PON x Kidrobot events and signings

In anticipation for New York Comic Con, 2Tone Dunny artist, PON will be getting down at Kidrobot New York on Thursday October 7 with a LIVE painting extravaganza. Meet the man behind the pigeon and enter the raffle to win his freshly painted canvas. His painting performance will be from 5-7:30 pm with refreshments provided. See you there!

Friday, October 8

3-5pm – 2Tone Dunny Series Signing with PON, Aya Kakeda and Chuckboy. Plus FREE super-limited colorway of the Gary Baseman 2Tone Dunny with case purchases while supplies last.

Barkley Vs Godzilla

Just a throw back commercial that I used to love. Fantastic!

Kaws X Art Asylum Boston X Everlast = No Bueno

After reading this on another blog I decided to re post this. As an artist, I along with other Artist friends have had galleries fuck over collectors in our name. It is then up to us to resolve the situation and try to salvage our name. I guess the bigger the name the bigger the angry collector. I really hope news of this spreads farther (and with Kaws as the target, I'm sure it will). Galleries need to seriously be held more accountable for there actions and need to remember its more then just there name they are behind.

Artist Brian Donnelly, or better known by the name KAWS, finally weighs in on the controversy withArt Asylum Boston on his Facebook posting this afternoon. The dispute stemmed from anotherFacebook posting by Erik “Everlast” Schrody, front man of Irish-American hip hop band House of Pain and avid collector of street art. Last Thursday, September 16th, Schrody wrote on Art Asylum Boston’s FB wall the following –

I sent dude X grand for a Black 4ft kaws and never got the piece kept getting excuses and when they couldn’t deliver send they would wire my refund back and now Jason has been ducking me telling all kinds of lies about where my bread is please help spread the word on this cat and his thieving gallery.

Though erased repeatedly, Schrody kept up the statement as a warning to other collectors that dealt with Art Asylum Boston before. Subsequently, through non-mainstream channels like art blog Posters and Prints, more stories of deceptive practices and fraudulent activities by Art Asylum Boston begin to appear.

In light of the growing dispute, around 4 hours ago, KAWS posted the following statement –
KAWS has NO ASSOCIATION with Art Asylum Boston.

If you have been sold KAWS items from this store and believe you have been deceived please send an email to kaws.aab@gmail.com

I am in no way stating to be able to resolve your claim with AAB but ask that you send an email so that we can better understand the scope of this situation.

If you felt the items you purchased from Art Asylum Boston are questionable, please emailkaws.aab@gmail.com

"as appears in freshnessmag.com"

2Tone Dunny Series + Signing

2Tone Dunny Series

• The world’s greatest vinyl canvas is back in an all-new hyper series featuring monochromatic reimaginings from thirteen supremely creative artists with 14 different Dunny variations including androids, sports fanatics, Japanese gangsters, and zombified birds. Each blind boxed, foil wrapped 3-inch grayscale figure features one additional color to make your eyes go pop! Some figures come with accessories. Get yours now for $9.95 at all Kidrobot stores, kidrobot.com and retailers around the world.
• Artists in this series include Aaron Meshon, Angry Woebots, Aya Kakeda, Chuckboy, Doktor A, Gary Baseman, Huck Gee, Maxx242, mcbess, Pon, Ryan Bubnis, Steven Harrington, and Tad Carpenter.

Signing.

And to kick off the popularity of the series Yours truly (PON) will be doing a live paint and signing at Kidrobot NY. The date has been set but hasn't been announced officially, so look back for the date OCTOBER7thcough> hehe. If your in New York come check it out for sure cause its gonna be one hell of a shin-dig. I believe also they will be raffeling off the painting I do at the end of the night.

Also check back for my date and time for signing at the Kidrobot booth at New York Comic Con.

Dunny Golden Ticket Revealed

Yesterday Kidrobot revealed the golden ticket for the Dunny Series 2010, Mayonnaise another in his condiment series. Of course they should change the name to Sket Dunny Series, having now 5 pieces in the series and the box art is no little accomplishment and I give him props on another sick toy. Having the complete set it a must. Get em if you can.

