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Showing posts with label Munnys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munnys. Show all posts
14 September 2009
The Dude with the Beard Munny
Last week the REAL Jeremy Biggers aka the dude with the beard celebrated his birthday and Sam.. with the hair decided to immortalize him in Munny form. The face, and hat were completely built using sculpey. From the sketch to the final product. This was two months in the making. Just goes to show, much more goes into these designs and executions than what you see on the blog. And just adding to the reasons we're better than your favorite clothing and lifestyle brands!
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02 June 2009
GET $#!+ Done MONTH: Asher Roth "I Love College" Munny
We here at Unkommon Kolor love hip-hop and we love Asher Roth. As with anyone we love, and think would make a good Munny, we decided to immortalize Asher Paul Roth. Painted with painstaking detail by Samantha the Intern aka Sam with the hair. Notice the teeth on the zipper in TINY silver paint strokes... If you ever doubted us before, yeah we're something like beasty around here...
16 April 2009
Obama Munny v.2
Usually we don't repeat any design we've done before but there are times when rules need to be bent, or in extreme cases, broken. This is one such case. When an Obama employee approached us about recreating the Obama Munny we couldn't very well say "no..." I'm not sure if you've heard but that guy is the President right now... He's kind of a big deal. Since the chance of him actually seeing the work is fairly high, why WOULDN'T we do it? .... PRECISELY.
07 October 2008
Award Winning
Unkommon Kolor!!! can now add “award winning” to its accolades. The good people over at Lone Star Comics had a “paint a Munny” contest and of course we had to put our stamp on it. I mean after all, we like Munnys, and we like painting, it was essentially our competition to lose. The rules were simple. Purchase a Munny. Use only the materials in the room. Finish before the store closed. Oh yeah, and make all the other competitors quit in the process. Simple! Admittedly that last rule wasn’t as much a “rule” as it was something that just happened. Let me explain.
While Arif and I worked on our entries we glanced around the room and realized pretty early, we were going to SMASH the competition. This was everyone else’s first Munny… They didn’t quite understand the complexity involved in painting a soft vinyl toy. So, as I laid on coat after coat of acrylic paint, I tried to keep what I was working on to myself. I typically start on the body, and work on the face last since it will be the most detailed. But this time was different. I started on the body, because I knew if I started on the head people would get intimidated. But oh how I underestimated my abilities and their insecurities.
As I was adding the final details to the body I was ever so careful to keep secret, one of the judges walked around the room asking everyone what they were working on. Various responses chimed in, then she got to me and with nothing more than a painted body with no arms or head, said, “oh… wow… I see you’re doing the Joker”. Once she let the “cat out the bag”, everyone turned their heads toward me trying to steal a glimpse. And as I added the pinstripes to the pants, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to keep what I was working on a secret much longer. I rotated the body to work on the back of the pants and that’s when it began. “ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!” “…there’s no need for me to even finish this” “…well I guess we know who won this” “I QUIT!!!” I acted as if I couldn’t hear them through my iPod earbuds, and kept working. Shortly afterward my phone died which meant my reference photo died, and my music died as well. So, I went out to the car, to revive my now comatose phone, and take a much needed break. After about 15 minutes of sitting in the car, I walked back into the store to find that only Arif was still working on his Munny. I asked “everyone else taking a break too?” He responded “nope… they all left.” “After they saw what you were working on, they packed up and went home.”
Now I’ve done quite a few things in my lifetime that have impressed even me. But make a room full of people quit because of a half finished painting… that tops the list. Unkommon Kolor!!!, making people drop out of competitions since… ok since last Saturday. So what it hasn’t been that long, have YOU ever made a room full of people quit? Then SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
Lone Star Comics displayed the finished (and purposefully unfinished) Munnys in a display case for one week allowing their customers time to vote on which one they liked the best and I’m happy to report that the results are in and Unkommon Kolor’s Joker Munny won first place! Some of you more “hatin-istic” people might mention, “of course you won, besides Arif, no one else finished theirs” and to you I say, we would have won even if they had finished! Check the pictures!
Oh yeah before you do that though, be sure to add us (Unkommon Kolor) on Myspace. Now you may click on the image.
PEACE
ONE GOD ONE LOVE
J
While Arif and I worked on our entries we glanced around the room and realized pretty early, we were going to SMASH the competition. This was everyone else’s first Munny… They didn’t quite understand the complexity involved in painting a soft vinyl toy. So, as I laid on coat after coat of acrylic paint, I tried to keep what I was working on to myself. I typically start on the body, and work on the face last since it will be the most detailed. But this time was different. I started on the body, because I knew if I started on the head people would get intimidated. But oh how I underestimated my abilities and their insecurities.
