JEREMYVILLE is an artiste/designer/autor who lives between Sydney and New York. He wrote and produced two international books: “Vinyl Will Kill” and recently “Jeremyville Sessions“, both published at IdN.
At this hour when the customization is omnipresent, JEREMYVILLE has no limits to find his imagination new universes to be personalized.
Proof of his ambition is the Sketchel Project where he collaborated with more than 500 artists just like Geoff McFetridge, Miss Van, Genevieve Gauckler, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Jim Woodring, Friends With You, Devilrobots…
With ease in the dumb comic-strip as in the commercial illustration, he draws pastel contours of his very poetic pop psyched universe as he breathes and never remains in front of a white sheet for a very long time.
It is the first exhibition of JEREMYVILLE called FOREVER & ALWAYS in Paris and it will take place from from November 29 to January 12, 2008 at ARTOYZ.
You will be able to discover screenprints, skateboards, books, toys, paintings, tee-shirts, Sketchels and even more…
SO MAKE SURE 2 GET THERE IF YOU ARE AROUND PARIS THESE DAYS!!!
The Vernissage will be today, November 29 starting at 7 pm at ARTOYZ.
Welcome to Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. It’s a tantalizing toy haven in which everything insideliterally coes to life - including the store itself - and where marvels of every imaginable, possible kind, and beyond, never cease… that is until now.
When Mr. Magorium, the store’s extraordinary 243 year-old proprietor (Dustin Hoffmann), announces that he will at long last hand over the reigns of his wonder-expanding store to his unconfident young manager, Molly Mahoney (Natalie Portman), the store decides to throw an unusual tantrum.
As a skeptical accountant named Henry (Jason Bateman) comes in to audit the Legos and Lincoln Logs, bot to mention the Whodathoughts and Whatchamacallits, the once sparkling, color-saturated Emporium is suddenly embattled by mysterious changes. The playful toys are all still there, but they’ve turned gray and quiet - and only Mahoney and Henry can revive them if, with the help of a superdexterous 9 year-old (Zach Mills), they can find the source of magic inside themselves.
Usually only lonely men buy the “anatomically correct” and life-large dolls of the US companyRealDoll. But now the large silicone toys become cinema celebrities…
In the new cinema comedy “Lars and The Real Girl” the life-genuine plastic dolls of the California company RealDoll play besides actor Ryan Gosling the main role.
Noted in the margin: Allegedly the film is amazing “prudish”, as the picture agency writes.
Story:
When Lars Lindstrom introduces his brother Gus and sister-in-law Karin to his new friend Bianca, who he met on the internet, their immediate response is shock and disbelief. Has Lars, the sweet, socially challenged introvert gone completely mad - they meet Bianca and see a doll, but Lars sees a friend.
Bianca isn’t a real woman at all but a Real Doll, how will they explain this to the residents of the sleepy Midwestern town they’ve grown up in and currently reside?
Karin and Gus consult the town’s family physician, Dr. Dagmar Berman, who advises them to go along with it. Lars is experiencing a delusion and in order to help him through this crisis, they and the townsfolk need to get onboard.
After some persuasion and appeal to their love and concern for Lars, Gus and Karin enlist their cooperation. Soon Bianca is attending church, modeling at the local dress shop, volunteering at the hospital and accompanying Lars to his first ever social events. Surprisingly to those around her, Bianca weaves her way into the hearts of everyone she meets, filling voids they didn’t know they had.
What follows is a transformative journey for Lars and the people around him.
Release Dates:
October 25th and
on 2008 January 17th in german theaters:
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Well, if you are not interested in watching this movie than maybe you’ll like to make your life a comedy and order yourself a life-large doll…
Since the early 1970’s Duane Hanson has been making startlingly lifelike sculptures of middle America accomplished through a complex process of casting from live models, recreated in bronze or fibreglass resin.
Duane Hanson concentrated on the naked fact of the subject, an astonishingly persuasive counterfeit of another human being as a fully realised physical presence.
The insistence on the irreplaceability of each person, and on the dignity to be accorded to those who are usually overlooked or spurned as ordinary are central to Duane Hanson’s art and humanitarian vision.
Duane Hanson’s sculptures of people are just too believable. Creating vignettes of real American life, he doesn’t forget a single detail. Casting his figures from live models in his studio, Duane Hanson then adorned them with every attribute of life-likeness from tiny body hairs, varicose viens, bruises, and hangnails. He hand picked their clothes from second hand shops, and accessorised them accordingly.
Upon encountering one of these extraordinarily realistic sculptures, the typical reaction of a museum visitor unfamiliar with Duane Hanson’s work can be among the most interesting and amusing events one might witness in a museum or gallery.
