Competition: Purple Polkadot Cavey Pilllow!
Holly from over at www.heycavey.com dropped us an email to let us know about a fantastic competition that she's running and you can win a giant Cavey pillow!
Stitch by Okkle
Wowzers… Mister Okkle has skills, and this take on Disney’s Stitch demonstrates that! The attention to detail is top notch, its silly! Check out the hands, with the two tones! It doesn’t stop there, Okkle’s customs come as a complete package, right down to the custom art on the box. Give the man a big pat on the back
More customs from Okkle, coming soon…
Dumb Luck Charity Raffle
A decent gesture from the guys at Rotofugi ^_^
“The recent devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the gulf coast is massive and scary. We count ourselves lucky that nothing like that has ever happened to us, but our hearts go out to the victims. We’ve been glued to the TV watching the accounts of horrible despair and destruction and now it is time to do something positive. The Pink Dumb Luck by Gary Baseman was anonymously donated by a good friend and customer of Rotofugi to be used for charity and we’ve thrown in a NY Dumb Luck from our personal stash. Each and every ticket you purchase not only gives you a chance at one of these coveted toys, it goes directly to a hurricane relief charity or charities. Shipping to the winner is free worldwide.
Raffle winner will be drawn the evening of October 9, 2005.
Please Note: If you do not purchase any additional items you will be presented with two “shipping” options: Electronic Delivery or Pick Up at Store…choose either one. You will receive an electronic receipt for your ticket purchase either way.”
More info here!
They’re here!
Whoop Whoop! Rejoice! Tiny Hearthead’s are here, and don’t they look pretty! This is a solo project from Swam(aka tesselate). I think you’ll all agree with me when I say he has done a top notch job on these!
There are 15 unique Hearthead’s in this series, each a different colour. As an added bonus, there are 3 mystery figures up for grabs included in boxes at random. 13 have been sold, meaning there are 2 left up for grabs! Go get ‘em tiger!
More images here!
You can contact swam at sam@tesselate.me.uk
Manchester – North Quarter
If you’re the type of person that thinks there arn’t enough places that stock vinyl and the like in the UK and are unable to travel to london, dont despair. You may be luckier than you think thanks to the glorius north quarter in Manchester. 
During a recent trip there I managed to pick up some amazin’ stuff.
Shops in the general area:
Magma Bookshop – with amazing art on the entrance which changes quite frequently.
Forbidden Planet – A buttload of comics/figures/vinyl etc..
Arc – Weird clothes shop.. sells monsterism and stuff.
Afflecks Palace – (Alternate shopping thingy, 2nd floor has dunny, stereotypes, neo kaiju, Qee (2″, 8″ and DIY), 10″ Andy Warhol Kubrick and looooads more
Map to afflecks (most other shops mentioned are in this area)
You could also visit the amazing urbis which has exhibitions and other funky stuff aswell as a neat lil shop which also sells qee etc..
**update**
Also just around the corner from Forbidden Planet is the Richard Goodall gallery! Loads of top line vinyl there.
thanks Doktor A 
Horvath Two-Faced Dunny Set (S2)
From the original promo flyer, it didn’t look to me as though the second Series of Horvath’s two-faced dunnys was going to offer much… HOWEVER! Having seen these individual shots… There are some real nice designs… my personal favourite being the chase figure from Sun-Min Kim. This would make a great 8″ I feel!
Woo spiders!!
*BLACK CONVOY*
Yo ho ahoy all you Londoners! Today saw the opening of the Black Convoy exhibition at the Jaguar Shoes Gallery, 17 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch. The exhibition features work from next months interviewee Jon Burgerman. Go check it out… and then write a report on it, with lots of photos! The show runs til the 14th September.
Send your answers on a postcard to…
Roll up, Roll up! It’s competition time! Up for grabs is this rather splendid looking 8″ red Baseman Dunny, kindly donated by Octane3.
To be in with a chance of winning, all we’re asking you to do is submit your photos of/or artwork depicting… the ‘abuse of vinyl’. This could simply be a little poke to your sweaty bearbrick(I’d like to see more though…), or a full on masacre of your Leonardo da Vinci 8″ custom egg qee! It’s upto you… just depends how much you want the prize!
You can submit as many entries as you like, and entries must be in by the 30th September. You can submit your photos/art in the Competition forum.
Letterpressed goodies!
As expected, Nathan Jurevicius’ letterpressed design is a beauty, and goes on sale soon! The run has been increased to 750, from the previous 500 and is the first card to feature a two colour print.
Coming soon… Letterpressed will be offering gift packs, which will include 5(one from each artist) letterpressed designs from:
Ron Rege
TADO
MCA
Joe Ledbetter
and Nathan Jurevicius
Coming soon… future letterpressed cards will feature designs from Bwana Spoons, Luke Chueh, Jeremiah Ketner and Thomas Han. Keep your eyes open, these are rather beautiful things… and will no doubt sell like hot cakes!!
More info at Letterpressed.
20″ El Loco Dunny is born!
September 8ths marks the arrival of kidrobots 20″ Triston Eaton blue el loco dunny. This big boy is limited to just 100 pieces at $249.95 (so expect them to sell out very fast, and to cause the kidrobot online store a big headache)
Good luck to those who wanted one!
Vinyl Abuse x Future Plastik sneaks!
This is the brainchild of a Mr Futureplastik! So far 26 artists have put their names forward to jazz up some jazz (records). Some speedfreaks have been busy and already knocked out their work… here’s a sneak of some of them!
The Great Attractor from Doktor A…
Double sided stencil goodness from Hixtril…
Creepyness from Schnook…
More info and a list of artists can be found at Future Plastik.
Hoorah!
Wahey, thanks to Jay, Stu and of course myself… Vinyl Abuse was born (feet first) into this world on the 07 September 2005. He weighed 3lbs…
Anyhoo, thanks to this months interviewees Peskimo for their help and the banners they so kindly created for us! They rock, so go show them some love at www.peskimo.com
Thanks to those who have kindly donated reviews, graphics, interviews(Mr J Burgerman), articles, images and their time to vinyl abuse.
Thanks to all those who joined the forum, whilst the main site was still in Stu’s womb.
Quick request: Those who would like to continue the good vibe and wish to donate reviews or articles, then PM me and I’ll give you a big…. smile!
We’re also hoping to get some competitions up and running, so anyone who could help with those, it’d be much appreciated! We’ve already had support from the magical Tokyo Toy Store!
Lots of love and free vinyl to all! x x x
Furry Girl by Dave Cooper
These initial clay sculpts of Dave Cooper’s new critterbox creation ‘Furry Girl’ look rather snazzy indeed! The sculpt was created by the uber talented Colin Batty who is also responsible for Dave Cooper’s ‘Eddy’ & ‘Pip’ and the Tim Biskup Helper, and many a stop-motion character including the upcoming Corpse Bride. These clay sculpts will be used to create the ‘Furry Girl’ statuette.
Furry Girl will come complete with a removeable bear suit, which will reveal little transparent underwear! woo! Naughty vinyl!
