Ipsissimus

This is my lenticular piece that will be on display starting this Friday in the annual La Luz de Jesus Gallery group show.

Click here to see it a simulation of it in 3D!

Disney Dr. Strange

This PVC figure is the first piece of Marvel / Disney merchandise featuring Doctor Strange. It's part of an exclusive Disney Store figure set featuring the New Avengers.

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Six Million Dollar Man figure

Batmobile with Batman and Robin

Booberry Bank

Disney figure collection

E.T. 9 inch figure

Fry and Leela action figures

Galactus

Gigantor

He-Man and Battle Cat

KITT and Michael Knight

Marvelmania glass

Rare Pokemon 5" figures

Speed Racer and Mach 5

Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man

Ultraman figure

Microtron

Olsen Twins dolls

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A rare blue light cycle and The One Ring to rule them all!

Neca 20th Anniversary Blue Light Cycle with Flynn action figure

Lord of The Rings "One Ring" prop replica with light up stand

Shot glass of the day #1: Club 33

Shortly after my wife Jesse and I met in 2004, we went on a month-long trip across the country. In each state we visited, we got a shot glass. It was a little unique souvenir of where we were, even though we're not the type of people to do a shot in every state. In fact, we rarely take shots EVER. Nevertheless, the tradition continued and we got a shot glass in each state/country/city/place of interest we have visited since that had souvenir shot glasses. For the next few weeks I'll be presenting our collection here. We start out with Disney's Club 33 Shot Glass. Not the first glass we got, but definitely a nice one:

Movie poster of the day

This rare Tron poster came free in the Los Angeles Times the weekend the movie came out back in 1982. I remember taking it to Tower Records in Westwood, CA. to get it signed by one of the guys who worked on special effects for the movie, Glenn Campbell (not the rock star). He wrote: "Howie, don't de-rezz" in the yellow area in the bottom left corner...  Ironically, that signature has all but de-rezzed in this JPEG. Why Tower Records had the animation compositing camera guy signing autographs and not one of the stars of the film there is a mystery that remains with me to this day...

Club 33 at Disneyland

I'm one of the very few people lucky enough to have spent their 33rd birthday at Club 33.

Club 33 Wiki Page

Goth and Disney

Goth and Disney go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Take the fact that Mickey is a wizard (see Fantasia) as well as the various connections between Gothiness and The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Haunted Mansion ride, and the many rides at the Disney amusement parks that feature fake human skulls (Indiana Jones, The Tiki Room, Pirates of The Caribbean, etc). You can see why Bats Day In The Fun Park, where a murder of goths descend on Disneyland once a year, is the second largest unofficial annual gathering at Disneyland, right behind gay pride day.

With that spirit in mind, I present to you some of my own contributions to the Disney Goth amalgamation. We begin with 2 digital collages I created in the last few years:

"Goth Princesses"

Goofy Death (parody of Christian Death's album "Only Theater of Pain")

Finally, I present to you one of the great masterpieces of my life. There are very few art projects of any sort that I really take pride in, but the 2004 mashup I made of Vincent Price's narration through the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland mixed with the immortal Bauhaus song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" has to be one of them. It caused David J from Bauhaus to pick me up and hug me when he first heard it, and has been a featured link on Boing Boing. With great pride I give you: "Haunted Bela":

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE HAUNTED BELA MP3