When Kidrobot dropped the Adult Swim mini figures, they tried to create exact copies of adult swim characters. Coupled with a so so production quality they looked more like gumball machine toys. When Kidrobot made the Simpsons Mini Figures, they were caricatured to 3.” I remember Hero Design ran out of them quick, as opposed to several of the Adult Swim toys floating in the “Land of Forgotten Toys.”

Thankfully when Kidrobot produced the Futurama toys, they went with a winning strategy.

Created by Matt Groening with David X Cohen and Kidrobot, the series has 12 3″ characters, blind boxed, plus two chases, and sell for 8.95 each. Goes on sale at Kidrobot and official places like Hero Design on August 13th. I’m so excited I could spit.

via Vinyl Pulse

I was wondering what Jack White was doing these days… apparently a part of the new group The Dead Weather, formed from Alison Mosshart (of The Kills), guitarist Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and bassist Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes), and Jack of course. “Treat Me Like Your Mother” is their latest single and the video was directed by the legendary Jonathan Glazer. I wonder who gave the go for this, or does a Glazer video mean that its ok to have guns in a music video?

The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother

Burgers and Fries, Heartburn, OH MY!

Fast Food – 4 mini posters designed/printed by Mark Brickey @ Hero Design Studio

Mark Brickey is a poster artist,  co-owner of Hero Design Studio, and lover of fast food. If you have any plans to bargain with Mark, try greasing the wheel with an order of McD’s fries. These four mini poster prints depict the four corners of American cuisine: pop, burger, soft serve, and fries. À la carte prints are 8″ x 10″ Four/Five color silkscreen, printed on 100# Cover Cougar Bright White. Signed and limited edition. Priced individually $10 dollars, or go for a valued sized four-up 16″ x 20″ print featuring each design for $25 dollars each.

**All proceeds go directly to Mark Brickey so that he may continue to afford to eat Junk Food. Just one print purchase can feed him for one afternoon. Please, think of the Brickey.

Support America today! Go online or stop by in person:

Hero Design Studio
93 Allen St
Buffalo, NY 14202

Any other VJ’s like to use their screens as ambient light sources? Before I
started plugging in the Macbook Pro to run custom video at Club Marcella, I
woult loathe the 6 screens we had… pumping out Adult Swim or some other
DVD of visual blah.. I couldn’t control the light emitted from the displays.
Now I use it to my advantage… who cares if someone has a seizure… #snap

My Polaroid Bluetooth Zink Printer has been sitting collecting dust since last October. Like the iPhone, the G1 (and every other Android device) offers stereo bluetooth, but no support for any of the file transfer protocols (FTP, OBEX, OPP, etc.). Since then, I’ve been waiting for an app to add that particular support. Wait no more.

Bluetooth Fileshare – Bluex is a very simple app that allows you to send and receive files using the OBEX bluetooth profile. You need to have your phone rooted to be able to receive files, but not if you just want to send. Yea sure, this should be a stock feature on Android, but it’s absolutely worth the €1.40 to get to use my POGO printer again.

Using  Bluex is pretty easy; it adds itself to the share menu, making it accessible from any application. Simply pair with your device and Bluex will send the file along, in this case, your photos to a POGO Printer. I have noticed that the 3.2 megapixel images are too large for the POGO to accept over bluetooth, but that can be fixed by first opening the photo in PicSay (max resolution is 1024×768) before sending them along.

Target now sells the Polaroid POGO printer for $70 bucks, which is half the price of what I paid last year. I’d really recommend buying one. There’s nothing cooler than getting to print out those candid cellphone pics, in sticker form no less.

But first, pick up Bluex.

photo from ToastyKen on flickr

Android is nearly a year and a half old. However, its flagship device, the T-Mobile HTC G1/Dream/ChinPhone/GPhone has only been active since October, 2008. In that time, the rolly-polly green robot started with:

• A fledgling OS (designed by geeks with a love for UI but lacking in aesthetics)
• Running on a lone device that looks like the plain jane developers’ mockup passed around in its infancy (As much as I love the G1, the chin gets me no respect from the iPhone 3G using boyfriend)
• A crippling in the US by T-Mobile’s lack of nationwide 3G (shortly after this year the G1 went for sale in other countries with better cell service than the US… but not as affordable.)
• No onscreen keyboard, automatic rotations, or multitouch, no bluetooth, widgets were a hack (When the G1 was hacked to find that the screen had the capabilities for multitouch, the crowd went wild. HTC calmly said (paraphrased) “it wasn’t in the plan to have multitouch for the G1, and besides… the screen can’t do real two finger tracking anyway.”)
• A weird confusion of what to qualify itself (Was the G1 a Gphone? Is it safe to call them all GPhones? Do we call them [the devices] Androids? It’s an open platform but Google is all up in it? Who calls the shots? T-Mobile or The Google?)
• A battery life that isn’t so bad if you live in the other thousand cities without  3G, but hellish if you lived in NYC, Baltimore, DC, etc.
• A Marketplace that showed a lot of promise but only had a handful of cool apps. Nothing you could buy, all free.

Time passes. I unboxed my first Android phone on October 21st, 2008. I was SOOOO excited. Finally, I was free from having to use Windows Mobile that, while fun to hack, not the most efficient thing to use. I packed my old T-Mobile Shadow away (with the three extra batteries) and accepted The Google as my Personal Data Savior…

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Only words that came with this photo were "bird food."

Randall….

By the way, if you are lookin for your first ink, or maybe your 4th, go to
Divine Machine to get it done. Ask for Randall or pick from the other
talented guys and cyborgs girls that work there. You’ll get a custom piece,
no flash, all handrawn art. And if you want a tattoo gone, well they can
laser you as well. Check em out at the corner of Allen and Elmwood next to
Jims Steakout. #snap

This is what I looked like on the brink of adulthood. Nineteen, no
clue what was really going on, but I was doing it the best I could.
The dork belt was my absolute favorite thing ever, and I was deep into
the "skater look." I still lived in Bradford at the time, and was
feeling out the Southern Tier for a place to make my mark. I think
these were taken in Fredonia/Jamestown, which i quickly realized
wasn’t much of an upgrade from Bradford. Wanna know what really made
me move to Buffalo? The food. Seriously. #snap

We came across my dear friend Huw at the Hippie House, pert near drunk, and
what I thought had happened was he had fallen on the stoop. Nope, he was
merely inspecting the toils and “crowdsourcing” of the common ant. Never a
dull moment at the Hippie House (AKA the Wondermoth, the finest little big
co-op on North and Elmwood) #snap

Angel’s cat, Alma, died yesterday, we buried her under the lilies in the front yard. He asked me to post her picture… sorry for the quality, but thats what he gave me.

Losing a pet is rough, but for Angel its a bit harder. Alma has been a sort of dreamcatcher for Angel, a spiritual guide for him, if you will. They’ve been a team for a over dozen years, now Angel has to find the dreams on his own. Not all is lost, Skylar is filling in the interim… he’s good at sleeping.