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...argument, in its simplest form, is analogous to snatching a toy from a child and then taking umbrage when the child is not thankful upon return of the toy...
...Japan featured Lau in a series of Presto shoe advertisements two years ago and Levi Strauss Japan quickly jumped on the bandwagon, using Lau to plug its Engineered Jeans line. Moreover, his appeal to the hip-hop generation seems global. His limited-edition plastic dolls have made it into toy collector shops in New York City and London. Young, cutting-edge international designers, DJs and artists beg to visit his apartment-studio when they're in town. Heck, even kids on the street ask him for his autograph. Now that he's earned a reputation as Hong Kong's most...
...dolls might not be endcapped at Toys "R" Us and eight-year-olds might not be throwing tantrums in the middle of a Wal-Mart aisle demanding a Lamdog toy. Yet, that's exactly the point: Lau has managed to imbue the humble action figure with kool-kid kachet. A grownup who collects G.I. Joes is a bit of a loser while a twentysomething with a full Crazychildren set is, you know, way datable. The artist is coy about his yearly earnings, but reiterates that fun, not money, gets him off. Many of his figures?like Maxx...
...growing up in Hong Kong's rural Sheung Shui, Lau, the son of chicken farmers, hardly played with toy figures. "We were too poor," he says. (Today he has 30 boxes full of G.I. Joe, Ren and Stimpy, Playmobil and The Simpsons dolls in storage.) An artistic streak led him to design college, then to a stint as a struggling painter and part-time window-display designer for a department store. Lau got into 3-D art by accident. "The big change in my career was in 1997, when my friends in a band called Anodize asked...
...Other designers and toy companies around the globe might mimic Lau's street-punk flair. But he remains the dude to match in the action-toy world. Rather than gloat over his global following though, he would much prefer to talk about soccer, traveling or snowboarding. It's not that he doesn't care; it's just that he's very chilled out?like Maxx, the plastic epitome of cool...