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Nov 21, 2008
PON – Droppin’ Shit Like A Piegon (11.21)
NYC street artist PON is in New England tonight (11.21)for the opening of his Droppin’ Shit Like A Pigeon at Channel 1 in New Haven, CT. Awareness of PON’s work is growing with recent high profile projects including a design in Kidrobot’s Fat Cap 2 mini series. He will be offering numerous art works featuring his signature pigeon including illustrations and stencil pieces. Here’s a quick look at the show setup and a small preview courtesy of Sam DeWitt. So if you’re nearby, go check it out.
Channel 1
220 State St.
New Haven, CT 06510
203.789.0309
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Crazy Label Presents The Treeson and Other Stories Blind Box Series
For all you Treeson fans Crazy Label is coming out with what looks to be a promising blind box series. Information borrowed fro Crazy Label’s Blog they show us the awesome clay sculpts designed by Bubi Au Yeung’s characters from her Wonderful Book. Planned to be release in the first quarter of 2009 we hope to see the final product before then. More pictures of the clay sculpts after the jump.
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Go Hero x VP – Win a Buck Rogers Atomic Disintegrator
We’ve teamed up with the cool folks at Go Hero to bring you a fun contest to win your very own Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Atomic Disintegrator Pistol!
Send us your original crazy future scene! Use your talent and imagination to draw, paint, sculpt, build, or photograph a weirdo far-out futuristic scene, using your own characters! The idea here is to be original and see what your characters and style would look like in the future. Will their be shiny metal robots, hover bikes, or giant apocalyptic cockroach heads carved into Mount Rushmore? You decide, but keep it clean, nothing obscene! The most interesting, innovative, and clever one wins as judged by VP and GH! The deadline to enter is January 5th, 2008. The winner will be announced Jan 10th!
To enter, upload a photo of your submission to the Buck Rogers Future Scene Contest gallery. you must; be 18 or older and supply a physical and email address. The owner of the art, designs, and characters, owner of the image sent for contest, give perpetual permission to VP and GH to use the images without compensation. There’s a maxium of two entries per person. Vinyl Pulse, Go Hero nor any its owners, agents, partners, employees, affiliates, or associates are responsible for costs, safety, licenses, taxes, fees, lost mail, or any other liabilities associated with participating in, or winning of this contest.
Jamie Mathis Interview: Fully Visual + Apocalypt-Ephunts
[We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Jamie Mathis, the owner and founder of Fully Visual, to talk about creating metal art figures. He also gave us an exclusive look at the newest Fully Visual project – Amanda Visell’s Apocalypt-Ephunt mini-fig set. Beyond taking a bunch of pics, we also shot a quick informal video intro (above) to the dope new metal mini-figs with the man himself in the new Switcheroo Workshop. Watch it for all the details, calm yourself, and then read the story behind Fully Visual to learn how a private label apparel designer added a new element to the art toy world.]
Q: How did you get started in metal ?
About ten years ago, I was designing apparel for a new company, Lucky Thirteen Apparel. I wanted to get into belt buckles. Since the price point for the mold making and sampling was pretty high, I started working for this guy who was doing belt buckles on his own. I worked with him and learned about sculpting and everything. As the years went on I got pretty close with him – kinda like a step dad deal.
I really got into doing the belt buckles and I ended up doing a private label line for Hot Topic for a few years. You know the brass knuckles, thorn n’roses – kinda like tattoo art. I’m not much of an artist except for tattoo type drawings, so it was really easy for me to turn my art into belt buckles.
I learned to work with metal through that experience.I really liked it a lot but eventually it wasn’t really playing my bills. I then got burned out and went back to my background in apparel design. I worked with a lot of artists like Rockin Jelly Bean, von franko, and Dirty Donnie – a lot of that low brow scene creating clothing.
More recently Paul Cruikshank, whom I met through punk rock collecting, needed help with production on Circus Punks which I did briefly. He pushed me towards doing more with metal. He was the one who focused me more on doing my own thing.
I had gone totally away from metal to focus on apparel. I didn’t event think about sculpting pieces with artists. I dealt with all the artists for clothing and circus punks, but it never crossed my mind to actually sculpt in metal until Cruikshank said “You should do stuff with the metal”. He knew that I had worked with metal. He was always pretty innovative – he lived in Fresno and up there you always have time to think about the lame things you can’t do but you want somebody else to do.
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