Mr.Spray Gold Edition - Obey drops TOMORROW 9/2/10

Mr. Spray is here!  Brought to you by Obey and Strangeco the Gold version will be sold exclusively by Obey Giant on Thursday 9/2/2010. Price is $100.  Outer packaging signed by Shepard.  You will find it in the Collectibles section of the obey store on 9/2/2010 at a random time.
Mr. Spray is an original character created by Shepard Fairey in 2004 as a street-art appropriation of an advertising character design of the 1950s. Mr. Spray is the first original vinyl figure design by Shepard in eleven years.
Mr. Spray is a rotocast vinyl figure, 11 inches tall. 4 points of articulation and packaged with an OBEY mini stencil. Illustrated card box packaging.

Mr. Spray was made in four colors:

• BLACK - limited to 350 pieces. Available at strangeco’s online retail shop and at select retailers.
• RED – limited to 350 pieces. Available at strangeco’s online retail shop and at select retailers.
• GOLD – limited to 200 pieces. OBEY special edition, release date: 9/2/2010.
• SILVER – limited to 100 pieces. Strangeco special edition, available at the San Diego Comic Con 2010 and through Strangeco’s online retail shop. Purchase information forthcoming.

Thunderdog Studios X Tribal DDB

DD Beast from THUNDERDOG STUDIOS on Vimeo.


Our Friend Triston Eaton  along with his crew at Thunderdog Studios paint a sick mural to help celebrate Tribal DDB 10 yrs in business. Here is a press release from Thunderdog them selves.

The goal was to celebrate Tribal DDB's triumphant 10 years in business through allegory and metaphor. Paying homage to the late illustrator Frank Frazetta, I decided to anthropomorphize the accomplishments and abilities of the agency into a majestic, mythical beast ascending an ever-growing branch of time and challenge. A notch in the tree reveals 10 rings / years of growth.

The painting was executed on 49 square panels of birch formed into a grid reminiscent of the Tribal DDB logo. The imagery was created using wheat pasted paper, spray paint, acrylic paint and ink.

The three animals I’ve chosen to represent the core ideals that Tribal DDB embodies and aspires to are:

The Octopus: 
Creator, Versatile, Resourceful 
The Humming Bird: 
Timeless Messenger, Optimistic, Adaptable
The Gazelle: 
Free Spirit, Aware, Agile, Graceful 

The poster serves as a crest to represent this mythical beast and its triumphant journey. The treatment of graphics are reminiscent of a timeless coat of arms used for shields in battle and for pride of legacy. 

The poster is spray-painted through a laser cut stencil, allowing each poster to be unique with varying fields of color. Each poster features a legend explaining what our mythical beast represents as well as a field for individual numbering and artist signature.
- Tristan Eaton

CREDITS:

Client: Tribal DDB
Agency: Thunderdog Studios
Creative: Tristan Eaton & Robert Rasmussen 
Director & Editor: Robert Zagula
Artist: Tristan Eaton
Executive Producer: Sharon G. White

KAWS - Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket.

Godlike, as well as many other had peeped this at Kaws retrospective show in Connecticut at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.  I remember being in aww when I saw this and wondered if it was a future production.  I am very excited that Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket figures will be released by Medicom at Original Fake in Tokyo this Saturday August 28th, 2010.  It seems that they will be going for about $200 give or take. You know we are gonna have to get out hands on one of these, the only problem when ever you are dealing with Kaws is the how.  Expect these to blow up, because in my opinion they are the most exciting toy he has released in some time.

Mr. Nike SB x Godlike sneaker review "Hufs"

Mr. Nike SB 6 come out with a new installment in a series of sneaker reviews. Check out as he reviews the "HUFS". As always a nice clean and thorough review. Check back soon for a Godlike and Mr. Nike SB 6 cross over give away, but for now enjoy.

-GODLIKE PON

BLACKSTAR WARRIOR! A Black Exploitation film about Lando

Who's the coolest dude in the galaxy? LOL check out as Lando as he try's to fight against the oppressionof the galaxy and what "THE MAN" has to offer him. Watch as he tries to save his woman and resist temptation. Grab your self a Colt 45, sit back and relax. Enjoy the trailer and remember Colt 45........it works every time!

Here is a vintage Colt 45 commercial, just incase you forgot.

The most BALLIN' bull in the world!

