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CustoMONDAY: Win Eric Nocella’s CellPhonesKill Exclusive Picante

Monday, October 27, 2008

Eric Nocella Diaz has been sculpting professionally for over 12 years. He has worked on high profile projects with major toy companies such as ToyBiz, Mcfarlane Toys, ToysRus, Hasbro, Kidrobot and Ka-Ching Brands. Some of the licensed projects he has worked on for those companies range from the Beatles Yellow Submarine toy line, E.T., Preschool Spiderman, Classic Avengers, LOTR, FLCL to the Video Game Award crowned monkey trophy for Spike TV. He is also a co-publisher, art director and editor of independent comicbooks through Xmoor Studios. We're premiering custoMONDAY with the first Argonaut Resins figure: CellPhonesKill, in a Picante exclusive colorway just for ToyCyte's custoMONDAY.

CellPhonesKill: End of the Line for Raging Resin

Thursday, October 16, 2008

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CellPhonesKill: End of the Line for Raging Resin

Parting is such sweet sorrow, but drawn out goodbyes are not something sculptor Eric Nocella tends to get hung up on… After three waves of CPK, Argonaut Resins is putting the maniacal mobile’s mold to rest. TAR will be the last of the CellPhonesKill variants, and only three of these all black DIY versions will [...]

CellPhonesKill Statik Pictorial

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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Eric from Argonauts Resin sent me this CellPhonesKill Statik edition #1/10. I particularly like when cutlery and ammunition are juxtaposed with something unexpected...like a cellular telephone. This was great fun to paint up.

CellPhonesKill Wave 3: Statik

Friday, August 8, 2008

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This is awesome. Bit of a personal connection here. Despite what those who are close to me think, the general populace feels I bear a striking resemblance to the Verizon Wireless guy. People at the post office make a fuss: “Saw you on TV last night!” It makes me want to test the waters by [...]

CellPhonesKill Waves 1-2 and DIY Contest

Thursday, July 24, 2008

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CellPhonesKill Waves 1-2 and DIY Contest

Technology moves fast, doesn’t it? Just a couple days after I blogged the announcement of CellPhonesKill Wave 1, it’s been followed up by Wave 2, a DIY Contest and a Pricelist. So here goes. Anyway, CellPhonesKill are 4-inch resin telephones. CPK wave 1 features six colorways (pinkeye, zombie, yellowdevil, frostbite, chokesmoke and ghost/DIY). CPK wave [...]

Cell Phones Kill by Argonauts Resin

Thursday, July 17, 2008

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There is precisely one post on the Argonauts Resin blog, and it concerns a new series of DIY figures entitled CellPhonesKill. The post playfully references that recent awful “horror” movie where kids who answered their phone soon died or something equally unpredictable and “unfortunate.” But you could also look at CellPhonesKill on another level: California [...]