TOYGODD SHOOTS EMILIO GARCIA’S BRAIN CUSTOM SHOW

On Friday evening, September 16th, Toy Art Gallery, 7571 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038, had a showing of Brain Evolution, featuring customs of Emilio Garcia’s Jumping Brain figure. I unfortunately couldn’t make it and missed Emilio Garcia who made the trip from Spain to setup the show which included a central installation featuring oversize resin Jumping Brains. Emilio had two of his new large Bronze Jumping Brains there which were created in a Spanish foundry as well as three of his new 36” Brain Pattern Qees in Fiberglass!!

Friday evening was the grand opening of TAG’s new store. The new store is much larger than the previous location. It’s cool that it has a gallery section in the front for shows and installations. I decided that since I had missed the opening of the show which by the way runs through October 10th, I would go down in the middle of a week day and get shots that would have been impossible with a store full of people! I took almost 200 pictures as well as about 12 minutes of video.

One thing I have to say here. Emilio Garcia has teamed up with Toy2R in bringing his Brain pattern to the world. In my humble opinion Toy2R is missing a golden opportunity with this design. They have only released a series of 2 inch zipper pulls, a DIY and for the holidays a black brain. There is so much more they could and should be doing with this really cool and imaginative design. I can only hope that we see a 10 inch DIY as well as a whole lot more clear colorways before this goes away. In the mean time take a gander at all of the coolness I saw.

911 Memorial

This video was taken at The Church of the Hills in Porter Ranch, CA on
September 11, 2011. There were 2977 flags representing the victims of that day. Each had the name and some information. Most had pictures accompanying the information. This is only a portion of the flags as I just didn't have the time or power to record it all. It certainly provides a face to the people who lost their lives.