Living The TOYSREVIL Lifestyle on TOYSREVIL (Jan/30/2011)
Mugs, Ceramic Coinbanks and Cookie Jars be the Uglydoll-way of saying "Buy Me Now", and tis pretty hard to say no, isn't it? Fill up your kitchen the Uglydoll-way by checking out this link. There's also ceramics goods at Giant Robot online. As well not forgetting to meet both Sun-Min and David Horvath at the "Giant Robot Babo Cookie Jar Event" on Feb 20th. Apologies for I have no further info of that event, also I am now thinking of cookies, cookies are yummy :)
In my sojourn hospital-stay last year, I had inadvertedly missed out on reporting Andy Mitchellaka Custard4Gravy's first solo exhibition at Electric Angel Gallery in UK (apologies, my good man :p). And with that show came a whole slew of prints currently available online for sale here. Go get your fix, go!
PRESS-TEXT: With the new website 2.0 just launched and a focus on life style branding, Kusopop creates a new campaign for their new products featured in a lookbook and video. The campaign was shot in Orlando, FL in a joint collaboration with Bluemotion, Mike Begonia Photography, Rotobox, and Mai Hiro. International Cosplay model Linda Le "Vampy Bit Me" made the trip from the West Coast to participate in the professional photo and video shoot. Production took place at the Reign boutique and Mochi Frozen Yogurt locations. The lookbook photos and video will add a new element to the Kusopop blog along with a featured section highlighting a special interview from our important guest model. [Hi-res of the video above on Vimeo]
PRESS-TEXT: This is the first time a campaign video for Kusopop has been produced and was an important focus to showcase the lifestyle of the Kusopop brand. The photo and video lookbook will present new products which are available on the Kusopop website. Check out the new site special promotion It's "buy 2, get 1 free" on all their T-shirts, as well as other cool accessories by Nakanari, Rotobox and Itokin Park.
To celebrate the overhaul of Blamotoys.com, a couple of new announcements are in effect. One of them is well suited for this particular Roundup: "The Bunny Onesie" - which essentially is a bunny suit meant for his and hers.
"That's right, now you too can dress up and parade around like your favorite Blamoville characters in these super warm, super comfortable rabbit jumpsuits. Each onesie comes with metal wire lined rabbit ears that allow the wearer styling and molding possibilities. And what bunny suit would be complete without its own fluffy bunny tail on the butt? These unisex onisies come in 3 different colors of cotton, as well as a limited "Moto-Rabbit" gray canvas jumpsuit, all of which are currently available through blamotoys.com."
So what's the other announcement? Check out this Weekend's Roundup post here :)
PRODUCT-TEXT: Welcoming Chinese New Year with this Heavy Metal Bunny T-Shirt to amplify your life! Produced and designed with love by Plastic Culture and Thunderpanda, this T-Shirt is limited to 50 pieces only. At the moment, we are on schedule to release this figure February 3rd, 2011 at Plastic Culture. Price tag will be Rp. 160.000, - Gong Xi Fat Choi everybody!
The folks from Google Sky Map decided to explore beyond the skies and into near space, and they built a balloon for it. And oh yes, they put an Android toy on it too! Here's the video above (like you've not seen "toys in space before", innit?) and check out their blog-entry of their adventures here.
Something that took surprisingly long to have been produced (IMHO) is "TOY TOWN" - a book of toys stories of the Hong Kong industry - as told by veteran Hong Kong toymakers and international “toy biz” insiders. "They recall Hong Kong’s Herculean efforts to overtake Germany then Japan in toy exporting, to overcome Western prejudice and protectionism against toys from “the Orient” and to achieve a hard-earned reputation for reliability, quality and product safety. They tell the stories behind the stories of iconic toys, from Barbie to her European rival Sindy to G.I Joe, Matchbox cars, Cabbage Patch Kids and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Check out www.toytownthebook.com for more, and lookout for a table outside room 1C02 at the American international Toy Fair at the Javits Center in NY, NY, February 13th-16th - to see them on display. Tell'em TOYSREVIL sent ya! - As well, the first 100 folks to "LIKE" their Facebook page will apparently receive a free E-Version.
"The story began some 60 years ago with a few entrepreneurs, most of them refugees from upheavals in China, struggling to survive in beleaguered Hong Kong. Through trial and error they learned to make toys from plastics, the wonder material of the post-war era. As baby populations boomed, Hong Kong’s canny toy manufactures partnered with Western traders and overseas toy companies to secure export orders. Together, they turned tiny Hong Kong into the world’s largest you exporter. It became Toy Town."
Artist DrilOne shows how it is to autograph his Art Hustle Seres 2 trading cards. Check out how the cards looked before in THIS post.
UK-designer Ben The Illustrator mentioned: "To celebrate SpongeBob Squarepants' 10th anniversary I worked alongside The Gild to re-design and re-brand the SpongeBob style for Nickelodeon/MTV's global style guide. It was an ideas frenzy! Playing with all manner of creative areas including street art, psychedelia and Vegas fashion." [via]
Members of Periscope Studio decided to pay homage to the films of anime master Hayo Miyazaki, and these are the resulting visuals. Have always wondered the Western take on Eastern animation, IMHO, More full-images can be see on MovieFone.com.
