toysrevil's top 6 vinyl toys of 2006 countdown: number 5

continuing with my personal Top 6 Vinyl Toys of 2006-countdown, with Number 5's Get Small San Francisco mini-figure set from Upperplayground, Fifty24SF and Ningyoushi:they seem quirky, likeable and somewhat intriguing when i first saw them online, but didn't think too much of it as i didn't really expect them to hit Singapore's shores. but they did. and when i held them in my hands? t'was a

get small san francisco

one of the more quirkier toys sets in a while is this Get Small San Francisco-series from Upperplayground, Fifty24SF and Ningyoushi [info+images via]a series of 3"-er mini-figures designed by SanFran artists = (left-to-right) there's the masked Billy Bronze by Sam Flores, Bunnyskull by Jeremy Fish, the Siamese Twin (including third leg!) by David Choe and Ortho by Coro - ordinary mutate folks

fatima

:: TOYS / LIFE IN SINGAPORE :: i remember a few years ago (3? 4 years?) when i was directing a weekly "arts" magazine show for a local teevee-station, whereby an "immerging young new street artist" named Sam Flores popped by Singapore and was commissioned to do some wall murals in a local mall ... and that we had interviewed him as well as recorded a time-lapse version of his mural ...