Green Eggs and Ham Edition Hamm & Cregg Resin Figures by Motorbot

Meet Hamm and Cregg, two of Motorbot’s most random creations yet! Inspired by a painting and sculpture by Chet Zar, Hamm is a 1.5” walking, talking leg of pork. His buddy Cregg is a 1.5” cracked egg who’s up to no good. Together they make for one dangerous and delicious combination! The Green Eggs and Ham Edition Hamm and Cregg, which is a green and white colorway, are currently available for sale at the Deadbear Studios online store for just $8 each and come bagged with a header card. This is the first release of both figures and will definitely make a great addition to everyone’s collections.

DCon 12 Exclusive GID Luftkaiser Vinyl Figure by Paul Kaiju

For Designer Con 2012, Paul Kaiju has teamed up with TAG to release a mini vinyl figure of his popular Kaiser character. The DCon 2012 Exclusive Luftkaiser vinyl figure stands 4” tall, comes made from soft glow in the dark Japanese vinyl and will be painted in a similar color scheme as the figures seen above. While details of this exciting new figure’s release are not known yet, you can pick one up in two weeks at either Paul Kaiju's DCon booth #109 or Toy Art Gallery's Dcon booth #400.

Halloween 2012 Resin Figure Series by Motorbot

For Halloween 2012, Motorbot has unleashed a new line of 2.5” solid cast resin figures featuring some of your favorite Halloween monsters. Motorbot’s Halloween 2012 Mini Figure Series includes Frank, Jack, Mike and Ghost (who glows in the dark). All we need now is a vampire! All four figures are currently available for purchase at the Deadbear Studios online store for just $15 and comes bagged with a header card.

Book Review: Silhouettes From Popular Culture by Olly Moss

On May 7th, 2011 the doors opened at Gallery 1988 for Olly Moss’ very first solo art show entitled “Paper Cuts.” This revolutionary art show featured over 200 silhouettes of popular characters from all areas of pop culture, including cartoons, movies, television, comic books and video games. So many different genres were included, and the show, like everything Olly touches, was a raging success! Before the show opened no one knew what Olly was working on, and I can remember being glued to my computer waiting for the first photos from the gallery to pop up on the internet. “Paper Cuts” quickly sold out and the art world couldn’t stop talking about Olly totally unexpected show.

The Blot’s been a huge fan of Olly’s work since his very first Threadless design, and I’m lucky to say I own a number of his limited edition screen prints. While I can’t really explain why his minimalistic style is so powerful, his “Paper Cuts” show is a perfect example of how he can do so much with so little! Thankfully, even those of us unable to attend the show can now relive the experience over and over again by reading Olly’s new hardcover book from Titan Books, Silhouettes From Popular Culture.

The minute I heard Silhouettes From Popular Culture was being published I knew I had to have a copy! This beautiful 144 page hardbound book includes most of the silhouettes from Moss’ first solo show and honestly, the cover alone is worth the purchase of the book! I love its textured feel and gold embossing. But the real fun comes in when you start flipping the pages and realizing you can identify each character in the book solely off of their all black (or white) silhouette.

Olly’s definitely turned the Victorian art of silhouette portraits on its head! The last time I saw a proper silhouette was probably when my parents had one made of me at the age of 4. Do they even still do that anymore? Even though I’m a diehard Olly Moss fan, I can honestly say this book is fun for anyone that’s a fan of pop culture. It’s exciting just to see what characters Olly chose to turn into a silhouette and from what genre they came.

Silhouettes From Popular Culture by Olly Moss goes on sale October 30, 2012. You can pre-order it through Amazon for just $10.71 here, but keep your eyes peeled on The Blot Says for a very special giveaway later today! One lucky reader will win the book before you can even buy it!

Outsmart Originals x Jon-Paul Kaiser Warrior Panda T-Shirt

Kevin Winnik’s outsmART originals, the new global brand exploring the incredible work of talented artists, has dropped its first release and it’s this killer Warrior Panda t-shirt by Jon-Paul Kaiser! This limited edition t-shirt comes printed on an asphalt colored American Apparel tee and features JPK’s mystical and ferocious fighter, the Warrior Panda. These shirts are now available for pre-order through the outsmART originals website through Monday, October 29th. Once the order period has ended this design will never be printed again, so capture yours before the warrior disappears for good!

From everything The Blot’s heard and read outsmART originals has some amazing things in the works from some of the top artists in the industry across a variety of different platforms from apparel to toys. They are already working with such talented artists as Jon-Paul Kaiser, RSIN, Scott Tolleson, PO!, Frank Mysterio, Sergio Mancini, Arnaud Pagés, DGPH, Scott Kinnebrew, JFury, Pocket Wookie, AW177, Igor Ventura, Luihz Unreal, TazX, Dave Webb, JohnnyKat, and Richard Page! Look for some very exciting announcements from this new company in the near future.

“Reclamation Drone” Custom Android Series by Cris Rose

For the first time ever Cris Rose has customized the popular Android vinyl figure platform and created his new Reclamation Drone Android Series!!! In the same way that Cris’ Observation Drones were Kidrobot's Dunny vinyl body with resculpted resin heads that reflected the original silhouette, the new Reclamation Drones are vinyl Android bodies with brand new heads and Sprog-style collars. What’s really cool about these custom Androids is that all of their articulation has been retained, including the heads (which are also interchangeable).

