Hurrah! Poor people need never be bored again! Or so say the team behind toy design project, Latex for Fun. Founder and designer Max-o-matic put forth the challenge to create an affordable toy using nothing more than DIY ethos and a balloon. ‘It started by chance’, he explains. ‘I found a bag of balloons at work and started drawing over them. It was so simple and so catchy and at that point, I knew this was something really cool and invited other people to join in. In that precise moment the Latex for Fun project came to life’. Entries have been pouring in from all over the world and the team will now narrow them down to a selection for display in a book and exhibition in Barcelona later this year. ‘The reaction was fantastic. It was quite a shock seeing that in only a few months we had tonnes of awesome submissions from great artists from all over the world. Gary Baseman said something that summarizes what many people thought of the project: “I love this stupid and incredible project”. It’s such a simple idea with so many possibilities – this will be quite an exciting year for latex lovers!’ [Tim Biskup's artwork above left; Sauerkids' work above right]
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Current UK beat-boxing champ, Beardyman, recently kept impatient crowds entertained between sets at London’s Lovebox Weekender. We spoke to the Brighton resident about his offbeat style: ‘I’ve been doing it since I was a baby, but I never knew it was called beat-boxing. I thought it was just a habit, like biting your nails, and people were always telling me to stop. Being a good beat-boxer is a mixture between being a good DJ, a cheesy street magician and a vocal athlete’.
Sydney-based artist, James Jirat Patradoon on his career defining moment: ‘If I could trace my artistic inspiration back to one event, it would have to be the Neo Tokyo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001. I had never seen art like that before; I didn’t know you could be so playful with it. I vividly remember the Yoshitomo Nara sculptures made out of bandages, and Kenji Yanobe’s atom suit and Godzilla/Astro Boy sculptures that blew bubbles. It was just so fun. I think because a lot of Japanese art contains references to pop culture, it’s more accessible for audiences. They aren’t so intimidated by it because it can be quite light-hearted but still have a serious undertone to it’.
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