UnderGround Art

Study: See the Crowd from a Distance

nobody@vox.com(StevenLi) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:13:53 -0700

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Something about to be revealed??

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:20:43 -0700

Charlie, the creator of the cool little creatures called saucernauts is apparently planning to drop a bomb on us.. here is a little sneak peek... Can't wait to see more!

Saucernauts

...Sneak a Peak...

Please note that this is a work in progress...details on what it is, where it came from, etc to follow.

Check out saucernauts at Saucernauts.com

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Chaos Monkey by Bunka

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:39:49 -0700

Just came across this post on the Vinyl Toy Freaks forum. Not a brand new post, but still very much worth posting now, and hopefully it's new to some of you just like it was for me. :)

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Artoyz will be releasing Bunka's Chaos Monkey come September, according to our friendly toy addict, Jimmy Foo in his post:

....this is Bunka's first original vinyl toy and is due in September from Artoyz originals, it stands around 14cm (5-6"). I love the Tiki styling of this....here's hoping there's gonna be some blanks available cos i kinda like the look of this as it is....colour protos will be revealed at the Bread and Butter trade show in Barcelona around July 2nd - 4th.

Bunka_chaosMonkey

Now I agree with Jimmy's opinion, this is a very cool "tiki-like" design and I can't wait to see too, whether it is available as a blank diy version too.. :) Love the long arms and the stubby little body but I just can't get over the huge eye sockets!! so cool.. so much you could do with this as a canvas! Below you'll see a rendering of the toy in color too but still I hope a blank will be available.

Bunka_chaosMonkey3

Via Vinyl Toy Freaks. Check out Artoyz here

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Pirate Phase

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:16:20 -0700

I'm not really crazy about any of these except "Pirate Queen", I'm one of those people that paints better than she draws oddly. Also started getting back into the swing of fashion illustrations, that comes pretty easy I guess, and am debating about taking up gouache -- since I hate watercolor -- but have been told it is equally annoying and difficult at times.

This month a great lesson was learned in the vanity department for me: you never know what photos of you taken when you least expected will end up in a 3 page spread in a magazine. Therefore I'm taking the mantra of Daisy Fellowes to always be prepared and to never go out in public with no make-up, unwashed hair, and dressed like a slob. "It is a matter of discipline" she was to have said, and that you never know who you'll run into. Darn tootin'.

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Cellphoneskill - Wave 2?!

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:55:41 -0700

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Full Wave 2 group and a nice "surprise" up next (what the hell could that possibly be?). Rumor has it the colorways are bitter enemies and will fight to the death (and will be a very limited run). VIA

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Betsovic the Psychedelic Toy Dude..

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:31:47 -0700

Bill did a VW Bus model awhile back and its just so freakin cool i thought I'd do a feature on it for today.. :D Bil Was nice enough to stop and answer just a few more questions for me.. have a look..

Bil_bus1

Tell me about the VW Bus design you did. What was the inspiration for this?

the design was for Aaron at Swearbears.com he needed a hippie van done for his Bong Bear display,he sent over a few photos of the bong bear design and swearbears grateful deadish logo and basically said i could do whatever else i wanted it just needed those 2 things for sure...other than that i TRIED to hippie it out as much as possible with the shrooms,flowers,etc.I also HAD to put at least one bunny on there! and the license plate was from dazed and confused i remeber that was on somebody paddle...

Awesome dude. You did a Grooovy job with that... Man.

Bil_bus4

So of course you had to add your bunny to that, and we can understand that. What about the rest of the Excellent Woodstock-Inspired design? Did you pull from your actual memories of years gone by as a youngster (or were you too young during those days), Or is that just inspiration driven by your memories of the Partridge Family and such? rofl.

thanx man! um i got inspired by google search for hippie vans hahahahaha,saw a few just covered with PEACE,LOVE etc...lots of flowers so i just kinda went at it my own way,im WAY to young to remember anything but SOME of the 80's at the earliest lol....def NO partridge family for me hahahahahha maybe a lil brady bunch but no partridge fam...

aww come on! GET HAPPY! They'll make you happy... ... ... sorry..

Bil_bus3

Ok ok too young for the 60's like me.. Love the flower headlights and the shrooms dude. Great job on this. I can't wait to see you get more stuff done!

Did you have fun with the hippie theme, and can we look forward to more of this?

hahahahahaha too broke to GET HAPPY lol.....

i had a blast i kept sayin it was done and aaron would ask for a lil bit more everytime and i was like wtf? but in the end im SO glad he pushed me to do more!!!! but more hippie stuff to come...ehh i doubt it,maybe some time down the line?although i did a tshirt design for an upcoming show at mechanized in SLC SORTA hippie ish/love theme?

Bil_heartbunny

Keep up the good work man!

Bilbetsovic's Flickr

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Something New!? Wooo... these look hot..

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:31:33 -0700

Just doing my thing looking for new stuff on the net as usual, to post on the blog and what do ya know, I found something.. I haven't seen anything like this before and I find this rather intriguing.. what do ya'll think? I love the concept, the idea behind it.. and it seems they might have something more up their sleeves?? Check it out here, I don't know about you but I'm keeping an eye out for more..

Argonaut

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Argonaut_cpk2

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Brent Nolasco @ SDCC..

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:48:48 -0700

I'm a huge fan of Brent Nolasco's work and when I found these images on Vinyl Pulse (more images on their post) I knew I had to put in a plug for these two awesome customs...Brent will be at SDCC with these and other awesome art works.. rumor has it also that he's gonna be sketching too so come prepared!

See Brent Nolasco and his works at Toyqube booth (#4837).

Via: Vinyl Pulse: Brent Nolasco X Toyqube @ SDCC

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Because They Like Being Topless

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:07:39 -0700

Painting in oil on clayboard kind of sucks (way too absorbent), but somehow I managed to do this 18x24" piece in three days. Wish I had more accurate photos, but I think this is pretty close, and they'll have a nice silver frame around them soon. I'll be showing this at Garvey Gallery in late August.

Untitled 18x24"

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Yeti Guys and Girls -- Shipping soon!

nobody@vox.com(sandman) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:16:43 -0700

Yeti_group

This just in:

Yeti prototype is now available in our website! pre-order your Yeti Guy/Girl today before they are gone! They are set to be released this coming Aug and we wont charge you until your product is shipped!

Yeti Guy/Girl is so cool! IMO... I would love to have one of these dudes myself. I'll have to decide on a color first.. and that might take a while..haha.. in the meantime, here's a pic of the the hot (pink) yeti girl's behind.. ;)

Yeti_girlbutt

if you like Yeti guy, pick up one of the tshirts too, I have one and its very high quality. Good stuff..

Yeti_shirt

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