While my friends were partying up in Canada, I decided to take a few days to relax out in Colorado. After missing our first flight courtesy of the NYC MTA and the E train, we eventually made it to Denver about 7 hours later than planned. I’d never been out there before, but it was pretty nice! Every restaurant had surprisingly good coleslaw and I even saw TWO black people!

We started out meeting up with my friend Chris Yates in Boulder for a little hike in the foothills. We met some nice dogs, killer death bugs of death, prayed with a mantis, and then Miss J wrestled a bear for our amusement. Later in the day we swung by a design studio / part time toy shop called Joy Engine. They have some great work up in the back there.

Later that night we headed down to Denver to attend the opening of UPSO’s newest show “I see the future” at Plastic Chapel. It’s a neat shop run by some nice people their new location is very swank. UPSO’s art was fun and colorful, and someone brought a furry faced chihuahua, which Miss J also wrestled.

The next day was spent walking around most of central Denver. Coming from NYC, Denver seemed a bit empty and small, but nice enough. We walked down to the Limited Addiction gallery to catch the last day of a group show featuring Chet Zar (above), Kevin Peterson, Nathan Spoor and Lola.

The following days were filled with driving through mountains, sitting in hot tubs, posing for pictures and wrestling rabid urban mountain lions. Good times.

A few more pics on for those who care.

Hey looks like my work has made its way into a museum! A proper one too, not the “museum” that the one guy down the street was running out of his truck.

The show, entitled “Beyond Ultraman“, focuses on the vinyl art toy movement and is showing at the Pasadena Museum of California Art through January 6th. Good old Groob is in attendance, slowly suffocating to death in a display case. He was the subject of a photo portrait by Brian McCarty, which is also part of the show (and the reason Groob is in there in the first place!) Check it out if you are in the area. Picture borrowed from Vinyl Pulse, which has more coverage of the show.

Pasadena Museum of California Art
490 East Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
626.568.3665

I’m back from a short trip to Colorado, which I will post about on the blog later. I stopped by Chris Yates’ studio, and he made me do bad things.

I posted this over to my newsletter the other day, but thought I would post it over here as well for those of you who are casual LJ stalkers or non-subscribers.

ToyQube, producers of the Lotus Kanser figure released last month, are putting out a series of blind-boxed “mini” figures towards the end of November/early December. I put “mini” in quotes because these suckers are actually around 4″ tall and heavy! I have a design in the series (as well as a color variant chase). Check out the artwork for the front of the figure, and a picture of the production sample, click to enlarge!

You can see a preview of the rest of the series right over here.