One MAD family...

Today I'm featuring another one of my favorite artists,

This time, MAD.  I really like the bold lines of MAD's figures and the whole theme of the hip/hop and urban world of his designs.  MAD has done a number of figs including Dunnys, his own line of blind box figs and MADL's...wicked talent.  In the pic below (from left to right) are his two Bentworld Vandals, one of his Dunny designs,  his two Sharpest Sprayers and in the back his TV Head.  I really like how he uses black and gold in some of his figures, so after I got the TV Head (which I've been looking for for a loooong time, lol) I grabbed up all of my black and gold MAD figs and snapped this pic.  (Thanks Cheeky for the TV Head n the Sharpest Sprayer figs!)

ESC "Girls Represent" Recap Vid...

"Girls Represent" Recap (Erick Scarecrow+Prototype+808orbit+Girl Fest)

“Girls Represent,” held on Friday evening on November 5^th, was surely an evening to remember.  The event debuted Erick Scarecrow’s Soopa Maria Wet-Suit Maguma Hawaii Exclusive figure at Prototype’s Ala Moana Shopping Center store location.  “Girls Represent” also kicked off Girl Fest, a week-long event that promotes positivity and empowerment in women through music, art and education.  ESC diehards stood in line ahead of time to guarantee their hands landing on the Maguma figure and nearly 100 spectators stopped by to check out what was going on and/or got their Prototype shopping fix out of their system. 

Hawaii’s very own talent also joined hands as Prototype held up their sales.  Deejaybetty slammed one mean non-stop remix set which infused hip hop and urban tracks with trance and house beats, ridiculous.  In Prototype’s entrance window, Remi Mead slapped up a live painting canvas session, which resulted in one sick piece of art.  There were freebies to be given out; ESC prints to the first 8 Maguma figure buying fans and gummy froggies to the first 50 customers who entered Prototype.  There were also raffle prizes to be won, which included Remi’s painting, Erick Scarecrow figures and apparel and blindbox figures. 

Money from the raffle tickets were donated to a Hawaii worthy cause and a portion of Erick’s shirt sales were donated to Andy from Toysrevil.  There was a healthy heaping of people who made the evening a memorable one.

Stop playing with your food HaynMade...

Momma always said,

Stop playing with your food.  I guess that artsy fartsy side in me could never resist, lol.  A fellow collector friend of mine hooked me up with some cupcakes from Cake Couture, damn, it's pretty good stuff.  But when I first opened the box, I thought to myself, "Hmm, these guys would look good with some of my figs."  And poof, here you go, lol...

Red Velvet (with a Luke Chueh Possessed figure)...

Pumpkin Creamcheese (with a Sam Flores Wyger figure)...

Mocha (with an Erick Scarecrow Soopa Maria figure)...

And Peanutbutter and Jelly (with a Mark Landwehr Paw figure)...

Thanks friend for fulfilling my sweet tooth!

Soopa GID...

Got this fig in my hands today,

She's a beauty, aka Soopa Maria GID twin by Erick Scarecrow, which as you can see has a nice sassy glow to her.  I had to snap a pic of her, and here ya go...

Much thanks to the powers that be for this awesome fig...

ESC fig is comin' to the 808...

Day 12, time to wrap it up...

So it was time to wrap one killer vaca in Cali,

So I spent the majority of the day packing up and kickn' back.  My friend picked me up and we headed to The Soup Plantation before heading to the airport, pretty killer place to go to if you want all you can eat soup, salad, etc.

It was time to say my goodbyes and wrap it all up so there I was at the airport.  My flight was delayed by an hour because Mr. Obama stopped by in California to do a rally speech at USC.

Made it on board and back to Hawaii safe and sound.  At least the airplane food this time wasn't too bad, ham sandwich and brownie, yum yum.

I gotta say, it was one solid trip got to make memories with my friends and their family, and meet up with my Cali friends, good times, good times.  So big thanks to my friends and their family for allowing me to travel with them and for staying at their folks' killer crib, thanks to my traveling Cali buddy for staying at her crib for the remainder of my stay, thanks to my Cali buddies and their awesome family for the grub, the vinyl figure and the Kikaida performance and a HUUUUUGE thank you to my Cali twin for taking me around and being an awesome hostess, I hope to be back up there soon.