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Design and Innovation

Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Mickey Mouse Figurine

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Pink Mickey Mouse Statue
Photos By Gail

This Baby Pink statuette of the most famous mouse earth is an official Disney-design produced by the French company Leblon Delienne.  Known as Mickey Welcome, it is one of three new pastel colorways made of lacquered ABS plastic, which replaces an earlier series created in resin. The new material is an aesthetic equal to resin, but represents an environmentally-friendly improvement, as the ABS plastic is recyclable. Priced to collect at $280 each.

Photographed at 10 Corso Como Design Store in the South Street Seaport, NYC.

Pink Mickey Mouse Statue

Arts and Culture

Double Mickey Mural By Jerkface

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Double Mickey Mural By Jerkface
All Photos By Gail

Jerkface is one of my favorite street artists for his use of popular, easily recognized cartoon characters in his sightly skewed cultural visions. This double-vision mural of Mickey Mouse went upon May of 2018 and it still looks pretty good!
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Arts and Culture

The Bird Is The Word Lime Green Fiberglass Mickey MAO Bust by Frank Kozik

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The Bird Is The Word
Photos By Gail

Concert Poster artist and collectible figure aficionado Frank Kozik has been churning out limited editions of his Mickey Mao bust, officially entitled The Bird is the Word (because “Papa Ooh Mao Mao,“ I guess?) for a decade, I think. I’ve seen them in all sizes, colors and finishes, but this one measures an imposing 30″ x 20″ x 18″ and comes in a Lime Green Sparkle Automotive finish that can be yours for just $7,500!

The Bird Is The Word

Pop Culture

Yes, It Exists: Mickey Mouse Head Camera

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Mickey Mouse Camera
Photos By Gail

In 1971, Child Guidance Products manufactured the Mick-a-Matic Camera: a large plastic body shaped like Micky Mouse’s head with a viewfinder in its forehead, a lens in its nose and a flash between its ears. The camera was designed for children, but photographer Stephen Shore used it throughout 1971 to take dozens of images, some of which appeared in the exhibition, All the Meat You Can Eat. These pictures marked Shore’s first artistic use of color photography.

Mickey Mouse Head Camera was Photographed as Part of the Stephen Shore Career Retrospective, on Exhibit  Through May 28th, 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

Mickey Mouse Camera

Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Andy Warhol, Myths

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Andy Warhol Myths
All Photos By Gail

“More than anything, people just want stars, Andy Warhol once remarked. In Myths (1981) he depicts Superman, the Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz, and other heroes and villains of American culture (including, on the far right, himself). Silver paint alludes to the “silver screen,” and the vertical rows of mechanically reproduced head shots suggest filmstrips or contact sheets, the sources feeding our obsession with celebrity. Yet Warhol’s title is more complex: “myths” could refer to the “mythic” status of movie stars but it also connotes falseness, the distortion of truth, and the fleeting nature of fame.

Photographed in the Whitney Museum in NYC

Andy Warhol Myths Detail