This bull was scheduled for death at the hands of a Matador when he decided to say FUCK YOUR STADIUM lol and he was out. Check out this super natural shit as he jumps from section to section and fucks people up. Payback bitches!

PON x Art Of the Hustle Trading Cards

The Art Hustle trading cards are out now and available through there website http://www.thearthustle.com/. It a awesome card set Featuring me (PON) and some of Godlikes other artist friends Sket-One, Mad, Huck Gee, Andrew Bell and others.

75 artists working in street art, toy art, kaiju, sketch, illustration, painting, aerosol art, poster art, tattoo art, digital art, collage, sculpture, photography and more.*
Inspired by trading cards produced from the 1960’s through the 80’s, the set offers up some vintage-inspired flavor including chipboard card stock and the much-loved wax paper wrapper. Cards also come with interesting facts on the backs that you don’t want to miss.
The Art Hustle is a new frontier in Art and Trading Cards, and a hell of a lot of fun. Boxes are limited

To catch THE Predator

I came across this on youtube while looking up the Alien Vs Predator roommate videos. They are real funny but I actually laughed out loud with this video. I loved the people on To catch a predator and I always wondered how no one has killed Chris Hansenyet. I wanna start with this video and the other predator videos over the next week or so. Enjoy!

-Godlike PON

To date a prospect

So I feel like some silly shit happens at the Godlike compound. Most of the silly shit happens to our apprentice, we named him prospect. We have a few videos of things we do for him, so I thought I'd kick it off with his first video. We were trying to film a profile video 'cause we were gonna find him a date on a website. The end product was much to good. Enjoy "to date a prospect"

Godlike PON

Sket-One kills is again!

Just when Sket comes up with a dope concept, he takes it one step further and kills it yet again. This is a 8"inch Dunny custom limited to only 10 pcs. He Hasn't released the drop date but we will have it posted as soon as we find out. This would look amazing next to the ketchup custom and is a must have for any Sket-One fan, epecially since the 2010 dunnys will be dropping and you could own the whole set.

Dont they look pretty side by side?

Mel Gibson Techno Remix

Lol Mel makes a come back as a techno sensation, we all knew you could do it Mel. Guest appearance from Lieutenant Dan. This is actually so very catchy,its been stuck in my head for days.

Warcraft account hacked

LOLOLOLOL WOW........literally wow, this has got to be tied for the best warcraft freak outs ever. This guy Francis gets his account hacked before the release of one of the world of warcraft updates and doesn't get to partake in the festivities. He then freaks out when his account isn't returned in a prompt fashion and chaos ensues. Enjoy his freak out.

ArcAttack = Fucking sick!

A few hours ago, art/geek band Arc Attack performed on Americas Got Talent. They are so fucking awesome and unique. They perform music through "lighting" generated from 2 testla coils. ofcourse the song they performed was a total kiss ass move for Sharron, but it worked. If you saw the audition, they did a good rendition of the Imperial march(which originally won me over) but it was a little slow starting. Watch the video and see for your self, I promise you will be amazed. Also check out more of there videos on youtube, they do "geeky" songs but they make it awesome.

Now I'll hit you with the remix

Yesterday I hit you off with the original video, today I am gonna bless you with the remix to Nas - Who's world is this? Featuring Q tip. Enjoy

-Godlike PON

Godlike family - Regret Clothing

Regret Clothing is a clothing company originally started by our good friend Billy but then quickly multiplied into a group project merging 3 other friends including my old apprentice Mike Brummet.  They just recently released These 2 designs over 2 color ways.  Over here at Godlike we are big fans of Regret Clothing and both companies are constantly helping the other to succeed.   Look out in the future for possible projects involving the both of us and don't sleep on them.  To see more of there stuff and to show some love check out RegretClothing.com

-Godlike PON

Lets take it back to 1994 - Nas - Who's world is this?

"Who's world is this?" is a Nas hit off of one of the worlds greatest hip hop albums ever, Illmatic ! This really takes me back.

