Archive for January, 1970
Thursday, January 1st, 1970
...I'd head to The Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Art Fair next weekend - May 30 - June 1. CADD, in its second year, is a small art fair showing Dallas area contemporary galleries only. Eleven galleries. Totally doable in...
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
Watering Hole, Survival Design: Jason S. Brown, Sean P. Frank, Elizabeth Scofield, and Frederic Scofield ...I'd make a date to head to the Walker Art Center's miniature golf course. Yep, nothing says summer like Mini-Golf. Walker on the Green brought...
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
Christina Mazzalupo, How Could You?, 2005, 4.5 x 6 inches, ink on paper I have been lucky to have speaking gigs all over the place recently - London, Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Philadelphia, and Dallas - on the topic...
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
Holly Andres, Austin, 2006, 31" x 39", Fuji Crystal Archive Print I was surfing the web today, killing time before facing responsibility and reality. I was at a favorite artist's website (Tracey Snelling) and I clicked a little bug to...
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
It is 99 degrees in NY right now. With humidity they say it feels like 106. I say it feels like 126. Sunday's New York Times had an article on one of my favorite artists, Adam Cvijanovic, and it mentioned...
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
Mary Temple, 441,500-443,500 (detail), 2003, 30"x36", pigmented ink on mylar What does 1,000,000 look like? A favorite artist and good friend, Mary Temple, sought to answer that question with her 1,000,000 Ellipsoids body of work. From her website: 1,000,000 Ellipsoids...
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
James Siena, Non-Slice, 2005, enamel on aluminum, 19" x 15" I have been recommending Pierogi as a "must see, must buy" recommendation since I began collecting art seriously over 10 years ago. Those of you living in LA have a...
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Thursday, January 1st, 1970
Toy companies are reknowned for cutting corners here and there in order to save money on production costs, and one easy way for them to pinch pennies is to simply re-use an existing toy mold mixed with a simple repaint and voila! You’ve got a brand-new toy!
Vintage MOTU fans will remember the whole Merman/Stinkor repaint fiasco from the early 1980s.
Well, our good friends over at the uber-nerd blog has compiled yet another one of its awesome lists with their 9 Greatest Re-Used Action Figures. Why not 10? They couldn’t think of one more? Oh well.
The list does a pretty good job of pointing out the “cheap-skatery” of various toy makers, including Toy Biz’s habit of using the same exact female figure mold for just about every female figure they ever produced. Come on Toyu Biz, you know better than that! And they even pointed out somethings I never new about, such as the New Adventures of He-man/Demolition Man action figure connection (hint: they’re the exact same mold!).
Anyway, my hat is tipped once again to some great irreverent list-making. To read the list, visit www.toplessrobot.com.
The 9 Greatest Re-Used Action Figures from Topless Robot originally appeared on About.com Action Figure Collecting on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 19:32:37.
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