the unauthorized SPIKY collection ~ series no. 01

you know those toys that you find and immediately fall in love with? maybe print out a few and place them into your "to-do" pile, but every time you reach for it, there's a little voice in your head telling you that you're not ready for it yet? well, the SPIKY was one such toy. each time i went to build it, i felt that, "not yet" feeling. and then a few weeks ago i finally went for it and built PLAYTIME. 

it immediately became my favorite toy. just holding it in my hand brought an immense smile to my face. so elegant, so awesome! it also set off a mad search for any more i could find, yielding very little in the way of satisfaction (more on this later.) i did however, thanks to the generosity of greenelf, get my hands on the blank. so i started to think, why not make my own?

so i set out to customize this amazing toy, despite the fact that it's over 5 years old. the plain and simple being that i want more SPIKY in my collection. we all know how shin feels about his old toys, but i can't help but think that the world's a better place when there's more shin tanaka out there, condoned or not. i might be wrong here, and i'm certainly not suggesting these five will change anything other than the fact that they make me happy, but why not make more? why not spread the blank around this mad world of ours and raise a few smiles?

so i did, and i'm sharing them with you. i hope you like. 

i won't be making these available on a file sharing service, if only to honor shin's desire to keep things "limited" and "rare" but i will gladly email you the template[s] of your choice should you ask nicely. and all that i ask, in the spirit of shin's wishes, that you yourself don't distribute them. should you encounter someone wanting them (if i allow myself to think they're desirable) send your friends to me, and i'll pass them along.

peace, love, and of course, PAPER!

birthday post

today was was/is my birthday, depending on your time zone. 

i had grand designs on spending the entire day folding paper, i would build a ton of toys. the toughest question was what would i build on this day of days? caught up in the question, one thing led to another. a fire or two to put out, appointments and the such.


i found myself at the end of the day, relishing every second of my birthday, but building not one toy. i did organize a few files related to paper toys, but nothing to place on a shelf. through the organizing however, I came across a sweet little template that I'd forgotten about. One 5" x 7" sheet of paper later, and it was mine.


a simple enough toy, but in its finished state, a very remarkable one. i finished building it and looked at my watch. still a few minutes to go on my birthday, and if i was going to build one toy on this day of days, i don't think i could have picked a better one.

new leechoso custom from ash+

was very excited to get this in my mail the other day...

wayfarer is some sort of venus fly-trap with feet. a very interesting leechoso to say the least. digging this! thanks ash!

get yours HERE.

Ghost Machine no. 520

This is my custom for the insanely cool ye-boT by Yebomaycu [Marko Zubak].

You can get this and many other custom ye-boTs HERE. You are also free to hypothesize as to what the other 519 ghost machines look like.

The Nick Knite Trifecta is Available

The 3 customs I did for Nick Knite are now available for download.

You can head on over HERE to Nick's site and get yourself some bKd x Funk Food goodness.

yo!

yo... and all that it conjures, is completely represented here.

this is salazad's spin on the classic nani? bird. these two paper forces have a special place in my heart as my first custom was a nani? bird, and salazad's custom was the first for my leechoso series. 

haven't found the download yet, but when i do...

UPDATE: link to template is HERE

new custom leechoso by abz!

i'm beyond stoked to introduce the newest addition to the [ever growing?] leechoso series. this, my fine friends, is doze. he is brought to us by the amazing Abz, and i must admit, i was "full-on kevin's mom" when i saw doze for the first time. and when i made him, i had to keep pinching myself as a reminder that i had something to do with this "killer" toy. but all the credit goes to Abz for her amazing custom.

doze joins salazad's boss, and horrorwood's miasma in the family, and quite frankly i feel very blessed to be a part of it. a huge thank you! 

now, a little more about doze:

"Doze aka The Sandman is lethal. One only needs to observe the patterning on his skin to know this. He worked as a freelance 'cleaner'. His favorite movie is Kill Bill Vol. 1. Whispering 'wiggle your big toe' just before pulling the trigger became a ritual. In 2005, he retired from the syndicate to pursue his true passion, music. He now sings lead and backup vocals for his hugely successful rock band, Kiddo's Black Mamba."

HERE

miasma, a custom leechoso by horrorwood

i'm very grateful and humbled to present miasma into the small but growing leechoso family. considering jack lives in japan i'm just thrilled to know my friend and his family are alright.

esoteric to the nth degree, miasma represents many layers of thought and interpretation. i never in my wildest dreams ever considered this toy going to the places horrorwood has taken it. thank you! DOWNLOAD


see the rest of the leechoso family HERE

new ye-bot customs

one of the great paper platform toys, ye-bot, has just added 2 more sweet customs to the already stellar line-up.

pilot by willie beren

insider by dicky wardiansyah

salazad's custom for our leechoso!

we extended an invite to some of our favorite designers in the paper toy universe to customize up the leechoso. results are coming in and we couldn't be more honored to feature these amazing mash-ups.


first to roll in? salazad's appropriately nicked "cyclops boss."

not too much is known about the boss other than he was placed in the witness protection program in 1979. well that, and the ladies love him.

salazad is hosting this template, which you can find HERE

calling all cars x baykiddead

oh. yeah. chick.magnet.

the kind of guy that'll wear a "shocker" t-shirt to his niece's high school graduation. check his glove box, 10 bucks says there's a 8 track of journey's greatest hits next to a flashlight that doesn't work and a pen that's never written a complete sentence.

and you better bet your ass he knows all the words to "don't stop believing." just don't try and out air-guitar solo him. or invite him to your home.

don't ever do that.

chick.magnet. his idea of romance is olive garden and a girl on girl vid. he has the high score for ms. pac•man on no less than 14 consoles all over town. it had been 15, but chuck e. cheese won't allow him in the building. presumably for his continual rant of "i'd tap that..." during his playing of the game.

chick.magnet buys gas 5 dollars at a time, but never buys less than a 12 pack of pbr. the only art he's ever purchased required a black light. vacation is going to the hooters across state lines. chick.magnet owns all 8 collector versions of billy the singing bass, the entire star trek series on VHS, and each and every  1:43 scale, hot wheels NASCAR die-cast car from the 1998 season. chick.magnet has no retirement plan.

chick.magnet has no concept of politically correct. except when it comes to his mullet. chick.magnet takes offense to the term "mullet" he feels the correct verbiage for his preferred hair style is, "business in the front, party in the back." and that's exactly how he orders it at the barber shop.  

CHICK.MAGNET

nani? bird x baykiddead

my very first custom. very honored to have my sailor.bird apart of this amazing collection of inspired paper. i can only hope to have done the series justice. any thing else is butter.


you can find sailor.bird here nani? bird