July 7, 2004
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James Jarvis‘ “In-Crowd” figures are awesome. We love that all the characters have very simple and similar shapes and proportions yet each individual character is distinct and funny.
Examples: The World of Pain Kubrick Set, The Forever Sensible Motorcycle Club and Ages of Metal. The Punk Is Not Dead series (below) is my favorite.
Elsewhere… there is some quirky stuff at Japan’s Roughtoyz. Here are pics of the best ones: The Kabemito series (what’s up with these tortoises?)
…and two King Hoo figures (Monkeys with horns on their foreheads?)
As you can see, I have a fascination with vinyl figures that come in themed sets. Well I guess most of them do – which is part of their appeal … Like Biddies oldschool hip hop characters, and these Euro Ci-Cup Ci-Boys. We wouldn’t attempt to collect them all, though they are inspiring to look at and make great gifts.
Via Cool Tools >> BugMeNot (Who wants to share their online subscription to Animation Magazine?
)Photos of Akihabara (Tokyo) at CaffeineNicotine. There’s a square watermelon!
Magic WiFi Bike. If only wireless internet was freely available, everywhere.
Memo to Self: July 31st. at the AFI - Len Glasser Spectacular
FM Transmitters…
A couple of weeks ago we bought ourselves a Si-Link FM Transmitter so we could play our Nomad in the car. (Eddie has put together several playlists for roadtrips). At first it was like magic - the music was coming out of the car radio while the mp3 player sat in the back seat. Problem though - it’s near impossible find a noise-free FM channel to transmit to. Ten minutes later we’re listening to mash-ups or loud static.
According to Joel, he has no problems with his iTrip. He gets crystal clear sound anytime, anywhere in L.A. Turns out that his gadget has more FM channels than ours which only has 4.
So maybe we should’ve chosen this Belkin Tunecast 2 FM Transmitter instead? (FM channels 88.1 MHz-107.9 MHz ) Before I head over to eBay, has anyone used this in L.A.? Any recommendations?
Comments (2)
Yeah, collecting dolls/action figures in themed sets can become an evil addiction.
Hm, at our shop, iTrips sells like hot cakes compared to the TuneCast. I’m not sure if it’s technical superiority or aesthetics. 
hi Nick - i guess we would be buying an iTrip too if we had an iPod…