CHEW-EDD from SIXFOOTTURKEYTOYS Available Now!
Valencia-based Six Foot Turkey Toys shares with us toy news of their new resin collectible: Introducing "CHEW-EDD"!
"‘Chew-Edd’ is an allegory to the chewed gum, the nostalgia provoked by the piece someone sticked on your desk, or the one that remained on the Salomon’s hole. To humanize this figure was important to them since the ‘madelman’ from Boomer never seemed to be a good representative option with its doubtfully tight blue suit."
Sized 2" / 5cm tall, 3D-printed with 405nm resin, each piece is hand-painted (airbrushed), varnished, and is now available online here for 25€ + shipping.
The run is limited to ten (10) numbered pieces, in a packaging that was fully designed and produced in their workshop.
Ah yessssss - this figurine's affinity with my home country Singapore, is closer than anyone might imagine! Everyone (or maybe you don't but I'm not judging) know of the "Chewing Gum Ban" Singapore has = which yes is banned from "selling" or retailing chewing gum, but not actually "banned from eating", which was enacted from January 3rd, 1992, because...
"One of the objectives of the ban was to prevent vandals from using spent chewing gums to disrupt Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) services. Before the ban was enforced, there had been many instances in which vandals stuck chewing gum on door sensors of MRT trains, which prevented the doors from functioning properly and causing disruptions in train services.
The chewing gum ban was implemented to eradicate problems created by chewing-gum litter in public places like cinemas, parks and common areas of housing estates such as lifts, staircases and corridors, as well as the high costs involved to clean up the litter. The Housing and Development Board (HDB) reportedly spent S$150,000 annually to clean up chewing gum litter." (eresources.nlb.gov.sg)
@sixfootturkeytoys is the plastic arm of ‘Filete de Panga’ collective (IG @filetedepanga), a creative platform born in Valencia in May 2019, focused on independent creativity and design.
