Archive for August 2009


Collectibles

August 19th, 2009 — 10:07pm

Here are a few things I was really excited about picking up in LA:

choedolls

Choegal, bought at GR2

I’ve been coveting this doll from artist David Choe since his Obama cover for Giant Robot and the video of his signing/opening at GR2 kind of hyped it all up. It’s his first full scale toy, made from all wooden mechanical parts with three faces (sad – angry – happy in the photo above) that you can turn with the knob on the top of her hat. I don’t collect toys, really, but this handpainted (albeit by a Chinese factory, not Choe) beauty was too hard to resist.

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Celebrities and L.A.

August 18th, 2009 — 7:26pm

highway

It’s usually hard to summarize one trip into a word, but for this particular one there is really only one word that fits: Fabio.

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