This video just made me sad, to be honest.  I can only conjecture as to what’s going on here but, for one reason or another, George W. Bush is the only guy at the G20 meeting who is not shaking hands while everyone else is.  As to whether he’s snubbing them or they’re snubbing him, [...]

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For the second time this week, our dirty little secret, the McCain Action Figure, made a guest appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.  Yes, he called them “dolls” again and he dissed their lack of resemblance to the actual John McCain again** but that was not the main theme of last night’s sketch.  The [...]

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Conan O’Brien did a hilarious skit on Jailbreak Toys‘ 6,000 McCain “dolls,” as he called them, that we had left over after the election. These McCain action figures, as we call them, were developed by Jailbreak Toys due to a special request from a specific retailer. Though there was some internal resistance to creating this [...]

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I wish I could take credit for creating this but I am just a humble dollmaker and all I can do is tip my hat to the creators of Super Obama World.  It’s a full-on, real, working version of Super Mario Brothers, except, as you’ve probably guessed by now, it’s Obama you’re controlling instead.  What [...]

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After the Art + Action Show, I was introduced to a local photographer, named Marc Goldberg, whose specialty is shooting small things in big spaces.  He originally was just going to shoot pictures of the customs from the show. (The last picture below is actually his shot of the custom I did for the show.  [...]

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I came across this photo set today.  Really, the pictures speak for themselves… a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of history.  These photos show the Obamas and the Bidens backstage, as they watched the election results come in.
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Thank you America. Yes We Did.
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Three weeks ago, I was driving through the East Village with a carton of DIY Obama Action Figures in my back seat.  I saw my friend, James Kendi, walking down the sidewalk and so we pulled up, said hi real quick,  tossed him a free blank, then drove off.  Yeterday, he sent me this little [...]

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The ART + ACTION = OBAMA 08 exhibition went down as a night to remember at Toy Tokyo’s gallery space, The Showroom NYC. After all the harried preparations by the ART + ACTION artists, Jailbreak Toys, agitprop media, Toy Tokyo, and sponsors Singha and Halcyon, everything finally came together in an absolutely stellar [...]

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