ToyCyte sale!
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This weekend saw the opening of a custom toy show based around the imagery of Japanese toys. It Came From Skullbrain profiled the talent (much of it local) from the Skullbrain forum, an off-shoot of San Francisco's Super7, which hosted the event. The night was already off to a great start when a good old Japantown-style fight broke out in front of Super7 shortly before doors. But to truly appreciate your toy art in the most surreal way possible, you need four guys in full KISS regalia.
Continue reading...Saturday, April 11, 2009
Last night, a variety of homegrown Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo mutations hit San Francisco’s Rocket World for the first I.W.G. custom show. If you’ve never been to Rocket World (aka T.A.D. Gear), you owe it to yourself to visit Patrick Ma’s haven for high end adventure gear and designer toys. Enter the garage doors to one [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 30, 2009
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More early shots from the incredible array of ‘It Came From Skullbrain’ customs are sprouting on the internet like little genocidal flowers, and while they’ll all gather together on April 18th at SF’s Super7, we’re getting the previews now – and there are many. phoneticontrol is a guy after my own heart with these awesome build-ups [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 11, 2009
DrilOne is curating a custom vinyl show based off the Rocketworld I.W.G. figures. This is the first time a show like this has ever been thrown on this platform. 80+ artists are customizing blanks for the exhibit. Scroll down for a complete list of partipating artists and more info about the show. Humans Beware: The [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 16, 2009
Dustin Cantrell’s custoMONDAY reached critical mass ( I’m referring to that in the literal meaning, not saying a bunch of biker activists quickly took note). For Dustin, sudden attention like 9,000+ views on Gizmodo (not to mention being deemed worthy of translation on Spanish Gizmodo) and his own “Dustin Cantrell” tag on HypeBeast was staggering. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 5, 2009
Our temporary store is open for preorders of Dustin Cantrell’s “Plasma Dunnys”. Dustin made a limited run of just three metallic silver Plasma Dunnys for ToyCyte to sell. Each Plasma Dunny features an interactive globe with a nod to electricity guru Nikola Tesla. These will be ready February 15 for shipping. Check out Dustin’s article [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 2, 2009
Dustin Cantrell crossed my radar when his interactive custom Mad*L (crossed with a Bleep Labs Thingamakit) joined the ranks of last year's ME Mad*L show in San Francisco. While T.W.E.R.P. took third place in the juried competition, it was first on my mind. Now it blips, bleeps and alights in my house with me. If you've ever been to a hands-on science museum (or, alternatively Spencer's Gifts at your local mall), you are aware of the fun of touching these plasma-globes and conducting the electricity within. Combine that with your love for designer toys and you've got Dustin Cantrell's Plasma Dunnys. Or, more correctly: we've got them. Dustin made a limited run of just three metallic silver Plasma Dunnys for ToyCyte. We will offer two of them through ToyCyte's new store later this month (stay tuned). But if you want to get one of these unique, interactive, awesome figures for free, you'll want to enter...custoMONDAY.
Continue reading...Monday, December 8, 2008
Vinyl Toy Network Winter 2008 was a lot of fun and a great opportunity to chat with artists, toy companies, shops, fans and collectors. People were lined up hours in advance to get a crack at exclusive art toys by Joe Ledbetter, Kathie Olivas, Frank Kozik, Gary Ham, Doktor A, MAD, Marka27 and others. Customized [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 6, 2008
The artist with the Dunny above is Dustin Cantrell. He was circulating VTN with his bro and a backpack containing custom Red Mars AsteroiDunnys. Dustin has an eye for aesthetics and a brain for circuitry. He showed me a cell-phone pic of a work-in-progress Munny that conducts electricity like a cooler cousin to something you'd find alternately at a hands-on science museum or at its lowest common denominator, Spencer's Gifts.
Continue reading...Friday, November 7, 2008
Yeah we know there was just another big MAD*L show over at LIFT, but Delicious Drips has been curating a juried 10-inch MAD*L contest for month’s and everything has lead up to tonight’s MAD*L mania at San Francisco’s D-Structure. The show kicks off at 6:30PM in the Lower Haight (right across from Upper Playground). There [...]
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Monday, April 20, 2009
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