By sunny on May 6, 2008 in "Beyond Toys", designers | 1 Comment
Didn’t get volumes one thru four of the amazingly cool and colorful Hi-Fructose Magazine? (They’re on Volume VII right now). Well here’s your chance to get all four of those hard to find editions in one specially packaged “candy box”. The Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Box Set will not only include expanded articles but will include:
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By jeremy on May 5, 2008 in "Beyond Toys", Events, featured | 0 Comments
No, I’m actually not talking about guys with goggles, girls with wings or the faux-fur werewolf who were all temporary citizens of this weekend’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. I’m referring to some of the indie designers who were showing their character(s) in the Craft Zone (next to the “Diet Coke and Mentos fountain“).
First [...]
By jeremy on May 2, 2008 in "Beyond Toys", featured | 0 Comments
I always love getting word about a new local show that I can basically walk to. From Alex Pardee’s blog:
My face feels like its melting. Not because i have been drinking Deathklok riffs for breakfast. And not because I decided to bob for apples in the Toxic Avenger’s piss.
Sometimes…you just wake up, and your [...]
By jeremy on Apr 30, 2008 in designers | 1 Comment
Alex Pardee is a busy dude. He’s making album art for metal and hip-hop bands, working on an animated movie and doing a solo show in Portland. That’s why you should mark your calendars now for his only LA-area solo show, July 12th at SURU on Melrose. While you wait, you can order his signature [...]
By jeremy on Apr 22, 2008 in designers, plush, vinyl | 1 Comment
This just in from Alex Pardee’s blog:
Hola everyone.
Alex Pardee here.
I to ask a huge favor from anyone / everyone.
A year or so ago, me, along with a group of my good friends and collaborators started ZEROFRIENDS, an art/video/music/business collective, which has been somewhat of a dream of all of ours for years.
Though ZEROFRIENDS will eventually [...]
By jeremy on Apr 18, 2008 in designers | 1 Comment
It’s a lesson we’re all familiar with: Although Alex Pardee blogged about his Smurf giclees just this Wednesday, the prints sold out within hours. There were only 26 prints depicting various Smurfs (+ Gargamel and Azrael!), each numbered and hand-signed by Pardee. The Smurfs were printed with archival inks on Velvet Rag Fine Art Paper. [...]