Prolly made a post the other day about Bike Kill 666! Well the guys who organized this event made a patch! So sick!
For some reason Prolly couldn’t post this himself, I think he fell into a well. Poor Prolly!
Chad from Kid Robot was kind enough to pass along the info for this show to me. In the last couple of years I actually started getting more and more interested in procuring a lot of thesevintage item from the Soviet Union, especially the toys. I remember having a few things a kid growing up and then some other objetcts, toys, etc, etc at my grandpparets and cousins’ homes.
I’m not really certain how accurate of a the term “Extinct” is to some of these items, since every Russian book & CD shop in Brighton Beach carries a wide range of cheap souvenir items aping the style. For example see the Rocking Doll used in the press release (see photo above). Either way I’m sure it will be an interesting and huge assortment of vintage eye candy from a long gone era! And I hope to see loads of things you can’t find cheap souvenirs of! Check out the press release below:
EXTINCT: Products from the Soviet State Store
Collected by Constantin and Laurene Boym
Soviet consumer products always reminded me of weeds. Cheap, anonymous, notorious for their clunky robust look, they proliferated in great numbers at all levels of Soviet society. Like the Soviet State itself, it seemed they were destined to live forever.
Once Russia turned capitalist in the early 1990s, it was only a matter of time before the weeds got cleared out. Presently, most products in this show are extinct, or at least endangered; perhaps they still could be found on flea markets, far in the provinces. We picked them at random during our early visits to Russia, driven, in part, by collectors instinct, in part by a desire to amuse our American design colleagues.
Today, these products may still amuse someone, but their unpretentious simplicity can also teach us a few design lessons. Eventually, they will pass into the realm of historical artifacts. As years go by, they remain material witnesses to a very strange way of life, my life back in the USSR.
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November 7 - 16, 2008
95 Spring Street, 2nd Floor
Opening Party: Friday, November 7, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
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- Skyway Trippers 2 T-Shirt Collection
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- Actual Pain T-Shirts
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P.S. Many thanks again to Nathan Dunn for another amazing pumpkin carving (seen above)!
The Cramps - Teenage Werewolf
The Meteors - Chainsaw Boogie
The Gories - Nitroglycerine
The Misfits - Skulls
Guitar Wolf - UFO Romantics
This is Dubstep. We can’t live without it.
Above are Skream and Caspa, amongst the royalty of Dubstep draped in Mishka are also Benga, Rusko, Plastician & Nomad, & the whole Dub Police crew.
Dub Police Halloween Massacre at Fabric!Keep It Locked bi-monthly! CARNAGE!
Julian Wolkenstein can now retire.
Donahue is such a condescending prick.
Click HERE to check out the Kill With Power Mishka after hours party in LA!
See what you missed? Get even more sad when you check out the video below!
Watch Gina Turner - Shadows - LIVE @ Mishka Afterhours 10.24.08 in Music Videos | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Now that the smoke has cleared after our Fall-2 delivery, we’re coming back at you with another round of Online Exclusives.
This time we bring to you our Red Foil Bear Mop. Just in time for Halloween, this blood red Foil Mop is perfect for the vampires in all of us, sans all the gore of your favorite horror flick.
Be sure to stay tuned, because later in the week we have some more announcements about exclusive product that you won’t want to miss, plus our Holiday drop is right around the corner.
Werewolf barmitzvah at (160kbps)
Yeah, Weird Science by Oingo Boingo is the jam. Sure, Everyday is Halloween by Ministry gives you credibility with goth sluts, and it’s widely known that most songs by the Cramps are known to cause teen pregnancy. BUT, the greatest Halloween song of all time is Werewolf Bar Mitzvah by Tracy Morgan. This is the highest quality full length i could find of the song. If anyone has it at 192 or higher, please send it to the Mishka offices.
This Thursday, Friday, Saturday just like last time.
p.s. keep an eye on Father Damian’s head.
I have no idea what this is. Just watch.
After seeing the influx of Mishka inspired pumpkin carvings, I thought I’d dive into a stack of old drawings last night and see if I couldn’t dig up the sketch that has become our hallowed Keep Watch eye. What I didn’t expect to find was this amalgamation of ideas, all consolidated on one lovely, ripped up piece of paper. As you can see, you only get the most professional work from me.
Those of you that have been following Mishka for awhile might even recognize that faded centerpiece as an early sketch of the Wild Thing graphic. This was before I was a permanent fixture here in the office, and I’d often scatter designs across a collection of loose pages and sketchbooks.
Oh, and if any of you are wondering, that’s a puddle of period blood.
Another pumpkin rolled intoday via our Facebook account. This time it’s of the Death Adder Bear by Antonio Silva . Lets get a Simon going people!
This is almost two months old…I hope Prolly hasn’t seen it yet…omg, omg, omg…
We’re getting closer to Halloween and with that comes more and more Mishka themed pumpkin carvings! I have to marvel at the patience and the submitters ability to do these because I suck at carving pumpkins! The above of our Bear Mop was done by Kristen’s boyfriend which she sent in.
This Keep Watch inspired pumpkin was done by Nathan Dunn. Kudos to both of you guys and hopefully we’ll be seeing some more as we get closer and closer to Samhain! Now lets start seeing some tattoos! I can’t even begin toc ount how many emails we’ve gotten saying”oh I got this tattooed on me!” or “Can you send me this artwork because I want to get it tattooed”. We still haven’t seen any proof though!
What happened to the days when all it took was being an art school grad with a photo blog and some Jager?
I think we may have some confusion.
