ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Welcome to The Night Circus

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Patricio Oliver who also goes by the alias Po!! has unveiled a gorgeous boxset of ciBoys- The Night Circus by Red Magic. There are nine figures in this set and each one is awesomely cool, everything you need for your own little big top. The characters include the Skull Buffon, The Dark Illustionist, The Lion [...]

MixtART Group Show: Urban Art For Your Mobile Phone

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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MixtART Group Show: Urban Art For Your Mobile Phone

This Saturday, San Francisco’s Giant Robot hosted an art exhibition spanning the genres of illustration, character design, street art, tattoo art, urban vinyl and indie comics sponsored by Hands-On Mobile. Some of the artists who showed work as part of the new mixtART service include: Alex Pardee, Buff Monster, Jon Burgerman, Patrick Ma, Patricio Oliver, [...]

Burgerman to Noferin at mixtART GRSF Group Show

Thursday, September 18, 2008

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Remember mixtART [blogged], the service designed to bring urban art to your mobile phones? Not content to just wallpaper your cell phone in pixels, they’re bringing actual, non-virtual art to the walls of San Francisco’s Giant Robot. In conjunction with Hands-On Mobile, Giant Robot presents a show including work (and some appearances by) Blinky, Buff [...]

Buff Monster, Jon Burgerman and Alex Pardee on Your Mobile Phone

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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Buff Monster, Jon Burgerman and Alex Pardee on Your Mobile Phone

I’ve had the same wallpaper on my cell phone since the Kidrobot Munny Show of 2005 at Minna Gallery in San Francisco. It’s a Munny w/ glasses and mobile phone (I also have the G.I.D. zipper pull of the same character). I think I downloaded it while BART was above ground or shortly thereafter. While [...]

Villains & More Villains Art Show

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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Villains…we love to hate them. Every story needs a proper villain, and sometimes the villain can outshine the hero. An upcoming group show at Pink Ghost Gallery explores our fascination with villains. Villians & More Villians opens on June 21, and the reception starts at 7pm. The gallery will provide free cupcakes and music by [...]

Priotcia Levori from Patricio Oliver

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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I spied these figures by Argentinian illustrator Patricio Oliver on Vinyl Pulse and was inspired to do some digging. Patricio recently showed three colorways of his original Priotcia Levori figures (whom he refers to as his children) at the Buenos Aires Urban Art Festival. Priotcia, Darker Priotcia, and Alex Priotcia (see above), painted by Eze [...]

Zombie Pet Dunny - Coming Soon

Monday, April 21, 2008

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One thing that sucks about my toys, when I turn off the light I can’t see them. They become one with the darkness. The Zombie Pet Dunny will change all that ‘cos after I dim the lights for night-night, I can still glance over and see this Dunny and his glorious glow-in-the-dark magic. During [...]