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Upper Playground Releases Volume II: 10 Years of Artistic Endeavors
Upper Playground always has these great free catalogs in their shops that are cut more like paperback novels than anything Lillian Vernon. I’ve been saving them because it’s handy to have the artist bios/statements and view each designer’s range and watch how they (and the company) have evolved. To commemorate its upcoming 10-Year Anniversary, Upper [...]
Continue reading...Jeremy Fish Bunny Skull New Era Cap With Ears
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Upper Playground and superFishal have done it again. First there was the Barbary Coast line of upscale duds and gear, and now here’s the ultimate in big-eared lowbrow toy-based toppers. It would be an understatement to say the there has never been a New Era as awesome as Jeremy Fish’s Bunny Head. There’s [...]
Continue reading...New Alex Pardee Shirts for ZEROFRIENDS and Upper Playground
Friday, October 24, 2008
This is the month of mad shirts from Alex Pardee. If you have some sort of opposition to entering your local mall to procure his new Night of the Treeple x Hurley line at Macy’s, he’s got your back (chest and shoulders) with more tees of terror that you can get at your local Upper [...]
Continue reading...New Sam Flores Shirts and Videos for Upper Playground
Thursday, October 23, 2008
I’m loving the new line of Sam Flores/12 Grain t-shirts for Upper Playground. There’s something for everyone. No matter where you fall on the hipster/anti-hip spectrum, Sam Flores should have an archetype you can relate to. I’m really digging the couple listening to records. There’s also a baller, a lowrider and an Indian with the [...]
Continue reading...Upper Playground Launches Obama Print Contest Today at 10AM PST
Monday, October 20, 2008
During the week of October 20th, Upper Playground will be running a daily Obama print contest featuring limited edition, signed and numbered prints by Morning Breath, Alex Pardee, Munk One, Justin Bua, David Choe and Sam Flores from their sold-out Obama Print Series. Every day from October 20th through 25th, they will open a [...]
Continue reading...Jeremy Fish x Upper Playground Barbary Coast Gear
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
I was just wearing my Upper Playground Bunny Busters (Jeremy Fish’s Bunny Skull x Ghost Busters) t-shirt to an event yesterday, and my girlfriend teased me about my wardrobe seeming to consist solely of black shirts with cartoon critters on them. Well, thanks to Upper Playground and Superfishal, I can continue to sport the [...]
Continue reading...Bonding Videos from Ignite What’s Next
Thursday, September 25, 2008
In between the Atlanta and Boston stops on the Ignite What’s Next Tour, Alex Pardee posted some pics on his blog. You could probably alternately title the tour: The Triple D tour (for Drinking, Drawing and Depravity). Looks like total fun, and damn could I use a Sparks right now after getting up early to [...]
Continue reading...N8 Van Dyke’s Exclusive Orange Pay Day
Friday, September 19, 2008
Upper Playground just dropped their exclusive orange edition of N8 Van Dyke’s Pay Day. The 5.5-inch figure sculpted by Eli Livingston comes with a glock, a bag of loot, sneakers and a walrus mask (in honor of Upper Playground’s mascot). Unlike the brown, grey and G.I.D. versions of Pay Day, the UP orange edition’s [...]
Continue reading...Upper Playground x Digital Gravel Obama Shirts
Friday, September 12, 2008
I’ve been covering all of the awesome Upper Playground x Barack Obama prints, which each retailed for $200 and sold out faster than Joe Lieberman. Well get ready to wear your politics and drop a zero off the pricetag, because if you missed out on the prints, they’re back as shirts. Upper Playground and Digital [...]
Continue reading...Jeremy Fish x Good Vibrations Video NSFW!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Remember Jeremy Fish’s Barry the Beaver? Lisa from Upper Playground just sent me this video shot on location with Jeremy Fish at Good Vibrations in San Francisco. How awesome and awkward is it when two women comment to Jeremy that they’ll think of him when they’re using the vibrator? You can still get a Barry [...]
