ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

MUTT Show Previews: Pocketwookie, Brent Nolasco, SpankyStokes & Trenton

Friday, March 27, 2009

The e’er-so-basic MUTT seems to have generated a ridiculous myriad of awesome designs, further emphasizing the idea that the simpler the DIY form, the more it encourages explosive creativity. See ‘em in person at their first show at APW next Friday – April 3rd. For those of you unable to make it, I come bearing [...]

Illazilla Attacks Tonight! Kat Brunnegraff (Again), Nasty Neil, Roxy B x AF Montoya & Pocketwookie

Friday, March 6, 2009

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Illazilla Attacks Tonight! Kat Brunnegraff (Again), Nasty Neil, Roxy B x AF Montoya & Pocketwookie

Well, the date is upon us! The Illazilla Attacks tonight in NY and begins its cross-country tour thereafter. Here are a few final previews before the show goes live at APW. We’ve seen Kat Brunnegraff’s ‘Night Walker’ before, but lo and behold, it contained a secret. A secret, coincidentally, that is only visible in the dark. [...]

APW Arts Halloween Show Review

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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As a holiday that’s all about disguise and transformation, Halloween shares a natural association with the custom toy world. We toy artists essentially spend the entire year dressing up our Munnys and Think-Ups and MadLs and sending them out into the world, so the conjunction of these very actions with the day of Halloween was [...]

APW Arts Halloween Show Mini-Preview

Friday, October 31, 2008

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I’m personally very excited for tonight’s APW Arts Halloween show, and not only ’cause I’ll be in it. Halloween is arguably our most aesthetically pleasing holiday, so to capture it in ever-pleasing toy format it simply a kickass idea. Pocketwookie’s custom Unipo (above left) looks delicious…and Jessica Russo’s Munny (above right) needs a dentist, [...]

ART + ACTION = Obama 08 Online Auction Begins

Monday, October 27, 2008

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The first stage of the two-part auction for the custom pieces was held during the exhibition and was a huge success. The second, online auction phase began Friday with many additional groundbreaking custom works available for bidding. The ART + ACTION online auction will be held for one week only on eBay, with proceeds going [...]

Art + Action = Obama 08: Current Lineup

Friday, October 10, 2008

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Here's the current lineup of Art + Action = Obama 08: Bigfoot, Brent Nolasco, Brian Colin, Brin Berliner, Cope2, Erick Scarecrow,Indie, Leecifer, MARS-1, Peat Wollaeger, Phetus, pocketwookie, Spok-spok, Suckadelic, Voltaire...