Artist David Flores takes his signature “stained-glass” painting techniques and applies it to Disney’s favorite mouse, Mickey. Flores created a visually striking 10” statue of Mickey but with the minor change of replacing Mickey’s head with that of totenkopf symbol. The totenkopf is a German symbol of death, and makes the usually jolly Mickey Mouse […]

Taking the medium of toys and creating carefully constructed art is what Coarse is best at — just check out their Eyes of Fear busts, intricately accessorized False Friends or inventive Jaws Loser piece. The Hong Kong based company now returns with the next edition of their Casting Shadows figures, this time titled Casting Shadows […]

Time for the fourth edition of our Best Of 2011 retrospective series (after ART, BOOKS & STYLE), where we look back on the LIAS Year In Music. Frankly none of these lists are easy — we can trim each down to about 20 but then cutting them down to 10 means we gotta chop some […]

Celebrating the renewed interest in vinyl, Third Man Records has introduced a new iPhone 4 case that is made from pressed 7” vinyl records. Synthesizing new and old musical technology, the 45 rpm records are die-cut to create the backs of each iPhone case and a molded bumper frame snaps it in place (available in […]

We started off our Rock (Poster Art) Gods! series with Dan Stiles, and next up was Casey Burns. In the third installment we hit up Mike King with a couple questions to bounce off his artistic head. Another rock poster artiste extraordinaire hailing from the raining climes of Portland, Oregon, King heads his Crash America design […]

There are so many endless “limited edition” iterations of Medicom‘s iconic Bearbrick toy that frankly we’ve lost interest. Yes we realize it’s a cash cow for the vinyl toy maker but really, it may be time to move onto a new design. That being said, every once in awhile a clever re-imagination comes along that […]

Respected street / graff artists Dabs & Myla, Pose MSK, Craola and Revok AWR were invited to design their own unique version of The Canman blank vinyl toy, and the results are the limited edition Canmans Artist Edition. The collection of vinyl toys were the results of each artists’ design and creation, with each vinyl toy […]

Couple weeks back we launched our new artist featured series Rock (Poster Art) Gods! with Dan Stiles, and now we continue with another top illustrator in his field Casey Burns. You might recognize the above poster for Sonic Youth, or one of his many excellently sexy/implicitly malevolent posters for Spoon — most of which feature […]