Vinyl Abuse

ThunderDog MUTT CLUB – 2

by Unsung Zero on Apr 6, 2007 • No Comments

Here is a sneak of the new ThunderDog Studios releases, which if you were lucky enough to sign up to the Mutt Club part 2 last week you’d already know about… so for those less fortunate here is the Thunder Mutt 14.5 – a collection of black and silver:

These are Thunder Mutt 0.5 minis (approx half size normal Mutt). A secret set is still to be announced to accompany the limted edition Mutt Club exclusive set. Only 50 sets will be available.

And if that wasn’t enough to get you drooling, here are the designs for the Mike Burnett ThunderDog 5.0 release, a set of 5 limited to 300 sets.

Competition / Store Exclusive

OCTANE3 goes a hunting

by Unsung Zero on Apr 5, 2007 • No Comments

Octane3 Presents the Great Big Easter Egg Hunt

artwork by Peskimo

Those cheeky ~~monkeys~~ bunnies at Octane3 have only gone and hidden 7 Easter eggs around their site. Each egg has a number or letter inside. When put together in various combinations on the shopping basket page (in the enter voucher box), the numbers
will win you different prizes. You have 7 days to find and crack the Easter code!

Prizes include: 1 x 50% voucher, 5 x 20% voucher, 10 x 10% voucher, 20 x Â£1.00 off voucher. Restricted to 1 voucher per customer (to give everyone a fair chance).

Happy hunting, and a big happy chocolate filled weekend from everyone at VA.

Store Exclusive

OCTANE3 magnetic attraction

by Unsung Zero on Apr 5, 2007 • No Comments

Octane3 have been busy working in their secret lab on a secret project, which today gets announced in all it’s powerful glory. 3 sets of magnets, with specially commissioned designs for magnetic fun all day long!!

set one: Shawnimals, Lunartik and Peskimo

set two: TADO, Sket and Hicalorie

set three: Jon Burgerman, Kenn Munk and MAD

Each set comes in a special radioactive-proof wallet – so if you are a hoarder rahter than a user files these away under “things for tasty amusement”. Get them here you hungry gobblers!

Exhibition / Graffiti / Street Art

Untitled

by Unsung Zero on Apr 4, 2007 • No Comments

Untitled kicks in to action next Thursday (12th April 07) at Eye Jammie Gallery (516 West 25th St, NYC). An Exhibition Of Original Skateboard Art by Sket, Mad, Filth, Shepard Fairey, Cycle, Mike Giant and many more.

Curated by Cey Adams.

Artist / New Release / Vinyl Toys

The Legend of Plaseebo – Mummy Figure

by Unsung Zero on Apr 4, 2007 • 1 Comment

The 1st edition “Legend of Plaseebo” figure, designed and sculpted by Bob Conge, is rotocast in glow in the dark vinyl. The figure is 8″ long prone ( 5″ seated ) and comes in a vinyl Sarcophagus. It will also come with a copy of the illustrated ” Legend of Plaseebo” story printed on a 14″ X 21″ sheet of parchment paper and a full color header card.

The figures will be available for purchase from the Plaseebo website EDITIONS page, Wednesday evening, April 4th.

The edition is limited to 80 pieces worldwide.
The price is $85.00 plus $8.00 shipping within the US.
Limit one per person

Â click images for hi-res

Vinyl Toys

Secret Wars – THE FINAL BATTLE results

by Unsung Zero on Apr 4, 2007 • 1 Comment

The UKs number one pen-to-wall battle – Secret Wars – came to a finale last weekend. Teck 1 and Alfamale drew guns at 20 paces in a blistering showdown. Proving why they were the deserved final two, they each covered their half of the Juno wall in 120 minutes.

The 4 judges drew at 2 votes per finalist, which meant it was all down the the audience to decide the winner.

The decibel reader clocked the loudest primeval roar, of 118dB, in favour of Alfa!!

Alfa took home a cheque for Â£500, a load of goodies from the various sponsors – plus a special prize to design the graphics for the official Secret Wars toy as arranged by VA and due to come out later in 2007. We’ll be keeping a close eye on this one and will have more annoucnments throughout the year.

Artist / Exhibition

Attaboy + Annie Owens

by Unsung Zero on Apr 4, 2007 • No Comments

The Gallery At Screen Arts Presents Swarmy Weather, and exhibition of Annie Owens and Attaboy’s latest creations. On Friday April 6th the show kicks off with an opening reception (6pm -midnight). The exhibition runs until April 30, 2007.

Expect to be waist deep in murky water surrounded by creatures with teeth and girls on choppers and everything in between. Suitably located in one of America’s oldest and humid cities, St. Augustine, Florida. The city is a picturesque scene of children floating downstream – their houses overcome by the floods as mosquitos and winged insects swarm, sometimes underwater. The art represents pretty much the same.

AttaBoy will be in attendance at the show so please pop along to meet him, eat some snacks and drink some cheap beer while you’re at it. The Gallery At Screen Arts, 228 W. King Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084

Atta and Annie are the powers behind Hi-Fructose magazine.

Artist / News / Show / Website

Japanorama: J-Art

by Unsung Zero on Apr 2, 2007 • No Comments

OK I admit this is just an excuse to post a photo of Razor Ramen Hard Gay… but also a nice tie in to this week’s episode of Japanorama. Last night’s episode featured exclusive interviews and views into the studios of Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. Plus a huge and exciting look at toys – it was a bit weird hearing Jonathan Ross explain Urban Vinyl, but the words from Bounty Hunter, Secret Base and Tatsuhiko “Ryu” Akashi (CEO of Medicom) brought much joy.

If you missed the show, don’t worry it gets repeated on Friday on BBC3. Catch it if you can, just to see JR staring down HG’s hypnotic butthole…

Which leads us on to news that Takashi Murakami just put some new artwork up for sale at the Honeyee Store. A set of posters through Takashiâ€™s art production and artist management company Kaikai KiKi Co., Ltd.

This new direction from Murakami is interesting for it’s slight move toward a more expressionist layering of texture and colour – whilst keeping some of his iconic characters. Creation of the original paintings was featured in the Japanorama interview.

Sadly, by the time news reached us of this all the posters were sold out.

Artist / Customs / Vinyl Toys

The Night Mare – Giant Snorse by Doktor A

by Unsung Zero on Apr 2, 2007 • No Comments

Here’s Dok A’s latest custom, it’s an amazing Giant Snorse with trademark Dok A stylings. Guaranteed to give you the sweetest of nightmares. Do customs get any better than this? Well, only if it where to be followed by an equally large custom say, a Giant Zlik. Nice one Dok, keep um comin’.

Artist / Illustration / Other

TeamSteven – April Calender

by Unsung Zero on Apr 2, 2007 • No Comments

Whats better than a free Calender? Not alot in our books, well okay we lie, theres loads. Anyway, you can’t pass down the great opportunity of building your own calender from nothing but a CD jewel case and the awesome designs released each month by Team Steven

The back story
some years ago lego stop motion animations were the hype. it commenced with star wars filmlets and became a fast-growing movement. but the focus were only on the films and not on the artwork! so the times has come for one … the teamsteveezay wayay!!

Click the calender above to download (pdf format) or go to TEAM STEVEN for more.

ThunderDog MUTT CLUB – 2

OCTANE3 goes a hunting

OCTANE3 magnetic attraction

Untitled

The Legend of Plaseebo – Mummy Figure

Secret Wars – THE FINAL BATTLE results

Attaboy + Annie Owens

Japanorama: J-Art

The Night Mare – Giant Snorse by Doktor A

TeamSteven – April Calender

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