May 3, 2008 | Events | by Ruban Rat |
Cat Rabbit is a Hobart based artist and toy designer who constantly creeps locals out with her bizarre doll creations. Read more
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May 3, 2008 | Products | by Ruban Rat |
That fun, fluffy, and playful Japanese furball, Domo, is now a plush toy which comes in four colors: classic Brown, fabulous fuchsia, royal blue, and polar white. Quick, clear some space on the mantlepiece!
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May 2, 2008 | Products | by Ruban Rat |
Marka27’s new Killa Instinct figure will be released soon by BIC Industries. Marka called upon his years of experience as a graffiti writer to create a toy that reflected the ‘all-consuming pursuit of widespread urban exposure’. Read more
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April 30, 2008 | Trends | by Ruban Rat |
It’s a fact, people who don’t like clutter don’t collect plush and vinyl toys. Read more
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April 30, 2008 | Products | by Ruban Rat |
Sun-Min Kim and David Horvath, who brought you the very cute Ugly Dolls, have just released their new vinyl figure set, Mothman vs Flatwoods Monster: Super Market Toys Play Set. Read more
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April 29, 2008 | Trends | by Ruban Rat |
God save the Queen. Oh, and Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones and Paul Cook too. Read more
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April 29, 2008 | Events | by Ruban Rat |
It was good to catch the Kaiju Invades NYC exhibition of custom monster figures from America and Japan, which ran recently at New York’s Showroom Gallery, and showcased some wonderfully inventive creations.
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February 21, 2008 | Products | by Ruban Rat |
Barry the Beaver is exactly what he looks like: a collectible vinyl vibrator. Read more
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February 19, 2008 | Products | by Ruban Rat |
OhNo!Doom’s ravenous FluffyYukYuk is a plushie with a serious chomp action. FluffyYukYuk follows the success of FluffyBadBad but one notable improvement is that the chomping teeth are no longer made of metal but plastic. Which means it’s fun without the risk of serious injury. [see also Dot Dot Dash]
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February 15, 2008 | Products | by Ruban Rat |
January 26 was the release date of The Vivisect Playset mini-toy figure series produced by STRANGEco’s. Read more
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‘Some people call me the space cowboy, some call me the gangster of love, some people call me Maurice, cause I speak with the pompetus of love’. The pompetus of love?! Really. I don’t know what the heck Steve Miller was on the day he wrote that, but I could sure do with some now. Read more
Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee recently contributed some posts to Lost At E Minor on some of his favourite cultural things and people. We checked in with him to see what sort of head-space he’s been in the time since the release of his latest album, Ripe. Read more
Given the amount of talent he has, it’s a mystery why German producer Pantha Du Prince not received more attention than he has. His minimal tech soundscapes are surprisingly melodic and moody, as reflected on his epic track, Asha, as good a starting point to the music of this German electro whiz as any.
You don’t have to venture far in Bangladesh to encounter a rickshaw, the nation’s most popular means of transport. Read more
Andrew Fagan, lead singer of The Mockers, the poppiest New Zealand band of the 80s, came around to my place once when I was an impressionable 10-year old with stars in my eyes and a head full of shiny, shiny melodies. Read more
Ninety percent of the time, you can pick a Scandinavian brand from a metric mile away, which is not necessarily a bad thing considering that the Scands have such a refined, clean approach to thinking about clothes. Read more
There are few more joys an artist has in life than coming across great resources for inspiration. Lately I’ve been studying typography, the meaning of words, and then something as simple as trying to find all the ‘7 letter words’ I can so that it might fit into my latest musings. Read more
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We are constantly surrounded by photography, but do we ever really stop to look? To be honest, I never paid much attention in the past. But I’ve now turned over a new leaf, and my ignorance has turned to obsession. Read more
Taking a cue from Trevor Brown, Mainland Chinese artist Zhang Peng creates highly stylized photographs of women, whom he tweaks, with deft usage of the liquify function in Photoshop, to look like dolls. Read more
LA-based renaissance man David Choe draws from toy culture and comics as much as he does from Japanese painting and conceptual high art. Read more
What would you do if you found a RealDoll in someone’s closet? Read more
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If I was a fashion photographer instead of an illustrator, I would probably be Maki Kawakita, or at least be like her. Read more
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