Aiqin

I've know Aiqin Zhou for a long time now. She should be declared a national treasure for her brushpainting. There's often some of her work on display at the SF Asian Art Museum.
Amazing art.

Anyway she asked for a sumi piece for an Asian Art Museum show. let's see what happens...

DVRB Interview

Submitted a few video bits of an interview with DVRB to Toybreak, you should be seeing the entire thing in a future issue of Clutter, and failing that, Vinyl pulse. So,

Hit up Episode 40 at Toybreak,



or check out the interview only here:

Vinyl Pulse

Vinyl Pulse is hands down the best place to go for Vinyl news.
Check out today's for a little preview of what's to come.

Gundam: Senjyo no Kizuna

Gundam: Senjyo no Kizuna
I didn't post this from the Japan 08' trip, but while watching some recent Japanese news, it seems that this game is still alive and well in the arcades over there. So here are some pics.

the game consists of 4 pods (four for each army) and a base station. At the base station you can buy a card that keeps track of your stats as well as allows you to promote and unlock new MS and equipment loadouts. After the match is concluded the battles are replayed on the base screen for the hard-core to debrief. The pods are the MS (mobile suit) simulators complete with back projected 180 screen, dual joysticks and pedals, along with a headset jack to communicate with teammates. Needless to say, lots of fun even for non-Gundam enthusiasts.

For the significant cost needed to put these things in, not to mention the precious real estate they consume it's really surprising that the game is still doing well almost a year down the road.

Scram

Kubrick, Pop-Oscar.

Soopa Custom

I'm not a huge fan of Esc Toys but there's no denying that the Soopa has major potential. I guess it took Dookie to make it a reality, I don't understand how all the suck turned into one of the most awesome things I've ever seen, but I don't want to ruin it. Imagine this thing running the below video on an ipod stuck inside the Soopa. Amazing.

Derailed @ Cardboard Spaceship

Derailed (50 customized ACS blanks) was a smash hit, tons of people, tons of energy, and the art was out of control.
Amazing conversions by jimkoch & motorbot, unexpected refinment from Kozik, & huge showing of local talent. The most people I've seen in Carboard so far, and probably the happiest I've seen the normally subdued owner. Some random local media showed up and started to interview one of the artists that was doing signings at the time like he was the owner, after a few random questions they thanked him for inviting them and bailed... even today no one knows who invited those guys.
Anyway my art was in there so it was the best show ever:


Pyu-tofuku Jaguar's Hammer-inspired (had a little trouble with the paint tape pulling up some of my airbrush work, that ended up messing with the windows a bit...)


Street Writer (Only had two days for this one, but I had to get this idea out there, lots of masking work but well worth it.)