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I’m a fan of Frank Cho’s, “Apes and Babes”, illustrations of women. And when I came across Nicole Brune’s art, I can definitely say if you love his work – you’ll undeniably love hers!
I especially love how Nicole Brune fashions some of her pin-up illustrations with pulp-fiction fantasy appeal that works from darkness to sweetness, or sweetness to darkness. I guess this would depend on what you notice first. See her artwork at www.nicolebrune.com
This time, Chef’s Night Out is in SF aka The City (Shot out to the Dubs!) Munchies hangs out with chef Jesse Koide from Pink Zebra. A Asian/Mediterranean fusion restaurant located in the Mission District.
Disney teams up with VANS for the Disney Collection. A mix of Disney branded footwear, apparel and accessories for the young and old, men and women.
It’s fast. It’s super fast. One of my favorite auto journalist Chris Harris reviews the 458 Italia replacement, the Ferrari 488 GTB.
The age of old comic book fight between DC fanboys and Marvel fanboys can be settle by the classic game of chess. Eaglemoss Publications has created over 100 DC and Marvel characters to collect. The 5″ figures are made from metalized resin and painted. Each figure will cost around $16.00USD or you can buy 2-packs for around $40.00USD.
This is one bad@$$ concept car by SRT. Fiat/SRT takes a jump into the future of what a SRT hyper-car would look like in 2035. And you’ll have to wear a G-suit to drive this car because of the 2,590 horses and top speed of 371. This is the SRT Tomahawk Vision for Gran Turismo 6.
Pokemon fans will enjoy this mini-capsule hat collab collection by BEAMS and New Era. Japanese retailer BEAMS teams up with New Era to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Pokemon with cute and geeky Pikachu Fitted Hat Collection.
Maybe at my kid’s birthday you’ll find a clown making some type of cute balloon animal or you find yourself at Pier 39 and find a street artist making balloon objects, but this artist from Japan takes the cake. Artist Masayoshi Matsumoto takes balloon object making to another level.
The Flying Pig (Photo courtesy of Adrian Domingo)
Now we would like to introduce you to the newest show on Retrenders called “I Like to Eat”, where the Retrenders crew will go out to different food establishments and try some of their most popular dishes!
On this episode of “I Like to Eat”, we visit Grillaz Gone Wild food truck at Off The Grid and try out their signature The Flying Pig and Loaded Fries.
In a quick interview, Eddie Ballar asks Steve Wyatt what will happend to BigWow Comicfest with a new Comic-Con in town?
Steve Wyatt is the director and producer of many comic conventions in the Bay Area, and he explains how Steven Wozniak and Stan Lee are teaming up to create the Silicon Valley Comic Convention (SVCC).
Just dropping into clothing racks and shelves now is the Rocksmith Summer 2015 Collection. Music/lifestyle apparel brand Rocksmith’s theme for the summer is future/retro mixing fabrics and using popular colors from sneakers to rep their summer collection. If you’re looking for something to rock this summer like graphic tees, hats and shorts, take a look at Rocksmith.
The robot A.I. is coming to home near you – Musio from AKAStudy. Well, for more students learning English, Musio does a demo for Engadget.
Before I get down to reviewing Titan Book’s The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road, I’ve watched Mad Max: Fury Road twice already. I was a little cynical at first, when I heard the news that creator/director George Miller was going to re-make Mad Max, when his 1979 Mad Max film starring Mel Gibson was already a masterpiece. So, as I sat in the multiplex dreading it would not be a Kevin Costner “Waterworld”, the movie came on-screen and within a few minutes I was blown away by not just the action and acting, but Miller’s incredible cinematography, the colors and the amazing world-building. Now to the meat of this article, taking a look at Titan Book’s The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road by Abbie Bernstein with a Foreward by the man himself, the master George Miller.
Hello Kitty meets Homer and Marge. The iconic cartoon TV show The Simpsons collabs with Sanrio in this new 2015 capsule collection. The collection features dresses, graphic tees, crop tees and a poncho for when it rains.
Cute and iconic is the Hamburger Lamp. Undercover brings it back with a team-up with Medicom Toy. The item drops sometime June 2015.
The all-new 2016 Mazda MX-5 is here. Autoguide takes a look at the MX-5 with a new SkyActive 2.0L 4-cyclinder 155 horsepower engine.
This is not just a FanimeCon 2015 Recap episode, but the Ramen crew also introduces a new member to the team, Sayori Chu. Stay tuned to our channel for more videos on FanimeCon 2015.
NYC-based Boundless Brooklyn known for it’s cardboard DIY lifeguard towers, water towers and billboard sign kits has teamed up with SoCal apparel brand Outre for the Art on Guard exhibit. The event held at toy art shop/gallery Woot Bear in SF had over 40-plus artists customizing their own Lifeguard Towers.
I remember when King Fury was just a 3 minute trailer, now it’s a full on 30 short film and it looks fantastic! If you grew up in the 1980s, then you’ll love this flick. Just sit down and watch:
Baywatch with David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson … well not really. If you’ve been to the beach for a swim, you usually see a lifeguard tower, well this gallery event is Art on Guard, a show of artists building miniature scale Lifeguard Towers. This will be the first show of its kind on the West Coast and it will be held tonight at Woot Bear in San Francisco, CA. Our Retrenders team will be filming the event, so look for our video on our Retrenders’ YouTube channel soon!
If you’ve into watching dance videos on YouTube or VIMEO, then you’ve probably watched a dance video filmed by YAKfilms. Yoram Savion and Kash Gaines were Internet video guys, who were also fans of dancing founded YAKfilms in 2008 at the Youth Uprising Community Center in East Oakland. They’ve created a popular dance channel on YouTube and started not only a national movement, but a global dance phenomenon called “Turfing.”
Now the Internet duo film dance videos around the world and here’s the latest from Japan using a camera drone to film this in one-shot. Dope jam!
Another year, another Gap Remix Project.
The concept is re-interpret the iconic Gap logo and the project takes 11 artists from around the globe into making a fresh graphic tee to rock. The 11 artist involved in this year’s Gap Remix is: No. 223 from Beijing, Candy Bird from Taipei, Chocomoo from Tokyo, Fantasista Utamaro from Tokyo, Jessica Hische from San Francisco, Kyle Pierce from San Francisco, Loic Lavenu from Paris, Maud Vantours from Paris, Neville Brody from London, Pose from Chicago, and Quentin Jones from London.
If you’re a fan of Capcom’s Devil May Cry series, you might want to pick up this 7″ Ulitmate Dante action figure. And if you’re on a budget, this figure is around $30.00 bucks. The 7″ Ultimate Dante does have a limited production run from NECA.
Hawkeye maybe the butt of all jokes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he uses a fancy cool bow. I’m a big kid, but this toy Hawkeye Deluxe Quiver with Collapsible Bow & Arrow is on my want list.
Even though I have a pretrend “memory lost” of the Star Wars prequels, I did geek out when in Attack of the Clones (2002), Yoda had his CGI light saber battle. So from the Disney Store, I ordered my very own Yoda Wind-Up Flipping Toy just for my little workstation. Just wind it up and watch the 3″ Yoda figure flip around.
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