Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fully bad way, but in the way that anything middle-aged becomes a little more predictable and a little less exciting. “Fab Four Suture,” the band’s latest release, culls together a year or so of music, previously released only on vinyl, and packs it into a single album, available, depending on your level of connoisseurship, as a CD, a limited edition double 10”, or a triple 7”. Variety’s great, but the elaborate release strategy for “Fab Four...
Barbie would never invite them to a pool party. They're categorical misfits in the realm of toys--Munny with hunched shoulders and a potbelly; Gloomy Bear, a pink cub with claws and a bloody muzzle. Unlike mass-produced, cuddly balls of fluff, these figures, once known as urban vinyl toys, have street smarts, loitering in the neighborhood of consumable...
...misfit in toyland, but his outsider aesthetic won Kidrobot admirers from the worlds of art, fashion and nightlife. "Paul Budnitz is the Warhol of this generation," says Peter Gatien, a New York nightclub promoter whose new Toronto spot, Circa, will devote an entire floor to Kidrobot's trademark vinyl figure, Dunny. "He's so brilliant, he's scary--in a good way." Just like his toys...
That combination is proving irresistible to creative types on the lookout for a collaborator who is utterly commercial without sacrificing cool. Japanese design icon Takashi Murakami and artists from Brooklyn to Hong Kong have designed toys sold by Kidrobot. Its vinyl characters have sported clothing by Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander, and New York City's Barneys sells an exclusive line of Kidrobot sneakers...
...unsure if she was supposed to clasp the Pope's hand the way she usually does because she didn't know if she should touch his ring. While the Pope and First Lady exchanged gifts of silver platters and boxes of rosaries, the press pool was given rosaries in vinyl cases...