As Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, or better known as Doogie Howser, M.D) from ‘How I met Your Mother’ may say… I’m simply oozing AWESOMENESS!!! So what lead to such a bold, unbashful and rather uncharacteristic ac·cla·ma·tion of mine you may ask? Well well… that’s because… I simply AM! Ah, the truth is, I got my blind-bagged… Read More →
It’s kinda silly but… who’d thought such a tiny toy could resonates with such huge happiness within the heart of a grown… big boy? Aaaaah, so here we are, a small gashapon or gachapon (ガチャポン/がちゃぽん) set of mini diorama featuring an ultra-masked young boy drawing a kaiju (Gavadon A) on a cement pipe. Yep, did I… Read More →
So we kinda know that Kong’s got a bad temper, but we had NO IDEA what’d tick him off… But now we do! Apparently Kong’s MAD about air pollution, especially 2nd hand smoke… he wants a healthy set of lungs just like you and me! That’s why he’s flipping over a tobacco house, 1-2-3! EVIL… Read More →
Just the other day we were meeting up in the city for dinner w/ cuz from NYC. Having arrived a full hour early, I figured I’d just walk around and check out the nearby stores since it’s not very often that I get to wander around Union Square w/ this much free time. Not wanting to… Read More →
While we were working on the exhibition installation in Taipei, I became somewhat upset at Maibelle this one night for some reason that I no longer recall. To appease this big child who was pouting while carrying a few gallons of paint inside his backpack (They were heavy! Of course I had to pout!), she decided to… Read More →
Funny how toys just pop up out of the most unlikely(?) places where you least expect to see them. They saturate and influence your life more than you care to admit; they’re like moisture and rainbow and sand that get into everything while you’re visiting Hawaii… they are like… what the heck am I talking about?… Read More →
So it’s been two winters since I last set my bootprints on any Asian soil. Being all ‘yang’ (as in yin and yang/hot and cold) et all, Asian summers are simply way too hot and humid for me; a winter trip is the only way I’d cross the Pacific out of my own freewill. Anyhooo, it was… Read More →
Continuing with what we started last week, here’s yet another vintage white porcelain rice bowl of Tokusatsu [wiki definition: Tokusatsu (特撮) is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects (tokusatsu literally translates as "special filming" in Japanese).] Can u say… AWESOMENESS!!!? YEP! It’s ミラーマン or Mirrorman, the… Read More →
Time for Some Chirashi Sushi Rice, Anyone? OK, perhaps not, cuz the bowl is… EMPTY! But ain’t this just an awesome vintage kaiju bowl that would’ve been perfect for any rice… or noodle? Released back in the days when USD was still the king currency (or so we thought) by far, an educated guess… Read More →
Set your time machine for 10 years ago and head for Chinatown in Toronto, Canada… then there you have it! ’Fenfir’, an unlicensed Ghidorah toy. About 8″ tall, made of hard plastic (cheap!) instead of the more expensive vinyl/sofubi that we’ve all come to love and covet. It walks while the wings flap and mouths open… Read More →
Never been to Paris you say? Never mind that, we’ll introduce a little bit of France to ya via work of Ajee, a talented French female artist/designer who was one of the 2 secret artist of the French Dunny series. Says Ajee in her bio: I’m a french designer. I live in… Read More →
For those whom are not familiar with the Japanese Tokusatsu 特撮 (Sci-Fi/special effect) TV Series Kamen Rider「仮面ライダー」, life must’ve been a little dull, a little less exciting, a little gray and boring… not that they’d realized it anyway since one cannot really miss what they don’t know. But that is just another sad story of life… Originally… Read More →
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