ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

I.W.G. Humans Beware Show Previews: Spanky Stokes, DLuXaRT & APiña

Three more sneak previews have stealthily crept in for April’s ‘Humans Beware’ Show at Rocketworld, and all signs point to YES. Here’s John ‘Spanky’ Stokes’ Magna Stroll, a built-up tribal-demonic cyclops dragging around a bloodied bi-cranialized semi-human skeleton torso. With that many descriptive hyphens, it has to be good, and I’m digging the transformation from the [...]

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Vinyl Toy Network Winter 2008: The ToyCyte Round-up

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 [...]

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Spanky Stokes and Dril One at VTN Winter 08

Spanky Stokes was repping in the booth next to Bic Plastics, but they were by no means in the shadow, as their table was stocked with toys, gear, swag and giveaways. It was great to finally meet fellow toy bloggers John and Matt and artist Dril One face to face. Dril was showing/selling some killer [...]

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Me MAD*L show at D-Structure San Francisco

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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