Nerd (Un)Culture
Those of you who enjoy reading…or can read…might enjoy this! Immedium proudly announces the publication of The Octonauts: The Only Lonely Monster, written and illustrated by the popular design team known as Meomi. This title introduces The Octonauts, a crew…
Touma is back for his sophomore appearance at mixi-bang! in Pasadena, CA on November 4, 2006. This time, he’s brought back an old friend. That’s right, the Knuckle Bear has been reborn and is back with a vengeance! The Skuttle…
The Banana Lab’s first exhibition will be held at 2000 Brooklyn, Detroit’s well-known art collective. They will be exhibiting Vol.1 of their “Urban Art Experiments”, featuring some of Detroit’s leading artists customizing 9” blank vinyl toy figures known as NADEs…
In November, myplasticheart will be releasing a set of limited edition plushes, designed by the artist Paskid and called “myblackheart”, on their website…as well as their new retail shop myplasticheart-nyc (also set to launch in November). Limited to 21 pieces…
David from RocketPop – one of the Munny On My Mind show sponsors – has sent in news of the upcoming exhibit. Next Saturday, November 4th, will be the opening of the custom Munny show. So, if you’re in the…
Bytedust has sent us some photos of his latest plush creation – Hazmate. Hazmate (a red warning sign) is patterned after a character that Bytedust first created as a streetart sticker. This handmade 6″ plush is available in limited numbers…
Gallery Nucleus November 4 – December 6 Opening reception: November 4, 2006 (7pm – 11pm) Book Signing: 5:00pm- 7:00pm One year after its debut, the artists from the 3 Trees Show (Ronnie Del Carmen, Enrico Casarosa, and Tadahiro Uesugi) returns…
Stacey Hsu creates handmade, one-of-a-kind sock dogs and cats in her free time. She uses (new) socks, and donates a portion of each “plush adoption” to the no-kill animal shelter where Stacey volunteers. Since I have adopted several dogs from…
TOOTHLESS CHANDELIER presents an evening of TEEF, smiles for miles featuring a two part art event with GONZONE’s furry and fierce portable audio devices and Conor Ghilarducci’s monstrous desires put to paint. All of this set to the monstermashupsuperhyphiness of…
October Toys has a new featured artist of the month up for October – Bax. The custom Gwin figures are available via their website store. The proceeds from all of Bax’s Gwins will be donated to the Make A Wish…
Robert, from Kung Fu Toys, was lucky enough to attend the opening of Ron English’s solo show at the Berman/Turner Projects – Bergamot Station Arts Center in Santa Monica. A number of new pieces are being exhibited in the E-1…
What might be the nastiest name for a custom show…the Yeast Infection online auction is set to wrap up in a little over a day. You can go to the ebay shop where El Maz (curator of the show) is…
The latest show at Melrose Avenue’s Gallery1988 was the entitled “We’re All Mad Here” event. Inspired by, and celebrating the Cheshire Cat (from Alice in Wonderland)…the show included original artwork and custom vinyl Cheshire Cats from several of the world’s…
Sergey Safanov has sent photos of his newest character – Gooma – all the way from Russia (with love?). They did a small run of the figures in hard vinyl. Serey plan on posting comics and stories about them a…
The Le Merde folks have made a plush version of their character “Vander”. They made him in his classic army jacket version and a special Maharishi version. They’ll be displayed at the Plush You! show, put on by Kristen Rask…