ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Michael Lau CSBOOTH15 x Ningyoushi in August

Hooray! Fans 1. Flippers 0. I’d had my trigger-finger near the Buy It Now auctions of a couple Hong Kong flippers on the Bay right after Michael Lau’s CSBOOTH15 ended. I’m not complaining about my job one bit, but it can be extremely difficult to pen post after post of praise and pics on a [...]

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Michael Lau CSBOOTH15 Gardener Gallery

It’s been a weekend of “crazy smiles” for Michael Lau fans as more and more images of CSBOOTH15 [tagged] hit the Internets. Continuing on from this morning’s Submilgaytona + M.F.J.K. post, here’s the 411 on the known figures. First off, there’s the Stanley Kubrick-inspired Gardeners: 2bb1, Black White Orange and Fat West Jacket. These are [...]

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Michael Lau x Futura x Jarvis x Kaws M.F.J.K Submilgaytona at CSBOOTH15

First thought: a cruel PhotoShop prank.  Second thought: collaboration of the year. Final thought: tribute. This weekend, the above images [source = Tomm] made the Internet rounds. They prophesized a sample figure “not for sale only for you” bearing the initials M.F.J.K. Quick thinkers interpreted the code as Michael Lau, Futura, James Jarvis and [...]

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