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Plasticland

It's been almost fifteen years I am the career of Frank Kozik, suddenly there something I'm very proud: in the last book dedicated to him, PLASTICLAND , there are six pages on his collaboration with MUTTPOP. The book, published by Dark Horse, takes any his career as a toy designer. It is a beautiful object, even if some pictures could be enlarged less. A book that reminds Kozik is by far the type most interesting of all the vinyl toy industry.

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Amanda Visell, Pink Elephant

Visell Amanda is a California painter whose was not finished talking-at least, me. She just released her first toy (actually the second, but it is better to forget the first). Produced by our friends Munky King, a true marvel, the style of his painting is perfectly respected either at the object's shape or texture. Technically, it's pretty damn good also because everything is organized. The elephant's back is magnetized to the four corners, allowing the character to fit smoothly. There are 600 copies of this version and they cost $ 60. Part is distributed by DKE probably available in some stores in France.

Edit: there are at ARTOYZ . They also splendid book .

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Why Los Angeles? (# 1)

At my age it's time to make a small dot on myself and ask myself some fundamental questions. Who am I? Where am I? etc.. But above all: what am I doing here? Without knowing why, I always wanted to live in the United States. One day in February 1997, took an anxiety attack monster, I decided to go ahead and leave for good. The first idea was, like all Europeans, moved to New York. Only live in New York, it's expensive and then there's the fucking winter. In Brussels, I was working next to a radiator and I did not want experience the same on the other side of the Atlantic. So we went to see San Francisco. It is a wonderful city, full of educated people, well dressed, eat well etc.. But it's like New York and as my memories of cities in Europe is very second degree. As was also expensive, $ 3600-to-time for a studio, we went down to Los Angeles. What I immediately liked here in more climate-is precisely what is not at all second level, not at all European. It is the city most first degree I've ever seen. This is a giant amusement park, where everything is designed for immediate gratification. Philosophically, it is of course debatable, but culturally, it's absolutely wonderful and incredibly stimulating. The first time I came here, I found myself almost by chance in a store-art gallery, Wacko / LA LUZ DE JESUS , and entering it, it hit me in the face. This is where I should live. Why? To be continued ...