Cris has created two styles of Reclaimation Drones for this blind box series, the classic 2-eyed "Recycle" head and the long-lens "Overseer" head. This amazing series will be sold exclusively at Dragatomi starting today, Friday, October 19th, at noon PST. Ten figures were created in all including 2 Overseer Silver Reclamation Drones, 3 Overseer Black Reclamation Drones, 4 Recycle Silver Reclamation Drones and 1 Recycle Black Reclamation Drone.

Each blind box will retail for $80, and expect these to sell out instantly! But don’t worry if you miss out, because a second Dragatomi exclusive series is already in the works!

"And you will know me by the trail of dead: 2.0" Santa Muerte Statue by Ritzy P

This weekend Ritzy Periwinkle is in a group art show entitled "Purple" at the Causey Contemporary Gallery in Brooklyn NYC. The show features 12 female artists, including Lady Pink, Miss Van, and Queen Andrea, who will each “explore Purple as a color, word and psychological context in a freestyle exhibition where medium, formal strategies and process intersect to create original content.” Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it!?!

Ritzy decided to do a 3D pieces for the show, and created an updated, purple themed version of her popular Santa Muerte character, which originally debuted at Art Basel 2011. Entitled "And you will know me by the trail of dead: 2.0", this version of Santa Muerte has a darker color scheme and is triple the size of the original (it’s over 2 feet tall!!!). I would love to see this bad boy in person, because from the picture alone it looks pretty sick.

Purple will be on view at Causey Contemporary Gallery in Brooklyn from October 19th - November 18th, with an opening reception from 6-9pm this Friday (Oct 19th). Those of you interested in purchasing "And you will know me by the trail of dead: 2.0" Santa Muerte or any of the other pieces from the show can visit the Causey Contemporary online store or call the gallery directly.

Hello Kitty x Johnny Cupcakes Halloween Collection

Johnny Cupcakes and Sanrio have teamed up once again, this time to produce a limited edition Halloween themed Hello Kitty collection! These t-shirts, hoodie and tote bag definitely show off the scary side of Hello Kitty. While The Blot personally loves the Mummy Kitty Crossbones t-shirt, there are also designs featuring HK as a skeleton, witch and a vampire. I honestly can’t think of the last time I thought monsters were this cute.

The Johnny Cupcakes x Hello Kitty Halloween Collection is on sale now at the Johnny Cupcakes online store and all Johnny Cupcakes retail locations. Each t-shirt retails for $40 and comes in mens (S-3XL) and womens (S-XL) sizes, the hoodie retails for $70 (XS-2XL), and the totel bag retails for $20. Get these spooky designs while you still can!

Book Review: The Great Showdowns by Scott Campbell

The Blot was pretty excited to get an opportunity to review Scott Campbell’s new book The Great Showdowns! Produced by Titan Books and Gallery 1988, The Great Showdowns is the first collection of Scott’s immensely popular showdown series, which chronicles some of the greatest confrontations in film history. This hardcover book is being released in conjunction with Scott’s solo art show of the same name at G1988, and should be hitting bookstores nationwide over the next two weeks.

With almost 150 showdown illustrations and a forward by Neil Patrick Harris (Suit Up!), this book is pretty much one of the greatest things The Blot has ever read! For some strange reason I can’t remember the first time I saw one of Scott C.’s amazing watercolor showdown paintings. It must have been in a Gallery 1988 show, but which one? I know I’ve been following his Great Showdowns website since the beginning, and I remember vividly looking at photos of Scott’s LOST series on opening night of G1988’s LOST group show. Regardless, his work has stayed with me over the years and has had a tremendous impact on me.

As a self-professed pop culture connoisseur, no artist captures everything The Blot loves about movies as perfectly as Scott C. While I’ll admit I can’t identify every movie in the book, the 95% I can pretty much sums up my childhood. From The Princess Bride and Aliens, to Lord of the Flies and Scott Pilgrim vs The World, The Great Showdowns has it all! Not only is ever genre covered, but I love seeing which confrontations Scott chose to include in his showdowns series. You probably didn’t expect E.T. vs. a Speak and Spell to make the cut!

The Great Showdowns is an amazing book that will not only take you on a walk down memory lane but leave you with a smile on your face. And you get all that for just $14.95! How can you pass up that kind of deal? And while Amazon states this hardcover book will not be released until October 30th, they’re pre-selling it for just $9.45 here! So now you really don’t have an excuse not to buy this awesome art book.

And The Winner Of The Threadless Wall Art Is…

Before I announce the winner of the Threadless print, I want to give a HUGE thank you to Threadless.com for this awesome prize! The winner will receive the print of their choice and I can’t wait to find out what they pick. And as always a big thank you also goes out to all of my readers and followers for taking the time out of your day to read The Blot Says..., retweet the contest and enter the giveaway. This is just the first of our The Blot Says 5th Anniversary Giveaways, so keep your eyes peeled for the next exciting prize!

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for...the winner:

@LHKwok

Congrats to the winner! And remember, you can purchase awesome wall art, t-shirts, hoodies, phone cases and so much more all with amazing community created designs at Threadless.com!