Continue reading...Ignite What’s Next Art Tour
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sparks, Upper Playground, and Juxtapoz are getting together this fall with a follow up to last year’s inaugural Ignite What’s Next Art Tour. Three different events will showcase live painting by three of the top artists from the world of contemporary art: Sam Flores, Alex Pardee and N8 Van Dyke. Each event will also include [...]
Continue reading...David Choe x Obama x Upper Playground
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Previously featured in this post about Manifest Hope, David Choe’s inspired Obama prints are now up for grabs. But get ‘em fast. These prints sell out faster than a Barack Obama fundraiser in San Francisco. Fine artist David Choe is the latest artist to partner with Upper Playground to produce not one, but TWO Barack [...]
Continue reading...Obama x Grotesk x Upper Playground: Sold Out!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Dang, I got swamped and snoozed on reporting this by a couple days and it’s already gone. The latest Barack Obama art print for Upper Playground by Swiss graphic artist and current Brooklyn resident Grotesk has sold out. In the last decade Grotesk has developed a passion for folk art, street photography, hand-painted signs, vintage [...]
Continue reading...N8 Van Dyke’s Pay Day Drops in Four Colorways
Thursday, July 24, 2008
San Francisco’s Upper Playground, Ningyoushi and Double Punch have collaborated with illustrator N8 Van Dyke on Pay Day, a simian stick-up artist. The 5.5-inch figure comes with a glock, a bag of loot, sneakers and a walrus mask (in honor of Upper Playground’s mascot). N8’s work has appeared in diverse forms from the pages [...]
Continue reading...David Choe x Adidas Sneakers from Upper Playground
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Today marks the release of the new David Choe Adidas Originals sneaker from Upper Playground. This Stan Smith shoe is the second sneaker in the four-part series, which also includes kicks from Herbert Baglione, Sam Flores, and Aesop Rock. A new sneaker will be released each Thursday. Each pair will retail for $150.00. Los Angeles native [...]
Continue reading...Herbert Baglione x Adidas Sneakers from Upper Playground
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Today marks the release of the new Herbert Baglione Adidas Originals sneaker from Upper Playground. This is the first sneaker in the four-part series, which also includes Sam Flores, David Choe and Aesop Rock. A new sneaker will be released each Thursday. Each pair will retail for $150.00. Hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil, acclaimed fine artist [...]
Continue reading...Sam Flores New Era Cap at Upper Playground
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Sam Flores has dropped a San Francisco-style New Era 59FIFTY cap at Upper Playground. The 59FIFTY fitted cap requires 22 steps to make it perfect. Finishing touches like the taping, labelling and symbolic New Era flag on the left-wear side makes this a premium way to get hathead. The caps are available at Upper Playground [...]
Continue reading...Jeremy Fish Once Upon A Time Book
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
There’s only room for a certain amount of favored toys on my desk. While some of the mini-figures rotate (Qees, Dunnys, a Trexi or Fatcap here and there), a Kaws NYC bus stop and Jeremy Fish’s Get Small Series Bunnyskull (above right) are a part of the permanent tabletop collection. The bus stop is [...]
Continue reading...Dirty Hands Debuts in LA and Special Giveaway from Upper Playground
Friday, June 20, 2008
If you’re in L.A. this weekend and you have a philosophical issue with Mr. Brainwash’s shindig, check out the new documentary Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe (previously blogged by Hana). The film documents Choe, a street artist who devises numerous criminal schemes that allow him to hitchhike across the globe. Interestingly, [...]
Continue reading...One From Mear and One To Fear
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Now that the primaries have passed, I’m seeing a lot more lawn signs for Obama around town. A yard sign surrounded by pink flamingos and garden gnomes is indeed a fun statement (in a John Waters kinda way), but if you really want to stand out, support the Obama campaign with a limited edition poster [...]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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