Giving props to Goto-San

For ever toy collector the origin of our favorite hobby comes from Kaiju toys. Even if your not a fan of Kaiju, you have to give them credit for being around decades before this whole Urban Vinyl/Designer Toy scene. They have even influenced mainstream media with things like Godzilla, and Ultraman. Take a look in the background of every episode of Roseanne there is a Godzilla toy just hanging around, and not to mention where do you think the idea for you childhood love the Power Rangers came from (don't hide I can see your pajamas from here). I personally love collecting Kaiju but always have been turned off by the price. This video puts it more into perspective for me. I can't imagine having to be this guy and spend 50 yrs doing what hes doing, I can barely stand the last 11 doing tribal tattoos lol. My hat goes off to Goto-San for all his work. I also just wanna point out how gangsta this dude is, I bet those paints have more lead in them then a fishing weight and he's not even wearing a mask (I wonder what color his lungs look).Soon I am gonna share some pictures of my favorite Kaiju toys I own. Thanks to the Beast Bros for sharing this video with me.

Force Unleashed 2......cant fucking wait!

Just when I thought I couldn't get more excited about a game another one comes out to top it. I absolutely loved Force Unleashed 1 and now 2 looks like its gonna be as good if not better (that's saying alot). The game play on one was awesome, you were able to interact with almost everything. The only down fall to the 1st game was that it was much to easy to beat and went by to fast, much like the God of War series. If they can improve upon that the game will be unstoppable. Also in the game a new character,

• Exclusive Character: Maulkiller - In the cloning facilities of Kamino, Darth Vader created a warrior of unparalleled strength and power by combining the genetic material of Darth Maul, former apprentice of Sith Lord Darth Sidious, with his own apprentice, Starkiller. The resulting aberrant clone possessed traits from both warriors, but the crude fusion of two disparate Force users quickly produced physical and mental instabilities that led to the unfortunate clone’s destruction. For a brief time he struck fear into the hearts of all who faced him, even Lord Vader himself.

The game releases October 26th, 2010 but you can pre-order your copys now, 2 different special features if you pre-order from either gamestop or amazon. Check out any other info you may be looking for at Lucas Arts.


-Godlike PON

Mr. Nike SB x Godlike sneaker review

Godlike family Mr. Nike SB 6 has been making a nice name for himself in the sneaker world doing reviews for sites such as superkix.com. Now he's doing reviews for us. Enjoy and show some love by subscribing to his reviews and check back here for exclusive sneaker reviews


Godlike PON

Sket-one signing @ Kidrobot Ny

Godlike family and artist Sket One released his new toy (bacon madl) today at Kidrobots New York store. The toy was awesome and there was plenty of fans in attendance, as there always is at one of his signings. The crew at Kidrobot was awesome and always gives godlike the VIP treatment. After a little while I (Pon) jumped in at Skets request and started signing and doodling on what people had to give me. After the event we made our way to the usual spot around the corner, Bar 89 is an awesome place with great ambiance and even better food. If your ever in SOHO check it out at 89 Mercer. We highly recommend the wings.

Kidrobot NY store front

Bacon Madl Turn around

Event poster.

Some of the commotion

Sket slinging his bull shit lol

Artist and friend Marka(right) showing some support. Me on the left.

From Godlike Clothing Blog

Random store photos

My boy Billy, works at krny, godlike family and owns Regret clothing.

Sket one custom ketchup Dunny, almost gone get one asap on his site

Kidrobot showing me some love putting out my customs around the store

Told you they were good!

Buffalo grilled chicken was bangin', had buffalo wing sauce blu cheese and chopped up celery.

Down shot at bar 89


Godlike PON

Characters of the Bronx.

Just sitting out side godlike home base in the Bronx, when all of a sudden this character just walks up to us making these noises. We had to get him on cam.
Godlike PON

DC Universe Online/ Who Do You Trust Trailer

You have got to check out this game.  This shit has got to be one of the most BALLIN’ games I’ve seen in a while and you know Godlike has already reserved our copy.  The closest thing I can think of that looked this good just from a trailer wasGod Of War 3.  I can only hope that the game play and game play graphics are just as good as the trailer (Jim Lee helped to design the game so it must be sick).  This purpose of this game is gonna be sort of a World of Warcraft meets DC universe.  You get to create your own character and choose sides (Superhero or Villain).  There are some familiar voices in the game including that of Mark Hamell ( Luke “mutha fuckin’” Skywalker) who is always down to do the voice of the joker.  Check out the game and get some more info athttp://www.dcuniverseonline.com . 

P.s How sick does Superman look? “You don’t deserve to LIVE!”