Melbourne based scuplor, tinkerer and artist opened his studio last week to guest in order to give a preview of his latest show bound for Adco:Venue in Copenhagen. Based around the rampaging exploits of a disassociated Pooh bear, the collection featured some awesome model of war machines at key moments of the bears blitzkrieg, painting and sketches outlining the story as well as a murder mystery to boot.

A proper studio should look just like this.

The story starts with Robin coldly dissing Pooh and his pals. At this point Pooh’s world falls apart and the genocidal war against the honey bees begins.

All Terrain Aircraft carrier, with bipedal rocket plaform escort.
Tiggertank and Piglet chopper detail. Note the Pooh scheme uniform of the infantry.

Piglet Chopper.

Tiggertank closeup, note the dead honey bee soldier in front of the pillar.


Thanks for the heads up Rone.

Check these dope 7″ experimental watercolor pieces that Soto knocked together for sale at Comicon. Seen on Jeff Soto’s blog.

The world is now a little duller. Legendary super animator Yoshinori Kanada died yesterday of a heart attack. Kanada’s career included animation master pieces such as Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro as well as Final Fantasy and countless other classic series and movies.

Suitably, here’s a tribute AMV, sorry about the background music.

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RIP.

Check Arrested Motion for detailed coverage of the whole process.

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Comic book and acclaimed fantasy artists Dave Dorman always managed to capture the essence of awesomeness in his paintings.

One of which is currently up for grabs on Ebay. Here

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Luca’s laser etched group show record time will be launching in Melbourne on Thursday the 23rd at Gorker gallery.

CONFIRMED EXHIBITING ARTSISTS INCLUDE:
ALIFE . ANDREW VAN DER WESTHUYZEN . ARBITO . ALEX TROCHUT . ANDY HOWELL . BIGFOOT
BEN BROWN . CODY HUDSON . DAN FUNDERBURGH . DEB . ERIC ELMS . JEREMY HOLLISTER
JOSEPH ALLEN . JEREMYVILLE . JONATHAN ZAWADA . KID ACNE . KELVIN HO . LUCA IONESCU
MATT FRENCH . MICHAEL C PLACE . MICHAEL LEON . MAROK . PHIBS . TILT . TODD BRATRUD

Plus Melbourne Artist:
LUKE LUCAS . RONE . REKA . MEGGS . WONDERLUST . STABS . ITCH . TIMBA . TWOONE . NATE . YOK . MEPHISTO & JAGI

Gilbert and George

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Selected pieces from Jack Freak Pictures opened at White Cube Gallery last Friday and will be on display until Aug 22nd.