As I was adding the final details to the body I was ever so careful to keep secret, one of the judges walked around the room asking everyone what they were working on. Various responses chimed in, then she got to me and with nothing more than a painted body with no arms or head, said, “oh… wow… I see you’re doing the Joker”. Once she let the “cat out the bag”, everyone turned their heads toward me trying to steal a glimpse. And as I added the pinstripes to the pants, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to keep what I was working on a secret much longer. I rotated the body to work on the back of the pants and that’s when it began. “ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!” “…there’s no need for me to even finish this” “…well I guess we know who won this” “I QUIT!!!” I acted as if I couldn’t hear them through my iPod earbuds, and kept working. Shortly afterward my phone died which meant my reference photo died, and my music died as well. So, I went out to the car, to revive my now comatose phone, and take a much needed break. After about 15 minutes of sitting in the car, I walked back into the store to find that only Arif was still working on his Munny. I asked “everyone else taking a break too?” He responded “nope… they all left.” “After they saw what you were working on, they packed up and went home.”
Now I’ve done quite a few things in my lifetime that have impressed even me. But make a room full of people quit because of a half finished painting… that tops the list. Unkommon Kolor!!!, making people drop out of competitions since… ok since last Saturday. So what it hasn’t been that long, have YOU ever made a room full of people quit? Then SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
Lone Star Comics displayed the finished (and purposefully unfinished) Munnys in a display case for one week allowing their customers time to vote on which one they liked the best and I’m happy to report that the results are in and Unkommon Kolor’s Joker Munny won first place! Some of you more “hatin-istic” people might mention, “of course you won, besides Arif, no one else finished theirs” and to you I say, we would have won even if they had finished! Check the pictures!
Oh yeah before you do that though, be sure to add us (Unkommon Kolor) on Myspace. Now you may click on the image.
PEACE
ONE GOD ONE LOVE
J
08 September 2008
Leather in the Summer/Silk in the Winter/ this is such an art, where do I beginna?
Andre 3000 aka Possum Aloysius Jenkins aka Dookie Blossumgame III aka Funk Crusader aka Love Pusher aka Cupid Valentino aka Dre aka Ice Cold aka Benjamin Andre aka Binhamin aka Johnny Vulture aka Chamello Salamander aka 3 Stacks aka Sunny Bridges aka Percival aka Jeremiah Mercer aka Dabu aka Clarence "Coffee Black" Malone.
No matter what moniker he chooses to go by, Andre Lauren Benjamin is easily one of hip-hop's most grossly underrated talents. From his clever word play to instrumentation to painting to thespian endeavors he is the quintessential renaissance man. If anyone deserves to be immortalized as a Munny doll its him, and who better to do the immortalization than us here at Unkommon Kolor. Needless to say this is a one of a kind, hand painted, and sculpted doll. You won't find the furry pants or shoulder pads in any stores, they were both custom made specifically for this doll. That of course means they are the only ones in the world! Do you know how large the WORLD is? It's just about one of the largest places i have ever lived. Unless you count those years on Saturn.... Its not as gaseous as people think... But the government swore me to secrecy on that mission and I've already said too much. Forget what I just said and enjoy this Munny.
No matter what moniker he chooses to go by, Andre Lauren Benjamin is easily one of hip-hop's most grossly underrated talents. From his clever word play to instrumentation to painting to thespian endeavors he is the quintessential renaissance man. If anyone deserves to be immortalized as a Munny doll its him, and who better to do the immortalization than us here at Unkommon Kolor. Needless to say this is a one of a kind, hand painted, and sculpted doll. You won't find the furry pants or shoulder pads in any stores, they were both custom made specifically for this doll. That of course means they are the only ones in the world! Do you know how large the WORLD is? It's just about one of the largest places i have ever lived. Unless you count those years on Saturn.... Its not as gaseous as people think... But the government swore me to secrecy on that mission and I've already said too much. Forget what I just said and enjoy this Munny.
22 August 2008
The hood like to listen to Jeezy, and Weezy.... and oh yeah Yeezy
"... top 5 MCs you ain't gotta remind me/ top 5 MCs you gotta rewind me/ I'm high up on the line you can get behind me/ but my head so big you can't sit behind me..."
Like Barry Bonds, we hit another homerun with this custom hand-painted Kid Robot Munny doll. Mr Kanye West in all his splendor. They say "the devil is in the details", and if that's the case this is down right demonic. From the pattern on the cardigan, to the scarf, to the "Jesus piece" complete with ruby eyes, this piece is nothing short of a work of art. But possibly the best part of it all is the glow in the dark "Stronger" shutter shades. All of this is thanks to the one and only Blue the Great and Unkommon Kolor!!!
Like Barry Bonds, we hit another homerun with this custom hand-painted Kid Robot Munny doll. Mr Kanye West in all his splendor. They say "the devil is in the details", and if that's the case this is down right demonic. From the pattern on the cardigan, to the scarf, to the "Jesus piece" complete with ruby eyes, this piece is nothing short of a work of art. But possibly the best part of it all is the glow in the dark "Stronger" shutter shades. All of this is thanks to the one and only Blue the Great and Unkommon Kolor!!!
24 July 2008
Obama Munny
This is the latest installment in the greatness that is "Unkommon Kolor". A one of a kind hand painted Barack Obama Munny doll. The PERFECT gift for any Obama-rama fanatic.
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If you haven't done so already please go over to rockthevote.org and register for this year's election. This is probably going to be the most important election of our lives. As cliche as it sounds, you really need to get your voice heard.
