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MONDAY 05 APRIL 2010 // HAPPY EASTER MONDAY!!!

Well, i can't believe this year is going that fast that easter has come and almost left us again. It's funny because i can remember back to only 5 days after New Years eve and the shops were already advertising Easter and stocking eggs for the hunt. Whats the rush life? just slow down a little will you? So anyway, on this particular Happy Monday I wood like to extend a HUGE Happy Easter to all of our Wooden Toy friends and family. We hope you filled your bellies up with lots of chocolate and hot cross buns and are ready to tackle the time between now and the next long weekend. Boing Boing, Hop to it!

MONDAY 05 APRIL 2010 // PLAYBOY REDUX

And while we're on the topic of cute little bunnies we'd like to werd you up about a really neat exhibition currently on show at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh called Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny. Recently the Warhol, in collaboration with Playboy Enterprises (Mr.Heff) invited over 20 contemporary and street artists to reinterpret the iconic Playboy Bunny in celebration of the opening of the very first Plyboy club 50 years ago. Known at that time for her satin bunny suit, cotton tail and rabbit ears, the Playboy Bunny served cocktails (no chocolate eggs) and a whole lotta va va voom! Some of the bunnies included the likes of Deborah Harry?? There's something i didn't know and a reason to love Harry even more than i did. For Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny, artists were asked to create a new look for the Bunny, a veritable makeover to create the Bunny of the future including: Scott Anderson, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Shag, Zoe Charlton, Ain Cocke, Brian Ewing, Brendan Fernandes, Jeremy Fish, Moyna Flannigan, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Chitra Ganesh, Ludovica Gioscia, Jeremy Kost, Frank Kozik, Simone Leigh, Kalup Linzy, Tara McPherson, Hiroki Otsuka, Seth Scriver, Andrew Schoultz, SEEN, Vadis Turner, Saya Woolfalk and O Zhang. Check out more information here and at >> www.playboy.com

MONDAY 05 APRIL 2010 // LYRICS AND TYPE WEBSITE LIVE

Alright listen up all you moosic lovers...! With the LYRICS AND TYPE: Verse 2 London exhibition creeping up in just a matter of days, we'd like to introduce to you the brand 'spankin new' Lyrics and Type website which has just been launched!!! Oooooo SNAP! We thought that seeing as though Lyrics and Type is going to be an ongoing project it really should have its own home so we built it one. Designed by Mr Timba 'Vintage' Smits the website is in true kitsch style and features it's own type-related blog, full exhibition information and artists interviews/galleries from past and present shows. It also has a link to the Wooden Toy Shop where you will be able to get screenprints by all your favourite artists. Note: Prints will go onsale online Friday 9th April and are only £49 so you'd better get in fast before they all but go. Check it out for yourself at >> www.lyricsandtype.com and feel free to let us know what you think? Also if you're living in London and you're a music and type lover then we expect to see you down at East Gallery this thursday night for a 'celebration bitches!' as Rick James performed by Dave Chappelle wood put it.

FRIDAY 02 APRIL 2010 // SNEAKY SNEAK PEEK!

Oooooooooooooo SNAP!! Ch Ch Ch Check it out, Wh Wh Whats it all about? Well, if you sit right back and try to control your excitement I'll tell you what... I've just been down to the printers to pick up the first batches of Lyrics and Type prints hot off the press and oh my gawd... i nearly wet mi pants! Well technically i kinda did because i got drenched on the way back to the studio after getting caught in the middle of a thunderstorm! D'oh! But the upside from the downside of getting wet is my studio now smells like 3 kinds of fresh ink and i'm surrounded by some of the tighest 3 colour artwork ever! It's a pity i have to give them away! But all Credit to the amazing Lyrics and Type: Verse 2 artists. They look AHHH MAZING! Each print is being hand stamped as i type by the lovely Alix Gray by my side so make sure you appreciate that shit! Oh yeah, with one week to go i hope you're all ready to be blown away! Watch this space for more.

THURSDAY 01 APRIL 2010 // GET MOTIVATED!

Ever feel like you need a little push along every now and then? this bloody end of daylight savings thing is killing me as well. getting up and its still dark is most defiantly NOT FTW! Its true though, we all get in a little 'non-creative cant be fucked' kind of attitude every now and again. And that where THIS brilliant book of illustration by Mike Rohde, REWORK, walks in a sits its little ass down on your coffee able. Its full of great black and white illustrations that just might get you thinking a little more in the right direction. And for those that may not have a coffee table, the great people at 37signals that put the book together have created a Flickr set full of them! Now there is no excuse! (Presuming that you all have the internet that is)

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