herbiehancock

http://www.toypunks.com/ I was finally able to sit down and watch this new DVD recently, and I have to say I quite enjoyed it. At a runtime of about 45 minutes, it is full of clipped interviews from various influential figures in the street fashion and vinyl toy industry. There is a lot with Hikaru Iwanaga, the founder of Bounty Hunter, which is fitting as it was his toy, the Kid Hunter, that essentially started the designer toy surge way back in 1997. There is a lot of interesting insight from the different interviews about their influences from overseas, old cartoons, etc. I enjoyed seeing the bits with various collectors too... hearing why people like certain toys and why they collect the things they do. Seeing the sweet collections was nice too. One thing that bothered me about the movie was not actually something with the movie, but rather with Frank Kozik's interview clips in the extra features about the "underground"... or in his opinion the lack thereof. I don...

All was quiet on the bonus room front. The snooty Detolf crowd posed regally... and those other toys that don't feel like they "made the cut" lurked silently in the closet on the other side of the room. But suddenly... the silence was broken. What ensued next was quite simply bloody chaos. Two forces... relationships already strained... fighting for something they did not even know. They only needed an excuse. For what seemed like days, the two sides battled to a gory stalemate, carnage as far as the plastic eye could see. Now only two proud leaders stood atop the mysterious prize... struggling mightily. Good vs. evil? The end..............................?

Most of my photos here are linked to Photobucket, but the organization there leaves something to be desired. I have this Flickr account that was not really getting used all that much, so I am keeping an album on there of my dirty little habit you so faithfully read about. Clickr

A first for my new blog here... someone else's stuff! Board member meczilla on skullbrain.org (Andy Chang) posted this cool little how-to showing a light tent for taking some cool, professional style photos of your toys. I will definitely be making one of these! I will post an update when I get mine set up. Thanks, Andy! Check out some of Andy's photos on his Flickr page I've been looking into taking clean studio-style shots of my toys for a while and everything was pointing me towards a light tent setup. A Smith Victor two light kit runs about 100 bucks. When I added "DIY" to my Google search I found some very practical and extremely cheap ways to get the same effect. I used: -A compact 6.1 megapixel Nikon S1 point-and-shoot camera. - Mini tripod (10 bucks) - You could use a stack of books or boxes too but you'll be restricted to 90 degree angle shots. - A banker's box (Free) - Cut windows out of the sides and top. Cut all the way to the back of the box...