma or Joe Ledbetter (value: 15$)

WHERE: At camiondepompier, Montreal's art toy store, and the Pittoresque Library, both of which sharing a space on 317 Ontario E. #1, corner of St-Denis, Berri-UQAM station.

WHEN: The vernissage will be Thursday December 20th at 6pm. But come drop your works two days before so they have time to install everything properly ~ /// CLICK HERE FOR MORE

HOW: You go to camiondepompier to get a Trexi. They come with eight different kinds of heads (square, oval, round, with ears, horns or headphones...) but all have the same size (three inches) and the same prize (about ten dollars).

Next step: you paint it and bring it back two days before the exhibition (December 20th). You can paint more than one if you want. Each figurine will give you one vote for the contest - but you can't vote for your own work!

The figurines will be sold in an auction. If your work isn't sold at the end of the exhibition (in January), you can take it back home and cherish it for the rest of your days... Sweet! If it is sold, the Library thanks you for your help! Well, it thanks you either way. It's nice like that.



And if I'm not in Montreal?
The figurines will also be available at Morgan Bridge (367 du Pont) in Quebec City.

Olivier mentions: Participants from outside these two cities are more than welcome to participate, but we sadly don't have the means to send you a figurine, pay to have it sent back to us, and then pay a third time for it to be sent back to you if it isn't sold in the end. If you buy your own figurine (at Magic Pony in Toronto or My Plastic Heart in NYC, for example) and send it to us, it will be considered as a donation - unless you pay for the return postage. If your work wins a prize, it will of course be sent to you!

WHY: The Pittoresque Library is a non-profit organisation devoted to the archival of international independent popular culture. Sharing a space with the designer toy store camiondepompier, its collection is at the moment mainly composed of Japanese comics in Japanese language (aka manga). It would need a bit of money to improve its collection and insure its survival! The profits from sold works (through an auction) will thus go to the Library.

All the winners will also receive a membership card for the Library.

(cheers for the headsup, Olivier and best of luck for the show!)