Hanson’s sculptures, especially those that are appropriate in a gallery setting such as Seated Artist, Museum Guard, Janitor or Old Couple on a Bench, are often dismissed as people at rest-sitting or standing like any other visitor. Many visitors may never know that those people they passed were actually artworks. On other occasions a visitor might try to engage the sculptures in conversation. Of course, after a few moments they discover that these are not real people after all!
Duane Hanson was an extraordinary craftsman and an observer of life. In creating an artwork, he first determined the proper pose for the sculpture. Working with a model, the artist took photos until he was satisfied with the figure’s position. Then the artist formed rubber and plaster molds of each part of the subject’s body-arms, legs, torso and head molds were each created separately. When the molds dried, they were cut off the model and filled with flesh-colored polyester resin reinforced with fiberglass.
NOT SURE IF YOU’RE GOING TO FIT ONE OF THESE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM, SO CHECK THEM OUT AT THESaatchi Gallery.
early japanese cassette tapes that transform into dinosaurs or those released by hasbro in 1984, the generation 1 transformer
transforms from tape cassette, to robot, animal etc. and back.
via toybin.
Toygiants is a breathtaking book that takes an illustrated journey into the world of toys.
By Daniel and Geo Fuchs, this collection of photos not only captures the pure enjoyable essence of toys, but it also casts light on the idea of this tangible medium having the capacity to impact our perception of reality and fiction.
Seriously, this book is mega-heavy in a deep kinda way so don’t pass this up.
This 10 x 12.5-Inch book is the perfect size for your coffee table, and it’s 216 glossy, full color pages will keep you visually entertained for hours.
Retro video game iconic heroes have been making a come back for some time now. From T-shirts through to shoes, we have seen the likes of Mario, Donkey Kong and dare we say their rival, Sega’s Sonic The Hedgehog plastering their pixelated faces all over some funky wears.
Hot on the heels of this fad, gaming giant Nintendo have promoted their latest baby Wii in Italy with this interesting wall display created by a series of posted notes. Behind each not lies a message inviting the recipient to relive the 80’s through some classic games available on Wii. The post it notes make a nice 3D representation of a 2D pixel.
Blow-up dolls cost up to $5,000 a head, and not everyone wants one to keep at home. Sometimes, you just need a quickie. That’s why there are an increasing number of businesses in Japan that pimp them out to clients the same way the human sex industry. In the blow-up doll escort service industry, the mannequins-for-hire are put into golf bags and brought to your house for a fee of about 5000 yen an hour. Or, you could have a romantic long weekend with it for about 35,000 yen ($300). Not much more than a rental car, and much cheaper than buying your own blow-up doll. And if you don’t want the doll to find out where you live, you could go to a “love doll rental room,” which can also be rented by an hour for about 9,000 yen an hour.
Yeah, I know… borrowing a used blow-up doll is pretty nasty. But these days, blow-up dolls are super high-tech, made of soft vinyl, urethane, and silicone to make them feel like real women. Except, unlike real women, these ladies never complain.
If you’re into this stuff get your own!
For all of you who love and regret the beautiful times of th 80’s vh1 launched a fabulous board game…
It’s for 4 or more players with features like fun die-cast metal 1980s and themed playing pieces.
For ages 15 yrs. and ⬆ UP…;)
Test your knowledge of 1980s pop culture!!
>> available at Urban Outfitters
Equally fun as Atypyk’s Python tape, this pretty much spells it out for you. Whether you plan to re-enact Reservoir Dogs or have a bunch of rascals at home that need some straight forward advice, or you use it for the office, or the class room, or the dinner table or – well, the options are countless…
Oh and 200′ (66 m) should keep you going for quite a while…
Booty Babe Art is one man’s way of expressing his passion for fantasy art, toys, fashion design, and of course the wonderful variety of female beauty. In effect the project is a tribute to the women that make our day, taking the very definition of “Booty Babe†to new levels.
“What is a ‘Booty Babe?’†you may ask. As a term of endearment, a Booty Babe is generally a woman with curves. Waist to hip ratio is usually breath-taking. She’s not necessarily run-way model material, in the traditional sense, but she feels sexy and her self-confidence makes her glow. She’s not afraid to wear skin-tight outfits – and we love her for it!!
Now you’re getting the picture. You’ve seen her at the mall, in line at the bank, grocery shopping, and out dancing. She’s sweet and sexy, stylish and smart; and her body language states, “This is who I am, and I LOVE being me.â€
In 1998, with this in mind, artist Spencer Davis started adding material to an otherwise skinny, 12″ fashion doll. Taking cues from Black Tail magazine and a few liberties of his own, the first Booty Babe was conceived. Over the past few years since, Spencer has exhibited his Booty Babe Art sculptures at numerous art gallery exhibitions in Los Angeles and in Oregon. But this is only the beginning…
