PencilNeck Productions is the brains behind the awesome TOY TO THE WORLD PROJECT, a biennial custom DIY toy competition that brings together up to 200 artists to unleash their creativity on 200 blank vinyl bears in order to create an exhibition and auction event that raises money to combat HIV through research and development!
The project consists of two events:
- The Design Day where the public can knock down a beer to a phat mix of DJ tunes while they watch painters, designers and graff artists take to the blank toy canvas' with markers, spray cans, cutters and glue, they can even join in if they're feeling creative.
- The opening of Melbourne's premiere GLBTi cultural event, Midsumma, TOY TO THE WORLD exhibits and auctions off the creations of these talented artists, raising funds to help bring some joy into the world by contributing to furthering HIV research and treatment development.
Launching in 2010/11 the project raising $2000 for the Victorian AIDS Council in Melbourne, Australia, and in 2012/13 this totally rad project doubled that with $4024. There's talk that it could be an annual event (here's hoping) but for now you can show your support by liking their Facebook page HERE.
Now that Wheelhouse have successfully achieved their pledge goal on Shopstarter (Congrats) which we posted here. We now see the first release of their Nautilus character 'Algernon ChiffChaff' as a 4" tall DIY vinyl figure.
Algernon also comes with his rad Crossbow accessory and can be pre-order from the Vinyl Riot store HERE for an October release.
Collect and Display posted that coming real soon exclusive to them will be James Fuller's 'Lil Jammies' Resin figures. Upon further investigation we found this quote from James explaining it all:
"I have been working on this design for quite some time now. I always wanted to be able to paint my own base and I feel this design is the perfect fit for my style. Cute but kickass! The Lil’ Jammie figure is a hooded character in pajamas. I have always had a fascination with hooded characters. The mysteriousness of what is underneath the hood has always intrigued me. So I had to start with the hood. That’s the beauty of this base, it can be anything."
Making it easy to customize ach figure is made of sturdy resin with the head removable and can swivel. Sitting at L 2” x H 2.5”, this is the perfect size to fit in anyone’s collection.
We'll keep you posted when a date to order 'Lil Jammies' is released.
