Mirrorball bear

This is one fine looking bearbrick. I had stop buying bearbricks, but I suppose one in a while is fair. Particular if it is a good design.

Bet it will be almighty expensive.

G1988 & Hot Wheels

Beautifully laid out. It was a ground-breaking show. A well-deserved toy press.

As blogged by G1988.

Doktor A solo show

Rivet Gallery sure knows which artists to feature. Doktor A is next in line scheduled for a June solo show, Retropolis. I believe this might be the Dok's first solo. As per always, there will be pieces that would be awe-inspiring, particularly to his ever-growing fans.

Strange enough, he never had a solo show in the UK yet. He should be present at this show this coming Saturday at Richard Goodall Gallery in Manchester to meet Kathie Olivas and gang.

Bumble & Tweet

Yay to yet another one of my favourite artists for her upcoming vinyl production piece! It was quite a sudden exciting news, really, as there wasn't any prior rumours about it. So it was Vinyl Pulse that announced Julie West upcoming Bumble & Tweet with the expected release in August.

Bumble

Tweet

Images courtesy of Vinyl Pulse

The article mentioned about how Julie played a vital role of playing around back and forth how the whole sculpt works. In the process integrating the design, the sculpt and the physical production process together. Hence I reckon they will be well-rounded final pieces once done.

Apparently some bits will be magnetic. Cheers for bringing the "play" aspect back to vinyl toys.

Altars

I think these sculptures by Andrew Bell are awesome. If I reside in the States, I would have definitely gotten one for my living room or even better, back garden.

They are; All Seeing (3 pieces), Skull (5 pieces) and Big Mouth (3 pieces). Hand-painted and stands 30" tall, they are available from Lulubell Toys for $1000. Can't possibly have one since it will costs me an arm to have it delivered.

Alberto Cerriteño Custom Mellow

Received a lovely surprise email over the weekend about my next completed Custom Mellow by the talented Alberto Cerriteño. It has been quite a long wait, I am glad it turns out fantastic! I can't wait to add this to my existing custom pieces. It will be awe-inspiring to see this piece in person.

Linked: Alberto Cerriteño Blog: Custom Mellow

Yoskay Yamamoto Koibito

image courtesy of VinylPulse

Yoskay Yamamoto's debut solo show revealed two colourways of his iconic fish head sculpt. While I think it is an impressive sculpt, I find it a little eerie to have it on my shelf. It's something about that part-human body bit. Very beautifully sculpted though.

This is one artist that is gradually building up a strong fanbase. Keep your eyes peeled.

Tokyoplastic Yellow Geisha

Got a hooked up with a yellow geisha from NYCC. Much appreciation to teese. Excited to add another geisha to the collection. I must say I might be a completist when it comes to Tokyoplastic releases. I resisted the giant geishas (two colourways to-date) and both the black and GID Opera Dudes. I have a feeling that I might end up purchasing the red giant geisha once I found space. And I do crave for the large Tokyoplastic prints (with the bloodied mechas) released ages ago. You don't see those often.

I would insist that the older geishas were done way better. It is a great piece of course, but I do not see the reason to re-release it in an absolutely odd colourway and slightly larger size. Can't help but to think this is just a marketing springboard for its current manufacturer for Tokyoplastic's upcoming Koguma. Just my thought.

down-graded baroness

So I was one of the 'lucky' ones to be on the list to purchase an 8" Baroness Dunny from the Kidrobot forum. Got the email, I am certain I was one of them in the first / second email. Paid up, so waited and waited. Two days ago, an email entitled "Baroness Dunny" popped into my spam mailbox. Looked at it and not surprisingly;

there was insufficient stock to go around / oversold / whatever.

So, this is the second time I got denied an 'exclusive'. First being the orange teeter months ago. Well, I got a pink teeter for free the last time and now a 3" SDCC Baroness Dunny as compensation. Should I be all smiling? Tsk... oh well, that's for being across the pond.

more SCLL

I took time to dig out the rest of Spangle Call Lilli Line's albums and considering they were released quite a while back, I did a good job locating them. I mentioned them here sometime ago and I cannot resist promoting them again since their music has gotten embedded deeply into me. Absolutely love japanese indie rock!

Their first album was released in 2001 and the breakthrough came only in their 3rd album "Nano" in 2003.

For more condensed information, refer to keikaku.net.

And a real get-to-know SCLL interview done by Japan Live here.

If you would allow me to share some of my favourites: