ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

NYCC was a nearly incomprehensible miasma of crowds and excitement and getting whapped in the shoulder by uncareful cameramen, but I survived the whole ordeal with bruised body intact. After a few technical delays, I’m finally home again, here to report on the onslaught of awesome.

I wandered into the urban vinyl alleys expecting to meet all of my favorite toy artists, but not really anticipating meeting too many ones I hadn’t yet heard of from here in the trenches of the art movement – but the first thing that caught my eye was the work of David Foox. As someone with an unnatural attraction to anthropomorphized human organs, Foox was right up my alley.

They were selling first edition sets of these organ-y Organ Donors resins at the show while trying to shop around the blind boxed, multi-colorway thing to any prospective retailers. The blanks that you see in the background are a real possibility if the line actually takes off, but with an appeal that reaches beyond the urban vinyl crowd into an audience of OTHER weirdos who grew up with the deliciously damaging imagery of Pee Wee’s Playhouse – if there’s actually a place where the two demographics don’t intersect. Check out the crazy variety of colorways!

So, new toys from NYCC! Hop over to the Foox website for more info and to show your support! I’m always a fan of the soft touch of vinyl over that harsh mistress resin, so let’s see these march on.