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Munky King Chinatown: Fire Sale

Friday, May 16, 2008

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As Sunny mentioned last week, Munky King is closing its Chinatown location. It’s too bad because the location was really cool. If you’re in the area this weekend, don’t miss their fire sale. Munky King Chinatown is having one whopper of a fire sale! Everything in the store is 40% off the original ticket price [...]

“The Vinyl Frontier”: an Interview with Daniel Zana

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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Attaboy, Tim Biskup, Luke Chueh, Frank Kozik, Thomas Han…. They are just a few of the artists who appear in The Vinyl Frontier, an upcoming documentary by Daniel Zana. His website already has an impressive collection of short interviews with artists like Luke Chueh, Ron English, and Joe Ledbetter. The film is currently in [...]

Toys by dust

Friday, May 2, 2008

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While browsing Myspace, I found dust, a Swiss/German artist and designer. As soon as I saw pictures of his toys, I knew I was in trouble. I found more toys that will be added to my wish list. Pictured above are his RAS troops. I don’t understand German, but I can deduce that some of [...]

Droplets vinyl toy

Thursday, May 1, 2008

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This is one of the customized Droplets that will be seen this Friday at Jam & Custard, the Droplets launch party. Monstafaktory customized the tiger Droplet, and you can see a few others at the Droplets Flickr pool. JamFactory’s Droplets vinyl toy are packaged and ready for the show. There have been 128 Droplets produced [...]

“So just let me introduce myself”

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Hi, I’m Hana (pronounced with a short “a”) and I’m thrilled to join the ToyCyte team. Not long ago, I told my friends, “Man, I wish I could find a writing gig related to vinyl toys.” Well, here I am. In a nutshell, I’m just a big nerd who is into music, movies, graphic novels, [...]