Living The TOYSREVIL Lifestyle (Feb/23/2011)

Third music-fueled movie trailer for director Zack Snyder's SUCKER PUNCH (also viewable in HD on Yahoo!Movies / via First Showing - featuring the track "Panic Switch" by Silversun Pickups (cheers to Ritzy Periwrinkle for the headsup!). Yes I am still excited than I have ever been, even more so when I chanced upon this featurette (below - I heart featurettes) on YouTube (circa Dec 2010):


[First posted on PopcornX]

PRODUCT-TEXT: From now on we will release reproductions of Erick Scarecrow's artwork in the form of Giclee and canvas prints. The drops are random and are announced on ESC Twitter. You might find something new, rare or classic drops so it's always worth checking out. As of now all purchased prints have free shipping in the US.

There is currently (as of this post) a 8 x 20 print from 2009 named "Slave To It" on auction here, limited to 30 pcs worldwide.


Vote for your fav custom and you might see it as a production piece from Artoyz Originals! Choose your fav Elements online via Artoyz.com


www.toydesignserved.com "is a collection of sites that showcase category-specific content from the Behance Network, the world's leading platform for creative professionals across all industries. Projects featured on the served sites are selected by our curatorial team. To have your work considered, sign up for the Behance Network and create a portfolio. Membership is free, by invitation only." ~Request yours here. Interesting premise as Behance is know for it's design-related attributes, rather than "toys" (per se), and probably will open up further avenues than direct-toy-related sites, perhaps? I know I would want to be represented here! LOL



I don't know about you folks but these new THOR movie imagery popped up on Spidermedia.ru (ala SuperHeroHype) looks very much like artwork for trading cards, or print promos, don't they? Especially with the "ornate" border design, IMHO. The artwork seems quite reminiscent of Hildebrandt Brothers' Marvel Comics trading card painted artwork in the 90s tho (and yes, I had them LOL). Still don't care a heck'a lot about the movie tho …




"Tron Legacy 8 bit Extended Version" with animation by Pierre Manry and track "Derezzed" by Daft Punk as remixed by Midimachine. I still haven't seen the actual movie though … will somehow wait for "preloved" DVD, which frankly might take a year ...

"Disappointedly", I cannot post a trailer for the upcoming new monthly podcast setup dubbed: YA' HEARD! ~ simply because non are available for posting at this time. But launching April 1st (no April's Fools Joke here) will be the hour-long premier episode ~ as brought to you by hosts (and artists) kaNO, Ritzy Periwinkle, Shane Jessup, and Sket One.

TEXT: YA’ HEARD! will be a no-holds-barred look into the current state of the arts, the community, and all things ‘From the Street Up’. Covering a wide range of topics, YA’ HEARD! will touch on the business side of art, politicin’, beef, style, technique, tools, exhibits, current events, designer toys, music, conventions, and much more in the manner you’d only expect from this group of artists that are living the life every day. Future episodes promise special guests ranging from fellow artists and designers to tastemakers and the usual haters. Stay tuned to www.yaheardshow.com for more information about the show and special surprises in the works, YA’ HEARD!
 
As well the folks are on twitter @ http://twitter.com/yaheardshow ~ just so's you know.


Spotted on DeviantArt is Bangkit Welkid's "Colorful Birds" painted skate-deck from Dec 2010 ~ looking just as fresh.


VIDEO-DESCRIPTION: Some days she went up and down the ladder more than 500 times, painted more than 4 months every day at least 10 hours. MadC used 1489 Molotow Premium cans; 158 different colours; 600+ caps; 3 different kind of caps, 100 liters primer; 140 liters exterior paint; painted at temperatures from +2C° to +38C° in sunshine, rain, storm, day and night; painted her biggest and smallest piece so far and overall painted her name far more than 100 times on this wall.

[Spotted on ANTZ FB, reposted here in it's awesomeness ~Respect!]


Guess how many pom-poms were stuffed inside Toy2R's new 7" Clear Qee Body, and put the answer down on their specific Facebook page here, and stand a chance to score a "cool box of FREE toys" from Toy2R USA. You have a week to do this! Good Luck!


Now this'll be something I'd very much like to see: XMEN ANIME! (Spotted on Topless Robot). Produced by Madhouse and set to premiere online on Animax Japan on April 1st, this is the video-description for it

"The X-Men are reunited following the death of a teammate, and are summoned by Charles Xavier to Japan following the abduction of Hisako Ichiki (Armor). There, they confront the U-Men, a lunatic cult that steals and transplants mutant organs to further strengthen their own army, and the battle for justice is on."


In another parallel world of TOYSREVIL, I have a "weakness" for steampunked-designed rayguns (mostly 1:1 scaled), and shown here are montaged images from Weta, featuring guns from Mark Rose (above) and Denham Kelly (below) ~who were the two winners of "Dr Grordbort's Raygun Shootout" in 2010. Really lush, these!



Artist Kat Brunnegraff mentions in her email: " I decided since I was excited about the new Pokemon Black/White game coming out next month to do paintings of the 151 original pokemon. I just finished up my first set of paintings, I started with Dratini's evolution, (Dratini, Dragonair, Dragonite)."

Each painting is 5.5 x 5.5 inches and is acrylic paints on poplar wood ~ and will be listed up on Etsy, priced at US$75 each. As of this post, the above set has been sold (Congrats!). To stay on top of the releases, stay tuned to Kat's twitter-srtream @katbrunnegraff.

Strings Sizzle Reel from Strings: A YoYo Documentary on Vimeo.

"Strings: A Yo-Yo Documentary" (www.stringsthefilm.com) follows the yoyo community and six players as they prepare, travel to, and experience the 2010 World Yo-Yo Contest.  Strings is a character driven documentary. Through individuals' stories, challenges, and experiences viewers get an inside look not only into these people's lives, but also to the larger yo-yo community as well as themes such as friendship, competition, and passion.

The film is currently raising funds thru Kickstarter here. Step lively if you be a yo-yo-fan!


Jason Atomic contributes to the Star Wars Galaxy Series 6 trading cards, with artworks done on the back of Admiral Ackbar die-cut cards, examples of more of Jason's work can be seen here as well. Jason adds: "I've been doing lots of cards lately, Hammer Horror, Dr Who, Suckpax2 etc... Designing t-shirts for Milkboy in Tokyo as well as contributing to and curating a group show paying tribute to Jack 'King' Kirby." = Def worthy of more than a sound-effect, don't you think so?


"Nascar Daytona 500 TV Spot" of Transformers: Dark of The Moon spotted on Topless Robot. You have my utmost interest now, Michael Bay!